Martin Cooper In 60 Seconds
Twenty years CFO experience with numerous companies from private pre revenue start-up’s through to listed company with $1 billion market capitalisation and everything in between. All done across a range of industries including Venture Capital, Technology and Oil & Gas. But always with high growth companies transitioning to their next step.
Specialist Skills
Strategic Thinker
Spent the last 20 year working with CEO / founders to develop their dream
Leadership
Developed numerous finance teams to align with company growth
Raising Funds
Raised both equity and debt and spent 6 years in venture capital
Business Planning
Prepared countless budget & forecasts to give CEO/founder visibility of future
Policies & Procedures
Developed polices and procedures to align with company growth
Track Record Highlights
- Experience of one year as CEO
- Fund raising of both equity and debt
- M&A - both sale and purchase of businesses
- Development of process and systems to balance control and growth and appropriate delegation
- Preparation of countless profit and cash forecasts to give senior management visibility of the future
- Development of finance departments to align with company growth including implementation of new systems (SAP, Sun6)
- Development of start-up bookkeeping and accounting company
Sector Experience
- banking-financial-services Venture Capital
- healthcare
- mining-resources-energy
- manufacturing-transport-logistics Solar Panel manufacture
- agriculture-farming Palm Oil
- manufacturing-transport-logistics Transhipment
- banking-financial-services Bookkeeping and accounting company