Ray Nicholls

Raymond Nicholls Funding Accelerator mentor

Bio

Ray is the founder of Pitch Hill Partners, a recruitment consultancy that places financial expertise (CFOs, FDs, and FCs) into privately owned start-up and growth businesses on a flexible basis. Many of the businesses Ray works with are looking for or achieved Venture Capital or Private Equity funding for growth.

With over 22 years of experience of placing finance executives into SMEs, Ray has become a trusted advisor within this community of professionals and has an excellent reputation.

Focus of 1-2-1 Session

Ray will use a 1-2-1 session to discuss:

  • Your business journey so far and decisions you have made regarding hires which have been positive and those which have been learning opportunities.
  • Your plans for the next phase of your business and any economic factors you can see impacting your plan.
  • Ray will give you an open and critical appraisal of your current team structure providing tips on what has worked well in other similar businesses.
  • Ray will de-mystify by examples the relationship that you should expect from a recruitment partner in growing your business headcount.
  • Ray will make strategic introductions where appropriate from his professional network.

Information to prepare in advance:

A suitably redacted business plan or overview of your business. If you haven’t prepared one, please write a short, clear statement describing your business to someone who is learning about it for the very first time. Imagine explaining it to a friend.

A vision of where you would like to get to: 6mths/12mths/24mths and what success would look and feel like.