Hayat Amin is a tech CFO and strategist and AI agent operator with twenty years inside high-growth technology. He has been on the operator side of three exits (including to American Express and TripAdvisor) and put three businesses on the Financial Times FT100 fastest-growing list. He operates fractionally across New York, London, and Dubai.

Where is Hayat Amin based?

Hayat Amin operates from three cities: New York, London, and Dubai. Engagements are remote-first with quarterly on-site weeks scheduled around the client's board cycle.

What does Hayat Amin do?

Hayat Amin runs two services fractionally: the tech CFO and strategist function during fundraises and exits, which includes IP and data strategy that prices intangibles and turns them into revenue; and AI agent operations that embed processes, automations, AI agents, agentic workflows, and real-time reporting into the business with measurable P&L impact.

How is Hayat Amin different from other fractional CFOs?

Most fractional CFOs are accountants with a senior title. Hayat Amin is an operator who has sat in the buyer's seat on three exits. The data-room build, diligence Q&A responses, and valuation defence look like what an acquirer expects to see. That gap is usually worth 15 to 30% of exit multiple.

How do I contact Hayat Amin?

Email hayat@beyondelevation.com or book a call at https://www.meethayat.com/contact/. Most outreach gets a response within 24 hours.

Hayat Amin · Operator

Three-time exited CFO and AI Operator

Tech CFO and AI Operator

Name: Hayat Amin
Cities: New York · London
Profession: Tech CFO and AI Operator

As featured in

MSN SEEDLEGALS BARCHART

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¶ The premise

Twenty years to build the operator Hayat Amin is.

Exits: 03
FT100: 3×
Years: 20
Avg y/y: 300%

A CFO who fixes money, strategy and risk fast. 20 years in high-growth tech. 3 exits, buyers include American Express and TripAdvisor. 3 FT100 listings.

Two things, done at full depth: the tech CFO and strategist who has run finance for 20 years, and the AI operator who puts working AI inside your business. Not a developer writing code, an executive who knows which processes make money and builds the AI that runs them.

High-profile exits

3×

FT100 listings

Years in tech

300%

Avg y/y growth

$1B+

Company valuations

¶ The unfair operator

The two pillars that make
Hayat Amin an unfair operator.

Tech CFO and Strategist.

20 years as a CFO in tech. Finance lead, strategist and hands-on operator in one hire.

Hayat runs your money and your growth plan. He builds the financial model, the investor story, and the exit-ready setup from day one.

Outcomes companies receive

01Run scalable, modern financial operations

02Best-in-class financial models, dashboards & forecasts

03Fundraises that actually close: VC, PE, angels

04M&A technicals, exit DD, EBITDA forecast for the acquirer

05Investor narrative, decks, teasers & data rooms

06Pricing, GTM, sales intelligence & investor FOMO

07IP & data strategy: price, license and monetise the assets you own

08Exit strategy built from day one, run like the acquirer is watching

09Board & C-suite strategy: KPIs, targets and accountability

AI agent operator.

An ex-operator and C-suite executive putting AI to work in your business, not a developer.

If you want AI in your business, don't hire a developer. Hire an operator who has run companies for 20 years and knows which processes make money. Hayat designs the process first, then builds and runs the AI that does the work.

Outcomes companies receive

01Business processes redesigned for AI, then automated

02AI agents built, deployed and run day to day

03Agentic workflows that run whole processes end to end

04Sales, outreach and finance agents doing real jobs

05Manual databases rebuilt into live, structured systems

06Real-time reports and dashboards from your own data

07Workflows and roles automated across every department

08Full ownership: no dev team, no agency, no lock-in

09Teams of AI agents monitored, measured and managed

¶ Selected work

What Hayat has actually done
or been part of.

01CFO · Fintech
Cake → American Express
EXITED
Transaction-heavy fintech infrastructure. CFO from very early stage. The diligence team had nothing to attack.
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02Head of Finance · Travel-tech
Tripbod → TripAdvisor
EXITED
Travel-tech platform built around a mine of proprietary data. Hayat ran finance through to acquisition.
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03Portfolio Finance Director · Accountancy
iHorizon → Cooper Parry
EXITED
Pioneer in accounting, taxation and advisory for hyper-growth tech in the UK & US. 10× growth since Hayat joined. UK's largest tech-focused accountancy.
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04CFO · RF software
DGS (Washington DC unicorn)
Next-gen software platform characterising the radio-frequency environment. Hayat served as CFO and helped DGS build and execute the strategy around their patent portfolio. Exit talks ongoing.
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05CSO · Grants platform
Grantify (FT100 #46)
SECONDARIES
One of the largest grant platforms in the world. 66% of all successful UK grants run through it. Hayat led data valuation, fundraise, strategy, and partnerships.
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06CSO · Consumer data
Nxtech (18.5B data points)
85% of the US population. Hayat led data monetisation, valuation, fundraise, and reporting, repositioning the asset from ad-targeting to enterprise licensing.
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07President of IP · Logistic tech
Position Imaging
Has raised around $150m building some of the most exciting and important technology for anything that moves.
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08Biotech · Health
Thriva (FT100 #3)
Third fastest-growing company in Europe. Biotech category leader.
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09DTC · Hi-tech apparel
L'estrange (FT100 #94)
94th fastest-growing company in Europe. Hi-tech apparel built for the modern operator.
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Hayat Amin · Tech CFO and AI Operator

¶ The track record

By the
numbers.

What 20 years in tech adds up to. Track record, not theory.

01
Billions in company valuations
Exited three separate companies across fintech, travel-tech and accountancy.
02
3× FT100
Took three companies to the top 100 of Europe's fastest-growing companies.
03
20 years of experience
Hard-hitting experience across US and UK companies, at every stage of the journey.
04
60% more likely to fundraise
Companies working with Hayat are 60% more likely to close external funding.
05
300% growth year-on-year
Average of 300% revenue growth y/y across the portfolio.
06
Lessons from failure
Learning is not just from success. Hayat operates with hard-won pattern recognition from what does not work.

¶ In their words

What CEOs say about Hayat.

“
Hayat was our fractional CSO and a key part of our Secondary round, data strategy and overall growth, becoming the 46th fastest-growing company of 2024.
Mat WestergreenFounder & CEO, Grantify

“
Fantastic. Very diligent, very reliable, methodical, suggesting and implementing efficient processes and monthly reports.
William GreenCEO, L'estrange

“
For a $30m finance round here in the US, we needed a CFO who was strategic but hands on. Hayat Amin to the rescue.
Carl SteinmannFounder, Acresclub

“
Hayat brings expertise and flair to corporate financial management.
Rob WithagenCEO, Asoko Insight

“
Hayat has been a critical part of our fundraising and day-to-day strategy.
Babacar DialloCEO, Oolu Solar

“
Hayat is an innovative financial leader. Scalable solutions and a real leader for our financial arm.
Dan MollerCOO, Vinaya Technology

¶ Podcast appearances

On the record.

01Listen ↗

SeedLegals Webinar

Hayat Amin speaks to some of the UK's most promising startups about the benefits of fractional CFOs.

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02Listen ↗

The Modern CFO Podcast

Hayat Amin on how AI is taking over finance processes, which means CFOs no longer need to be full-time. The case for hiring a fractional CFO.

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03Listen ↗

The Gross Profit Podcast

On founding businesses and the various rogue strategies Hayat created in his career that worked.

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¶ Field notes

One letter a week.

Frameworks, case studies, and the actual numbers behind real exits, restructures, and AI builds. No sales pitch.

No. 047
The fractional CFO advantage
Why fractional finance leadership out-delivers the full-time hire on the metrics that close rounds.
No. 046
Royalty rate is an output
How we re-priced a hardware company's IP from 2% to 8% without filing a single new patent.
No. 045
AI tourism
What separates a deployed agent from a ChatGPT subscription. The difference is not the model.

¶ Direct line

Let's talk.

hayat@beyondelevation.com

Calendar

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United States

+1 (571) 380-7699

United Kingdom

+44 7476 383531

Three-time exited CFO and AI Operator

Twenty years to build the operator Hayat Amin is.

The two pillars that makeHayat Amin an unfair operator.

Tech CFO and Strategist.

AI agent operator.

What Hayat has actually doneor been part of.

Cake → American Express

Tripbod → TripAdvisor

iHorizon → Cooper Parry

DGS (Washington DC unicorn)

Grantify (FT100 #46)

Nxtech (18.5B data points)

Position Imaging

Thriva (FT100 #3)

L'estrange (FT100 #94)

Have a chat with me?

By thenumbers.

Billions in company valuations

3× FT100

20 years of experience

60% more likely to fundraise

300% growth year-on-year

Lessons from failure