Practitioner. Scholar. Independent examiner.
Ihsan began his career as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, then consulted at Goldman Sachs, and has since built and run businesses of his own. He is also a doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, where his Ph.D. research on how experienced evaluators judge new ventures gave the firm its method.
The firm applies that method to a principal's actual decision before commitment: what the framing hides, which assumptions pass unexamined, whose incentives shape the advice, and which alternatives never entered the frame.
Independence by design
IHSAN does not formulate the strategy that follows, implement it, participate in resulting procurement, or accept compensation from downstream advisors, vendors or implementation partners. Our economic interest is the examination, and any further examination you choose to commission.
The firm works directly with principals and those entrusted with consequential judgment. Engagements are conducted discreetly and deliberately limited in number.
Before the firm
Ihsan taught English at Shanghai University in China, trained financial professionals at Thomson Financial, and was a Princeton University Administrative Fellow hosted by the Keller Center for four years. He founded and led 7Wmedia for a decade, serving small businesses with strategy and marketing.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.S. in Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.