Bio

For the better part of twelve years, Haitham worked at the highest levels of corporate finance — first as a senior corporate finance and advisory professional at JP Morgan in New York and London, advising multinational corporations on transactions totaling billions of dollars, and then as a founding team member at Daroth Capital Advisors, where the work shifted toward something closer to what SKL Advisors does today. At Daroth, the clients were entrepreneurs and owner-operators: a defense-focused technology company that needed growth capital for a roll-up acquisition strategy, a well-established privately owned diversified media company looking for an orderly exit, companies navigating the complexity of their first institutional transaction.

Then he stepped further still.

He joined the management team of a specialized mid-market company in the in-flight entertainment industry, and after several years working closely with its operations and strategy, structured and led a management buy-out of the business. Over the following seven years as its principal investor and CEO, he restructured operations, exited underperforming segments, and drove a full transformation to digital content provisioning — ultimately selling the company to a strategic acquirer at a return in excess of twenty times invested capital. He did this while navigating the COVID-19 period, managing integration with a new corporate parent, and protecting relationships with clients and counterparties built over many years.

That arc — from institutional banking to entrepreneurial advisory to hands-on ownership and back — is rare. And it is the foundation of SKL Advisors.