Surgical.ai are a hands-on company builder that provides investment and guidance for innovative technologies, helping to bridge the artificial intelligence gap in healthcare. By focusing on technologies designed to impact surgery – the most mission-critical segment of the hospital – they are working to solve healthcare’s problems of highest acuity.
Surgical.ai had reached a point where a CFO/COO was needed, as they were growing exponentially and were about to go through their biggest fundraising round yet (which turned out to be $100m). They needed someone who could professionalise and grow the finance function, be a sparring partner for the two co-CEOs, and be a key, market-facing part of the fundraise.
We commenced the search mid-December 2019, and an ideal candidate was already in our network, we were able to organise a meeting with the CEO just before the 2020 new year. We also ran a 6-person interview process at La Fosse’s London office in January 2020 with Surgical.ai’s Chief of Staff . We provided an 8-person shortlist within 4 weeks (including 10 days off over Christmas) from the start of the search.
By the end of February, we had presented the offer to the original candidate from our network, who later accepted the position.