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Max Stöckl

Fractional CFO/COO, Startup Advisor

€780/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Max

🇬🇧 English
I help startups and scale-ups navigate the hard parts of building a company — the parts where strategy meets execution.
With a background at BCG and as CEO of a Web3 gaming company (50-person team, 10M€+ raised, operations across France & Switzerland), I've done the work myself: fundraising, financial closings, restructurings, compliance, and keeping teams aligned under pressure.
I step in as Fractional CFO or COO when founders need a senior operator in the room — not a consultant who delivers a slide deck and disappears.
Current focus: AI-native tools and Web3 infrastructure.

🇫🇷 Français
J'accompagne les startups et scale-ups dans les moments où la stratégie doit se traduire en décisions concrètes.
Ancien consultant BCG et CEO d'une société Web3 jeux video (50 personnes, plus de 10M€ levés, entités en France et en Suisse), j'ai exercé les fonctions que j'accompagne aujourd'hui : levées de fonds, clôtures comptables, restructurations, conformité, pilotage d'équipes en contexte de crise.
J'interviens en tant que CFO ou COO fractionnaire lorsque les fondateurs ont besoin d'un opérateur senior — pas d'un consultant qui repart avec une présentation PowerPoint.
Focus actuel : outils IA et infrastructure Web3.
  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • DOGAMÍ
    Co-founder, CEO, then CFO & Chairman of board
    VIDEO GAMES AND ANIMATION
    July 2021 - December 2025 (4 years and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    • Served as CEO/CFO of a Web3 company, leading a remote-first team of up to 50 people across engineering, ops, legal, and finance
    • Raised 10M€+ across equity, debt, and token rounds — managing investor relations from pitch to closing
    • Owned a 2.5M€+ annual budget, driving financial discipline through periods of rapid growth and restructuring
    • Directed two legal entities (France & Switzerland), building finance and admin operations from scratch
    • Led the company through multiple restructuring waves, including workforce reductions and a judicial restructuring process — managing stakeholder communication throughout
    • Prepared & chaired quarterly board meetings with institutional investors; prepared all materials and strategic reporting
    • Piloted annual financial closings and AGMs for two entities across two jurisdictions
    • Ensured full blockchain & crypto compliance across EU and Swiss frameworks (legal opinions, address screening, AML/KYC coordination)
    • Structured intragroup agreements across a multi-entity holding structure
    Corporate Restructuring consulting blockchain Levée de fonds Gestion d'entreprise Finance
  • Boston Consulting Group
    Strategy consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2019 - June 2021 (1 year and 9 months)
    Munich, Germany
    • Contributed to the design of a €50M+ cost reduction program for a German insurance company (~10% of total cost base)
    • Pressure-tested business cases for Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) and IoT initiatives across IT distribution and industrial manufacturing clients
    • Supported definition of IT cost savings initiatives for a German universal bank
    • Led the definition of the target operating model for the IT subsidiary of a European primary insurer
    • Participated in a smart migration project for a UK life insurance company, leveraging advanced analytics
    • Supported PMO setup for a transformation program with 20+ senior stakeholders at an international insurance group
    • Built a Python-based contract clause extraction tool to automate a manual customer service process
    • Contributed to recruiting and onboarding of new joiners
    Transformation digitale Réduction des coûts Restructuring Target Operating Model Design conseil stratégie
  • Spiesser & Spinner
    Founder's associate & head of project management
    DIGITAL AND IT
    September 2016 - July 2017 (10 months)
    Vienna, Austria
    • Advised founder on strategic decisions • Established processes (e.g., project management, Accounting & Finance)
    • Delegated and monitored tasks of 6 employees • Coordinated up to 5 project suppliers simultaneously
    • Acted as project SPOC for clients (Samsung, Mars, Mondelez, Henkel, Federal Austrian Railways (ÖBB))
    • Results:
    • Managed projects that generated over 3 million views on various SoM-outlets (paid and organic reach)
    • Lead 2 nationally award-winning and award-shortlisted content marketing projects (iab webAD 2017)
    Gestion de projet Project Management (PMO)

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Education

  • MSc. in Big Data & Business Analytics
    ESCP Europe
    2018
    MSc. in Big Data &
  • University of Alberta

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