Welcome to Shiraz's freelance profile!
Location and workplace preferences
- Location
- Paris, France
- Remote only
- Primarily works remotely
Preferences
- Project length
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- ≤ 1 week
- ≤ 1 month
- Between 1-3 months
- Business sector
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Would prefer to avoid:
- Chemical
- Mechanical Engineering
- Restaurants & Food Service
- Company size
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Would prefer:
- 2-10 people
- 11 - 49 people
- 50 - 249 people
- 250 - 999 people
Would prefer to avoid:1 person
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Shiraz in a few words
8+ years experience in working in high-growth and challenging environments. I have held various positions in international expansion as well as investment and always worked with cross-functional teams. These experiences strengthened my ability to quickly grasp the main stakes within a company and to manage multiple projects with a data-driven approach.
Experience
Freelancer
Consulting & Audits
Freelance Consultant - As a freelancer
Areas of expertise:
- International expansion: including market research, GTM strategy, localization management and operational launch
- Business strategy: including competitive positioning and market analysis
- Operations: including implementation and improvement of processes
- International expansion: including market research, GTM strategy, localization management and operational launch
- Business strategy: including competitive positioning and market analysis
- Operations: including implementation and improvement of processes
Imana Care
Tech
Co-Founder & CEO
Imana Care is a mobile app that helps women suffering from hormonal imbalances to reduce their symptoms through a holistic approach.
Speedinvest
Tech
VC Investor
My responsibilities included:
- Increasing French dealflow: x3 within 1 year
- Screening potential target companies: +700 startups within 1,5 years
- Being the first touchpoint for founders
- Conducting due diligence on potential target companies
- Supporting portfolio companies, incl. attending board meetings as an observer
- End-to-end M&A process with one portfolio company, sourcing prospects, qualifying potential buyers, identifying the buyers, overseeing commercial negotiation and successfully signing and closing the transaction
- Increasing Speedinvest visibility on the ground, in France, through speaking at events, attending networking events, writing articles on specific topics, being interviewed on Speedinvest investment thesis and organizing Speedinvest branded events
- Increasing French dealflow: x3 within 1 year
- Screening potential target companies: +700 startups within 1,5 years
- Being the first touchpoint for founders
- Conducting due diligence on potential target companies
- Supporting portfolio companies, incl. attending board meetings as an observer
- End-to-end M&A process with one portfolio company, sourcing prospects, qualifying potential buyers, identifying the buyers, overseeing commercial negotiation and successfully signing and closing the transaction
- Increasing Speedinvest visibility on the ground, in France, through speaking at events, attending networking events, writing articles on specific topics, being interviewed on Speedinvest investment thesis and organizing Speedinvest branded events
Malt - Malt
Tech
Country Launcher
In charge of Malt's International Expansion:
- Market study to scout market opportunities (Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland)
- Establishing GTM strategy for international expansion
- Launch of Malt in Spain & Germany:
- Acting as interim Country Manager in launching stages
- Acting as Co-lead of Country Manager once market fully launched
- Hiring first local team members
- Setting up & implementing launch and expansion playbooks, enabling us to iterate and increase our growth abroad
- Reached 10k freelancers in the community 2x faster than in home market of France
- Built a 10-people team both in Germany & Spain
- Managed a 4-people team dedicated to the expansion in Germany
- Market study to scout market opportunities (Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland)
- Establishing GTM strategy for international expansion
- Launch of Malt in Spain & Germany:
- Acting as interim Country Manager in launching stages
- Acting as Co-lead of Country Manager once market fully launched
- Hiring first local team members
- Setting up & implementing launch and expansion playbooks, enabling us to iterate and increase our growth abroad
- Reached 10k freelancers in the community 2x faster than in home market of France
- Built a 10-people team both in Germany & Spain
- Managed a 4-people team dedicated to the expansion in Germany
SmartAngels
Banking & Insurance
Associate - Head of Financial Operations
- Managed a portfolio of 11 startups collectively raising €7M
- Led a team of 5 investment analysts
- Scouted new investment opportunities
- Assessed entrepreneurial proposals (pitch decks & business plans)
- Prepared executive summaries and information memoranda on companies raising funds
- Supported founders in their fundraising strategy
- Handled institutional & individual investors relation
- Led a team of 5 investment analysts
- Scouted new investment opportunities
- Assessed entrepreneurial proposals (pitch decks & business plans)
- Prepared executive summaries and information memoranda on companies raising funds
- Supported founders in their fundraising strategy
- Handled institutional & individual investors relation
Capgemini Consulting - Capgemini Organisation
Consulting & Audits
Junior Strategy & Transformation Consultant
Consulting assignments on various industries and issues (strategy, CSR).
- Business modelling of real estate strategy, preparation of methodological documents for a banking company
- Assessment of CSR report, issuance of recommendations for an IT services company
- Business modelling of real estate strategy, preparation of methodological documents for a banking company
- Assessment of CSR report, issuance of recommendations for an IT services company
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