I interview everyone
Nobody reaches your shortlist without me having spoken to them properly first. You see three or four people, not thirty CVs forwarded on.
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Ramzy Alamudi
Founder, Alamora Advisory
A decade building teams and entering markets across Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Now doing the hiring part for other people.
Why I started this
The plan is usually fine. The people are where it breaks.
I've watched a lot of Australian businesses look north. The strategy is mostly sound — the market is real, the numbers work, the timing is defensible. Then the first hires go in and the whole thing stalls.
It's rarely one dramatic failure. It's a role written for a Sydney org chart and filled in a market that doesn't work that way. It's hiring the person who interviewed best in English rather than the person who can actually operate. It's nobody on the ground senior enough to tell the founder something they don't want to hear.
I saw it often enough that it stopped looking like bad luck and started looking like a gap.
The people who can do these jobs exist. The businesses that need them exist. What was missing was anyone doing the matching properly — actually interviewing, actually understanding both sides of the water, and being willing to say when a hire isn't the answer at all.
That's what Alamora is.
Background
Ten years, five markets.
AustraliaMalaysiaSingaporeIndonesiaPhilippines
Over the past decade I've lived and worked across Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. They sit close on a map and they operate nothing alike. The way relationships are formed, decisions are made and trust is earned varies enormously between Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
I've built teams, entered new markets, navigated government partnerships and grown businesses from the ground up across the region. I've hired and managed people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia — and that kind of on-the-ground exposure gives you a different lens on how business actually works in each market.
Along the way I've built a network of operators, investors and leaders across the region. That network is the one I open up to the founders and business owners I work with.
What that means in practice
Three things I won't move on.
I'll tell you not to hire
If the problem is a process rather than a missing person, you'll hear that on the first call — before anyone has spent money on a search.
I've been on your side of it
I've hired and managed people in these markets for my own businesses, not only placed them into someone else's. The mistakes I'm steering you around are mostly ones I've made.
Thirty minutes. No deck.
Tell me what you're building and where. If the honest answer is that you don't need me, I'll tell you that instead.