(ad)ventures so far

Now

At SAB Partners we're acquiring established UK SMEs, helping founders looking to step away find patient capital and long horizons.

I've mentored a small set of founders through accelerators like Techstars and Wayra, and through personal connections. If that sounds useful, drop me a line.

Before that

I co-founded and led Premind AI for six years (2019 to 2025), building credible AI for financial markets back when AI didn't yet mean what it now means.

I was headhunted from Istanbul as the entrepreneur-in-residence to co-found Dynamo Mortgages (2017 to 2018), a joint venture between Blenheim Chalcot and Countrywide, taking the idea of a digital mortgage broker from slide deck to FCA-compliant operating company in nine months.

Scratching a personal itch, BeyazBorsa (2010 to 2016), Turkey's white-market answer to scalped ticketing. Planned a quiet rollout for Galatasaray; first live test became the season's Istanbul derby against Beşiktaş. Full system, real stakes. It held.

I brought Crayola and Leapfrog to Turkey through creoKIDS (2007 to 2010), grew sales sixfold in two years, and exited.

Before all of that, BraemoreGemini (2005 to 2008). A piece of paper, no track record in property, no resources on the ground. Pulled the JV, the land, the architects, the capital together as I went. Ended with keys in the hands of thirty-four families on their first holiday in a place I'd helped them buy from a render.

Drafts

For every venture above, several others didn't make it: ideas that died in slide decks, partnerships that fell apart before contracts were signed, late-night drafts I never sent. They count too. The lessons from the ones that didn't ship are often sharper than from the ones that did.