What I do

Some challenges are too complex or distracting for your current team, and too urgent to delay. I take them off your plate, solve them autonomously, and hand back a structural solution that runs without me.

Stress-tested through 12+ years in startups & scaleups of all sizes (6 to 500 employees, bootstrapped to series F) and types (software, marketplace and hardware, B2B and B2C, profitable and burning cash), leading teams from 0 to 13, across finance, HR, legal & operations.

Ralf van Heumen

MSc Financial Economics · LL.M. Business Law

Typical assignments, across finance, legal and operations, drawn from previous work done:

Funding rounds under pressure
Closed a multi-million bridge round after a Series A fell through, pooling angels and family offices in an SPV to protect ownership control and limit dilution.

Board and investor trust
Won board buy-in for a high-burn strategy (>50% of revenue) with scenario-based planning, and rebuilt trust where revenue reporting had drifted.

Stalled growth
Helped drive 10x+ revenue growth over 7 years with dashboards tying sales targets and commissions to live CRM data, and gave equity incentives real weight by removing valuation ambiguity.

Cross-border structure
Opened, restructured and closed entities internationally, including tax, transfer pricing, and the employee side.

Pricing and product economics
Overhauled pricing and contracting, and called the sunset of a product line once the real numbers emerged.

Systems, diligence and operations
Replaced ERP, HR and expense systems multiple times each on minimal budget, ran due diligence from tier-1 VC to M&A, led a US-listed-level audit by a global top-10 firm, and moved a manufacturing line from the UK to China.