About Phoenix Global

Global perspective. Senior judgment. Practical execution.

Phoenix Global is a global strategic advisory firm working with businesses, governments and investors on growth, market expansion, economic opportunity and complex sector challenges.

We work at the point where strategy meets the realities of a market.

Phoenix Global was built around a simple premise: the best strategy is only useful if it can survive contact with the real world. Markets are shaped by regulation, culture, capital, infrastructure, relationships, technology and timing. We help clients see those variables together and act on them.

Our work spans the public and private sectors. It is most relevant when a client is entering a new geography, rebuilding a business model, identifying new revenue, developing a major initiative or working across multiple stakeholder groups. We are intentionally cross sector. The common thread is our ability to diagnose complicated systems, identify where value can be created and build a strategy that can actually move.

The firm operates from the United States and Abu Dhabi, with engagements across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

Co-Founders Mohammed Hamad bin Fahad Al Muhairi and Larisa B. Miller

Leadership

Principals

Larisa B. Miller

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Larisa leads the firm's strategic advisory work with governments, family enterprises and corporations worldwide. Her career runs from Pennsylvania state government to Abu Dhabi, where she led business interests for members of the Abu Dhabi royal family before building Phoenix Global into an advisory practice spanning market development, agriculture, infrastructure and sovereign linked capital. She is a published contributor with Springer and Globe Law and Business and an international keynote speaker, and she has built and operated ventures on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mohammed Hamad bin Fahad Al Muhairi

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board

Mohammed brings decades of distinguished government service in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to the firm's chairmanship. He anchors Phoenix Global's presence in the Gulf, carries its relationships at the most senior levels of government and business across the region, and embodies the bridge between Emirati and American business cultures on which the firm was built.

Senior Team

Nermin K. Ahmad

Managing Director, Global Engagements

Nermin has spent more than three decades directing complex programs for governments and international institutions, among them agencies of the United Nations system, World Bank funded initiatives, USAID and NATO planning exercises. She has shaped national development planning for island nations, led environmental and emergency programs for the City and State of New York, and delivered projects across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. At Phoenix Global she leads engagement delivery, proposals and the firm's Africa portfolio.

Eric Burns

Managing Director, Strategic Communications & Government Affairs

Eric has spent his career at the highest level of American political communications, including the presidency of a nationally prominent media and communications organization. He advises heads of state, candidates and senior officials on campaign strategy, message discipline and media positioning, and he leads the firm's strategic communications work for governments and public leaders, where getting the message right is often as consequential as getting the strategy right.

Camille Trott

Managing Director, Leadership & Organizational Performance

Camille develops the executives who have to carry strategy into execution. Her work strengthens client leadership teams at precisely the point where most strategies fail: the people responsible for delivering them. She brings that discipline into engagements across the firm's markets and sectors.

Garry Gilliam

Managing Director, Urban Development & Revitalization

Garry leads the firm's urban development and revitalization practice. His work turns underused places into working assets, developments where commerce, housing and community reinforce one another, and he brings a builder's understanding of what it takes to move a project from vision to opening day.

Christian Whyte

Managing Director, Risk & Physical Security Advisory

Christian leads Phoenix Global's risk and physical security advisory practice. He brings disciplined law enforcement methodology to identifying vulnerabilities, reducing exposure and strengthening preparedness across facilities, events and critical operations, and he helps clients demonstrate defensible risk governance to insurers, boards and regulators. His approach sells judgment, methodology and prevention, which is exactly how Phoenix Global believes risk should be handled. He is also the founder of Whyte Consulting, a Colorado based physical security and risk intelligence practice.

Mariella Camilleri

Managing Director, Finance, Governance & Corporate Strategy

Mariella is an international business and finance executive with more than four decades across corporate banking, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and multinational operations, built over thirty years in New York before her return to Malta. Her work runs the full length of a transaction, from due diligence and funding structures through post acquisition integration, and her C suite record spans startups and turnarounds across Europe, the United States and Asia. At Phoenix Global she advises family enterprises, public sector clients and growth companies on finance, governance, technology and business differentiation and strategy.

Megan Hall

Director, Executive Operations & Digital Platforms

Megan directs the firm's executive operations and the digital platforms behind its programs and content. She is the operational discipline that keeps a firm working across four continents running on time, and the technical hand behind the systems its work moves through.

The work we choose to do beyond the engagement.

Our Impact