Fractional | Experience

Give your business network experience they can actually use.

Founders and SME owners are navigating cash pressure, rising costs, AI confusion, shifting customers, and funding and growth challenges. They don’t need another generic business talk; they need practical tools from operators who’ve solved real problems before. Fractional | Experience brings senior executives into incubators, accelerators, councils, and founder networks through workshops, roundtables, panels, and keynotes.

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Fractional · Experience

350+Curated and vetted executives

C-suiteCFOs, CMOs, COOs, CTOs and more

4Session formats to choose from

Why this matters now

The challenges your network is already dealing with

These pressures often build on each other. The earlier founders act, the more options they have.

Costs are eating into margins

Hiring, rent, software, fulfilment, and supply costs are rising across the board.

Supply chains are unreliable

Delays, disruption, and cost spikes are forcing leaders to rethink resilience.

Customers are buying differently

Old offers, pricing, and funnels are not converting like they used to.

Too many priorities are competing

Strategic clarity is harder to find when leaders are unclear on what to kill, keep, or prioritise.

Teams are slowing down

Uncertainty weakens ownership, slows execution, and creates internal drag.

Business models are under pressure

Operating models, controls, and decision rhythms need to adapt to the new reality.

Revenue is harder to generate

Growth engines need rebuilding so marketing connects clearly to revenue, conversion, and ROI.

Cash flow is getting tighter

Payments are slowing, costs are rising, and visibility matters more than ever.

Fundraising is getting harder

Founders need stronger finance, narrative, and investor readiness before entering their next round.

The format flexes

Choose the structure that fits your goals

Our team will work with you to scope content, curate speakers and drive outcomes before the session is announced.

A senior executive speaking from a podium to a seated audience in a darkened Dubai event space, the downtown skyline beyond the glass

Keynotes

A senior executive working through a problem with a few founders over a laptop and papers in a Dubai studio at dusk

Workshops

Four senior executives seated for a panel under a warm pendant light, audience silhouettes in the foreground

Panel discussions

A closed-door roundtable of founders and a senior executive around a table at night, Dubai lights through the glass

Roundtables

Keynotes

A focused talk from a senior executive on a specific business challenge, built around battle-tested frameworks, turnaround stories, and practical lessons.

Best for giving your room a clear narrative, fresh perspective, and ideas they can act on.

Workshops

An interactive session built around a specific topic or business problem, centred on a hands-on approach.

Best for leaving participants with tangible tools they can apply directly inside their own business.

Panel discussions

A themed conversation with multiple executives across different business functions targeting multiple threads of a wider business challenge.

Best for giving your audience several expert perspectives on the same challenge and helping them rethink how they approach existing problems.

Roundtables

A smaller, closed-door discussion with founders and business owners around a live issue.

Best for honest conversation, peer learning, direct problem-solving, and practical sharing between the audience and the executive leading the session.

Proven leadership

Our executives have led at the companies you know

Real Stories. Operator Insight. Made for Impact.

Select from senior executives who can work with your network on the challenges that matter

Alex TorresFractional CMO | Ecommerce Growth

Built an ecommerce growth engine from launch to eight-figure BV in 24 months.

Took an early-stage UAE experience-gifting business and built a commercially accountable growth system across acquisition, CRM, SEO, partnerships, brand and ecommerce trading. Online became the primary commercial channel, supported by strong improvements in marketing efficiency, lifecycle revenue, and organic visibility.

Eight-figure BV
83%+ BV generated online
8x marketing ROI YoY

Farah FlisherFractional COO | Transformation & Governance

Turned a fragmented banking function into a high-performing governance unit.

Redesigned the operating model and consolidated fragmented teams into a cohesive First Line of Defence for a major banking group. Led a KYC and AML remediation programme through to delivery.

~80% open audit issues reduced
~AED 6M KYC programme delivered

Gareth BainFractional CMO | Growth Leader

Generated £40m+ in revenue across 11 countries for a Proptech platform.

Took a real estate investment firm from vanity metrics to predictable revenue growth across paid, earned and owned media. Built and delivered an omni-channel data-driven system into the business. Also helped them achieve an £80m valuation pre seed funding.

4,745 investors
£40M+ invested
11 countries
800% ROAS
£80M valuation

Mirko LagattollaFractional COO | Venture Building

Built a leaner operating model that increased throughput and funded exits.

At ZX Ventures / AB InBev, rebuilt core processes, embedded OKR-style delivery cadences, and used scorecards to decide which ideas to continue and which to kill. Approach later applied to the US Beyond Beer unit.

30% throughput uplift
6 new business lines in 6 months
$50M audited savings
$1B+ capital exits

Tirath MagdaniFractional CFO | Turnaround & Strategic Finance

Unlocked the working capital that took an SME to market leadership.

A 15-year-old warehousing and logistics business was scrambling for cash each month, unable to convince banks, suppliers, or customers to extend credit. Tirath broke the business down end-to-end to understand where cash was tied up each day, rebuilt the liquidity narrative for banks, negotiated extended supplier credit, and created variable payment terms to unlock working capital.

$1bn+ total financing
$1m+ finance cost reduction
Largest supplier in its chosen market

Parag BhamreFractional CAIO | AI Integrator

Built a governed AI operating model that took a business from scattered pilots to production.

Took a mid-market organisation that was stuck on scattered AI pilots and built a governed operating model around its real workflows. Ran a structured diagnostic to prioritise use cases by value and feasibility, deployed agents across core functions with clear human-agent roles, and stood up the evaluation and governance needed to keep humans in control.

40% faster cycle time on key processes
25% of team capacity freed for higher-value work
ROI-positive in 6 months

The wider ecosystem

A collective of 350+ behind every session

Behind these profiles sits a wider ecosystem of 350+ senior executives across finance, operations, marketing, people, technology, AI, strategy, transformation, and more. Whatever challenge your network is facing, we can curate the right executive experience to bring into the room.

Built for

Who this is for

If you run a network of founders or business owners, you have a pipeline of questions we can help answer. We work best with:

Incubators

Early-stage programmes that need senior operator perspective for founders who are still finding product, pricing and the first ten customers.

Accelerators

Programme directors who want to plug senior operating experience into their cohort calendar, mentor sessions and demo-week prep.

Founder networks

Member organisations and networks where founders come for honest peer conversations and practical operating help, not pitches.

SME networks

Trade associations, chambers and SME-focused groups whose members need executive-grade help without an executive-grade hire.

Business councils

Country and sector councils running flagship events where one well-prepared senior operator outweighs ten generalist panellists.

University programs

Entrepreneurship centres and MBA programmes that want operator content with practical, post-graduation relevance.

Bring this to your network

Tell us about the challenges that your business leaders face

Common questions

The questions network leaders ask first

It depends on the format and scope. Many network sessions run on a partnership basis, particularly with incubators, accelerators and councils where we both benefit from the audience. Larger custom workshops or recurring programmes are quoted separately. We will be transparent at the first call.

Three to four weeks is comfortable for a single session. For multi-session programmes (e.g. an accelerator cohort calendar) we recommend six to eight weeks so we can match the right operators to the right modules. We can move faster when the brief is tight and the audience is well-defined.

Yes, that is the point. We start with a short scoping call to understand your audience, the questions they are stuck on, and the outcome you want them to walk away with. The operator is selected and the session is shaped from there.

If continuity matters to your programme, we plan for it. We can also rotate operators across a series so each session brings a fresh perspective while staying connected to the same overarching narrative.

In person across the UAE for live network programming, and online for distributed cohorts. Hybrid formats are common; we will recommend based on the audience and the format.

Bring this to your network

Tell us the challenges your business leaders face.

A short scoping call, then we curate the right operator and shape the session around the outcome your audience needs. In person across the UAE, or online for distributed cohorts.

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