William Hartley
United Kingdom ยท Finance
Took three companies from Series B to profitability
Twenty-two years in finance leadership across fintech and industrial manufacturing, with a stubborn preference for cash over revenue.
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United Kingdom ยท Finance
Took three companies from Series B to profitability
Twenty-two years in finance leadership across fintech and industrial manufacturing, with a stubborn preference for cash over revenue.
United States ยท Marketing
Built demand engines for two category-defining B2B brands
Marketing leader who treats positioning as the highest-leverage decision a company makes, and everything downstream as execution.
Sweden ยท Operations
Scaled operations from 40 to 900 people without losing the plot
Operations executive specialising in the awkward middle years, when founder instinct stops scaling and process has not yet arrived.
India ยท Data & Analytics
Turned three analytics teams from report factories into decision engines
Data leader who measures a data team by decisions changed, not dashboards shipped.
United States ยท Sales & Business Development
Built enterprise sales motions from first rep to $80M ARR
Sales leader who believes a pipeline problem is almost always a qualification problem that surfaced three months late.
Italy ยท Legal & Compliance
General counsel through two acquisitions and one regulatory investigation
Commercial lawyer who sees legal as a function for enabling decisions at a known level of risk, not blocking them.
Finland ยท IT
Rebuilt two platforms mid-flight without stopping the business
Engineering leader focused on the economics of technical decisions rather than their aesthetics.
United Arab Emirates ยท HR
Built people functions across three continents and four cultures
People leader who treats culture as the sum of what gets rewarded and tolerated, not what gets written on a wall.
Germany ยท Executive Management
Two exits and one turnaround in industrial software
Chief executive who thinks strategy is mostly the discipline of deciding what not to do, then holding that line.
Japan ยท Customer Support
Turned support from a cost centre into the companyโs best product signal
Support leader who reads contact volume as a product roadmap that customers wrote for you.
South Africa ยท Knowledge Management
Made institutional knowledge survive three reorganisations
Knowledge and information leader focused on what an organisation remembers after the people who knew it leave.
Netherlands ยท Finance
Ran finance through two fundraises and one down round
Finance leader specialising in venture-backed companies and the uncomfortable conversations that come with them.
United Kingdom ยท Marketing
Ran growth experimentation programmes at consumer scale
Growth practitioner who is more interested in the quality of a question than the quantity of tests.
Brazil ยท Operations
Built supply operations across Latin American markets
Operations leader with deep experience in markets where infrastructure cannot be assumed.
Switzerland ยท Legal & Compliance
Built privacy and compliance programmes for regulated industries
Compliance leader who builds programmes that survive an audit and do not stop the business.
Singapore ยท Data & Analytics
Put machine learning into production in three regulated businesses
Applied ML leader focused on the gap between a good model and a working system.
Ireland ยท Sales & Business Development
Took a product from founder-led sales to a repeatable motion
Early-stage go-to-market specialist who knows exactly how founder-led selling stops working.
Norway ยท HR
Designed compensation and levelling for fast-growing teams
Compensation and organisational design specialist who believes pay structures teach people what the company values.
Portugal ยท IT
Led IT modernisation in organisations with thirty years of legacy
Technology leader specialising in modernising estates that cannot be switched off.
Poland ยท Executive Management
Led a company through acquisition and post-merger integration
Executive whose specialism is the eighteen months after the deal closes, when most of the value is won or lost.