SERVICES

 

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

Management Support Services can be strategic, financial or operational, which in the case of wizadvice, do not include specific technical expertise such as Legal, Accounting, Tax or Advisory related to publically traded financial instruments. However, wizadvice can always refer its clients to recommended and suitable specialized advisers and experts.

TRANSACTION ADVISORY

In addition to the regularly carried out Management Support Services, wizadvice can also offer its clients Transaction Advisory services.

 
 

What People Say

 

I worked with Zahi hand to hand in several projects for a KSA family holding in the past years. In this relationship, I highly appraised his strategy and business skills, together with a high level of empathy. This resulted in better analysis and recommendations for the group. His advice, guidance and feedback were highly valued to conduct our job in the best interest of the client.

 
Christophe de Bruyn, CEO, THR Tourism Industry advisors, Spain , 2021
 

We have started working with Zahi in January 2020, few months after the civil unrest broke-out in Lebanon. Zahi was brought-in to help us reinforce our local business and simultaneously help us grow outside of Lebanon.

In a very short period of time, Zahi has managed to understand the intricacies of our complex insurance industry and has quickly familiarized himself with our key business challenges. He has already added significant value in helping us sharpen our strategy (especially post COVID-19), improve our governance model, and redesign our org and performance assessment schemes. More importantly, he is playing a major role in determining and developing the most suitable inorganic growth and partnership avenues as he has lead deal structuring, financial scenario modeling, pitch deck development, negotiations, and deal execution.

Proven to be a trusted advisor who will be next to us on a continuous basis and support us in developing and executing our strategy as well as several key business initiatives, we have offered Zahi a seat on our Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

I highly recommend Zahi’s advisory services for businesses in the Middle East.

 
Anthony Khawam, CEO, Securite Assurance, Lebanon , 2020
 

Founded in 2009, CD Log is the only drug depot in Lebanon dedicated to handling clinical trials supplies. Being a small but unique local business, we needed to make sure we are doing the right things for re-positioning, maintaining and whenever possible, continuously developing our business.

We have retained wizadvice since January 2019 to get the needed guidance.

Zahi’s well-rounded experience across management consulting, business operations and financial advisory, is all we wanted in order to make sure we validate our strategic thoughts and plans, and always have the right support for any critical business-related matter.

The engagement approach wizadvice has offered us is very practical; Zahi currently knows the key elements and decisive factors of our business model and its requirements as an insider, and is readily available any time he is needed, be it for a small question, for a more complex feasibility study, or even to support our managers in key meetings and business trips.

Last but not least, we also made use of Zahi’s HR-related experience; he is an impactful coach and builds constructive relations with employees.

 
Marie-Madeleine Sader, Founder & CEO, CD Log, Lebanon , 2019
 

I’m lucky to be working with Zahi Azouri, not just for the versatile professional experience, but for his gifted personality, sound business acumen and more importantly management advice to transform any opportunity & challenge into a win-win situation.

For me in particular, with over two decades of dedicated manufacturing, technical and regular supply chain experience, stepping into a role of GM, during early 2017, has been an immense challenge and a turning point in my career. Zahi mentored me during this process of transition with a decisive mindset that helped me learn, adapt and manage new functions of Finance, Sales & Marketing and extended Supply Chain Management.

Zahi’s practical involvement and guidance during the budgeting process over the last two financial years, combined with developing various strategies across the sales function, determination and measurement of important management performance indicators, has made my journey easy and helped me in setting up a continual growth plan for the business during these challenging times in the region.

I will continue to look upon for Zahi’s advice and contribution to my professional career in times to come and wish Zahi every success with any project he’s associated with.

 
Prashanth Nallari, GM, Mohamadia Dates Company, KSA , 2018
 

We are a contracting firm that decided to go through a transformation program – After screening the market, we finally decided to work with wizadvice, lead by Zahi Azouri. We have just started our engagement in January 2018, finished the first phase and have already kicked off the second phase of our agreed upon advisory and management support project. The great thing to witness are the promises that have been fulfilled and the value that has already been added. The engagement model that wizadvice offers is very flexible and unique, which is designed to suit the specific requirements of the large spectrum of small and mid-sized companies. Most importantly for us, was the practical involvement beyond the typical high-level strategy and management topics; Zahi is able, due to his versatile professional experience, to identify glitches and recommend workable solutions across several support and operational functions, be they within Finance, Deal Structuring and Contract Drafting, Performance Monitoring and Improvement and their related HR matters, Sales, Business Development, Communication, and Operational Efficiency Optimization in general.

 
Paul Asmar, Founder & GM, Insites, Lebanon , 2018
 

At Givanas Group, we have been working with Mr. Azouri since the start of Q4 2017, and it has been so far a great experience. He has already managed to bring in to Givanas a great deal of governance, operational discipline, and a structured approach to address our key business challenges. In addition to the thorough yearly budgeting process that he is introducing to the Group as a novelty, he is helping us take impactful decisions, be they long-term and strategic, or tactical; he is particularly improving our measurement and monitoring of our business performance... He is simply helping us move as a Group to the "next level".

As a Group CFO, I am now learning to look at our companies and new projects with a different business perspective, richer, and more comprehensive... I hope that as planned, wizadvice's support for and cooperation with Givanas will continue for the long term.

 
Maroun Akiki, Group CFO, Givanas, Nigeria , 2018
 

Zahi has advised and represented shareholders of INOVX Solutions since 2014, and has successfully gained the trust of the Board, including myself as a Founder, Board Member and Senior Executive. As a result of Zahi's strategic insight, creative problem solving, and 'results oriented' business focus, he was invited to join the Company's Board of Directors in 2017, where he continues to offer strategic and financial guidance that has proven valuable and beneficial for the Company.

 
David Reinhart, Co-Founder & President, INOVx, USA , 2017
 

We have retained wizadvice as our external business adviser, with an initial intention to focus on management support. We saw the value that wizadvice brought to the Group very early on in the process. Their engagement model is indeed very practical and financially sustainable, mainly because all M&A, feasibility studies, valuations and other transaction advisory mandates are taken care of as part of the on-going engagement model – Their availability and speed of response is remarkable.

 
Samir Ajami, Owner & MD, Givanas Group, Nigeria , 2017
 

I had the opportunity to witness, since 2012, the benefits of all services wizadvice currently offers, be they related to strategic corporate development, M&A advisory or decision-making and management support. I can therefore strongly recommend wizadvice as a very suitable advisor for any company that seeks long-term, high-quality, yet cost-effective business advisory and management support, with lots of knowledge transfer and build-up.

 
Khaled Al Saud, CEO, FAMA Group, KSA , 2017
 
 

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