ThriveGrowth

Providing Fractional CFO services to various startups in Fintech, SaaS, E-commerce, Digital Marketing, and Sustainability.

Highlights:
•	Built 20+ financial models, resulting in $10m+ investments and an acquisition.
•	Collaborated with startups to extend runway by an average of four and a half months.
•	Advised on metrics dashboards, enhancing Founder understanding of unit economics.
•	Guided startups in successful completion of Seed rounds.
•	Led incorporation of India "tech hub" entity and UK office setup for an Australian fintech, including FCA license application.
•	Raised venture debt funding, extended Fintech startup's runway.
•	Advised on share option schemes using Seedlegals and Vestd.
•	Implemented financial tech stacks for scalable growth.
•	Assisted startups in expanding their operations to the US market, providing strategic guidance and overseeing the successful establishment of US subsidiaries.

Fractional CFO

SHAY CPA P.C.

Fractional CFO helping investment backed companies with a range of services from financial modelling, fundraising to systems and processes.

NatWest Accelerator

The NatWest Accelerator supports and empowers UK entrepreneurs to scale their businesses to the next level.

Mentor

Wilbe | Home for entrepreneurial scientists

Wilbe educates, builds and invests in scientists solving some of the world's hardest problems. Based in London, Wilbe works with scientists from leading research hubs from Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford in the UK to Max Planck in German.

Finance Lead

Highview Power

Highview Power is a technology company which has developed the CryoBattery, a proprietary solution to extending wind and solar energy throughout the day. The company is now positioned to roll out the technology on a commercial basis. Involved from the very early stages to c. £200m valuation.

•	Raised £55m (equity and debt) over 5 rounds, with thorough investor engagement and due diligence.
•	Pioneered go-to-market strategy for proprietary CryoBattery technology.
•	Secured £22m grant funding for commercial and innovation efforts.
•	Developed finance, legal, IT, HR functions to sustain growth.
•	Implemented scalable systems including Xero, Receipt Bank, CapDesk, and more.
•	Spearheaded Corporate Governance policies.
•	Led tax strategy, including transfer pricing, patent box, and R&D tax credits.
•	Setup US subsidiary included navigating regulatory requirements, coordinating legal processes, and liaising with local stakeholders for seamless entry into the US market.

Finance Director

ENGIE

Assistant Reporting Accountant

Publicis Groupe

Senior Management Accountant

I help you grow and scale your business as an outsourced CFO. Through the company I founded, ThriveGrowth, I get to do what I love: support startups and SMEs with my finance expertise. With nearly two decades of finance experience — six as the Finance Director of a technology startup — I know what it means to step into a fast-paced business and pinpoint areas for growth.

During my six years at the aforementioned startup, I:

•	Helped it grow from 10 to 50 people
•	Raised £55m over 6 rounds
•	Created a finance function and the necessary team
•	Enabled the company to expand abroad
•	Watched as the company almost went under and helped turn it around 
•	Grew its valuation to £200m 

Now, I bring everything I’ve learned to founders and entrepreneurs through ThriveGrowth. With real hands-on experience, I can help at each stage of your journey (startup, growing, scaling). If you need a CFO, advisor, consultant, or mentor to help you grow your company, get in touch.

👉🏽Schedule a call: https://calendly.com/thrive-growth
👉🏽Email me: enquiries@thrivegrowth.co.uk
👉🏽Call: 0203 920 8210

Rakesh Shah

Piper Maddox

Piper Maddox, part of the LHi Group, are one of the fastest growing Cleantech staffing partners in the UK, Europe, and the USA. Our collective experience in delivering top calibre candidates into Renewable Energy businesses and projects is unmatched by our peers.

Our approach is one focused on quality above all else. We utilize our extensive network, experience in headhunting the very best talent and a vast array of recruitment tools to make the process of hiring as straightforward and streamlined as possible, allowing our clients to spend their time and resources where it’s needed.

As a trusted partner it is our goal to make our clients’ lives as easy as possible, providing seamless permanent and contract recruitment solutions tailored to fit each companies’ needs. We understand the challenges inherent in recruiting talent in this industry and we are experts in overcoming them

Associate Director - Head of Clean Energy, Europe

Renewable Energy is the heart of the cleantech transition, so I built a specialist division with teams covering multiple European territories. I also set up and helped scale a Battery Manufacturing team for Europe.

Divisional Manager - Head of Renewables, Europe

Returning to LHi, I was tasked with creating and scaling new functions for Piper Maddox across UK/EU.
I identified and opened a number of clean technology markets, defined our strategy, and built a team.

Divisional Lead - Cleantech

Travelling Asia

After several years of planning and saving I set off on a journey to travel across Asia. We started in Mumbai, made it down the West coast of India, but the trip was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lawrence Harvey

This was a 12 month project to set up a new division, build a team, and to help grow a new office as employee number 2 in Bristol. I built the market, team, division, and conducted a succession handover.

Recruitment Team Lead

Opus Recruitment Solutions

Throughout my time here I recruited for permanent tech roles across the UK's South Coast. I also led a team of other consultants, all focusing on specific and discrete software markets.

Lead Recruitment Consultant

Tasked with revitalising a traditionally poorly performing technical market, I ran a 360 technology desk and turned it into one of their top 5 markets.

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Sinkinson Resourcing Limited

I ran recruitment functions for a small boutique agency, both improving existing permanent business areas and building a new contract desk. This included recruiting nationally across technical and commercial disciplines.

Recruitment Consultant

Professional Chef

After leaving university I decided to hone my interest in food by becoming a professional chef. I worked primarily in fine dining, starting out as a kitchen porter, working my way up, and taking responsibility of a three rosette kitchen as sous chef within a year of working in kitchens.

Sous Chef - 3 AA Rosettes

Bodhi Image

During my final year of university I set up a sustainable and ethical clothing company. I took personal responsibility for all aspects of running the business, from forging relationships with selected suppliers abroad, managing finances, day to day operations, and driving sales back in the UK. This business made a profit and I sold my share at the end of 2011.

Owner

I'm a recruitment leader focused on the Clean Energy space, one of the world's most exciting and important sectors, supporting the energy transition across Europe. 

I was brought in to build and lead the Renewables and Clean Energy teams across the UK and Europe and we have since become a leading clean-tech recruiter in Europe, due in part to our high standards and determination to do the right thing. My team and I work all the way across the sector, including investors, utility-scale IPPs, EPC, and developers, integrators and smart grid businesses, battery and fuel-cell manufacturing facilities, and innovative clean-tech start-ups. 

Our approach is quality-focused, and we work closely with our clients to attract and onboard the best individuals in the market. Through our headhunting experience, strong understanding of talent attraction, and our influence across the recruitment process, we help our clients effectively navigate complex hiring requirements.

My technical understanding of the clean energy sector is strong, and I work hard to ensure the cultural fit of the candidates we place is well aligned too.

I didn’t get into recruitment straight out of uni, I’ve got about a decade’s work experience before this to draw on too. I’ve been a chef, a business owner, worked in retail, sold B2C and B2B, and now I’ve found something that I enjoy, am good at, and can make a difference doing.

I pride myself on the quality of my work and my understanding of both an individual’s and a business’ needs. Honesty is at the core of what I do. I've personally placed over 100 people across 5 countries.

I still live for food, both cooked myself and by others, I love to travel and experience other cultures, and I’ve always got art, a book, or music on the brain. I’m interested in what it means to be human and the myriad answers to this people have. I’m passionate, often to a fault.

Led by curiosity, with a desire to make a difference, I'm excited about being a part of a better future.

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