About
The buy-side half of one relationship.
A8 Advisory and Exit Builders are sister firms under A8 Innovation Consultancies, built around a single insight: the businesses worth acquiring are rarely the ones already for sale. Exit Builders spends years preparing founders and owners to be ready for a transaction, sometimes long before they have decided to pursue one. A8 Advisory serves the buy side of that same market: family offices, strategic acquirers, and institutional funds who need to understand those businesses properly before they commit capital to them.
Two scenarios, one team
You already have a CFO.
We act as PE Advisor to your existing leadership, strategic oversight, transaction readiness, and governance, without displacing anyone.
You don't have a CFO yet.
Fractional CFO leadership is built into our portfolio oversight work directly, not sold as a separate add-on.
Leadership
Adel Hameed
Founder & Managing Partner
Also founder and CEO of Exit Builders and founder of A8 Innovation Consultancies, the parent entity behind both firms.
Moussa Yehia
VP Business Development, SMB
Leads SMB business development across the buy-side practice.
Benazir Ismail
Chief Financial Operating Officer
Background across EY, Amazon, and ZainTech; Chartered Accountant, CMA.
André Oppel
Fractional CFO
Part of our fractional CFO pool. 20+ years in M&A and corporate turnarounds.
Roula Akl
People & Organization Advisor
22 years in leadership assessment and post-merger integration, with PwC, Booz & Co, Omantel, and ZainTECH; certified Hogan and Saville assessor.
Advisory board
Ed Roberto
Chair, Advisory Board
25+ years across startups and mid-sized corporates; guided Ping Identity to a NASDAQ listing and co-founded companies acquired by leading technology firms.
Dr. Jarmo Kotilaine
Advisory Board — Strategy and Economics
30-year development economist; strategy, economic growth, and financial sector advancement for GCC governments and banking institutions.
James Rammell
Advisory Board — Risk and Operations
Former Executive Director, Alshaya Group; 25+ years building enterprise risk and governance infrastructure across Europe and MENA.
Ricardo Langwieder-Görner
Advisory Board — Customer Experience and BPO
25+ years in customer experience, digital transformation, and business process outsourcing; former CEO of Silah Gulf and Majorel Egypt.
Prof. Roberto Ordonez
Advisory Board — Negotiation
Georgetown University; 25+ years specialising in high-stakes negotiation, purchase agreements, earnouts, and multiparty deal dynamics.
Miguel Silva-Constenla
Advisory Board — Deep Tech
Deep-tech entrepreneur and investor with 30+ years turning scientific research into mission-critical systems across applied AI, telecoms, and industrial technology.
Consulting network
Gokhan Polat
Fractional CPO
15+ years in PropTech, FinTech, HealthTech, and DeepTech product leadership.
Holger Vogt
Fractional CXO
20+ years across emerging economies, with 12 years focused on strategic market entry in Africa.
Jessica Michelle Kreher
Fractional CDO
15+ years scaling brands and leading digital transformation across Europe, the USA, and MENA.
Rita Makhoul
Fractional CCO
23+ years in media, communications, content, and business growth across MENA.
Commercial contact for institutional inquiries: Adel Hameed, directly.
What "operators, not analysts" means
We staff engagements with people who have run finance functions and closed deals themselves, not analysts producing decks for someone else to execute against.
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