The operators behind Kuma Partners.
Every Kuma partner has actually held the CEO, CRO or C-suite seat, under board pressure, through a fundraise, through a restructuring, before sitting in the advisory one. That's the entire difference.
The partners who run every engagement
Dr. Sven Mulfinger
Managing Partner · Systemic Architecture & Executive MediationExecutive strategist and systems designer pairing neuroscience-grounded diagnostics with high-stakes mediation. He guides founders, CEOs and boards through complex co-founder gridlock, structural misalignment and behavioural compacts, translating latent leadership tension into conscious, disciplined governance.
Vincent Azé
Managing Partner · Commercial Velocity & GTM ArchitectureCommercial operator and former scale-up executive specialising in dismantling revenue drag, pipeline bottlenecks and operational friction. He advises boards, CFOs and CROs on protecting runway, accelerating capital efficiency and compressing decision cycles across high-growth go-to-market teams.
Senior advisor network
Brought in engagement-by-engagement for the specific functional depth a mandate needs, from talent and culture to enterprise operations and go-to-market.
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck
PhD in AI & Large-Scale Systems Transformation20+ years guiding agile architecture and organisational scaling across complex tech ecosystems. Aligns operational goals with healthy human execution.
Fortune 500
Tiffany Missiha
Executive Board Advisory & Business Psychology (CPCC)ICF-accredited leadership consultant advising boards and C-suite teams through interpersonal friction, executive restructuring and complex talent transitions.
Bree Aesie
Executive Narrative & High-Stakes CommunicationAdvises leadership teams on strategic narrative, board-level communication and executive alignment during high-stakes growth phases. Host of Into the Story (2M+ downloads).
Novartis
PNO Innovation
Márcio Marcos
Leadership & Culture Transformation Mentor25+ years advising founders, executive teams and boards through complex organisational restructuring and critical growth inflection points. Focuses on leadership accountability and high-stakes strategic execution.
Andrea Ross
Executive Offsites & Systemic Leadership Alignment20+ years designing and moderating high-impact leadership offsites and alignment frameworks for global tech scale-ups, unlocking executive trust and focus.
Kuehne+Nagel
Bryan Kramer
Executive Sparring & High-Trust Culture ArchitectureSeasoned sounding board and culture architect helping leaders navigate strategic inflection points, eliminate political drag and build high-accountability teams.
Farid Chaouki
Digital Product Architecture & HealthTech ScalingSerial founder and innovation leader who pairs technology and design with empathy. Co-founder of Talkspace (US IPO) and Carl, he draws on 25 years across health-tech, fin-tech, fashion, music and AI to help scale-ups and global companies make ambitious ideas real, and human.
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Colleen Connors
Operational Excellence & High-Performance TeamsFormer CEO and COO who has advised multiple VC-backed start-ups and companies with over $100 million in revenue. Brings 15+ years coaching global leaders to scaling teams, operations and strategic alignment. Board member and founder of Coaching Leaders Global.
Ann Reily
Global Sales Leadership & Scaling Adaptability (ExO)25+ years leading international sales and enterprise revenue teams. Specialises in building team resilience and commercial focus during hyper-growth transitions.
JLL
Daniel Pascual
Structural Re-engineering & Executive VelocityFormer CEO and executive intervention partner specialising in dismantling structural drag and corporate bottlenecks under pressure. Combines applied neuro-leadership and agentic governance to restore decision speed in scaling teams.
Marc Cortés
Climate-Tech Innovation & Responsible AI GovernanceDeep-tech entrepreneur and venture builder specialising in industrial decarbonisation and scalable AI ecosystems. Co-founder and CEO at 4BlueTech, partnering with port authorities and industrial consortia to deploy modular climate solutions, capital-efficient infrastructure and responsible governance frameworks.
Built for scale-ups, powered by proven operators.
Kuma runs a codified diagnostic and governance engine. It lands high-stakes mandates, isolates structural friction and places vetted veteran operators under one delivery framework, so every specialist works from the same method and the same evidence.
Independent systemic triage
A Managing Partner leads the 14-Day Leadership Friction Scan. We map decision latency, unaligned incentives and board-to-executive gridlock before designing any operational intervention.
Specialised domain sprints
Once the friction is mapped, we bring in vetted domain partners from the Senior Advisor Network, such as go-to-market, climate-tech, executive mediation or product architecture, to lead a focused intervention track of 60 to 90 days.
Single governance standard
Every partner delivers through the KOS methodology. Clients get one standard of governance and faster executive decisions, and partners spend their time on the problem rather than on business development.
AI can model your org chart.
It cannot fix executive friction.
We build with, deploy and stress-test AI systems every day. We are technologists and operators who know software can simulate market scenarios, optimise workflow architecture and draft strategic roadmaps in seconds.
What code cannot do is sit across the table from two co-founders who have stopped speaking candidly, navigate the political fracture of a Series A or B inflection or align an executive team under acute board pressure.
We don't advise from academic distance or hide behind slide decks. Every Kuma partner has carried P&L accountability as a former CEO, CRO or C-suite executive. We embed directly inside the room to resolve the human friction and operational drag that technology alone will never fix.
Work directly with our senior partners
Every engagement is led by a Managing Partner, not handed off to a junior team. Start with a confidential conversation about what's actually blocking execution.
Book a Partner Debrief →Are you a seasoned former CEO, CRO or multi-exit founder?
We selectively expand our senior practitioner network with operators who have sat in the primary executive seat through fundraises, board turbulence and rapid scale. If you are interested in co-leading targeted 14-Day Scans or Alignment Sprints without the bureaucracy of traditional consulting, we welcome a discreet peer conversation.
Start a confidential conversation with Vincent →Conscious leadership & our B Corp commitment
Speed and operational rigour mean nothing if they come at the expense of human integrity. We believe high-conviction leadership must be conscious leadership. As part of our commitment to building an enduring firm of reference, Kuma Partners is structured to meet rigorous B Corp Certification standards, holding ourselves accountable to ethical governance, transparent partner profit-sharing and sustainable operational health.