Client Testimonials
Thank you for these lovely clients who have left words of appreciation.
Geoff Ralston
President
YCombinator
Silicon Valley, USA
[Investor/SME]
"Oolu has grown impressively quickly in one of the most unpredictable and difficult markets in the world. Nilmi [...] [has] proven that [she is] smart enough, tough enough, and resilient enough to succeed in a challenging and fast-paced emerging market.
Edie Johnson
Chief of Staff/CEO
HugoTech
Silicon Valley, USA
[SME]
Working with Nilmi Consulting has enabled us to build out market entries across 3 geographies.
We received valuable insights and feedback on our internal operations. We have also built a robust dataset and CRM with accurate target data for our sales and operations at Hugo.
Her team's ramp time was exceptional to understand the business and they were able to start executing in week 2.
The company has shown traction within 1 month of the start date in lead acquisition, booking meetings, and organising work in a way that worked for us. They have also enabled the team to follow similar processes and have introduced KPIs that can be implemented long after our work is complete.
Thank you, Nilmi Consulting, we are now set to scale in the
right way!
Darshita Gillies
CEO Maanch
United Kingdom
[SME]
Nilmi worked with Maanch during a high growth period where we moved from a product-focused startup to a high growth scale up.
Nilmi has an innate ability to identify complex problems and find creative solutions in order to create scaleable processes. This was integral to Maanch's scale-up success.
She is motivated, and works hard, contributing not only to growth, but strategy and systems as well.
Nilmi has hit ambitions targets on revenue generation, business development CRM strategy, and data management. She is able to start from ground zero, lay down firm foundations and develop scalable processes along with the team.
We are enabled with Nilmi's support and are looking forward to growing with her!
Gareth Zahir-Bill
Director of Operations
Shell Foundation
United Kingdom
[Investor/SME]
"Nilmi worked with me on the work evaluating the progress of part of our portfolio partly-funded by DFID. This culminated in our annual report to DFID. Nilmi was a delight to work with, she did what she did when she said she would, was efficient, reliable and insightful, picking things up very quickly. She brought great experience as an off-grid energy entrepreneur and gave more insight from this perspective on the progress of our work. I recommend Nilmi and hope to work with her again."
Kilien DeRenty
CEO UpOwa
Cameroon
[SME]
"Nilmi has given us a report with very interesting feedback on our management and the report is full of useful nuggets to improve our company from an investor due diligence perspective. She also provided us with support after the assessment, which went above and beyond the scope of work.” [translated from French]
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Dan Rosa
CEO Oolu
[SME]
Nilmi (CoFounder) was the CEO of Oolu since 2015-2018 working primarily on scale-up and growth.
Since 2018, she has worked with us as a consultant on investor-facing PR, branding, and communications.
Her work with our team far exceeds a consultant role, having directly managed and scaled the team for 5+ years. She manages team members in several countries related to social media strategy, technical writing, and report and proposal development.
When searching for opportunities, she takes initiative and creates relationships which she leverages to further promote our brand.
Locally, she has had a particular impact on the team based in Nigeria.
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We are thrilled to have her support, long after we built this company together.
Keith Robinson
Recruitment FDs
United Kingdom
[SME]
“Nilmi Consulting has been pivotal in supporting our growth in the last month. The team has hit the ground running and within 2 weeks was autonomous in their output. Nilmi Consulting executed our growth plan with precision, resulting in the target doubling for our professional event. Their input exceeded the initial scope, suggesting strategic plans that we aim to implement with her team’s on-going support in Q4!
Bart Minsear
CEO HelloSolar
Ethiopia
[SME]
"I met Nilmi during the HelloSolar Due Diligence process with Persistent Energy Capital. As a the co-founder of Oolu and former C-level Executive she has a vast experience and knowledge across the value chain and core business model of the PAYG Solar Home System sector. Her knowledge as a consultant far exceeds the strategical theoretical level and also focuses on the execution across the company hierarchy, departments, up to ground level with a particular focus on Customer service and centricity. Her vision on [growth] strategy starts from creating the best possible organisational culture as a foundation to build strong leadership, accountability, efficiency and cost awareness. It was a pleasure to work with her and I would gladly recommend her to people who are in need of a [growth] consultant who focuses on the execution."