# Richard Tame

> CFO - complex, capital intensive industries.  IPO; Raised >$2B

CFO with deep expertise in complex, emerging and rapidly growing capital intensive industries, including cloud computing/GPUs, airlines, self-driving.  Global experience and outlook.

Keen to share my broad and deep experience.

Ori - UK HQ AI infrastructure (HPC and GPU cloud platform).  Joined pre Series A, raised a bunch of debt and equity whilst growing rapidly (23x revenue growth in 2024).  Also COO responsibilities (People, Legal, IT, Compliance).

Former CFO at Aurora Innovation, NASDAQ: AUR. (Valued +$5B). 

Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company and I scaled it from Series B through IPO and beyond in 3 years, raising $2B dollars along the way.

Ex: Meta, Lyft, Microsoft and Amazon.

Things I can advise on: 
- Building & scaling finance orgs
- Fundraising
- The journey to IPO and beyond
- Selling the financial story
- Corporate Finance
- Accounting
- Financial Modeling
- Recruiting and retaining great talent
- Business Strategy
- Investor & Board Relations
- & more 

Finance can be a mystery to founders and executives and there is a lot of noise and false information or uninformed comment on finance and fundraising.

In Finance it can be lonely and you can doubt if you are making progress in your career.

I have extensive experience in startups, larger tech orgs and mature companies.  I have experience in many industries including AI, mobility, transportation, aviation, cloud computing and infrastructure.

We can have an interesting conversation on a wide range of finance, fundraising and career development issues, or on a range of industries, or anything else.

**Rating:** 5/5 (3 reviews)

## Offerings

- Video call (15 min): $298.00

## Example Questions

- What’s the best way to structure a Finance team at my stage of company?
- What kind of CFO or Head of Finance do I need?
- What kind of CFO/Finance person should I be?  How do I maximize my finance career potential?
- What are the unit economics of self-driving?  What are the challenges of this new industry?
- How should I think about the economics of cloud vs on-prem for AI, GPU and traditional cloud?

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