Tinacord works with investors, family offices and business owners on the questions a data room can't answer — whether management can execute, where the commercial risks actually sit, and what it will take to fix what's broken.
Pressure-testing a target's business model, customers, supply chain and management before capital commits — the questions an operator asks, answered in plain language.
Diagnosing and resolving commercial issues inside operating businesses: margin erosion, supplier and customer disputes, procurement, go-to-market drift.
A fast, honest first read on whether a situation deserves your team's time — before it consumes it.
Three decades inside IT hardware supply chain mechanics — distribution, channel economics and procurement — at a moment when hardware supply has become the binding constraint on the AI infrastructure build-out. Where a deal or portfolio question touches technology infrastructure, that experience is available in depth.
Assess. Diagnose. Recommend. Then execute.
Most advisers hand over a report and leave the hard part with you. Where the recommendation needs doing — a supplier renegotiated, a channel rebuilt, a management gap closed — Tinacord stays and does it. Advice that finishes the job.
You nominate a deal in pipeline, or an operating business with a known problem. We agree scope, deliverable and a fixed fee before work begins.
Weeks, not months. A written view you can act on — fit for an investment committee — with direct access throughout.
Engagements are fixed-fee and scoped. If the work isn't worth the fee, don't commission another. Independence and discretion are absolute.
When the findings call for action, the engagement can extend to delivery — negotiating, restructuring, implementing — with the same scoped, fixed-fee discipline.
Founder and operator with thirty years across enterprise IT supply, distribution and commercial leadership. Mark has built and run businesses through cycles of scarcity and abundance, and advises with the directness of someone who has sat in the owner's chair — not observed it.
Bring us the problem projects and the future targets.
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