Paraag Amin

After three decades in investment banking, C-suite and boardroom roles, Paraag Amin works with entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next stage, reworking the strategy and the person running it as one system.

in public markets, the C-suite and the boardroom30 years

equity raised£1bn+

and CFO, COO and CTO seats in private technology companiesListed plc CFO

a loss-making business turned profitable3 months

The conventional education

Paraag spent three decades inside the machinery of conventional success: technology research and investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Citi, Credit Suisse and Peel Hunt, then the C-suite and the boardroom. A CFA charterholder, he has raised over £1bn of equity, taken technology companies public, served as CFO of a listed plc and held CFO, COO and CTO seats in private technology companies. He has advised on acquisitions, and turned a loss-making business profitable in three months.

The other education

At forty, a type 2 diabetes diagnosis forced a question he had been professionally excellent at avoiding, and he came off all medication within three months. The experience changed how he thought about performance: a strategy is only as durable as the person carrying it. That became the basis of the wider work on identity, energy, attention and the hidden costs of success.

“He has been in every chair you are sitting in, and he knows what each one costs the person sitting in it.”

What he works on now

Paraag works privately with entrepreneurs whose business has stopped moving and who suspect they are part of why. Sometimes the visible problem is growth. Sometimes it is a business that still depends on one person, a role that no longer fits, or the question of what comes after the goal. The work treats the strategy and the person running it as one system. The deeper instruments behind it come in once the work has begun.