THE PARTNERSHIP

Senior Operators Inside the Room. Zero Outside Theorists.

Every Kuma retreat is personally designed and led by partners who have carried P&L accountability, navigated acute board pressure, and scaled venture-backed companies. That is the entire difference.
In-Room Facilitation

The Principal Partners

The core operators who lead stakeholder discovery, closed-door debate, and Monday morning compacts.

Dr. Sven Mulfinger, Managing Partner at Kuma Partners
Executive Mediation & Governance

Dr. Sven Mulfinger

Managing Partner · Kuma Partners
20+ Years Facilitation Serial Entrepreneur & CEO PhD Engineer CEO Peer Group Facilitator (Vistage)

Specializes in high-stakes C-suite mediation, cross-border M&A alignment, and resolving structural co-founder friction. Translates unexpressed executive conflict into binding 90-day execution compacts.

Delivery in: English Deutsch Français Português Español
Farid Chaouki, Founder & Strategic Designer at Nonameyet
Venture Innovation & Product Sprints

Farid Chaouki

Founder & Strategic Designer · Nonameyet
Serial Entrepreneur Board Advisor Innovation Leader Fractional CPO / CIO

Guides scale-ups and distributed leadership teams through rapid product innovation, enterprise AI roadmap stress-testing, and venture architecture. Creates high-tempo environments that turn abstract strategy into tangible roadmaps.

Delivery in: English Français Español
Luisa Ábalo, Executive Leadership Chair at Kuma Partners
Organizational Scaling & Governance

Luisa Ábalo

Executive Leadership Chair · Kuma Partners
15+ Years Executive Advisory Former Managing Director Board & Governance Advisor Scale-Up Mentor

Specializes in enterprise governance, organizational scaling architecture, and CEO peer dynamics. Drives operational discipline, accountability cadences, and leadership team cohesion across high-growth international executive cohorts.

Delivery in: Español English
VA
Commercial Strategy & Revenue Execution

Vincent Azé

Managing Partner · Commercial Strategy & Execution

Former CRO at Glownet and Sales Director at FIS. Directs commercial diagnostics and GTM alignment sprints during offsites, bridging high-level board revenue targets with practical sales cadences teams execute Monday morning.

Backed by Kuma's Senior Advisor Network
Need specialized facilitation in data architecture, AI governance, or cross-border M&A? We draw from our wider bench of former operators, introduced below.
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Functional Depth

Specialist Practice Leads

Deployed engagement-by-engagement to co-lead functional breakouts, deep technical alignment, or specialized psychological diagnostics during scaled offsites.

Colleen Tartow, PhD

Colleen Tartow, PhD

Data Architecture, AI Strategy & Engineering Scale

25+ 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.

PhD Astrophysics Datacoral Ex-VP Data AI Strategy
Tiffany Missiha

Tiffany Missiha

Board Advisory & Business Psychology

ICF-accredited consultant guiding leadership through interpersonal friction, executive restructuring, and complex talent transitions.

Korn Ferry ICF CPCC
Daniel Pascual

Daniel Pascual

Structural Velocity & Neuro-Leadership

Former CEO specializing in dismantling structural drag and corporate bottlenecks under pressure through agentic governance.

IESE Vistage AI Governance
Angus Nelson

Angus Nelson

Strategic Sparring for High-Pressure Growth Environments

Executive advisor and keynote speaker working alongside founders and leadership groups to navigate severe operational bottlenecks and scaling stress.

Cisco Bridgestone Veeva CarePayment
Márcio Marcos

Márcio Marcos

Leadership & Culture Transformation

25+ years advising founders, executive teams, and boards through complex organizational restructuring and critical growth inflection points.

TikTok Bosch BBVA
Bryan Kramer

Bryan Kramer

High-Trust Culture Architecture

Seasoned sounding board helping executive leaders navigate strategic inflection points, eliminate political drag, and build high accountability.

Harvard IBM Dell
The Operator Conviction

AI Cannot Solve In-Room Human Friction.

We build with, deploy, and stress-test AI systems every day. We know software can simulate market scenarios, optimize workflow architecture, and draft strategic roadmaps in seconds.

What code cannot do is sit across an open-fire hearth with two co-founders who have stopped speaking candidly, navigate the political fracture of a Series B inflection, or align an executive committee under acute board pressure.

We don't advise from academic distance or hide behind slide decks. We embed directly inside the room to resolve the human friction and operational drag that technology alone will never fix.

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Every engagement is directly shaped by our managing partners. Tell us your cohort size, target dates, and core strategic bottleneck.

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Direct Partner Intake

Schedule an Executive Discovery Call

Speak directly with one of our managing partners. Tell us about your executive cohort, tentative dates, and the primary commercial or relational friction you need resolved.

  • Direct response. Sven or Farid personally review every request within 24 business hours.
  • No junior sales reps. You speak with a managing partner from the first call.
  • Limited quarterly intake. We cap new engagements each quarter to protect delivery quality.
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