Who inside your business works only for you?

An Owner's Office is a senior team retained by the owner of a business rather than by its management. It represents the owner's interests inside the company — verifying the numbers, holding management accountable, tracking decisions to completion, and driving the owner's agenda across finance, strategy and execution. Unlike a family office, which manages a family's wealth and investments, an Owner's Office oversees the operating business itself. It gives an owner the oversight of a full executive team without building one in-house.

No. A family office manages the family's wealth and investments. The Owner's Office is the opposite side of the same coin: owner-side oversight of the operating business itself — the company, not the portfolio.

A CFO covers finance. The Owner's Office covers finance, strategy, accountability and execution — and represents the owner across the whole business, not within one function.

A traditional management consultancy is engaged by the company, studies a defined problem, and leaves its recommendations behind. The Owner's Office is retained by the owner personally, works inside the business, and stays to execute — verified numbers, management accountability, decisions tracked to completion.

Hiring several senior executives one by one — a CFO, a COO, a controller — is materially different from engaging the Owner's Office. Each is one person: they can resign, underperform, or drift toward management's interests rather than yours. The Owner's Office is an integrated team under one mandate, without the key-man risk.

The Owner's Office runs at three tiers — Core for one company, Executive for up to three entities, and Bespoke for complex groups or defined projects. Fees are agreed with the owner before engagement, scoped to the business and the mandate. The minimum term is six months, and we do not discount.

The minimum engagement is six months. The Diagnostic — the standard first step — takes two to three weeks. In practice the Owner's Office is built as a standing relationship.

Established businesses above AED 10 million in annual revenue, with managers reporting to the owner. If the owner is still doing every job personally, it is too early for an Owner's Office.

Yes, from the owner's side. The office prepares the business and its information for review, manages information requests alongside management, coordinates the auditors, lawyers and advisers involved, and carries out due diligence for owners on businesses they are considering acquiring. We do not solicit investors, raise capital, market securities, broker transactions, or manage client money.

Yemnak is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, where it was founded in 2014, and the UAE is its home market. It works with owners in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, and an engagement can run across more than one of them.

English and Arabic. Yemnak comes from the Arabic for 'your right', the one you rely on.

With a confidential discussion with our founder, followed by the Owner's Office Diagnostic — a fixed-fee review of control, cash, management and opportunity over two to three weeks. The Diagnostic fee is credited in full against a mandate signed within 60 days.

Yes. Owner-side work is confidential by nature. We work under written confidentiality terms, and we never name clients or publish their information without written consent.