Board advisor · product, security & AI governance
So you can pursue your "why" with greater energy and time. A solicitor, security architect, certified advisory chair, and product builder in one room, for the decisions that set your next two years.
Solicitor (England & Wales) · PMP · CISSP · Advisory Board Certified Chair™
Chief Strategy Officer, Hello Maisie · Chief Operating Officer, Fusion Flow Software
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Pick the one closest to you. It routes us straight to the right conversation.
And no one has properly read the contract or the terms.
And I'm not certain we're actually compliant.
But I have no board, or the one I have isn't working.
And I keep going back and forth on it.
And I can't tell if my team or vendor is steering me right.
An investor or enterprise buyer, and I'm not sure we'd pass.
And I don't want to lose my shirt.
Tell me where you're stuck and we'll start there.
Why a multidisciplinary advisor
I trained as a solicitor inside a City of London firm and Amazon's UK legal team, led product for a cybersecurity business, and chair advisory boards to a certified standard. When the decision crosses disciplines, you don't want four opinions that don't talk to each other.
"AI-First must mean Human-First." Use AI to accelerate work to 60%, then rely on human judgement, context and expertise to take you to 80% and beyond.
"Anyone could theoretically call themselves an advisor. What does that really mean in terms of standards or protocols?"
The bar of judgement
The certifications below are why "advisor" means something specific when I say it.
Across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and Singapore. Compliance with ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and SOC 2.
The method
High-impact, low-effort decision making, faster, without being reckless.
Does this align with the long-term vision? Direction comes first.
Do enough analysis, not zero (reckless) and not too much (paralysis). The 80/20 rule.
Risk-informed does not mean risk-averse; it means risk-aware.
Will this decision move us one inch or one mile?
Making no decision is making a decision, and it often has worse consequences than making an imperfect one.
STRIVE in practice. Bijal Shah interviews me on the Think Link Lead podcast: "Making high-impact, low-effort decisions, faster, without being reckless."
Who I advise
Advisory board seats and operating roles across legal, technology, security, governance, and strategy.
From terms and privacy to running the board process and AGMs.
korearisk.com ❯A decade of advisory across the business since 2016.
korbisconsulting.com ❯End-to-end SaaS strategy and a full platform overhaul (payments, SEO, GDPR, security), guiding growth from niche startup to market leader.
postgraduate-funding.com ❯Managed-services delivery model, an outcome-based contract suite, and operating cadences across the business.
fusionflowsoftware.com ❯AI employee-compliance product. Strategy and go-to-market.
hellomaisie.com ❯Coaching and courses business. Strategy, legal backing, and operations.
forwardbusiness.solutions ❯AI-enabled fitness platform founded by Isham Broer. MVP definition, execution sequencing, and investor readiness.
LinkedIn ❯Product and platform strategy, advisory cadence, and investor readiness.
neverleft.co.uk ❯Threat intelligence and attack-surface platform. Positioning, go-to-market, and enterprise credibility.
vulnebify.com ❯In their words
"Raihan played a crucial role in strategic decision-making and governance at Vulnebify. When Raihan introduced us to Velocity OS™, we were excited to see what advisory and governance steps could be automated and made accessible to more startups."
Oleksandr "Sasha" NahirniakCo-founder, Vulnebify
"He handled everything and it's absolutely perfect. Now I've got that security and that legal backing in my business, I'm ready to take my business to the next level and scale."
Steph WardForward Business Solutions
"Raihan acted as overseer and architect for our website's overhaul, integrating payments, SEO, GDPR compliance, and cybersecurity. We moved from a niche startup to the dominant player in our market as a direct result."
"With Raihan I always get the impression that he will be fair and generous with his time, concerned for the impact of the work rather than billing by the minute. If you are looking for someone to help, I'd highly recommend him."
About Raihan
I was born in the United States to Bangladeshi parents and taught myself to code, shipping an online chat application used widely before I was 18. At Carnegie Mellon I built a marketing automation tool that earned a rock band millions of plays. I trained as a solicitor at Fieldfisher and on secondment inside Amazon UK's legal team, then led product for the cybersecurity business at EPAM Systems.
My consulting work took me to Bangladesh and then Ukraine in 2016. When the invasion came in 2022, my family and I moved to London. I left my corporate role during the hardest year of my life, losing my brother Rajeeb and welcoming my second son, and I rebuilt from there, investing six figures into the business. Today I advise founders and boards, and I give time to first responder mental health and international security. My wife Mariana is a videographer who works alongside High-Velocity Startups, and we are raising two young boys.
"It's important to remember I'm not the solution, but the method that I've used to get here is and it works."
My "why", in three words:
My family, mental health, and global security.
How I can help
Advice tailored to your circumstances, drawing on law, technology, product, and strategy in one place. An advisory board of one, or a full board I set up and chair to best practice.
Book a conversationHigh-level consulting on your end-to-end processes in one or more key areas, finding the quick wins and the big bets, then helping you execute against the metrics that matter.
Book a conversationHands-on operating support sits with my operator brand, High-Velocity Operations.
Velocity OS™ turns your ideas into client-ready offers so you can launch faster.
Giving back
A volunteering initiative supporting people impacted by the war in Ukraine, by sharing their stories, publishing analysis on impactful organizations, and making it easier for supporters to donate.
An early-stage framework to give first responders the mental-health support they need from day one of public service, shaped with first responders, clinicians, and former officials in Virginia Beach and London.
Writing & interviews
My column on making high-impact decisions without being reckless, and the thinking behind the STRIVE method.
All my ComputerWeekly contributions ❯
I also host the High-Velocity X Podcast, interviewing founders and businesses from 6 to 8 figures. Listen on High-Velocity X ❯
Advisor Insights: Louise Broekman, Founder of the Advisory Board Centre, interviews me on what certified advisory really means.
Questions
Someone who can weigh a decision across law, product, technology, security, and strategy at once, rather than handing you a single discipline and leaving you to join the dots.
The value is in connecting the disciplines, then bringing in a deeper specialist where one is genuinely needed. The credentials behind each area are real and certified, not surface-level.
I am a solicitor admitted in England and Wales. The scope of any legal advice is agreed up front for each engagement.
For a single deep problem, yes. For a decision that crosses disciplines, a specialist in one area can steer you wrong on the others. That crossover is exactly where I work.
Pick the decision closest to yours at the top of this page, or book a conversation. We will work out fit before anything is committed.
Let's talk
A short, direct conversation about the decision in front of you and whether I'm the right person in the room for it.
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