Adrian Dawe

CFO | Coach | Advisor

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

About

Highly accomplished, commercial, and results-driven CFO | Coach | Advisor with a proven track record spanning a range of business models, stages, sizes and sectors. I've built my own business, been a venture capitalist, raised from the World's best investors, led many turnarounds and exited. I thrive building exceptional teams and businesses. - Equity & debt fundraising - Team building, leadership, coaching - Board and stakeholder management - International expansion - Strategic, commercial, negotiation - Technical (legal, tax, compliance)

Experience

  • Fractional CFO | Advisor at Automated Architecture (AUAR)
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Portfolio CFO | Coach | Advisor at Adrian Dawe
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

    Portfolio CFO | Coach | Advisor partnering with exceptional founders. You can find out more here https://www.adriandawe.com/

  • CFO at UNDO
    Feb 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    UNDO was spun out of The Future Forest Company where I was CFO. UNDO is a World leading carbon dioxide removal company on a mission to remove 1 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually. Backed by Lower Carbon Capital and in partnership with Stripe & Microsoft.

  • CFO at Episode 1 Ventures
    Apr 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Episode 1, is a Seed VC investing in B2B startups. Outside of the core CFO responsibilities my role was to coach portfolio founders/ finance teams to build their finance strategy and pitch materials. Start-ups included Fluidstack, Omnipresent, Raft, Kleene, PerchPeek and CloudNC all of which raised big rounds with world class investors including Bessemer, Hedosophia and Octopus Ventures.

  • Founder & CEO at Bookabees
    Jun 2016 - Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Award winning innovative children's book club. Steered the start-up from concept to growth and now a profitable business.