Gagan Rana

Experience

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  Pari Passu

  Fractional CFO, Strategic Finance Consultant

  Jun 2023 - Present

  Pari Passu provides fractional CFO and strategic finance consulting services

  • Partnered with two Series A SaaS startups build their 2024 annual operating plan + budget
  • Helped a Seed stage Fintech startup raise $500K
  • Working with a SaaS startup raise a Series B
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  Atlassian

  Finance + Strategy

  May 2019 - May 2023

  Atlassian is a high-growth SaaS company that builds collaboration software

  • Led a 30+ person FP&A team, focused on forecasting operating expenses, providing quarterly guidance to investors and strategic finance business partnering
  • Drove the development of three-year company strategy and resulting three-year financial model for the Board; this work drove resourcing for two longer-term investments, informed a company reorg, and company OKRs
  • Drove the development of the company’s business cadence, which included goal-setting, measuring, reporting, understanding and acting upon business performance results
  • Partnered with real estate, workplace experience, accounting and operating team to develop real estate strategy and KPIs to support Atlassian’s shift to a remote company - this led to >$xxM in savings
  • Developed product profitability model that informed board-level decisions on multi-year product investments, including incremental investments in the ITSM market and putting two products in “maintenance mode”
  • Successfully drove quarterly guidance process for operating expenses and improved accuracy of forecasted expenses (within 1.5% of quarterly forecast)
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  Learn Capital

  Executive in Residence

  Oct 2018 - May 2019

  Learn Capital is an early-stage venture fund that invests in education technology companies

  • Evaluated early-stage and growth-stage investment opportunities by conducting due diligence, developing financial models and articulating an investment thesis
  • Partnered with portfolio companies to address critical business, operational and business challenges
  • Helped raise a >$250M fund
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  Chegg

  General Manager

  Jan 2016 - Aug 2018

  A Smarter Way to Student!

  • Launched new Test Prep paid business to expand Chegg’s product offering to the high school market - managed $xxM P&L, set KPIs, developed go-to-market strategy and developed partnerships
  • Partnered with finance team to develop long-term financial model, set annual financial targets and manage monthly budgeting cycle
  • Successfully transitioned test prep business model from a high fixed-cost model (investing over $xxM in content and technology) to a variable cost model by developing a long-term partnership with Kaplan
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  Barclays

  Technology Investment Banker

  Jun 2009 - Nov 2013

  Barclays is a British universal bank offering top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment banking services

  • Executed over $10B in transactions in the SaaS, payments and digital services sectors
  • Developed detailed bottom-up operating models incorporating key market drivers, product offerings, sales rep productivity, employee headcount and multiple scenarios
  • Executed a $395M IPO for CDW, a provider of technology products and services
  • Advised Gas Station TV, a digital out-of-home media company, on their sale to Rockbridge Growth Equity
  • Executed a $135M equity offering for Demandware, an eCommerce SaaS company
  • Advised KKR and Silver Lake on their $2.25 billion acquisition of Go Daddy Group