Ismael Cherkaoui

Passionate about finance, technology, and entrepreneurship, I support tech startups (Pre-seed/Seed, Series A, Series B) in structuring their finance function (Financial reporting, FP&A, treasury, fundraising) as an interim CFO/Finance Director to enable founders to focus on scaling their business.

I have over 10 years of proven experience in Corporate Finance. I held analyst positions in investment banking (Lazard) and venture capital (Quadrille Capital), then as a consultant (Mazars) for financial due diligence in M&A/Fundraising contexts. Subsequently, I structured the finance function at FairMoney (fintech/digital bank leader in emerging markets) from Series A (€10m) in 2019 to Series B (€32m) in 2021.

I graduated from Telecom ParisTech (Grande Ecole) and the HEC Paris Digital Entrepreneur Master's program.

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My passions are finance, technology and entrepreneurship. I support tech startups (Pre-seed / Seed, Series A, Series B) in structuring their finance function (Financial reporting, FP&A, Treasury, Fundraising) as interim Finance Officer to allow founders laser-focus on scaling up the business.

I have proven experience in Corporate Finance for more than 10 years. I worked as an analyst in investment banking (Lazard) and in venture capital (Quadrille capital), then as a financial consultant (Mazars) leading due diligences in the context of M​​&A / Fundraising operations. Then, I structured the finance function at FairMoney (fintech and the leading digital bank for emerging markets) from Series A (10m€) in 2019 to Series B (32m€) in 2021.

I graduated from Telecom ParisTech (Grande Ecole) and from the Digital Entrepreneur masters at HEC Paris.