Forward Echelon Venture Capital - Innovative Management in Financial Industries

Company: Forward Echelon Venture Capital
Company Description: We are a family office specialising in Realestate and business investments. We acquire both performing and underperforming businesses with or without management teams. Forward Echelon Capital will only target investment opportunities where it can leverage the operational expertise of its managing partners to create significant shareholder value.
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Award for Innovative Management in Financial Industries - Organizations with up to 100 Employees

Nomination Title: Helping Small to Medium Companies MENA

With trillions of dollars available for investment zero dollars of those trillions laying in Private Equity Funds and bank vaults are trickling down to SME’s quite strange isn’t it?

Mr. Amer Alamer has concluded that all the money available for investing is detached from all the value creation. Let Mr. Amer shine a light on the four key reasons why:

1. Small businesses initially are quite risky they go bust more often than big businesses.
2. Small businesses lack scale. As a small business you will not be able to bid on contracts that are larger than 30% of your revenue according to procurement policy procedure. This is exploited by the bigger players who tend to win the big contracts and give the crumbs on the table to the small companies who actually perform and deliver the work. For a small business owner this feels like they have some sort of transparent barrier where he can see the big deal but cannot reach it.
3. Small businesses are illiquid. Investing into SME’s is horribly illiquid. Entrepreneurs know it best, the 3-5 year plan actually translates to 10 to 15 years and in ten to fifteen years politicians have changed, tax laws have changed and everything has changed, so why would you allocate your capital into such a horrible asset class. The big money love derivatives because of the high liquidity, asset managers can invest in the morning and divest in the afternoon. Therefore meaning if the winds change in the economy asset managers can change course almost effective immediately.
4. Talent acquisition, small and medium size businesses cannot attract high talent to join their company, first of all they can not afford their salaries and secondly the 3 points discussed earlier.

Amer Alamer is the head of acquisitions & financier at Forward Echelon Venture Capital, he has helped several companies with the problems presented above. As an example. A company  was having problems of the usual issues that Small to Medium Size Enterprises encounter, these issues include: lack of liquidity, prolonged account receivables, scale, contract bidding, credit line, access to financial instruments, loans, leadership, financial management, organizational management and growth management.

Amer restructured the company into an Special Purpose Vehicle under a holding co. and LLC, installed a KD1 million Kuwaiti Dinar revolving line of credit, merged the company with an existing business with 8 years experience, arranged with the banks back to back letter of credit instruments to exploit, arranged a franchising document to replicate the company in it’s 13 country jurisdictions, provided sales manuals and leadership training to all employees and founders. As well as made some of the product line approved in consultants companies specification documents which secured a contract bidding in a Hospital project. As a result the company increased it’s net income as well as increase valuation. Mr. Amer Alamer is now arranging for the company to get listed on the AQSE Stock exchange in London through a reverse merger, which will increase the valuation of the company by 5x as well as attract top executives to join the company’s success.

Amer Alamer is solving the problem and unlocking global capital by solving the risk involved, scale, liquidity and talent acquisition. Mr. Amer will be bring a unique Middle Eastern equity product to market for European investors looking to deploy their capital in high growth companies with high gross margins, large market size, scalability, employment market and a high barrier of entry.