Who We Are

Ollie leads our headhunting offering and Foundational’s fractional tech & product services. He also works with Chris to find the best finance talent for full-time & fractional engagements.

“During my time in VC, I saw how powerful one or two key hires could be to a business, especially when leadership is stretched by rapid growth. It’s incredibly satisfying to connect two people that go on to scale a company together.”

“Hiring a senior leader that allows a founder to let go of both the day-to-day operations and strategy of a particular function is one of the highest impact decisions a founder can make.”

Ollie has 14 years of experience as a headhunter in the Southeast Asian venture ecosystem. In 2018, he became one of the first Heads of Talent in Southeast Asia for a regional VC, Golden Gate Ventures.

His role was to work closely with 70+ founders across Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Singapore, and Thailand to ensure they were bringing the right talent into their businesses to ensure growth.

Ollie graduated with a Bachelor’s in Maths with the Philosophy of Maths from King’s College London and is a Certified Employment Intermediary.

Chris runs our CFO Services team and is a Fractional CFO for several of our clients. He also works with Ollie when our clients are looking to hire finance specialists, whether as either CFOs or supporting roles.

“I enjoy working with early-stage startups to bring some structure to the chaos and help founders build financial processes that allow them to take a step back and understand the key drivers to their long-term success. Working with so many companies across multiple industries with our CFO team allows me to maximise the impact I can have across as many startups as possible. ”

Chris has worked with hundreds of early stage companies in Singapore during his time at Foundational and as CFO at Lanturn. While at Lanturn, Chris had his first experience of rapid growth in a startup when he oversaw a 4x growth in revenue over two and a half years.

Prior to Lanturn, he was APAC Financial Controller for a Marine Fuel firm with over $2.5bn in annual revenue and previously spent three years auditing a wide range of companies at Deloitte in South Africa and Boston.