Consulting and Advisory
Practical strategic advice across hospitality, business development, and African markets.
I work with hotel owners, investors, developers, founders, companies, and institutions on hospitality projects and broader business opportunities across Africa.
My perspective comes from years of building companies, raising capital, completing acquisitions, entering markets, and forming partnerships. I bring that experience to assignments where commercial judgment, local understanding, and execution matter.
Founder & operator
Hands-on entrepreneurial experience building and scaling businesses
Hospitality advisory
Supporting owners, investors, and developers from early strategy to opening and performance
Business Development
Growth, partnerships, capital raising, and market expansion
Pan-African Experience
Commercial judgment shaped across markets and cultures
Advisory rooted in real operating experience
My perspective comes from building businesses and working inside the markets I now advise on.
My hospitality experience began on the property side with Nairobi Airport Hotel, before expanding into hotel technology and commercial performance through HotelOnline. As co-founder, I helped build HotelOnline into one of Africa’s leading hospitality technology companies, serving more than 6,000 hotels across 27 countries. The journey involved fundraising, acquisitions, regional expansion, partnerships, and the realities of scaling across fragmented markets.
Today, I apply that experience to hospitality projects and broader business opportunities. I understand the decisions owners, investors, developers, and founders face because I have had to make many of them myself.
Hotel development and feasibility
Helping owners and developers test opportunities early and shape projects around real market demand and commercial viability.
Operator and brand selection
Identifying the right operating model, operator, and brand, then supporting negotiations and alignment between the parties.
Commercial strategy and performance
Helping hospitality businesses sharpen their positioning, strengthen revenue, and improve commercial performance.
Business development and market expansion
Helping companies identify opportunities, enter new markets, and build a practical route to growth.
Partnerships and capital
Structuring partnerships and supporting investor conversations that can move credible opportunities forward.
Founder and strategic advisory
Working with founders and leadership teams on direction, positioning, difficult decisions, and execution.
Who I work with
I am usually most useful to people who want substance, speed, and candor.
That includes:
How I work
Engagements range from focused strategic assignments to ongoing advisory roles. The scope depends on the project, but the approach is consistent: understand the commercial reality, identify the decisions that matter, and help move the work forward.
What I bring to the table
I combine the perspective of an entrepreneur and operator with direct experience advising hotel owners, investors, and developers.
I have built and scaled companies, raised capital, led acquisitions, entered new markets, and developed partnerships across Africa. That background helps me assess hospitality projects in their wider commercial context: what the market will support, where the risks lie, and what it will take to move forward.
My role is to bring clear judgment, challenge assumptions, and help clients make better decisions before significant time and capital are committed.
Particular relevance in these areas
Hotel development and investment
From feasibility and positioning to operator selection and investment readiness
Hospitality strategy and performance
Clearer commercial direction and stronger operational performance
Travel technology and distribution
Systems, digital distribution, and revenue growth
African Market Expansion
Cross-border growth and African market realities
Partnerships and Business Development
Strategic relationships that create commercial opportunities
Entrepreneurship and venture building
Founder-side perspective on growth, capital, and execution
Built on experience. Informed by travel. Focused on what works.
A large part of my professional life has unfolded through movement. Different countries, markets, industries, partnerships, and operating environments. Travel has shaped not only how I see the world, but how I think about business. It has taught me to read context, adapt quickly, question assumptions, and look beyond templates.
That perspective is part of what I bring into advisory work. Not just sector knowledge, but pattern recognition. Not just ideas, but judgment.
Let’s talk
If you are developing a hotel, assessing a hospitality investment, or pursuing a broader business opportunity in Africa, feel free to get in touch.
I am always open to hearing more and seeing whether my experience is relevant.