Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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CFO / I banker / senior business development leader with deep experience across the FinTech, Digital Assets and SaaS sectors, guiding companies ranging from start-ups to global public entities. Over $35 billion in both M&A and capital raise hands-on deal experience in addition to multiple successful exits as C level operator and board
member. Unique multi-disciplinary skill set leveraging decades of hand's-on expertise across business development, M&A / capital raising, finance, and law / regulation.
In his CFO & business development roles he sourced & executed game-changing strategic partnerships and strategic investments across the FinTech, Digital Asset and SaaS sectors. Also negotiated and executed multi-million dollar enterprise agreements with all of the top 25 global banks and trading firms. Further successfully scaled and professionalized finance, accounting and risk management organizations in support of high growth global conglomerates.
In leadership roles as a C level executive, board member and investment banker Mr. Kraines led dozens of FinTech, Digital Asset & SaaS companies to highly successful capital raises and exits to strategics, PE and VC acquirors. In total he led tens of billions of dollars in transactions including some of the most noteworthy deals for global investment banks, exchanges, infrastructure providers, wealthtech, and big data platforms.
