
Francis Rahil
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Elevating Leaders in Finance & Tech | Ex-EY & Columbia
Studied at Columbia University
Works at Independent Consulting
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Francis's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $175/hr
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Francis’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Vice President
60+ people coached for Career Coaching
With over a decade of progressive leadership experience across financial services and tech, I specialize in guiding executives and emerging leaders through pivotal career transitions, business expansions, and complex pivots. Throughout my career, my core focus has always been people, consistently advancing to lead, scale, and mentor high-performing teams. As a former Consulting practice leader at EY, I didn't just help scale a Financial Modeling practice into a $25M+ business; my work centered on transforming business operations alongside the leaders and teams driving them. Today, backed by my Executive Coaching training from Columbia University and experience coaching over 50 professionals, I combine deep corporate strategy with proven coaching methodologies. Let's connect to map out your next career milestone with confidence and authenticity.
Francis can help with:
Leadership
AI Fundamentals
General Exploration
Professional Networking
Networking Strategy
Interview Prep
Career Planning
Personal Branding
AI Automation
Freelancing
About Francis
I grew up navigating systems that weren't designed with me in mind and learned early that the difference between spinning your wheels and finding your footing often comes down to one thing: having someone in your corner who's walked a similar path. That experience shaped everything about how I think about careers, mentorship, and what it means to truly belong in a room you had to fight to get into. I'm an actuary by training, a strategist by practice, and a coach by conviction. I also know what it's like to want more than just a successful career, to want one that's sustainable, meaningful, and worth showing up for decades from now. Outside of work, I'm a passionate about music (soul, R&B, jazz), a lover of culture in most of its forms, and the kind of person who thinks the best conversations are the ones that challenge you to see something differently. That's exactly the kind of coaching relationship I aim to build. If you're looking for someone to hand you a framework, I'm probably not your person. If you're looking for a thought partner who will push you, level with you, and help you build a career that's actually yours, then let's talk.
Why do I coach?
In my career across corporate and Big 4 consulting roles, I quickly learned that technical mastery and execution are only half the battle. The leaders who truly broke through weren't just the most skilled - they were the ones with clarity about where they were going and why. That clarity didn't come naturally to me. It took working with an executive coach to give me something no promotion or high-stakes project ever had: the ability to see my own career from the outside. For the first time, I stopped optimizing within a system and started asking whether I was building the right one. That shift changed everything. It was so formative that it eventually changed my path entirely. After 16 years navigating high-pressure environments in insurance, technology, and transformation, I became a coach because I know what it feels like to be the capable, driven expert who still can't quite see the full picture. I'm now passionate about helping leaders bridge that gap - from being the best in the room to becoming the one who defines what the room is for.
Work Experience

Insurance Product Lead
Navierre
July 2025 - Present
Hiring Manager
Fractional role as a business lead an an early-stage InsurTech startup focused on improving healthcare administrative processes through the integration of machine learning and AI. Serving as the product lead with a cross-functional team responsible for developing and marketing the product to the insurance market.

Executive Coach & Independent Consultant
Independent Consulting
March 2025 - Present
Guiding executives and emerging leaders in financial services and tech through career transitions - promotions, business expansions, career pivots and self-discovery. Adviser to insurers and technology firms in the insurance sector, focused in analytics, financial modeling and innovation.

Consulting Senior Manager
EY
April 2013 - March 2025
Hiring Manager
Leader in actuarial/finance transformation, financial modeling, and insurance technology modernization. Founding member of EY’s Financial Modeling practice within the Financial Services Office, instrumental in scaling the group from inception into a $25M+ annual business across multiple geographies (US, Canada, UK/Europe). Served as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders translating technical challenges into strategic opportunities. Delivered a diverse portfolio of engagements, scaling delivery approaches to fit client needs - ranging from niche strategic engagements for small to mid-market companies to massive $60M enterprise transformations. Culture leader and mentor for a global team of 50+ practitioners. Focused on organizational design and talent development, ensuring the team structure evolved effectively alongside business growth.

Actuarial Consultant
General Reinsurance
January 2010 - April 2013
Risk management role for an established Canadian reinsurer
Education

Columbia University
Certification, Executive Coaching
2025 - 2026

Concordia University
Bachelor's Degree, Actuarial Science
2005 - 2009
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Overall Rating
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