Adrien Vale
Fractional CFO · Zurich and remote
CVEngagementsContact
vale@vitae.finance · +41 44 555 01 20 · references on request
Selected engagements.
Anonymised where the NDA insists. Numbers as reported to the respective boards.
Cases
2025 – 2026
Series B, logistics platform
CHF 18m raised
6 weeks
From first data-room upload to money in the bank. Clean cap table helped; nightly close discipline helped more.
2024 – 2025
SaaS reporting rebuild
90-person B2B SaaS
-18 days
Board pack latency, from three weeks late to three days early. CFO-hire handover included.
2023 – 2024
Pricing overhaul
Industrial IoT scale-up
+27pts
Gross margin, in eighteen months. Two SKUs killed, one invented, sales team still speaking to me.
2022 – 2023
Exit readiness
Family-owned manufacturer
2.4x
Multiple improvement between first indication and signed SPA. Eleven months of unglamorous cleanup.
How I work
– Two days a week, on site one of them. Finance does not improve over video alone.
– I bring templates, not dogma. Your chart of accounts, kept.
– Every engagement ends with a hire: I recruit and onboard my replacement.
Adrien Vale
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