Powdr Team

We’re a team of finance professionals with 25+ years of experience across FP&A, CFO roles, bookkeeping, and financial modelling.

We’ve worked in the businesses we now support we understand the challenges because we’ve lived them.

Meet the Team

We match the right expertise to your needs. Find specialists across CFO services, financial modelling, FP&A, and operations.

Joe van Gelder

Founder & CFO Services

CFO Services FP&A Financial Modelling

15 years across CFO and FP&A roles in high-growth businesses. Built finance functions from scratch three times. Created Powdr after seeing too many businesses struggle with slow, disconnected strategic finance.

CFO Services FP&A Financial Modelling Strategic Finance High-Growth Scale-ups Finance Function Build

Jonny Curtis

Client Solutions Director

Fundraising Financial Modelling FP&A

Specialises in helping early-stage startups get investment-ready. Builds financial models, cash flow projections, and funding strategies that meet investor expectations. Works with founders from pre-seed through Series A.

Startup Finance Financial Modelling Cash Flow Projections Funding Strategy Investor Readiness Pre-seed to Series A

Daniel Keighobadi

Client Services Manager

Financial Modelling FP&A Strategic Finance

Builds financial forecasts and models for growing businesses using Powdr's platform. Focuses on gathering data, stress-testing assumptions, and ensuring outputs meet the standards investors and banks expect. Works across tech, services, and consumer sectors.

Financial Forecasting Financial Modelling FP&A Investor Reporting Tech & Consumer Sectors Stress-Testing

David Pearce

Fractional CFO

CFO Services Strategic Finance Fundraising

Former PE and S&P 500 CFO. Now works with founders to build and scale FinTech and technology-led ventures. Specializes in fundraising, financial strategy, and building finance functions that support rapid growth.

CFO Services FinTech Fundraising Financial Strategy PE & S&P 500 Experience Finance Function Build

Chris Howard

Fractional CFO

Strategic Finance CFO Services FP&A

CIMA qualified finance leader with experience as a true finance business partner. Works with businesses to deliver strategic goals and drive commercial performance. Expert in translating financial insights into business decisions.

Fractional CFO Strategic Finance Commercial Performance Finance Business Partner CIMA Qualified FP&A

Claire Willmott

Bookkeeping & Operations

Bookkeeping Finance Operations Management Accounting

Specialist in outsourced finance support for growing businesses. Handles the numbers so founders can focus on the business. Expert in building finance operations that scale with the company.

Bookkeeping Finance Operations Outsourced Finance Scale-up Support Management Accounting Process Building

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