Our Network

Globally connected.
locally embedded.

A network of operating executives — not career consultants. Every member has built and scaled technology businesses in their market. They bring relationships, judgment, and execution capability that no strategy firm can replicate.

35+

Technology companies advised since 2018

Alumni of Microsoft | IBM | Oracle | Amazon | Adobe | Dolby | BCG | PwC

Founders

North America

Europe

Global Scale-up

Japan - China - APAC

Market Entry

GTM

Michael Rawding
Seattle, USA

Trusted advisor to technology companies scaling globally. A committed globalist and practitioner of cross-cultural collaboration — and a passionate believer in technology as a force for positive social impact.

Michael brings a rare combination of operator depth, cross-cultural fluency, and strategic practicality to every engagement. Having built and scaled businesses across APAC, Greater China, and Japan, he understands both the macro forces that shape international markets and the ground-level execution required to win in them. His approach is hands-on and direct — focused on translating strategy into action and building the capabilities clients need to sustain long-term growth. Michael founded GeoFusion in 2018 and has since advised more than 35 technology companies on global expansion.

Europe

Antoine Aguado
Paris

Antoine is the founder of Xpand Europe, a consultancy firm specializing in Sales, Channel, and Marketing helping North American firms expand into Europe. With over 25 years of experience, Antoine has a proven track record of scaling startups, driving revenue growth, and leading international expansion. He has worked with industry giants such as Microsoft, Citrix, and Splunk, as well as high-growth Series A & B startups.

Christophe Aulnette
Paris

Christophe is Senior Advisor at Apax Partners. He has more than 30 years of experience across Europe and Asia within the broad technology sector. His previous roles include leading Microsoft South Asia, President of Microsoft France, CEO of Altran, and CEO of Netgem in France and Singapore.

Charbel Fakhoury
Dubai

Charbel is a strategic business leader with a track record of outstanding results in managing global businesses at scale with a customer centric mindset. He held multiple GM and VP positions at Microsoft MEA, EMEA, and Corp HQ. Charbel is a co-founder of a tech-startup investment company, and an advisory board member of both academic and non-profit organizations.

John Kinson
London

John has spent 30 years growing venture-backed businesses in the US and Europe from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and GV, as well as leading global teams within large enterprises such as IBM. He has deep technology expertise in cloud-native architecture, ML/AI, and data streaming platforms, and specializes in GTM function build out and operations excellence.

Dalit Krainer
Tel Aviv

Dalit has deep expertise in aligning organizational and human capital strategy with global business strategy.  Over her 25-year career, she has held several executive HR positions at global companies including Amdocs and Checkmarx. She has a passion for designing, deploying and enabling organizational culture, and working closely with  business leaders to achieve sustainable business growth.  

Benoit Van Thienen
Brussels

Benoit spent nearly three decades at Microsoft in EMEA and APAC before settling back in Europe as an Advisor at Mitiga and Positive Thinking Company. He excels in working with enterprises to lead digital transformation, develop world class GTM, and helping scale-ups reach their potential.

Asia

Takuya Hirano
Tokyo

  • Takuya brings unmatched depth and connectivity to technology companies entering or scaling in Japan. His board-level relationships with Japan's most influential enterprises — Honda, Fujitsu, Yokogawa, and Yayoi — represent the kind of access that typically takes years to build independently. Earlier in his career he held multiple senior leadership roles at Microsoft, including VP of Global Alliances and System Integrators and GM of Central Eastern Europe, giving him both deep Japan market expertise and a broad understanding of how global technology companies operate across regions.

Japan

GTM

Karl Engkvist
Singapore

Karl heads the investment arm of Taylor’s Education Group, which owns and operates schools and universities in Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam, and which invests in related start-ups. He has spent his career in senior roles leading technology, content, and education services for companies such as The Princeton Review, Blackboard, and Pearson.

Market Entry

Wing-Dar Ker
Taipei / Beijing

Wing is experienced in bringing cloud technologies to market in China having served as EVP of 21Vianet, the exclusive operator of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft365 services in China. He is also an advisor at Chayora, an infrastructure developer focused on building data centre platforms in China. Wing previously spent 20 years at Microsoft in a variety of leadership roles across APAC.

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Operators across Asia, North America, and EMEA

Mike Chao
Salt Lake City, USA

Nearly 30 years of operating experience across global technology and media companies — with deep expertise in go-to-market strategy, partner ecosystems, and international market expansion.

Mike brings a practitioner's perspective to every engagement — grounded in nearly three decades of operating experience across some of the world's most complex markets. Having led a $400M regional business at Dolby Laboratories in Asia-Pacific, advised multinationals on China growth strategy at BCG, and built the foundation of his career at Microsoft, Mike combines strategic rigor with operational discipline to help leadership teams translate strategy into execution.

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Pankaj Ukey
Mumbai

Pankaj is the Managing Partner at Baro-C Advisors - a results-oriented consulting firm. Pankaj has spent 30 years in CXO level roles across Hi-Tech, EdTech, eCommerce, FMCG, and IT/ITES. He has held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, eBay, Flipkart in addition to a number of successful startups. His expertise lies in strategy consulting, new market entry, and business process reengineering.

Americas

Angus Norton
Seattle

Angus is a "full stack" Product Leader, with deep SaaS Product leadership experience from Microsoft, Xero, Amazon Web Services, and Cisco. At Microsoft he was most recently the VP/GM for Office 365 in the US. At Xero he was their Chief Product Officer, and as a GM and VP Amazon Web Services and Cisco Webex he led team across all elements of bringing SaaS applications to market.

Sean O’Driscoll
Seattle

A growth-oriented strategist, Sean brings a customer experience, brand, marketing, and services mindset to scaling organizations through strategy facilitation, execution, and talent alignment.   Sean founded a customer experience consultancy that was ultimately acquired by PwC and was one of the founding partners of PwC’s digital practice.  He is the Managing Partner at Springbank Partners.

Michael Postek
San Francisco

Michael spent 20 years of his career in Japan with software companies ranging from startups to larger enterprises including Oracle and Adobe. During that time, he held key roles in solution consulting, regional product management, and partner and business development. Michael's area of focus is Japan market entry and business development.

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Regions covered: Japan, Greater China, North America, SE Asia, Europe, Middle East

North America

GTM

Market Entry

China - APAC

Market Entry

Eisuke Saito
Tokyo

  • Eisuke is a networked, execution-focused operator who knows how technology companies win in Japan. His career spans the full spectrum of the Japan IT market — from large enterprise at Oracle and AWS to high-growth SaaS at Twilio and TigerGraph — giving him both the relationships and the practical playbook to help international companies build presence and close business quickly. He currently serves as executive advisor to a number of Japan-based technology startups.

George Siemens
Seattle

George brings over 30 years of experience as a senior technology executive specializing in partner-led growth and go-to-market strategy and execution. He has held leadership roles at Microsoft, IBM, and Seagate Technologies, where he built and scaled global partner ecosystems and strategic alliances.

Japan

Partner and Channel