Elevating ambition,
engineering outcomes.
The boutique advisory partnership you need as a founder and for your growing business to build what comes next, whatever stage you are in.
Why Altiora
- Full lifecycle coverage — from company registration to board-level governance, in one firm
- Nigeria-rooted, globally calibrated — local regulatory depth with international executive standards
- Action-first — every engagement produces implementable outcomes, not strategy documents
- Integrated team — five partners collaborate across service lines so you never manage fragmented advisors
- Sector credibility — our partners have led businesses with budgets exceeding $700M and built commercial operations from the ground up
How We Work
We succeed when you do.
We work primarily on an equity basis, exchanging our expertise for a stake in what we help build. And so, we get paid for the business succeeding.
We ask before we advise.
Every engagement begins with a structured Discovery Session; an honest conversation about where your business actually stands. No polished deck required. Just honest answers.
We tell you what we can't do.
If something sits outside our capability, we say so upfront, and we tell you what we can do instead. Trust built this way is worth more than a mandate won by overpromising.
Where We Meet You
Every business is at a different point in its journey. We start with you where the actual gap is.
The bones of the business.
You have the idea, the momentum, maybe early traction, but the structure underneath isn't there yet. Legal setup is informal. There's no real operating model. Nothing has been built to outlast your daily attention.
We work with you to build legal structure, operating model, governance, and go-to-market foundations that hold from day one.
The business that runs itself.
The business works, but it runs on firefighting. Sales depend on your network. Processes live in people's heads. Growth feels like something happening to you, not through your business.
We work with you to build the systems, SOPs, and sales infrastructure that turn effort into repeatable output.
Beyond the founder.
The business genuinely works, but it's still, in every sense, "you." Stepping back feels impossible, and the leadership structure typically expected by investors and boards isn't there yet.
We work with you to build the leadership systems, governance, and the credibility to be evaluated on the business's own terms.
Wherever you're starting from, that's where we start too.
Who We Are For
Altiora isn't for every founder. We work best with founders who have real conviction about what they're building, not an idea being tested casually, but something they intend to commit to. We're early-stage in spirit, whether that means a pre-revenue venture laying its first foundations, or a growing business that has outgrown the systems that got it this far.
We're direct, and we ask hard questions early. If you want to be told only what you want to hear, this won't feel like the right fit. But if you want a partner invested enough in your success to tell you the truth, and structured enough to help you act on it, then you are the right fit for Altiora.
Meet Our Founding Partners
Five partners. One team. Every engagement draws on whichever combination of strengths your business actually needs.
Ayo Shote MCIOD
Executive Leadership & Governance
A corporate leader with over 30 years of C-suite experience across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, including tenure as VP & MD at Baker Hughes, COO at Ashbard Energy, and CEO of BVI Consult. An active Board Chairman specializing in transforming enterprise strategy into measurable corporate governance and institutional outcomes.
Victoria Alli-Johnson fIMC, CPMC
Strategy & Execution
A licensed management consultant, Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, and McKinsey Forward Alumna with over 8 years of experience partnering with executives and founders to close the strategy-execution gap. Founder of MsVick, specializing in design-led digital product strategy, UX architecture, and building the scalable operating models and revenue infrastructure required for sustainable market entry.
Viviane Chizoba PRINCE2
Operations & Client Delivery
An operational infrastructure consultant with over 10 years of experience leading operations, project coordination, and workflow optimization. Founder of EasyProAssist, specializing in developing SOPs and building resilient day-to-day organizational systems across the healthcare, logistics, FMCG, and public sectors.
Modupe Ulebe LLB, DPO Certified
Legal, Compliance & Governance
A commercial attorney and former Magistrate Grade 1 with over 17 years of active legal practice. Managing Partner at Primelight Associates and certified Data Protection Officer specializing in corporate compliance, structural protection, and regulatory risk mitigation to ensure businesses are legally protected from inception.
Kenneth Oshioma
Commercial Growth & Revenue Capability
A commercial performance strategist with over 15 years of experience building revenue engines within multinational environments, notably serving as Divisional Commercial Capability Manager at Guinness Nigeria PLC. Focuses on engineering high-velocity sales capabilities, optimized distribution systems, and scalable commercial channels.
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This is a structured conversation where we ask the questions that matter. No polished deck needed. Just bring the business as it actually is.