The American getting paid to make decisions about Asia from a US office.
You underwrite the deal from a deck someone else built. I am the body in the room.
Asia Pacific based. Deployable worldwide, travel at cost. Principal led. I verify what you cannot see from a US office, before the wire, before the signature, before the joint venture term sheet.
For US firms, private equity, and staffing firms placing cleared personnel weighing an Asia deal, a partner, a site, or an INDOPACOM pursuit they cannot verify from home.
01 / Why the macro is loud
The cost of getting Asia wrong is documented, and growing.
Lost by Americans in a single year to Southeast Asia scam operations, up sixty six percent year over year. Your name is not on the list yet.
US Treasury OFAC, 2025 · US Department of Justice, 2025 · Prince Holding Group, Brooklyn federal court
I cannot verify what I am buying from eight thousand miles away.
The vendor, the partner, the site, the rules. My due diligence file is a deck the seller sent me, and every assumption I underwrite comes from the other side of the deal.
My local agent might be the threat.
Eighteen-year operators tell newcomers the same thing. Agents steal companies. The fixer structures the entity so he holds the controlling shares, and the agent the seller introduced is not the partner who keeps me alive.
I cannot read the room from a slide.
Patronage, red tape, ambiguous rules, which office actually approves the license, whose brother sits on the board. None of it lives in the deck. All of it lands on my invoice.
The cost of getting it wrong is documented and growing.
Ten billion gone in a year, a sixty six percent jump, fifteen billion seized from a single operator. The macro is loud, and I would like to keep my name off the list.
I have no one in country I actually trust.
Not a consultant, not a fixer, not a translator. An American operator with credentialed private and federal experience who lives in the region, signs personally, and represents me when I am on a flight.
One operator. Five ways to put me where the deck cannot reach.
The lower depths read the deal before you commit. The higher depths put a principal on your ground through the pivot. Principal led, every engagement. Sign personally and within fourteen days, or I pass.
These are Ready Room engagements, the same interim-leadership rates, scoped to verifying and operating on the ground in Asia.
Before you go, before you sign, before you wire. One written brief on what you are walking into: the country, the deal, the partner, the contract. Sourced from local language press, chamber and council data, and the operator network on the ground.
- Format
- Remote. One discovery call.
- Deliver
- A brief a board or lender can act on, plus a thirty minute call.
- Use for
- Before the trip, the wire, the signature, the term sheet.
I go to the site. The office, the factory, the partner's location. Photos, video, voice notes, on the ground observation. Background on the named principals. Warm intro to a local accountant and lawyer from my network. Documented, timestamped, attributable.
- Format
- One visit. Regional travel at cost. Written within seventy two hours.
- Deliver
- What is there, what is not, who the principals are, what the register actually shows.
- Use for
- The moment the deal got interesting, before you wire, before the LOI.
Two weeks, principal on the ground. Multi vendor visits, partner verification, regulatory conversations with the actual offices, accountant and legal interviews, local hire screening. A market entry sequence built around what is possible, not what the deck claimed. You are in the loop daily.
- Format
- Two weeks, principal led, mostly in country.
- Deliver
- Daily updates, full written after action, named contact list, recommended next steps.
- Use for
- Market entry, due diligence at scale, recovery from a failed partner, INDOPACOM pursuit.
Your standing American operator in the region. Monthly cadence with the owner. Quarterly visits to your priority targets. Ongoing relationships with the chambers, the embassy commercial service, your accountant, your lawyer, your partners. On call when a decision needs ground truth in twenty four hours, not two months.
- Format
- Monthly retainer. Standing call. Quarterly visits. On call for crises.
- Deliver
- Monthly summary, quarterly relationship map, one voice when the board asks who is on the ground.
- Use for
- A growing Asia presence, multiple INDOPACOM pursuits, staffing firms placing cleared personnel.
For the entry, the contract, the site build, or the recovery from a failed first attempt. Principal on the ground weekly through the window. In the meetings, in the hires, in the regulatory office, in the partner relationship. Direct to the owner, written weekly and verbal daily.
- Format
- Monthly retainer, weekly on the ground cadence.
- Deliver
- Daily walk down log, weekly written to the owner, written transition plan at close.
- Use for
- The move that defines the next two to five years of your Asia presence.
- Position
- Asia Pacific based. Deployable worldwide, travel and expenses at cost.
- Principal led
- Every engagement. No associates. No outsourced ground team.
- Terms
- Sign personally and within fourteen days, or I pass.
- What I do not sell
Audits. Strategy decks. Fixer introductions. Individual placements. Outsourced staffing.
I report what is on the ground, documented and attributable. I am not your lawyer or your accountant, and this is not legal or financial advice. The decision stays yours. What I sell is verified ground truth and a principal who will go stand on your deal before you commit to it.
Show me the deal. I will go stand on it.
Fifteen minutes. I will tell you in five whether I can help, and I will tell you straight if I cannot.
Send me the ground →
