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Successful Together
Fun and Nimble
Excellence meets Expertise
Crest Collective is a fun group of collaborative fractional startup advisors and operators seeking community to help our founders find success faster.
Collaborating in quarterly sessions and summits to find opportunities for fractional work for high-potential startups.
Combining decades of deep expertise working with seed - Series B startups.
Why Crest?
Startup Mountaineers
Collaborate, share and comment in our exclusive SLACK community.
Only trusted, highly-vetted collective members have access.
SLACK Community
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In these facilitated calls we discuss relevant topics and get together once a year at our startup fractional summit.
Quartlery Calls & Summit
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Join as a founding member and have your profile listed on the website. Add a service offering to the Crest Menu.
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Organizations
The Collective Members Advise
Within 2 months I have been connected to various startups to offer my CFO services and specifically deal room review and financial forecasting for startups at seed. Those were interesting companies and I also referred one of my founders to a Crest member and one startup for a pitch opportunity at a fund.
Maaike Doyer
Fractional CFO, Angel Investor Epic Angels
Whenever I put together pitch decks for my clients, inevitably the design and branding question comes up. I have referred 8 clients to another collective member. I'm so happy that I can count on them and their quality of work.
Anne Cocquyt
Startup Advisor, Fractional COO
I have tapped the collective for startups that are interested in supporting working with my entrepreneurship students at CAA.
Justin Lokitz
Chair of California Academy of the Arts
Decades of relevant
startup experience (Seed - Series A)
in your corner
Startup Advisor / Fractional COO
Founding Partner Crest
Anne Cocquyt
As a founder, strategist, and operator, Anne helps founders fundraise and grow (focus: digital health, fintech & CPG)
Claim to Fame: Author, award-winning mentor (Start2) and lecturer at UC Berkeley, Founder of The GUILD
Startup Advisor / CRO
Founding Partner Crest
Michelle Tran
Passionate about all things fintech and wealthtech. Proven growth and sales leader with success in growing businesses and teams.
Claim to Fame: Top 100 Women in Fintech
Startup Advisor Business Models
Justin Lokitz
Works on complex problems/opportunities with teams to innovate, scale new products, or create sustainable strategies for the future.
Business Model Genius
Claim to Fame: Bestselling author
Startup Advisor / Fractional COO
Mercedes Bankston
Wears many hats from streamlining operations, increasing sales, training teams and direct management of sales/marketing.
Claim to Fame: Founder Institute Silicon Valley Lead
Startup Advisor & BD
Jens Weitzel
Jens is an seasoned international startup advisor focused on strategic positioning, go-to-market planning, and cross-border expansion with expertise across industries.
Claim to Fame: Cross Atlantic Angel Group
Branding Expert
Oakley Johnson
Oakley helps startups build authentic brands through strategic branding and design.
Passion: D2C
Claim to Fame: Own brand, 80 startups equipped for sustainable growth
Design Leader CDO/CPO
Jan-Simon Veicht
Jan is a Design Leader and Creative Director with 15+ years of experience across luxury, tech, and consumer goods industries.
Claim to Fame: Leading design teams at Coach, Calvin Klein, developing hardware products for Xiaomi and Leica
Medical Device Expert CxO
John Ashley
John Ashley is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years in the medical device industry.
CEO or in executive at numerous medical device companies which returned >$1.25B to investors.
Claim to Fame: MIT Venture Mentor
Startup Advisor, Fractional CMO/CCO
Katja Gagen
Katja helps B2B companies grow and scale by creating compelling GTM strategies, brands, and narratives that resonate with stakeholders. Former clients: Brex
Claim to Fame: Author & Podcast Host
Fractional CMO
Roberto Gutierrez
Roberto's journey from academia to Silicon Valley startups is fueled by his experience as an outdoor guide, which led him to co-found companies like Oru Kayak and Vansmith.
Claim to Fame: Various successful Kickstarter Campaigns
Startup Advisor, Fractional CMO
Jocelyn DeGance
Jocelyn is an award-Winning Marketing and Comms Leader, AI Strategist & Social Impact Board Advisor.
Claim to Fame: Brought many startups to TechCrunch Battlefield
Startup Advisor / CxO
Zahra Badey
Zahra is a Swiss army knife for startups, enabling them to go from 0 to 1 cross-functionally - Strategy, BD, Product, Engineering.
Passion: AI, Life Sciences, Climate
Claim to fame: Founder @AI Infra startup, 12+ patents
CRM Expert
Anne-Sophie Reinckens
Anne-Sophie is a sales enablement consultant with over 12 years of experience helping startups. She also empowers foreign founders to navigate the US market with her hands-on approach.
Claim to Fame: Coach at Alchemist Accelerator
Fractional CMO
Roseann Fernandez
Roseann is a seasoned CPG marketing veteran for top beauty, wellness, and food and beverage brands (L'Oreal, Nestle, and startups of all stages).
Claim to Fame: Led the US launch team for a major L'Oreal haircare brand, winning numerous industry awards
Fractional CFO
Veronica Cai
Veronica Cai is a seasoned fractional CFO with extensive experience advising early-stage life sciences and tech startups. She specializes in developing financial models, fundraising strategies, and exit planning tailored to each company's unique needs and goals.
Fractional CFO
Maaike Doyer
Maaike is a fractional CFO who helps founders get their finances organized for decision-making, fundraising and offers global expertise in areas like negotiations.
Claim to fame: Runs largest angel network of women in Asia (Epic Angels)
Fintech Expert, Fractional CPO/COO
Ken Kruszka
Ken is a multi-exit serial entrepreneur, advisor, board member and strategic leader with over 20 years in the fintech industry. Planning and executing from inception, through growth, to exit.
Claim to Fame: First person to send $1 around the world by mobile
B2B SaaS Strategy and M&A expert
Mathieu Guerville
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Mathieu helps companies in complex B2B/enterprise markets assess and quantify their strategic growth options; from validating new markets or products to operationalizing the resulting Ops, GTM and M&A tactics. Claim to fame: Award- winning innovation professor in top 20 MBA program.
Startup Storyteller
Ramya Mahalingam
Ramya is a leader in McKinsey’s Digital, Sustainability, and Business Building Practice. She helps founders with GTM and is a CPG entrepreneur herself.
Claim to fame: Ramya led McKinsey In, a startup accelerator for seed - A startups.
Finance & Strategy Partner
Holden Bonwit
Holden is a collaborative growth partner: Combining engineering with finance & growth consulting, in the areas of
Social Enterprise
Climate Tech
Hardware
Claim to Fame: Chair of Oxford Seed Fund