Strategic advisory · GCC · Africa · U.S.

Turning strategy into real-world outcomes.

Silver Arrow Advisory counsels holding companies, sovereign platforms and family-owned enterprises on the decisions that shape the next decade: where to invest, how to structure, and how to make the plan actually run.

18+Years
10Featured cases
4Practices
Engagement footprintHQ Dubai · 25.2°N 55.3°E
Delivery experience alongside
  • Strategy&
  • Roland Berger
  • Arthur D. Little
  • EY
  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • Sia Partners
What we do

Four practices, one standard: advice that survives contact with execution.

Each mandate is led personally, scoped tightly and built to hand over a working system rather than a slide deck. Pick a practice to see the engagements behind it.

Practice 01

Governance & Structure

Frameworks that balance a group's values with institutional discipline, so decisions get made at the right level and at the right speed.

  • Holding company governance and delegation of authority
  • Strategy PMOs, KPI cascades and execution reviews
  • Board and family-council charters
  • Operating model and organization design
Practice 02

Real Estate Strategy

From portfolio optimization to landmark developments, with the lifecycle economics worked out before the first drawing is approved.

  • Masterplanning, phasing, demand and absorption analysis
  • Development financial models and capital structuring
  • Facilities and asset management strategy
  • Portfolio benchmarking and value-creation plans
Practice 03

Cognitive Cities

Smart city and urban-innovation strategies that treat data, AI and IoT as infrastructure with a business case, an owner and an operator.

  • Smart infrastructure investment cases and financing
  • Municipal and public-private JV operating models
  • PropTech, tokenization and digital asset platforms
  • ConTech and BIM-enabled delivery models
Practice 04

Big Bets & Investments

Identifying and executing the transformative investments that define the next chapter of a group, with conviction and capital discipline.

  • Growth strategy, M&A screening and portfolio rationalization
  • PPP, concession and joint-venture structuring
  • Investment committee materials and financial models
  • Infrastructure finance and alternative funding
Selected engagements

The proof is in the delivery.

Client names are withheld. Each engagement was led or delivered personally by Silver Arrow's founder. Open any case for the context, the scope and what was handed over.

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Track record

Depth across sectors, borders and the full deal lifecycle.

Firm-level figures · featured cases counted live

18+Years in strategy & delivery
50+Enterprises advised
$2B+Assets under advisory
10Featured engagements

Featured engagements by practice

Featured engagements by market

How we engage

From diagnosis to a system that runs without us.

Every mandate follows the same arc. We do not design structures before the economics hold, and we do not leave before the operating rhythm is in place.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Fact base, stakeholder interviews and a candid read of where value is created and lost.

  2. 02

    Decide

    Options tested against the financial model and put to leadership in workshops built to reach a decision.

  3. 03

    Structure

    Governance, operating model, deal terms and the roadmap that turns the choice into commitments.

  4. 04

    Embed

    PMO, KPIs and reporting cadence stood up with the client team, then handed over.

The toolkit behind each step

PPP · JV

Deal & partnership structuring

Risk allocation, payment mechanisms, governance terms and the PPP units that run them.

Model

Financial modeling

Project finance, development and holding-level models built for investment committees.

PMO · P3O

Transformation delivery

Portfolio, programme and project offices with the cadence and dashboards to hold a plan to account.

TOM

Operating model design

Target operating models, organization charts and decision rights that survive the first restructuring.

Plan

Urban & spatial planning

Land use, zoning and phasing grounded in an architect's training and an investor's lens.

Exec

Board & executive facilitation

Closed-door strategy workshops that move senior leadership from options to a decision.

Founder

An architect's eye, a financier's discipline, a delivery lead's patience.

Tarek Salloum founded Silver Arrow Advisory after more than eighteen years in strategy consulting, PPP and JV structuring, financial modeling and transformation delivery across the GCC, Africa and the United States. He has delivered embedded advisory work alongside Strategy&, Roland Berger, Arthur D. Little, EY, Alvarez & Marsal and Sia Partners.

Clients do not need another strategy. They need the one they have to be financed, governed and run.

Trained first as an architect and later in BIM at Georgia Tech, he brings spatial and engineering literacy to rooms usually dominated by spreadsheets, and the reverse to rooms dominated by drawings.

  • Public sector · KSA

    Established the PPP Office for a major Saudi public land custodian and led the strategy PMO for the national waste regulator.

  • Sovereign · KSA

    Structured the JV operating model for a PIF-linked conglomerate and set facilities and asset management strategy for a sovereign entertainment platform.

  • Economic zones

    Produced a full mixed-use economic zone scheme: zoning, phasing, demand, financial model, governance and investor proposition.

  • West Africa

    Financial modeling and holding governance for a large Côte d'Ivoire industrial family group.

  • Boards

    Led closed-door executive and board workshops for a national strategy refresh.

The Arrow Briefing

One sharp read a month on capital, cities and governance in the region.

Written for chairmen, CEOs, family-office principals and investment committees who want the reasoning behind regional deals and reforms, not the headlines.

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Big Bets

Alternative financing for smart infrastructure

How asset recycling, availability payments and land value capture fund what budgets cannot.

Governance

When the family business becomes a holding company

The governance moves that keep a second generation aligned with professional management.

Real Estate

Opening day is the easy part

Why facilities and asset management decide the real return on giga-project destinations.

Cognitive Cities

Tokenization beyond the hype

Where fractional ownership creates investor value in GCC real estate, and where it does not.

Get in touch

Bring us the decision you are weighing.

A first conversation is confidential and without obligation. Tell us briefly about the situation and we will reply within two working days.

Email

info@silverarrowadvisory.io

Office

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Coverage

GCC · Africa · United States