Rohit Nanda

Chief Operating Officer

Supporting ambitious Business Leaders to Scale & make Increased Profits using Strategic Growth/ Profit Acceleration Strategies | Process Improvement Specialist | M&A Advisor & Investor | Interim COO/ CFO | Troubleshooter

I work with fintech founders, CEOs, and leadership teams when the business is scaling faster than leadership bandwidth — and execution risk starts to rise.

As fintechs grow, complexity increases across operations, revenue, compliance, and teams. Decisions become higher-risk, misalignment becomes costly, and execution begins to rely too heavily on individuals. What worked at earlier stages no longer holds, and leadership gets pulled deeper into the detail instead of steering the business forward.

I step in as a Fractional COO / Operating Partner to provide senior operating support — stabilising execution, aligning teams, and ensuring growth becomes predictable rather than painful.

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Why fintech leaders work with me

I bring a rare combination of founder-level agility, global financial services experience, and hands-on operational leadership.

🔹 Fintech Operator & Founder (Asset Match)
As COO and co-founder, I helped build and scale a regulated fintech marketplace from the ground up. That included designing operating models, compliance frameworks, and leadership rhythms capable of supporting growth without creating fragility.

🔹 Global Banking & Regulatory Environments (Nomura, UBS)
I’ve led complex initiatives inside tier-one investment banks, including coordinating cross-border teams across compliance, legal, risk, technology, and front office during periods of intense regulatory and operational pressure. This experience shaped how I operate in high-stakes, multi-jurisdictional environments where execution mistakes are expensive.

🔹 Execution Discipline at Scale
My background includes deep operational diagnostics, workflow redesign, and control frameworks drawn from large-scale financial environments. This allows me to quickly identify where complexity is outpacing systems — and put structure in place that scales.

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What this means for you

You get senior operating leadership that extends your capacity at critical moments — bringing clarity, calm judgement, and execution discipline when the business has outgrown instinct-led management.

If your fintech is scaling but leadership bandwidth is starting to strain, I’m often brought in to help stabilise execution and reduce risk before issues compound.


Founder & CEO

The Business Troubleshooter is a hands-on business consultancy working with business leaders of small and medium size businesses to help them resolve their issues, overcome their challenges, explore opportunities and ultimately become more in control.

We believe that business owners are getting bogged down in the day to day and are completely overwhelmed through no fault of there own. Our role is to help alleviate this overwhelm and help move them and their business forward.

We work on developing practical realistic solutions to the challenges that the business faces.

We also have an expertise in the Family Business space and have supported many family businesses with their specific challenges.

If you are looking to scale, or just need help keeping the lights on, please do get in touch and sign up for a 45 minute business assessment. 

You'll be surprised by what we uncover.

This came up in a meeting this morning.

A growing business. Talented team. Plenty of activity.

But when we stepped back and asked:

• What are the top three priorities right now?
• What is each team actually focused on?
• Which numbers truly tell us whether we’re moving forward?

The answers weren’t as clear as they should have been.

This is the quiet challenge of scaling.

Not lack of effort.
Not lack of intelligence.

Lack of visibility.

As businesses grow, complexity increases faster than clarity.

More people. More projects. More motion.

Without a small set of control metrics and shared priorities, growth starts to feel noisy.

And noisy feels like losing control.

Scaling isn’t about adding more activity.
It’s about tightening focus as complexity increases.

Curious — at what point did visibility become harder in your business?

Running a business is not easy. There’s never enough time & then you’re always firefighting.

It’s time to change that. 

Most businesses feel that the only way to grow is to spend on marketing and advertising BUT until you have got your fundamentals in place, it’s pointless as there are many other things that you can focus on. 

My job is to help you find them & increase profitability without overwhelm. 

ABOUT ME:
Over 25+ years working in a range of businesses and sectors globally, from multinationals like UBS, Nomura & GE Capital through to start-ups & SMEs. 

After many years within these bigger organisations, I realised that I wasn’t making the impact that I craved. I became sick of the corporate games & the work life imbalance. I felt tired, drained & even in the smaller firms, the need to continually fire fight was exhausting. 

In late 2018, I made the decision that it was time to take back control & work on my own terms. 

Scale ups & small/ medium businesses are so important to the economy and yet they receive so little quality advice & support. 

That’s why Palgrave Consulting & The Business Troubleshooter were set up. 

✅ MY EXPERTISE: For over 10 years, I’ve run a growing food business with my wife & have worked with many entrepreneurs helping them grow their business. 

I’ve run a Fintech start-up for over 6 years & know all about the roller coaster that a business owner is on from week to week. At times, it was emotionally draining & distracting me from my strategic goals until I worked out how to control them.

I FOCUS on the bigger picture – to visualise, propose and implement realistic solutions that adds income to your business without spending anything more on marketing. 

✅ WHO ARE MY CLIENTS: I work directly with impact driven leaders in start-ups, scale ups and small & medium size businesses. 

Having a growth mindset is key & if you have that, we should speak. 

I help you find profits, provide structure & roadmaps to give you the confidence on how to move your company forward. 

✅ HOW DOES THIS WORK: We start with a 15 minute Discovery Call to find out if you are a good fit. 

✅ WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT: I believe that business is not as complex as you might think & you deserve quality advice. 

I don’t teach theory & believe in ACTION takers. 

My clients tell me that "I'm highly approachable, trustworthy and work with true integrity." 

If you want to see dramatic increases in leads, sales & profitability I can help.

✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Contact me via LinkedIn or via +44 7957 694975 & let’s chat.

Strategic Advisor & Fractional COO to Fintech Scale-Ups | Bringing Clarity, Control & Momentum to Complex Growth | Non Exec Director & Trustee

Yesterday I met with an accountant who’s built a solid firm.

✅ Good clients.
✅ Growing team.
✅ Respectable revenue.

But the conversation wasn’t about marketing.

It was about control.

She’s involved in almost everything.

📌 Client decisions.
📌 Team questions.
📌 Final reviews.
📌 Problem solving.
📌 Strategy — when there’s time. 🧐

Growth had become reactive.
Margins weren’t fully reflecting effort.
And the business still leaned heavily on her.

At one point she said:

“Working harder isn’t the answer.”

She’s right.

At a certain stage, professional service firms don’t need more effort. 😵‍💫

They need structure.

💡Clear priorities.
💡 Defined metrics.
💡 Leadership rhythm.
💡 Execution discipline.

That’s why I’m convening a small 90-day forum for established professional service founders who want:

📈Sharper commercial focus
😎 Stronger delegation
💰 Better margins
🎛️ Less chaos as they scale

Small cohort.
Limited to 6 firms.
90-day commitment.

If this feels relevant, send me a message and we can explore whether it’s a fit. We start in March.

Last week I had two high-quality business conversations.

Neither of them were in a boardroom.
All of them were on a golf course.

They came through FORE Business.

And this isn’t “golf networking”.

FORE Business operates across:
🇬🇧 UK
🇺🇸 US
🇪🇸 Spain
🇦🇪 UAE

For SME owners, that matters.

Because what you’re really investing in isn’t a round of golf.

It’s time.

4–5 hours with other founders and decision-makers.
Proper conversation.
No pitching.
No rushed introductions.

You get to understand how people think, where they’re heading, what challenges they’re facing — and where you might genuinely help each other.

That’s where trust builds.

I’ve seen:
– Referrals passed naturally
– Partnerships formed
– New clients secured
– Long-term relationships develop

As business owners, we spend a lot of time working in the business.

This is time spent working on it — through the right conversations in the right room.

If you’d like to like to see if this is a good fit for you and your business, drop me a note and I can share a Golden Ticket with you, and you get a full month to take a test drive 🏌️‍♂️⛳️

"FORE"​ Business

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