Independent
No product, implementation team or transaction outcome is built into the advice. The recommendation follows the decision.
About
Advisor. Operator. Founder.
I have spent my career helping organisations make important choices — and then carrying responsibility for what those choices require in practice.
Based in Dubai
UAE and GCC, with selected international assignments.
A career connected by judgment and execution.
My career has moved through hospitality operations, professional advisory, major transactions, real estate and hospitality development, corporate leadership and entrepreneurship. The settings changed; the work remained connected by a consistent question: what should happen next, and what will it take to make that decision real?
I co-founded and built a regional professional-services business before its acquisition by JLL. I later held senior responsibility for major development assets and built technology-enabled operating companies as a founder and CEO. Across those chapters, I have worked with boards, owners, executives, investors, professional advisers and operating teams.
Today I bring that combined perspective to a selective advisory practice focused on boards, owners and CEOs facing consequential strategic, transaction, transformation and growth decisions.
“Independent judgment is most useful when it can travel from the boardroom into execution.”
How I work
Senior, direct and deliberately selective
Clients work with me, not a leveraged team. The relationship is designed around access, clarity and consequence.
Commercial
Strategy stays connected to customers, capital, operating capability, timing and measurable enterprise value.
Direct
I work personally with the board, principal, CEO and relevant executives rather than passing the relationship through layers.
Practical
Recommendations are tested against organisational capacity, stakeholder realities and the work required to deliver them.
Discreet
Sensitive situations are handled with the confidentiality expected of a senior advisory relationship.
Selective
A limited number of simultaneous mandates protects attention, independence and direct access.
Perspective
What I bring into the room
Board-level range
The ability to move across strategy, investment, transactions, transformation and growth without losing the enterprise view.
C-suite fluency
Experience working directly with executive teams on priorities, accountability, operating models and coordinated delivery.
Transaction judgment
More than US$1 billion of career transaction experience across investment, M&A, capital and strategic assignments.
Asset and sector depth
Particular experience in hospitality, tourism, real estate, investment, mobility, consumer and diversified groups.
Founder accountability
A practical understanding of what it means to commit capital, build capability, lead people and own the result.
GCC context
More than two decades of work across the Middle East, based in Dubai and focused primarily on the UAE and GCC.
Confidential conversation
A consequential decision ahead?
I work on a limited number of advisory relationships and strategic assignments at any one time.