Hayat Amin

Payments business where people managed money, split bills and spent their own Cake credit currency.

• Led financial diligence and sat at the negotiating table through the American Express acquisition
• Built granular revenue and cost models that supported the valuation, the KPI culture, board reporting and financial leadership
• Responsible for all due diligence, audit and advisory work for the exit
• Ran reporting, accounting policies and controls

Travel data platform connecting travellers to local expert recommendations across three regions.

• Set up and ran the whole finance and operations function across UK, US and EU
• Ran acquisition diligence and compliance through the TripAdvisor process
• Wrote the strategic fit and proprietary data narrative for the buyer
• Owned management and statutory accounts, VAT, tax, EC Sales List and VAT MOSS for a multi-country group

One of the world's largest grant platforms, processing 66 percent of all successful Innovate UK grants.

• Defended a 35 percent valuation uplift into the next round with the financial and business model behind it
• Part of the team through three years of 200 percent year-on-year growth
• Responsible for partnerships: connecting people and building high-stakes relationships
• Data assetisation: turned Grantify's own data into an asset, with proprietary models built on it

Workflow intelligence for post-acute care. Real-time clinical guidance that overlays the EMR a home health or hospice agency already uses.

• Holds the finance seat: the model, the reporting package, the board pack and the runway
• Sets pricing strategy in a market where a penny on the price moves the deal
• In charge of the company's brand, ethos, image, go-to-market and product placement
• Supports fundraising and investor relations

Software that reads the radio frequency environment for wireless deployments, selling into telecom, defence and government. Exit in progress.

• Built the model, the IP story and the licensing function behind a company that raised over $130 million
• Turned a spectrum patent estate into a revenue asset, priced from the claims rather than the titles
• Strategically builds relationships and manages the portfolio companies
• Oversaw the finance, strategy and IP teams

Payment infrastructure for the airline and travel industry: disbursements and card programmes for airlines, their passengers and crew.

• Owns the global growth strategy and the strategic plan end to end, from problem definition to execution
• Owns financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, from monthly close to board pack
• Owns pricing and transactional revenue: interchange, scheme fees, FX and transaction margin, stress tested before go-live
• Leads data intelligence across proprietary passenger, crew and transaction data, turning it into a revenue asset

Deep tech logistics company holding a patent estate covering package and asset tracking.

• Runs IP and patent strategy for a company that has raised around $150 million
• Productised the patents and put them in front of some of the biggest players in the world
• Moved the royalty position without filing a single new patent

Consumer data business holding a national-scale identity and behaviour estate.

• Valued and remodelled the company around a data estate of 18.5 billion data points covering 85 percent of the US population
• Repositioned the business model, with finance, direction and management on top
• Part of the team that led data monetisation, the fundraise and the marketing

Private equity backed group across technology and hospitality. Full P&L ownership, reporting to the board and the sponsor.

• 181 percent increase in sales quarter on quarter, and 55 percent increase in online sales off a new-product go-to-market
• Passed the 50-employee mark and led the executive team across commercial, product, finance and operations
• Owned the sponsor relationship, board reporting and value creation plan tracking

British company holding deep data on Africa, backed by US venture capital.

• Owned investor relations and financial strategy for a US venture backed data business
• Built the monthly package that let US investors and the board trust numbers coming out of nine very different markets
• Set pricing and stress tested it market by market before rollout

The UK's pioneering cloud accounting firm for high-growth technology companies. One of his first seats, and the practice where he learned the trade.

• Ran finance, budgeting and planning for more than 120 high-growth tech scale-ups across the UK and US
• Walked founders through VC, PE, bank and crowdfunding rounds, from the model to the negotiation
• Saved clients millions through capital allowance and SEIS and EIS structuring
• Rolled out digital accounting, BI dashboards and automated stock control as a repeatable playbook

• In charge of financial modelling, investor relationships and reporting
• Advises the leadership team on finance, pricing and the road to the next round
• Key strategy for company expansion