Re-accelerate. Reinvent. Reboot | Executive Mentor | Tech COO, VP & PMO Head

I’ve spent most of my career inside companies when things were hard.
 
Scaling. Restructuring. Turning around operations under pressure. Managing growth across cultures, time zones, and incomplete information.

I’ve been a CEO, COO, President, and Global VP, leading teams across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. I’ve carried the responsibility of $1B contracts and P&Ls up to $115M, and led major transformation programs impacting more than 6,000 people. Most recently, I ran an AI data company with 1,000+ people across Madagascar and Mauritius.
 
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲. 
When ambition runs ahead of structure.  When strategy exists, but execution doesn’t stick.  When the playbook is missing, and decisions still need to be made.
 
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: 
I partner with a small number of founders, CEOs, and boards, often in AI and Global South contexts- to bring clarity, discipline, and momentum when complexity creeps in. 

• 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗢𝗢 𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁: For companies in active transition.
• 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿/𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿: For high-stakes decision-making and scale.
• 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿: For Global South executives navigating Western capital markets.

I also write about AI, power, and leadership - specifically how emerging markets can scale without simply inheriting Northern tech assumptions. Most of that thinking lives here: 📬 https://ericraza.substack.com/

Born in Madagascar. Global Citizen. Fluent in French and English. Based in Montreal, and wherever the work requires.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵, 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗹𝘆, 𝘄𝗲’𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

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Eric Raza

Go North Group

> Company turnaround & company reconstruction
> Debt restructuring, re-financing & restoring equity
> Re-negotiate supplier agreements
> Finance transformation

Advisor to CEO & CFO

Evolvefy AB

I am a business driven and strategic CEO/COO/CFO with long and broad experience of growing companies, both from several start-ups and scaleups and from an established multinational corporation, where I, among other things, a worked abroad for 10 years. I have often worked in strategic, customer-oriented and business development contexts, many times in a combined CFO and CEO/COO role. The combination of early small companies and the large global company means that I can practically handle details for the small company but also handle overall strategic and larger organizational issues. In addition to the purely CFO role, I can also contribute with developing business models, product offering, strategic change, organization building, financing and profitability improvements.

Managing Partner

PÄAB

PÄAB consists of a group of experienced business professionals & angel investors who actively contribute to strengthening the ideas and business plans of entrepreneurs, as well as the revenue and value of our portfolio companies.

Business Partner

ARKIVET Second Hand

Arkivet is a successful retail company (clothing) established 2017 in Sweden. 

>Establish business- and expansion plan, including company valuation, for 2025-2027
>Establish fusion plan for Swedish entities	
>Set plan for Finance Transformation and change of financial reporting structure
>Accounting, Monthly Closing and Financial reporting

Interim CFO

CURA of Sweden

Cura is an e-business company within the Home & Furniture space. 

>	Helping the company go through a company restructuring process to re-establish its business (secure profitability uptake, positive cash flow and restored equity) 
>	Clean-up group structure, closing subsidiaries in EU, restore balance sheet, etc.
>	Budget, financial reporting, cash management, annual tax reporting, annual reports, etc.
>	Act as advisor to CEO and Leadership Team

Evolar AB

Evolar is a cleantech start-up that develops the next generation of solar cell tech that generates more efficiency from sun energy than current technologies. 
>	Successfully led the process of selling the entire company to an industrial buyer (US firm)
>	Overall responsibility for Finance, HR, IT, Real Estate and Sourcing
>	Budget, financial reporting, cash management, annual tax reporting, etc.
>	Act as advisor to CEO and Leadership Team
>	Establish business plan and valuation model.
>	Implement IFRS

JÅ Affärskonsult AB

Own consulting company with services including executive-, finance-, strategy-, people and company management.

Zipforce

Zipforce is a CLEANTECH company that develop, manufacture and sell e-bike motors to consumers. ZIPFORCE is an innovative portable electric motor that turns any bicycle into an e-bike, with a simple “zip on” and “zip off” methodology.

- Revenue growth of 127% first four months of 2022.
- Pro-actively leading all facets of the company (development, sales, customer support and finance).
- Develop and implementing new business plan and strategy, move from start- to scale up mode.
- Specific task to establish B2C e-commerce go to market model (Search and SoMe ads).
- Also carried the CFO role.

CEO & CFO

Jetty AB

Jetty is a Swedish SaaS company, listed on the Swedish Stock Exchange Spotlight. 

- Pro-actively managed all facets of the company (marketing, sales, development to and finance.
- Developed and implemented new turnaround strategy (full transformation to SaaS & e-business).
- Maintained relationships with potential customers, partners and investors.
- Successfully closed rights issue October 2020.
- Successfully managed the divestments of the company in Sept 2021.
- Also carried the CFO role.

Jetty is a public company listed at Spotlight Stockmarket in Sweden. The company made an IPO in Q3 2018.

- Facilitated and played an important role in the IPO process.

Board Of Directors

Lipigon Pharmaceuticals

Lipigon was founded 2010 by leading lipid experts from Umeå University, Sweden, primarily acting as an IP holding company. The company made an IPO in Q1 2020 (Nasdaq, First North).

- Facilitated and played an important role in the IPO process.

Evolvefy hjälper entreprenörer och företagsledare i växande bolag att bygga finansiellt strukturkapital för att realisera sina tillväxtplaner. När ett företag är under tillväxt förflyttas behovet av CFO-kompetens beroende på vilken fas bolaget befinner sig i. Här ser vi ofta att det går fel och det kan bli väldigt kostsamt. Därför finns vi.

Vi vill hjälpa våra kunder att hitta rätt från början. Många tar in CFO-kompetensen för sent i bolaget och vi gör det möjligt för fler bolag att ta in den tidigare. Att ta in affärsstrategisk finansiell kompetens eller accelerera den befintliga kompetensen vid rätt tidpunkt, är avgörande för tillväxt. Är man i början på sin resa kan det räcka med några timmars stöd i veckan, men befinner sig bolaget i scaleup-fasen ökar behovet väldigt snabbt. Har bolaget kommit längre behöver man oftast en permanent CFO eller hyra in en på heltid. Det som också kan hämma en tillväxt är yttre faktorer som en pandemi, krig eller finanskris och då är det viktigt att en plan för det. Låt oss hjälpa ditt bolag undvika fallgroparna och hitta rätt lösning beroende på ditt företags mognad.

Våra erbjudanden:
- Tillväxtanalys
- Interim CFO
- Executive Search
- Riskhantering
- Ekonomibyrå

We help entrepreneurs and business leaders in growing companies build financial structural capital to realize their growth plans. Our customers are innovative and ambitious, and this is where we can make a positive contribution.

We offer CFO support to the Management team, CEO and Board of Directors. Through our extensive network of qualified CFOs, we can find the right match quickly. We also help with permanent CFO solutions through our "Executive Recruitment" offering. We assist our Customers with their growth plans and our concept is based on a flexible and customized solution. Everybody at Evolvefy has extensive experience of working with growing companies and understand our Customers’ needs and challenges.

We offer:
- Workshop of the company's current situation and roadmap
- Growth analysis
- Interim CFO
- CFO Project
- Executive Search
- Executive Board Search
- Board education Program
- Management team and board development

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