Sebastian Read

· Strategic Finance Director
· Ex-IB & FP&A
· Wharton MBA
· Scaling organizations & SaaS ventures to profitable growth

Strategic-finance leader with 12 years in EV, SaaS and advanced manufacturing. Helped shepherd InductEV from Series C (> $150 M raised to date) and closed a $6.9 M bridge round in 30 days. Delivered > $300 M of transactions, including a $100 M EV-charging carve-out with a $20 M synergy plan and a $106 M renewables sale that beat the valuation range by 12 %. Wharton MBA and ex-Barclays banker known for zero-based budgeting, BI automation and board-level storytelling.

Key Achievements

  • Built InductEV’s first zero-based budget and rolling forecast, giving leadership a clear capital runway. The plan underpinned the company’s current > $150 M Series C.

  • Closed a $6.9 M bridge round in 30 days, owning investor outreach and dilution modelling.

  • Advised Webasto CFO on a $100 M carve-out of its charging division; produced the valuation and a $20 M cost-synergy roadmap adopted by the PE buyer.

  • Engineered the 3-statement buy-side model and populated the VDR for the pending ENRX-InductEV strategic deal, now in final board vote.

Core Skills

FP&A • Zero-Based Budgeting • 3-Statement & LBO Modeling • SQL / Power BI • High Fidelity Forecasting • Capital Raising • M&A Diligence • Scenario Planning • Executive Stakeholder Storytelling • Python • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Generative AI • Investments • Research • Business Strategy