Senior Operators. Not Outside Theorists.
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 · Strategic Alliances & Key AccountsLeads Kuma's strategic advisory engagements and relationships with founders, boards, and European investors. Holds the CEO-to-CEO sparring conversations that define and open each mandate.
Vincent Azé
Managing Partner · Commercial Strategy & ExecutionDirects commercial diagnostics and high-stakes alignment sprints. Having carried board-facing targets himself, he translates boardroom friction into clear, actionable operating cadences teams can execute.
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 organizational scaling across complex tech ecosystems. Aligns operational goals with healthy human execution.
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).
Ann Reily
Global Sales Leadership & Scaling Adaptability (ExO)25+ years leading international sales and enterprise revenue teams. Specializes in building team resilience and commercial focus during hyper-growth transitions.
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.
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.
Angus Nelson
Strategic Sparring for High-Pressure Growth EnvironmentsExecutive advisor and keynote speaker working alongside founders and leadership groups to navigate severe operational bottlenecks and scaling stress.
Colleen Tartow, PhD
Data Architecture, AI Strategy & Engineering Scale25+ years driving end-to-end data architecture, AI implementation, and engineering transformation for hyper-growth and enterprise tech companies. Specializes in aligning technical roadmaps with executive commercial objectives.
Márcio Marcos
Leadership & Culture Transformation Mentor25+ years advising founders, executive teams, and boards through complex organizational restructuring and critical growth inflection points. Focuses on leadership accountability and high-stakes strategic execution.
Daniel Pascual
Structural Re-engineering & Executive VelocityFormer CEO and executive intervention partner specializing in dismantling structural drag and corporate bottlenecks under pressure. Combines applied neuro-leadership and agentic governance to restore decision speed in scaling teams.
AI can model your org chart. It cannot fix executive friction.
Algorithms and generative tools can simulate market scenarios, optimize workflow diagrams, and generate strategy decks in seconds. What software cannot do is sit across a table from two co-founders who have stopped speaking candidly, navigate the political fracture of a Series B scaling inflection, or realign an executive team under acute board pressure.
We don't advise from academic distance or hide behind slides. Every Kuma partner has carried P&L accountability as a former CEO, CRO, or enterprise executive. We embed directly in the room to resolve the human and operational drag that software and traditional consultancies leave untouched.
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.
Initiate an Executive Briefing →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 →