Find a Virtual COO

Adrienne Muir

I am a highly accomplished professional with over 25 years of experience, primarily as a Chief Operating Officer (COO). Throughout my career, I have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to driving business excellence and fostering exceptional workplace environments. With a focus on the Exchanges and Fintech sectors, I have achieved remarkable success, including extensive offshore experience during my 20-year tenure working in the United Kingdom.

Andrew Long

I’ve been deeply connected to the technology space for over 30 years. I’ve spent the past 12 in SaaS start ups building efficient, data-driven customer experiences. I’ve run Customer Support and Success functions, both small and large, as well as wearing Operations and Privacy hats at a senior level.

Antony McDonald

With over 25+ years' experience in senior leadership roles (CEO, CIO, COO), I am a proven executive with a strong track record in business startups and transitions.

Bailey Lenart

Experienced product and operations leader, specialising in scaling purpose-driven businesses through a regenerative approach. Adept at working across industries, leveraging deep expertise in finance, marketing, product, operations, and entrepreneurship.

Christian Sykes

Over the last 20 years I’ve worked with 300+ companies to help them figure out “what next?” and “how?”. I love working with people that are really having a go, and navigating the unknown together.

David Lunt

I have over 20 years of experience in senior Fintech roles (vCOO, vCPO, vCTO), and am looking to support innovative payments based businesses ready to scale, raise, and build product.

Diana Minnée

Experienced COO, fractional since 2020, capable of working in every part of a business, including Customer Success, Sales and Marketing, HR, Product, Delivery, Engineering, Security, and Finance. Able to draw on networks for funding, go-to-market, legal and IP.

Graham Scott

I understand business numbers, and how to use them to make better decisions. I bring clarity, simplicity and big-picture thinking.

Jamie Baddeley

With 30 years in technology businesses, and 20 years in executive/commercial roles, I'm an experienced senior executive with exposure to energy, information technology, software development, telecommunications and internet services. I also have 15 years of governance experience.

Jamie McKean

Experienced virtual CxO. Supporting clients in NZ and the US for the past 15 years. Ability to support founders and businesses, by structuring and systemising the Marketing, Sales and Delivery aspects of your business. Able to draw on networks for anything not in my wheelhouse.

Karl Arndt

I add most value to team going through period of change. That could be an early stage company looking to push for your next phase of growth, or it could be a team within an established company that needs to pivot to deliver against changing customer requirements. I form relationships fast and pride myself on focusing on the root causes of problems or opportunities.

Kevin Whiteman

I am proven business and people leader with multi-industry and cross-functional experience, built on a foundation of financial and commercial leadership. Able to step in, understand, and add value fast.

Li Ling Ho

Melissa Firth

Seasoned Chief Product Officer/CXO & CEO Advisor with 25+ years’ broad human-centred digital media and software product development experience, and 11 years' senior executive experience in SaaS and corporate innovation. Through a blend of creativity, commerciality, facilitation and collaborative leadership, I help scaling SaaS businesses, leadership teams and product teams get clear on their business and product strategy, use the right language for the right audiences, live their best work-lives and hurdle their biggest barriers to growth.

Moana O'Neil

Being 10 years at my last company culminating as COO and CEO - the next step for me is one I want to take considering all options and ensuring I can bring the full depth of my experience. I’ve been in the Freelance/Contract market for the last 6 months. It's been interesting and I miss the ability to unleash more potential and value that you are able to as part of a team. I am open minded and a straight – talker, I can often be heard saying ‘make it real for me'. Known as a courageous leader, a deep listener, my consulting background is highly transferable.

Rebecca Speirs

Making smart strategic decisions and completing fit-for-business-purpose deliverables in desired timeframes is hard. It can be difficult to get senior leaders aligned on strategic priorities and target outcomes, particularly when the context crosses organisational boundaries. It can be even trickier to elicit the most significant assumptions, risks, and uncertainties into digestible information chunks. Synthesising thinking into a prioritised and realistic delivery roadmap that decision-makers endorse can feel like wizardry. Work with me to get clarity and consensus on a pragmatic way forward. Based in Perth, Western Australia, I’ve helped household name organisations across Australasia and the UK make smarter decisions, faster, in complex contexts for over two decades. My experience includes Agile software delivery, mining studies, banking & financial services, government, and primary industry. My approach involves getting clear on purpose, priorities and what success looks like. I use visualisation to clarify complexity, design thinking to explore possibilities, and a risk-based approach to how much detail is really needed for the purpose of the decision or deliverables. This results in fast, shared understanding and makes it easier and quicker to align on what’s important and define an agreed way forward. If you’re trying to make smart decisions, faster for the next phase of your organisation’s evolution and you don’t want to waste hours in unproductive discussions or lengthy meetings that lead nowhere, it’s time to do things differently. Drop me a message and let’s set up a time to chat so we can plan how to make your next smart decision.

Sandy Isaac

Customer-focussed product and operations leader with a legal and business design background, often working with cross-functional teams. I can help explore the unknown by distilling complex or ambiguous concepts into practical, actionable roadmaps & deliver on those to help reach business goals and growth.

Sarah Kinley

Ōtautahi based Fractional/Impact COO/Bringing people centred structure to purpose-led organisations.

Talei Blomfield

I bring 20+ years of management in Customer Experience to SaaS start ups and scale ups. I specialise in increasing Net Revenue Retention, reducing churn, improving customer experience, developing high performing teams and efficiency transformations to reduce Cost to Serve.

Uli Johnston

I am a manager with 24 years of experience in the global environment. I hold an Executive MBA from Massey University and my expertise is developing and improving business strategies, especially in the corporate development and organisational culture area. I find the root cause of challenges and develop a detailed plan to achieve optimum business performance and outcome.

Vishal Nath

Experienced and driven IT executive with a strong track record of success, with over 15 years of expertise in development and technical leadership. Demonstrates extensive proficiency in SaaS business models and tech startups.