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John Farhat
Executive IT & Business Leader specializing in advisory, strategy, and enterprise technology
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Entrepreneur and operations/IT advisor who helps early-stage companies scale efficiently through automation (CRM lead capture, invoicing, collections) and pragmatic process design. Built a year-long data standardization solution converting broker inputs from 60+ formats, enabling better sales forecasting and market projections. Also advises founders on go-to-market fundamentals and creative fundraising strategies, including forming paid customer consortia to co-develop products.
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Key Strengths
- Scaled operations via automation (CRM lead intake, invoicing, collections) to handle growth without adding staff
- Prioritizes automating routine work while designing for exception handling (outliers/issues)
- End-to-end process breakdown and real-world operational analysis (avoids over-optimizing local steps at expense of system)
- Standardized broker data across 60+ formats using a conversion matrix (1-year implementation)
- Improved forecasting and market projections through data standardization
- Effective founder coaching to maintain focus on fundamentals and avoid “shiny object” distractions
- Creative fundraising/market-entry tactic: formed a paid consortium of top prospective customers to guide product development
Reference Highlights
- highly analytical
- highly creative in designing new or improved solutions
- quickly spots areas for organizational improvement
- provides effective operational and strategic guidance
- improves organizational visibility through thought leadership and conferences
- effective mentor across experience levels (junior to senior)
- strong interpersonal influence in 1:1 and team settings
- proven leadership in startups
- confidence-inspiring leader for fast-growing startups
- experience leading organizations from small to large
- good grasp of organizational systems
- streamlines processes effectively
- creates consistency across tooling, security, and processes
- backbone of management system creation
- pivotal strategic guidance in forming organizations
- strong relationship-building
- effective at bringing new people into the business
- invests significant time mentoring others
- strong in client support and management mentorship
- well-suited to create operational efficiencies for startups
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