01 Why 02 Services 03 Stages 04 Start here 05 Who 06 Proof 07 Talk
Behind the equation — GCC · MENA

We build the team your needs.

Run the solver → See what we do
20+Years in GCC leadership
7Services, 3 groups
5Stages mapped
1Thread through all of it
01  /  Why we exist

Startups do not have
a hiring problem.

They have a capability problem.

01

A startup is not a small corporate.

A corporate reorganises every five years. You reinvent every six months.

02

Build capabilities, not departments.

You need the capability of a CFO. You rarely need the department.

03

Every stage changes the equation.

What won you seed will quietly break your Series B.

02  /  Services

Founder.Leadership.Engine.

Three parts of the same people equation. Scan all seven in ten seconds, then open the one that is yours.

03  /  The stage map

Every stage needs
a different equation.

04  /  Where you start

Start with who you are,
not with a job title.

Ten common asks. Seven services. Hover or tap any line to see where it lands — several roads run to the same place, which is exactly the point.

The service

Not sure which line is yours? Run the solver and it will tell you in ninety seconds.

05  /  Who is behind it

Built on two decades of proof.
Not a pitch deck.

Imran Yousuf, Founder and CEO of TheFounder&Co.
IYAdd portrait
Imran Yousuf Founder & CEO
LinkedIn

Two decades of executive search on one side of the table, and the experience of building and selling a company on the other. TheFounder&Co. exists because those two views rarely sit in the same person — and startups pay for the gap.

01

20+ years in GCC executive search and talent advisory

02

Former Middle East President, N2Growth

03

Three years as Talent Partner to Sanabil Venture Studio

04

Founded and exited a startup — idea to acquisition in 18 months

05

BPS-certified assessor with a psychology degree

06

C-suite placements across the Saudi technology ecosystem

Built on both sides of the table

Search discipline.Founder experience.Regional pattern recognition.

TheFounder&Co. is that pattern turned into a system: matching the right capability to the right stage, every time the company changes shape underneath you. Not a CV pipeline. Not a service catalogue. A way of deciding what the business actually needs next, and the discipline to go and get it.

06  /  Where the pattern was built

Companies we have worked with.

07  /  Start the conversation

Tell us the stage.
We'll tell you the shape.

A 30 minute working conversation. No CV dump, no service pitch. We map your situation first, then tell you exactly how we would run this — including what we would not do.

Run the solver → Email us WhatsApp
Direct
Where we work

Mandates across the GCC and MENA, remote and on the ground. We reply to every enquiry within one working day.