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10 fractional COOs
These ten fractional COOs currently hold a Fractional COO title in their own work history, and several have also served as the COO of a company. A reader can learn how a fractional operator scopes the role, builds the operating systems a growing company needs and decides what to hand over to a full-time team.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abigail Keene-Babcock
LinkedInExperience: Fractional COO · Blue Meridian
Fractional COO at Blue Meridian since 2021 and Founder of Captr since 2025. Former Expansion Operations Director at Capsule (2019–2020). The profile says she embeds with founders at Series A and B start-ups as a fractional COO and exec operator, taking operational execution off their plate and running their highest-stakes workstreams.
Anastasia Alt
LinkedInExperience: Fractional COO & Strategic Advisor · Get Everything LLC
Fractional COO & Strategic Advisor at Get Everything LLC since 2023. Former Chief Operating Officer at Pool Day (2024–2025) and Co-Founder CEO & Business Operations Partner at Recoop (2019–2025) and Yana Sleep (2020–2024). The profile describes her as a co-founder, business operations partner and Chief of Staff who has built and scaled startups across e-commerce, SaaS and AI-enabled products.
Dave Ladbrook
LinkedInExperience: Fractional COO & Advisor to purpose-driven, founder-led start-ups & scale-ups. · GrowthWorks Consultants
Fractional COO & Advisor to purpose-driven, founder-led start-ups & scale-ups at GrowthWorks Consultants since 2023. The profile also lists Fractional COO at wi-Q Technologies (2023–2024) and Chief Operating Officer at Ito (2014–2022). It says that as a COO he grew a start-up from £250k to more than £10m ARR and from 3 to 110 people, and lists him as an EOS Integrator.
Derren Spring-Connell
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Principal Fractional COO · Spring-Connell Consulting (SCC)
Founder & Principal Fractional COO at Spring-Connell Consulting (SCC) since 2024. Former VP of Operations at Smart Lunches (2015–2024) and at nCourt, LLC (2009–2015). The profile describes his focus as operations for high-growth startups and says he builds and runs the systems that keep vendors and employees paid, contracts sound and the business running without the founder in the room.
Gary Fisher
LinkedInExperience: Founder Fractional COO Growth & Transformation Executive · Fisher Growth & Operations Consulting
Founder Fractional COO Growth & Transformation Executive at Fisher Growth & Operations Consulting since 2018. Former Chief Operations Officer at Aproove (2018–2025) and Director of Customer Success - Ziflow at Ziflow (2017–2018). The profile says he helps technology companies scale, transform operations, strengthen customer retention and prepare for growth, investment or acquisition.
Genia Jacques
LinkedInExperience: Fractional COO & Strategic Operations Advisor · Evgenia Jacques Consulting
Fractional COO & Strategic Operations Advisor at Evgenia Jacques Consulting since 2026. Former Vice President, R&D Product Operations at BetterUp (2025), Senior Director of Operations, EA Digital Platform at Electronic Arts (EA) (2023–2025) and Vice President of Product Operations at Workday (2021–2022). The profile describes her as a fractional and interim strategic operations partner for early-stage founders working toward Series A and B.
Holly Hon
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Fractional COO · Fractional COO
Founder & Fractional COO at Fractional COO since 2026. Former SVP, Enterprise Operations (Acting COO) at Entertainment Partners (2022–2026), and at Change Healthcare the profile lists VP, Operations, Enterprise Technology for 2018–2021 and Sr Director for 2015–2018. The profile says she partners with founders and CEOs of growth-stage companies to design and install the operating layer that connects strategy, data and AI to how the business executes.
Jeff Gray
LinkedInExperience: Fractional COO · Self-employed
Self-employed Fractional COO since 2025, a title the profile also lists for 2019–2021. Former COO at honeycomb.io (2021–2025) and VP Business Operations at Domino Data Lab (2017–2019) and CoreOS (2015–2017). The profile says he steps into B2B startups to build the operating system for GTM, finance and talent, and that as COO at Honeycomb he helped scale the business from $5M to $60M ARR.
Ryan Harris
LinkedInExperience: Founder Fractional COO · ScaleGuide
Founder Fractional COO at ScaleGuide since 2025. Former SVP, Strategic Growth Operations at Think Consulting (2022–2025), VP Operations - Talent, Systems & Digital Transformation at TrueCar, Inc. (2021–2022) and Head of People Operations & System Architecture at Stripe (2019–2021). The profile says he works through ScaleGuide as a fractional COO and execution partner to growth-stage companies, primarily in health tech and SaaS.
Warren Frankel
LinkedInExperience: Fractional COO · The COO Solution
Fractional COO at The COO Solution since 2026. At Ipsos in US he was COO, Ipsos Public Affairs (2022–2025), COO, Ipsos CX (2018–2021) and President, Ipsos Observer (2012–2017). The profile says he helps organizations through moments where strategy and operational reality meet, including when execution starts to strain teams and systems, and describes him as an integrator and translator.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's past operating roles to your company's stage and business model, and ask how their current fractional engagements are structured before committing time. Check the dates on their in-house roles so you know how recent that operating experience is.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What do you do in the first 30 days of a fractional COO engagement to find the biggest operating gaps?
- 02How do you split decision rights with the CEO and existing leaders when you are only in the company part of the week?
- 03When should a company move from a fractional COO to a full-time hire, and how do you hand over the role?
About this directory
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