I've had the privilege and good fortune of working closely with Christin on multiple occasions, including on a complex transaction for a unique (and very difficult to finance) distributed energy asset fleet. There are many consultants and advisors who live squarely in the domain of financial modeling and metrics or spend their time in the strategic planning realm but lack the attention to detail or technical expertise to think about modeling and structuring implications. Christin excels at both!
She was a terrific thought partner in iterating on multiple, detailed approaches to model and mitigate risk as well as positioning considerations as we pitched investors as part of a complex syndication process. I would absolutely recommend Christin as a swiss army resource who can help work through the hard problems and set your business for future growth.
Zeev Krieger, Founder + CEO, Turtle Hill Capital
Shortly before I was hired, our founders, who both have backgrounds as scientists, brought Christin on to help with the CoS hiring process and act as an advisor to me and the company. Christin has been invaluable to me throughout my time in this role. She has been a sounding board for ideas, a collaborator on projects, and someone who asks the tough questions to make me re-think scenarios I'm faced with. She was instrumental in our early ICP definition workshop, building our financial model, and providing guidance around how we can make the most of our limited resources. Christin embodies the qualities of the most successful start-up people I've ever worked with --- a bias towards getting things done paired with long-term strategic lens.
Ilana Rood, Chief of Staff, Earthmover
Earthmover is building the cloud platform for weather and climate data. As a team of scientists and engineers, we started out pretty clueless about startup finances and lacked a clear framework for answering questions like, "can we afford to hire more engineers right now?" Thanks to Christin's help, we now have a solid financial model and plan we can use to make strategic decisions about when to hire and when to fundraise. As a founder, this allows me to focus on product and stress less about finances.
Ryan Abernathey, Founder + CEO, Earthmover
Over the first couple of weeks, Christin earned the full trust of the team by committing to our vision and getting to know us and our work with impressive curiosity and fervor. She then started building a financial model for our business that for the first time helped me see a full picture of what it would take for Stow to succeed. I then began spending much of my time refining our business strategy with Christin, which culminated in me emerging as a cool, confident fundraiser with a truly impressive data room for investors.
Taylor Keep, Founder + CEO, Stow Energy