Avneet Riat

Bio

Avneet is a fractional business consultant with expertise in setup of strategy and delivery of growth. He creates value, through seamless execution across business & software. His career has been focused on scaling and optimising startups and scale ups into enterprises across E-commerce, Retail, Financial Services, Legal & Government. Avneet has 20 years experience across change and transformation, in house and consultancy side. He has lived in the UK, Canada & India, training in business at university.

Avneet's portfolio experience has been focused on digital transformation (in start-up/scaleups) and includes:

  • Product led growth, deploying a £25m budget across ten agile teams to develop AI, automation, chatbots and telephony, achieving annual savings of over £50m
  • Built and led departments of engineers, BAs, UX research and design, delivery managers, developing products for customer services, sales and new business grossing £100m ARR+
  • Enabled scaling of a veterinary business from 36 to 360 practices - consolidating enterprise apps and cloud, boosting annual revenue from £350k to £3m in 3 yrs
  • Orchestrated a group operating model rollout, aligning ways of working across 18 countries
  • Cost reduction, led consolidation integrating multiple startups into global group and managing country closedowns, realising annual cost efficiencies of 40m euro Entrepreneurship (SME)
  • Built a property portfolio and bootstrapped food business, grown through acquisition

Focus of 1-2-1 Session

A 1:1 session with Avneet can be used to focus and build strategies for

  • Ideation
  • Growth & Scaling
  • Avneet is also happy to support with a pitch deck review (after a 1st session)