Ali Sedighi, MBA

Why owners and investors call him

Ali has done the things he advises on. He has started companies with nothing but a plan, grown them to the point where they could run without him, scaled them, sold them, and lived with the transition afterwards. His MBA is in technology management, and his working life has been spent where marketing promises, operating reality and the balance sheet meet.

That matters in a transaction. A valuation is only as good as the understanding of how the business actually makes money. A deal structure is only as good as the understanding of what can go wrong in the first year of ownership. Ali reads a business the way a buyer who has to run it would, and that is the reading sellers, buyers and lenders need.

How he works on an engagement

• Leads every engagement personally, and takes fractional executive seats himself where the plan needs them.
• Starts from the financials, the customer data and the operating facts, then forms an opinion.
• Delivers in writing: valuation reports, business plans, information memoranda, deal term summaries, 100-day plans.
• Coordinates with your lawyer, CPA and, where relevant, regulated immigration consultant, so every workstream has a licensed owner.
• Says no early when a deal or a plan does not hold together.

Career