Chartered Accountant and Dartmouth MBA with 15 years across M&A advisory, financial due diligence, and business operations — 10 countries, 4 continents. Trained at PwC and Altman Solon, then ran a business as CFO. Now does one thing: helps people buy businesses and run them well after close.
Most M&A advisory stops at close. The diligence team hands off a report, the deal closes, and the buyer walks into the business on Day 1 with no institutional memory of what they just bought.
The person who understood the business — who spent weeks in the financials, who knows the customer concentration risk, who flagged the key-person dependency — is gone. The buyer is on their own.
SaadLLC was built around a simple insight: the information loss at handoff is where most acquisitions underperform in the first 90 days. The solution is not a better handoff. It's the same person staying on.
That requires a specific background — someone who can run diligence with institutional rigour and also knows what it takes to run a business week to week. The career path above is not accidental. It was built for this.
Started in audit — financial rigour, quality of earnings, understanding how businesses actually work vs. how they look on paper. Worked across PE-backed and public companies. Built the foundation that every engagement since has run on.
Advised major investment funds on acquisitions in data centers and telecom. The job was to understand what the target was worth, whether the market thesis held, and what the risk was. Learned how institutional buyers think — and what they worry about after close.
Built the 100-day transition plan for a newly elected national government. Translated policy into a department-by-department operating playbook. That experience — turning a complex system into a week-by-week plan — is exactly what a post-close operating plan requires.
Co-founded and ran a business as CFO. Managed payroll, vendors, cash flow, hires, and the decisions that keep a company running week to week. The most useful experience for what SaadLLC does — you cannot run a credible 100-day plan without having been inside a business.
Independent advisory for $10M–$50M acquisitions. Commercial and financial due diligence, deal structuring, and the first 100 days post-close. One advisor. No handoff. 8 engagements per year.
Saad focuses on judgment — the research, analysis, and recommendations that protect your capital. An offshore delivery team and AI agents handle execution. You get institutional-quality work without institutional overhead.
8 engagements per year. That limit is not marketing — it's the number that allows one person to stay close to the work.
30-minute call. No prep required. We figure out if there's a fit.