Senior operators inside the room. Zero outside theorists.
Every Kuma retreat is personally designed and led by partners who have carried P&L accountability, navigated acute board pressure, and scaled venture-backed companies. That is the entire difference.The principal partners
The core operators who lead stakeholder discovery, closed-door debate, and Monday morning compacts.
Dr. Sven Mulfinger
Managing Partner · Kuma PartnersSpecialises in high-stakes C-suite mediation, cross-border M&A alignment, and resolving structural co-founder friction. Translates unexpressed executive conflict into single-threaded RACI ownership and binding 90-day execution compacts.
Farid Chaouki
Founder & Strategic Designer · NonameyetGuides scale-ups and distributed leadership teams through rapid product innovation, enterprise AI roadmap stress-testing, and venture architecture. Creates high-tempo sprint environments that convert abstract strategy into validated execution.
Luisa Ábalo
Executive Leadership Chair · Kuma PartnersSpecialises in enterprise governance, organisational scaling architecture, and CEO peer dynamics. Drives operational discipline, accountability cadences, and leadership team cohesion across high-growth international executive cohorts.
Vincent Azé
Managing Partner · Commercial StrategyFormer CRO at Glownet and Sales Director at FIS. Directs commercial diagnostics and GTM alignment sprints during offsites, bridging high-level board revenue targets with practical sales cadences teams execute Monday morning.
Specialist practice leads
Deployed engagement-by-engagement to co-lead functional breakouts, deep technical alignment, or specialised psychological diagnostics during scaled offsites.
Colleen Connors
Former CEO and COO, advising VC-backed start-ups and companies with $100M+ revenue. Coaching global leaders for more than 15 years; board member and founder of Coaching Leaders Global.
Tiffany Missiha
ICF-accredited consultant guiding leadership through interpersonal friction, executive restructuring, and complex talent transitions.
Daniel Pascual
Former CEO specialising in dismantling structural drag and corporate bottlenecks under pressure through agentic governance.
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck
20+ years guiding agile architecture and organisational scaling across complex tech ecosystems. Aligns operational goals with healthy human execution.
Ofir K.
More than 20 years guiding startups and large companies to envision, plan and roll out best-in-category digital products, at the intersection of content, design and innovation.
Márcio Marcos
25+ years advising founders, executive teams, and boards through complex organisational restructuring and critical growth inflection points.
Bryan Kramer
Seasoned sounding board helping executive leaders navigate strategic inflection points, eliminate political drag, and build high accountability.
AI cannot solve in-room human friction.
We build with, deploy, and stress-test AI systems every day. We know software can simulate market scenarios, optimise workflow architecture, and draft strategic roadmaps in seconds.
What code cannot do is sit across an open-fire hearth with two co-founders who have stopped speaking candidly, navigate the political fracture of a Series B inflection, or align an executive committee under acute board pressure.
We don't advise from academic distance or hide behind slide decks. We embed directly inside the room to resolve the human friction and operational drag that technology alone will never fix.
Ready to plan your closed-door offsite?
Every engagement is directly shaped by our managing partners. Tell us your cohort size, target dates, and core strategic bottleneck.
Schedule an executive discovery call
Speak directly with one of our managing partners. Tell us about your executive cohort, tentative dates, and the primary commercial or relational friction you need resolved.
Strict bilateral NDA
Confidentiality guaranteed. All cap table, board, and operational notes are protected under mutual NDA prior to intake.
Managing partner delivery
We cap capacity at four cohorts per quarter so Sven, Farid, and Luisa personally facilitate in the room.
24-hour review cadence
Direct follow-up within 24 business hours from a senior partner. No junior SDR qualification calls.
Request received.
Sven, Farid, or Luisa will review your brief and reply directly within 24 business hours.