Hands-on growth advisory support to early stage mission-led founders and leaders
I am not a CFO or a financial expert — I am an entrepreneur who learned to read a business through its numbers by building one. I spent 20 years helping founders do the same: sitting with them through the hard financial decisions, helping them see what their numbers are actually telling them, and building the confidence to act on it.
Advisory support for independent media and public-interest journalism organizations working with Independent Media Support.
Practical tools for teams shifting from grant funding or early experiments toward sustainable revenue, runway management, and investor readiness.
Four areas of practical advisory support
Understand what can realistically generate income, what should be tested, and what should be stopped.
Move from activity-based budgets to cost awareness, runway thinking, and basic P&L discipline.
Prepare for grants, blended finance, venture philanthropy, or VC fundraising depending on your stage.
Turn strategy into a 90-day action plan with practical follow-up.
Two programs, one advisory approach
For independent media organizations, public-interest journalism organizations, and cultural media partners supported through IMS.
- Grant-dependency risk assessment
- Hybrid funding strategy
- Cost structure review
- Revenue experiments
- Leadership coaching
- 90-day sustainability plan
For US-based MSMEs, founders, and pre-seed startups looking to move from fragile funding, grants, or informal revenue toward a more sustainable commercial model.
- Revenue model design
- Runway and cash discipline
- Customer discovery
- Pricing and packaging
- VC/funder readiness
- 1:1 advisory sessions
I am a venture builder and operator who has spent 20 years in the middle of the entrepreneurial journey — building startups, running seed funds, and setting up innovation programmes for governments, corporates, and investors across Beirut, London, and New York.
Today I split my time between building GridWeave and advising a small number of founders, media leaders, and institutions on the practical work of sustainability: generating revenue, making financial decisions with confidence, and shifting away from dependence on a single source of capital.
I started doing this work because I found the entrepreneurial journey unnecessarily lonely. Most founders face the same hard decisions — about money, about focus, about when to push and when to let go — and most of them face those decisions without anyone in the room who has been there before. That is the gap I try to fill.
I work through long-term advisory relationships, small cohorts, and hands-on sessions where we work through your actual numbers and your actual situation — not frameworks in the abstract. The goal is always the same: that you leave with more clarity and more confidence than you arrived with.
I currently advise IMS MENA's partner portfolio on revenue growth and hybrid capital, and I am part of a broader community of practitioners who believe that good mentorship compounds — that founders who get real support go on to give it.
If you are building something and need a thought partner who has been in the room before, I am happy to talk.