Ishikoo

Fintech and impact start-up advisory, career and dating coach

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Simone Koo Ishikawa - grew up in South Korea 🇰🇷, educated in the US 🇺🇸 and moved to the UK 🇬🇧 in 2006 just before the Financial Crisis. I spent my career's formative years in investment banking  😭 at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan across trading floor, strategy, corporate finance, COO and sales roles 🤬. I then joined OakNorth, nextgen lending platform funded by Softbank, to run Customer Success 🤨 where I had lots of fun learning about start ups, agile, SaaS enterprise sales, etc 😎. Now I work with a number of early stage start-ups across fintech💸 and impact 💎and help them reach their sales, funding, team build goals - I love working with founders 💕. I am a mentor at Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab 💥 and Unreasonable Group 🔥. I also teach / tutor 👩🏻‍🏫 at Oxford Saïd Business School and am an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College Business School 🤩. 

Book a 1-1 coaching session with me 

1) 🍪  career - if you're in a corporate job and would like to explore startup space, or if you're a startup founder exploring options for exits, or if you're a recent graduate and would like advice on paths available in financial services, venture capital and tech

2) 🔥 startup - if you're a startup founder looking for a mentor who can tell you what I've seen in 10 years of investing in, advising and mentoring startups; my specialty is in impact and tech but I've had interactions across the board over the years. 

3) 🧘🏻‍♀️ dating - I'm a mother of 4, 45 years old and divorced. Midlife dating is a no easy feat and I find many men and women could benefit from setting intentions before you embark on your dating journey. I support any stage whether you're building your first dating profile and need someone who can audit, or if you are in a relationship and hitting  issues or if you're going through heartbreak or a breakup and need to heal.