Three exits. Three FT100 listings. Twenty years.

Track record matters more than methodology. Hayat Amin has been on the operator side of three exits to Fortune 500 acquirers and put three businesses onto the Financial Times FT100 fastest-growing list. Below is the short list — the longer version is shared on the diagnostic call when relevant to the founder's specific situation.

Exits

American Express acquisition (payments platform)

Hayat ran the CFO and Chief Strategy Officer function for a B2B payments platform that exited to American Express. The exit multiple was driven by a patent portfolio Hayat built around the platform's settlement workflow. Diligence took 14 weeks. Integration ran for 18 months post-close.

TripAdvisor acquisition (travel-tech B2B)

Earlier in his career Hayat ran finance for a B2B travel-tech business acquired by TripAdvisor. He led the diligence response, the integration plan, and the post-acquisition revenue retention plan. The deal closed within the original LOI window — rare in cross-border travel-tech M&A.

One additional confidential exit

A third exit, in PE-backed SaaS, is shared under NDA on the diagnostic call when relevant.

FT100 fastest-growing listings

Three of the businesses Hayat held operating-partner roles in between 2018 and 2023 hit the Financial Times FT100 fastest-growing list — once each in three consecutive years. The pattern: pricing-led growth backed by formal IP and licensing structures rather than aggressive sales-team scale-up.

Recent fractional engagements (anonymised)

• AI infrastructure (Series B, NYC): defended valuation during a down-round by repricing a dataset asset that the previous model had treated as a sunk cost. Net uplift: $14M post-money.
• Healthtech (Series A, London): structured an IP-backed financing facility against a patent family, removing the need for a dilutive bridge round.
• SaaS (PE-backed, Dubai): built a licensing P&L line that added $2.4M ARR in the first 9 months without changing the core product roadmap.
• AI agents (seed, NYC): embedded finance and legal agents that reduced cost-to-serve by 38% in 90 days.

Press, references, and writing

• SeedLegals — quoted on fractional CFO economics
• LinkedIn Pulse — long-form essay on the fractional CFO model
• YouTube interview — AI moats and IP-backed financing
• Beyond Elevation blog — 100+ essays on IP, valuation, and AI moats