Business FacilitatorFrom thesis to transaction.
Most advisory stops at the recommendation. We are licensed to keep going — to trade the goods, run the technology programme, and build the demand that follows the strategy.
The gap between a good decision and a completed transaction is where most cross-border business dies.
An adviser diagnoses, recommends, produces a document and leaves. The client is then alone at exactly the moment the work gets hard — finding the counterparty, negotiating the terms, moving the goods, standing up the system, generating the first customers.
Business Facilitator is licensed differently, and therefore built differently. The same entity that writes the strategy is licensed to trade the goods, manage the technology programme, and run the campaign that sells the output. Advice and execution sit inside one accountable entity, in one jurisdiction, under one principal.
We take execution risk deliberately. Analysis gets honest when the analyst has to live with it.
Strategy & management advisory
Board-level strategy, market-entry theses, operating-model and organisational design, efficiency and control frameworks, management information. For private enterprises and public bodies alike.
Commodities, trade & import/export
Sourcing, counterparty identification and qualification, trade structuring and logistics coordination — and, where mandated, principal and back-to-back trading under a general trading licence. Mandates may include sourcing and commercial facilitation involving gold, diamonds, and oil and gas projects.
Technology, AI & digital assets
Technology strategy and IT consultancy, AI use-case identification and prioritisation, vendor and platform selection, data readiness, and end-to-end programme management of implementation. Commercial and market advisory for ventures building in blockchain and digital-asset infrastructure.
Marketing & go-to-market
Campaign design and execution, product promotion, point-of-sale and direct marketing, digital and performance marketing. Licensed to advise on go-to-market and to run it.
Fourteen activities, issued by the Sharjah Media City Free Zone Authority. Advisory firms describe what they do. This is what we are permitted to do.
Business Facilitator LLC · Limited Liability Company
Licence No. 2117051.01 · Formation No. 2117051 · Licence formation date: 19 December 2021
Nikolaos Kargakos
- Role
- Founder & Managing Principal
- Since
- December 2021
- Based
- United Arab Emirates
- Origin
- Montreal, Canada · Greek heritage
- Network
- 20+ countries
- Sectors
- AI · Digital assets · Healthcare · Digital security · Commodities · Energy
Twenty years, twenty countries, one job.
Nikolaos Kargakos founded Business Facilitator in December 2021. Born in Montreal to a Greek family, he has spent more than two decades working across industries that rarely sit at the same table — commodities, cryptocurrency, healthcare, digital security.
He was mining Bitcoin and Ethereum in the years when saying those words out loud got you a strange look in most business meetings, well before blockchain found its way into boardrooms. That early conviction hardened into a working instinct for which technologies matter before the rest of the market notices.
He moved to the Gulf in 2022 and has since built relationships across more than twenty countries, working with entrepreneurs, private investors, family offices and companies in the thick of early growth. He leads every mandate the firm accepts.
Working languages and full biography available on request.
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Continuous access for founders, boards and family offices. Monthly, three-month minimum.
Project mandate
Defined scope, defined deliverable, fixed fee. Market-entry studies, AI roadmaps, sourcing mandates, campaign builds.
Transaction mandate
Success-linked engagement on a specific deal. Retainer plus success fee.
One accountable principal. Written theses, not slideware. Confidentiality by default — NDA before the first substantive conversation. We decline mandates we cannot execute; scope discipline is part of the service.
Discretion is part of the work, not a courtesy attached to it.
Most of our mandates involve market entries, sourcing arrangements and partnerships that our clients have commercial reasons to keep quiet — and the ones who don't still tend to prefer it that way.
The greater part of our work arrives through relationships built over two decades and twenty countries. Introductions are made privately, references are given privately, and the same discretion that protects a past client is what a new one is buying.
References available under NDA, on request.
Tell us the transaction you are trying to complete.
If we can move it, we will say so in one call. If we cannot, we will say that too.
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