Elevating ambition,
engineering outcomes.
We partner with founders and business leaders to build structurally sound, financially prepared, operationally disciplined, and scalable institutions.
Why Altiora
- Skin in the Game: We align directly with your growth, offering flexible engagement models from cash retainers to capped equity participation.
- Integrated Expertise: One unified leadership team covering corporate law, strategy execution, financial readiness, and growth.
- Practical Execution: We build repeatable operating systems, governance frameworks, and GTM engines—not reports that gather dust.
- Long-Term Value: Every partnership is structured to protect equity, enforce clean governance, and scale sustainable enterprise value.
How We Work
Professional Retainer
Tailored fee-for-service advisory for established operating businesses requiring leadership architecture, process optimization, financial modeling, and targeted growth interventions.
Hybrid & Capped Equity
Balanced 50/50 cash-and-equity models, or deferred retainer options with a strict 1%–2% equity cap designed to protect early-stage founder cap tables while building core operational foundations.
Performance & Capital Readiness
All equity arrangements vest strictly against performance KPIs following a mandatory 4-Week KPI Prospect Trial. Proven portfolio companies gain direct access to follow-on seed funding and board-level governance.
Where We Meet You
Every business is at a different point in its journey. We start with you where the actual gap is.
Early-Stage Ventures
For ambitious builders establishing core legal structures, governance, and operating systems. Accessed via our 4-Week KPI Trial, deferred retainer models, or 1%–2% capped equity arrangements.
Revenue-Generating Ventures
For operating businesses constrained by founder firefighting. We implement documented SOPs, financial controls, and repeatable sales architecture through cash retainer or hybrid advisory structures.
Scale-Up Enterprises
For functional businesses ready for expansion, institutional capital, or board-level restructuring, driving independent leadership continuity and seed capital ingestion.
Wherever you're starting from, that's where we start too.
Who We Are For
We partner with founders and executive teams who recognize that sustainable growth requires structural discipline, clear governance, and operational rigor.
Whether you require targeted cash-based advisory, a hybrid strategic partnership, or milestone-contingent equity alignment, our model ensures our incentives remain entirely locked to your long-term valuation. Every engagement follows a strict 3-step legal process—beginning with independent legal advice for founders—to ensure complete transparency, clean cap tables, and structured buy-back rights from day one.
Meet Our Founding Partners
Six 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.
Oluwaseye Malomo
Financial Services, Venture Strategy & Operations
A financial services executive and venture builder with close to 20 years of leadership experience across Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan. His experience spans fintech, global operations, business strategy and corporate governance. An active entrepreneur and early-stage venture advisor, he specializes in helping founders translate ambitious ideas into scalable businesses, strong operating models and sustainable institutional outcomes.
Our Process
The Altiora Sequential Onboarding
Independent Legal Advice
Founders secure independent counsel before executing binding terms.
Advisory & Equity Agreement
Execution of milestone-contingent vesting, service valuations, and buy-back terms.
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
Comprehensive legal safeguards to protect IP, trade secrets, and corporate disclosures.
Start a Conversation
This is a structured conversation where we ask the questions that matter. No polished deck needed. Just bring the business as it actually is.
Insights
From the Altiora Playbook
Practical thinking on equity-for-expertise, business readiness, and building companies that outlast their founders.
Insight
Advisory Shares for Startup Founders
How to compensate world-class advisors with equity instead of cash — the FAST agreement, typical vesting, and the mistakes to avoid.
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Foundation, Engine, Institution: The Three Stages of Business Readiness
A practical framework for diagnosing where your business actually stands — and what to build next, in the right order.
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Founder Dependency: How to Build a Business That Runs Without You
Founder dependency is the quietest risk in a growing company. Here is how to measure it, and how to systematically remove it.
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