Fractional CTO · Instructor, LAU · Speaker

I help founders make the technology calls they can't afford to get wrong.

I've built and shipped software that sells, mostly in hard markets. Bring me in as a fractional CTO or advisor when a technology decision is too expensive to get wrong, or when the team making those decisions isn't there yet.

Christophe El-Khoury
20+
Organizations advised
Startups, funds, and institutions across MENA, Europe, and the US.
12+
Institutional partners
Universities, accelerators, and NGOs I've built alongside and advised.
6+
International teams built
Engineering and product teams I've hired and run across three continents.
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Selected work

Things I've built or helped build, and what came of them.

Founder & operator

Amplify

Built and sold a B2B SaaS into Lebanon's power-generator sector. I wrote the product, ran sales myself, and closed the first paying customer. Still in market.

Founding advisor

Seyerne

Positioning, ICP, and pilot conversion for a B2B EdTech platform.

Advisory · under NDA

Confidential HealthTech & professional-development platforms

Technical and commercial advisory across MENA, including government and enterprise stakeholders.

University lecturer

Lebanese American University

Incubator-style labs where students build and test real commercial ideas, not case studies.

How I work

Four ways to bring me in.

Fractional CTO

Senior technology leadership without a full-time hire.

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Advisory retainer

A senior technology consultant helping investors and executives build a future-proof technology roadmap.

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Technical due diligence

For VCs, accelerators, and entrepreneurs figuring out a portfolio company.

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Founder labs

Working sessions where we actually decide things, instead of me handing you a deck.

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Who I work with

In order of where I spend most of my time.

01

Startups & SMEs

The challenge

You're making technology bets you can't walk back, with a team that's still forming.

How I help

Fractional CTO and advisory; I own the hard calls with you and build the team's ability to make them without me.

02

VCs & investment firms

The challenge

You need to know whether a deal's tech is real before you wire, and your portfolio needs senior eyes.

How I help

Technical due diligence and portfolio advisory from someone who's built and sold the thing, not just read the pitch.

03

NGOs & institutions

The challenge

You're under pressure to digitize without the budget or staff of a tech company.

How I help

Pragmatic technology strategy that fits your constraints, not a vendor's roadmap.

The Forum · Free, by application

Bring a real work problem. Get it solved by people who've faced it.

A small private group of senior operators who own real outcomes, with AI as the default tool.

Apply for a founding seat

You’re still the bottleneck on everything you’ve built.

AI was supposed to fix that. Most operators use it to write emails a little faster and call it a transformation. I run a small, hands-on program that rebuilds how a senior operator actually produces, on your real work, in one afternoon.

See how it works

Got a decision you can't afford to get wrong? Let's talk it through.

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