Meet the Team

Ray Walker
UK CFO
Ray is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience leading finance functions across venture-backed start-ups, high-growth scale-ups, and tier 1 global investment banks. Before moving into consulting, he held senior finance roles at UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.
Today, Ray partners with businesses across e-commerce, FinTech, SaaS, and marketplaces, helping them unlock cash flow, expand margins, strengthen investor confidence, and scale sustainably.

Searle Goott
CEO
A qualified Chartered Accountant with over 30 years experience in finance and helping to scale our clients by providing accounting, operational, strategic and commercial support to drive growth. Ex. Ernst & Young. Previously founded and exited a software business and is the driving force of growing the business into international markets.

Lauren Murphy
Director, USA Operations
A multi award winning, certified management accountant with two decades experience. Intensely entrepreneurial, highly collaborative and commercially minded. Experience within many industry sectors including Technology, Finance, Retail, Manufacturing and Non-profit Organizations.

Searle Goott
CEO
A qualified Chartered Accountant with over 30 years experience in finance and helping to scale our clients by providing accounting, operational, strategic and commercial support to drive growth. Ex. Ernst & Young. Previously founded and exited a software business and is the driving force of growing the business into international markets.

Lauren Murphy
Director, USA Operations
A multi award winning, certified management accountant with two decades experience. Intensely entrepreneurial, highly collaborative and commercially minded. Experience within many industry sectors including Technology, Finance, Retail, Manufacturing and Non-profit Organizations.

Ray Walker
UK CFO
Ray is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience leading finance functions across venture-backed start-ups, high-growth scale-ups, and tier 1 global investment banks. Before moving into consulting, he held senior finance roles at UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.
Today, Ray partners with businesses across e-commerce, FinTech, SaaS, and marketplaces, helping them unlock cash flow, expand margins, strengthen investor confidence, and scale sustainably. Ray is equally comfortable advising at board level or getting into the operational detail to fix problems at their root, always taking a hands-on approach to deliver lasting results.
Ray’s approach blends corporate rigour with entrepreneurial agility, always focused on achieving tangible, bottom-line results for founders, CEOs, and investors.

Arti Modhwadia
UK CFO
A strategic and dynamic Finance leader with over 15 years’ experience spanning the Big 4, leading finance teams in the consumer sector and serving as a trusted partner to founders scaling early-stage ventures.
A proven track record supporting high-growth VC/ PE backed startups across the UK and US in the technology (spanning renewable energy, health-tech, and AI-driven platforms), SaaS, sustainability, consumer and impact sectors. Deep experience in early-stage fundraising, debt financing, and M&A across both startup and corporate environments.

Remon Fahim
UK CFO
Remon is a seasoned strategist and commercial accountant with over 20 years’ experience across the technology, media, telecommunications, and professional services sectors. He has held senior finance and strategy leadership roles within global corporations as well as start-ups and PE/VC-backed scale-ups and SMEs. HHe has worked internationally across Europe, North America, and Asia, operating effectively in complex, multi-market environments.

Dexter Boyce
UK CFO
Fractional CFO (Big-4 qualified) and former founder with a proven track record of working with high-growth startups & scale-ups. I understand the intense pressures of leading a company and I love to support others through those moments, especially across finance, fundraising and operational scale.

Raphae Khan
UK and UAE CFO
Experienced CFO with over 15 years of global experience in both the UK and the UAE. Expert in Board reporting, KPIs, Strategy, fundraising, budgeting & forecasting for SMEs. Specialised in automation & technology solutions to streamline finance functions. With a strong focus around cost management & increasing profitability. Speaker of Multiple languages.

Cameron Orcutt
UK CFO
Cameron is a commercially focused, ex-Big Four CPA and strategic CFO with deep experience in HNWI-backed startups and PE-backed businesses. He’s led fundraising, regulatory build-outs, and scale-ups across industries as a fractional CFO, helping founders and teams drive growth with financial clarity, operational control, and investor confidence.

Warren Bingham
UK CFO
Warren brings over 25 years of experience in scaling businesses, with a strong focus on accounting, operational, strategic, and commercial support. With multisite expertise and international experience spanning the UK, Europe, US, China, and South Africa, he has a proven track record of helping VC/PE-backed SMEs and start-ups optimize and drive growth. Intensely entrepreneurial and commercially minded, Warren partners with businesses to unlock their financial potential and deliver sustainable success.

Atif Manzoor
UK CFO
An experienced results driven CFO, with over 20 years of Global experience primarily within UK, US and GCC. A Dedicated, hardworking individual with intercommunication skills to work with investors and senior stakeholders, proven track record of formulating and executing successful growth strategies, transformation, change management and M&A both in the UK and abroad. Extensive experience in the field of Real Estate, Asset & Fund Management (Inc Facilities & Hospitality sectors), Entertainment and Health sectors.

John Norris
CFO San Francisco
An accomplished Financial Executive with over 30 years of global experience spanning diverse technology sectors, including IT services, SaaS, product, and leasing models. Recognized for driving growth, transforming finance and business operations, and delivering outstanding business outcomes. Proven expertise in scaling organizations, leading M&A transactions, optimizing cash flow and financial systems, enhancing audit processes, and boosting go-to-market performance. Held senior finance leadership roles at Fujitsu, Cisco, Agilent, and Hewlett-Packard.

Piero Broccardo
USA (West Coast) Operations
Piero is a recognized financial and operational thought leader specializing in driving transformational change. His experience spans 20 years in technology, entertainment, software, and consumer products. Piero is a two time nominee for CFO of the Year in Orange County, CA and has been recognized as one of the Top 10 business leaders to watch by the International Business Times.

Jo Garnelas
UK Client Relationships Manager
A professionally-trained Senior Sales Executive/Account Manager with a successful track record of creating and developing new business. In addition, I support our clients and CFOs with their needs and requirements to ensure projects run as smoothly as possible.

Sophia Makhathini
Sales Executive - USA
An accomplished Sales Executive with over 6 years of experience in sales and business development, including expertise in fintech, SaaS, and client relationship management. Sophia has a proven track record of achieving outstanding results through innovative strategies.
UK
32 CFOs

USA
16 CFOs

Areas we can help

Capital raise
Seed funding, Series A, Series B, Crowd funding, private funding, Investment decks, 5 -year plans, Due Diligence

Accounting
AR, AP, Cash management, VAT reporting, Corporate tax, Management reporting

Reporting
Management reporting, board reports, KPI’s, cash flow forecasting, budgeting, long term forecasting, Financial planning and analysis

Mergers & acquisitions
Due Diligence, finance integration, systems integration, Tax planning

Sale / exit of business
Valuations, exit planning, due diligence, tax structuring, buyer negotiations, and post-sale support.

Risk management
Legal liabilities, technology issues, liquidity issues, patents and IP management.

Commercial activities
Client agreements, lease agreements, commission structures, employee benefit schemes, share incentive schemes, third party negotiations

Systems & automation
Xero, QB, Sage, Netsuite – implementation, integration to 3rd party apps, automation
Testimonials
Searle Goott CA (SA) and his global exceptional network of CFO's at Hire CFO are the answer to most people's prayers. I love throwing hard to deal with requests, and he always surprises me with the right person for the job at the right moment. This is a masterful platform for rapidly scaling businesses.
Julie Meyer, Chairman and CEO, VIVA Investment Partners
We engaged with Hire CFO to completely run and manage our funding raising campaign on Seedrs. We raised 103% of our target with over 325 investors which was hugely successful. Thanks to all involved."
Marek Rudzki, COO, Flagship Reporting
Hire CFO set up our real estate reporting and produced business plans for fundraising. James was extremely knowledgeable and as an additional bonus we continually save 40% on employment costs. We honestly can't operate our business without them."
Paul Skikne, CEO, BRW Real Estate, Los Angeles
We engaged with Hire CFO to lead in an overseas acquisition for our company. They led the process from beginning to end including due diligence, negotiations and valuations. Very knowledgeable and professional team. Highly recommended!"
David Brooks, Managing Director, Forming Reality Group
These guys are truly awesome. We had no accounting reporting in place before we engaged with them. In addition they have been instrumental in our charity obtaining funding. very professional and always deliver on time."
Hilton Freund, CEO Twinning Project
Hire CFO have been instrumental in managing our cash forecasting and giving our start up general business advice. Very professional and always deliver on time."
Ravi Naik, CEO, SGS Consultants
Hire CFO set up our Xero system and automated processes for us. We are extremely satisfied and highly recommend their services."
Marc Eden, CEO Auto Concierge Limited
