Helping founders turn complex ventures into credible, executable plans.
I work with a small number of mission-led founders in housing, financial services, and social impact — providing the strategic, regulatory, and operational counsel that turns complex ambitions into fundable, scalable ventures.
Book a free 20-minute callThe gap most founders miss.
Capital markets, regulators, and boards speak a different language to founders.
Early structural decisions — entity type, governance, finance model — are hard to reverse.
Most advisors offer either theory or tactics. Very few have done the build themselves.
30 years building in the spaces where capital, regulation, and mission intersect.
Not theory. Not tactics. Just lived experience from blank page to operating venture, and everything in between.
Building ventures from nothing
An idea on paper turned into a funded, governed, living organisation — twice. I know what it is to carry that weight, because I'm carrying it now.
HOPE Housing · and today, a private capital group
Creating value in established companies
Senior roles turning mature, highly-regulated, private-equity-owned businesses into real value for owners and investors — the same principles, at scale.
Link Group · Oasis Asset Management
Bringing people — and industries — onto a path they can't yet see
Aligning competing interests, regulators and an entire sector around a direction most couldn't yet picture. Influence, negotiation, and momentum where none existed.
ASFA · national industry reform
Developing regulatory, risk and stewardship foundations
Built governance and risk from the foundations, inside the regulator and government. I understand the obligations your venture will have to meet — and how to move through them.
ASIC · Treasury
ILLUMINATE
Founder Compass
I help you see what you couldn't see before you walked in.
ORCHESTRATE
Vision Pathway
I arrange the people, vision and resources into something that actually moves.
ANCHOR
The Takeoff
At your most critical moment, I hold steady so you can fly.
Three ways to work together.
Founder Compass
Sometimes you have something you need someone to read honestly. Sometimes you don't have anything yet — just a situation, a decision, or a feeling that you need to think through with the right person. Either way, bring what you have. Tim will guide the conversation — drawing out what matters, challenging what needs challenging, and making sure you leave with more clarity than you arrived with. You're not being processed. But you're not doing it alone either. What makes this different is who's on the other side of the table. Tim has founded, built, funded and delivered in the spaces where capital, mission, governance and regulation all have to work together. That's not a consulting background. That's firsthand.
Best for: Founders at a strategic inflection point who need a clear-eyed outside perspective.
One guided session + one documented output. Complete.
Vision Pathway
Passion and a good idea will get you started. A clear pathway to execution is what creates real momentum — and what demonstrates to the people around you that you have the capacity to deliver, not just the vision to imagine. Tim works alongside you over two to three weeks — talking to the people around you, diagnosing where the venture and the founder are strong and where the gaps are, and building the one execution document that most directly moves your vision toward reality.
Possible outputs
Best for: Ventures preparing to raise, restructure, or enter a new market.
Two to three weeks. One honest diagnosis. One document that moves you forward.
The Takeoff
This is the most critical and most dangerous period of any venture — when everything is moving, everyone needs you, and the decisions you make now will define whether the plane flies safely. The Takeoff is a short, intensive, defined engagement — built around one critical thing your venture needs to get right during this period. Not open-ended. Not a standing arrangement. A specific piece of work, with a clear output, done with someone who has navigated this exact moment before. What that piece of work is — you define it. Tim delivers it.
Best for: Founders who know what they need to build and want an experienced operator in the room.
Founder-led. Precisely scoped. Time-bound. One critical thing, done properly.
What people say when Tim isn't in the room.
Four perspectives. Four different worlds. One consistent thread.
Tim is the sort of person I'm very comfortable backing. He's intelligent, commercially minded, and has a deep understanding of the sectors he works in. But what separates him is his ability to actually execute — he earns credibility quickly because he understands both the strategic and operational side of a business. He doesn't shy away from ambiguity or pressure. He leans into it.
We started facing significant regulatory headwind as we scaled our business on the path to the liquidity event, Tim's arrival enabled us to resume the journey. He built the structures, governance, financial operations and risk frameworks. He's very strong on detail and compliance, but he isn't one of those hopelessly uncommercial operators. He understood where we were trying to get to and kept the bigger picture in mind. He's someone who genuinely cares and puts a lot into it personally.
Tim has a fundamental understanding of both regulatory and commercial requirements — which is rarer than people think. During a period of significant industry reform, he was a key part of shaping the policy and technical framework that made implementation possible. When chairing industry working groups I made sure Tim was seated to my right. He gains trust with stakeholders quickly, even when interests don't naturally align, and brings them along to outcomes that actually work. He was a catalyst for change in environments where change doesn't come easily.
Tim is the person you want when jobs are at their most challenging. He understands the relationships across every part of an organisation — and the mindset of each — which means he can navigate competing interests with a level of pragmatism that keeps all parties moving forward. A strategic thinker with a commercially focused mind, but what I valued most was that his solutions were always realistic and intelligently implemented. He adds genuine value to the organisations he works with.
Let's talk.
I offer a free 20-minute introductory conversation — no pitch, no obligation. Just a direct conversation about where you are and whether I can help.
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