
Othmane Sghir
Strategy, Growth, Finance, Analytics & Ops Expert
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Work experience
Founder
Surjed
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Paris, France
Growth & Operations digital agency for eCommerce & SaaS.
Fractional Head of Finance & Data
Augment.orgFreelance
Oct 2025 - Apr 2026
7 months
Paris, France
Augment is an online Business School for the AI era, offering an MBA designed for entrepreneurs, innovators, and disruptors, with lessons from senior operators and founders at Waze, YouTube, HubSpot, OpenAI, Lovable, and more. I conducted the following for Augment: • Supported a successful fundraising by participating in the preparation of a financial reporting and forecasting model, and cohorts analytics. • Set up a data warehouse and modern analytics stack (BigQuery, Airbyte, Coupler, Looker) with dozens of analytics queries and dashboards. • Built a fully automated financial reporting and multi-scenario forecasting model used by the co-founders. • Built internal APIs and tools to help with some operations such as customer support and billing.
Fractional Head of Data and Strategy, Finance Support
TimeleftFreelance
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026
1 year 4 months
Paris, France
Timeleft is a generational high-growth consumer app that brings strangers together every Wednesday for a dinner in restaurants. I conducted the following for Timeleft: • Supported a successful fundraising by participating in the preparation of a robust data room. • Set up a data warehouse and modern analytics stack (BigQuery, Airbyte, Hightouch, Looker) with hundreds of analytics queries and dozens of dashboards. • Built a fully automated financial reporting and multi-scenario forecasting model used by the CFO, and multiple additional models (demand forecasting, LTV analysis, etc.). • Helped inform decisions and optimizations on pricing, performance ads, operations, and other areas.
DataHawk
Mar 2017 - Jun 2024
7 years 4 months
Paris Area, France
Co-Founder, President & Chairman
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
1 year 5 months
Paris Area, France
Co-Founder, CEO
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
5 years 11 months
Paris Area, France
In a world where over 66% of B2C e-commerce for physical goods is conducted through a marketplace model, acing your marketplace distribution strategy is paramount. At DataHawk, our mission is to help our clients thrive on Amazon & Walmart thanks to our leading Search Engine Marketing and Market Intelligence software that assists them in growing their sales and improving their margins. By leveraging unique data insights, our software helps sellers, vendors, brands, and agencies optimize the visibility of their products on Amazon thanks to our Search Engine Optimization products and better understand and monitor their markets and competition thanks to our Market Intelligence products. Today, from micro-businesses to Inc 5000 e-commerce companies and global brands and marketing agencies, thousands of business professionals rely on DataHawk to pilot their Amazon and Walmart business, product development, and market research through data, monitoring, and intelligent insights and visualizations provided by our technology that scans millions of products and thousands of search queries on a daily basis.
Founder
KANZEK
Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
5 years
Marrakesh, Morocco
My attempt at bootstrapping a fully integrated direct-to-consumer mid-market leather goods brand that makes original high-quality leather goods without the retail markup, using a piloted crowdsourced and theme-based approach along with premium materials and transparency. Kanzek leather goods were manufactured in our Marrakesh workshop, sold online on our website and on Amazon, and offline in our 1st Marrakesh concept store.
blisce
May 2015 - Apr 2019
4 years
Paris Area, France
VP Investments
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
2 years 4 months
Paris Area, France
blisce/ operates as the holding company of Alexandre Mars with three main areas of activity: - blisce/club: enabling Series C+ primary financings and second market deals in tech startups. - blisce/investors (family office): investing in Series B+ tech startups, VC Funds, and real estate. - blisce/foundation: working to improve child well-being. Investments: Spotify, Pinterest, Bird, Casper, Harry's, Le Tote, Boxed, Adore Me, Stadium Goods, Candid, Managed by Q, Gwynnie Bee, FanDuel, Kik Messenger, Teads, BlaBlaCar... https://blisce.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blisce#/entity
Investment Analyst & First-Employee
May 2015 - Jan 2017
1 year 9 months
Paris Area, France
Analyst
blisce/
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
7 months
Paris Area, France
Mobile Marketing Consultant
AppTurbo
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
1 month
Paris Area, France
Education
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Master of Science (MSc), Exchange Semester
2015 - 2015
1 month
emlyon business school
Master of Science (MSc), Finance, Management and Strategy
2011 - 2015
4 years 1 month
IPECOM
French Preparatory Classes, Mathematics and Statistics
2009 - 2011
2 years 1 month
Grade: Top 3