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01 / The work

I help founders and executive teams enter new markets, win the customers that matter and turn sales into a system.

  • Microsoft
  • Swedbank
  • SEB
  • Citadele Bank
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Treamer
  • Traxlo
  • QTicket
  • Formula 1
  • Audi
  • Petronas
  • Microsoft
  • Swedbank
  • SEB
  • Citadele Bank
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Treamer
  • Traxlo
  • QTicket
  • Formula 1
  • Audi
  • Petronas

02 / Selected impact

Measured in outcomes.

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About

Meet Michael Rebel.
Advisor to founders
and executive teams
shaping what comes next.

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03 / Advisory approach

How growth becomes
deliberate.

Close enough to understand the real problem. Independent enough to say what others will not.

01

Expansion

New markets entered with local conviction, disciplined sequencing and pace — not hope.

02

Target Customer Acquisition

Define the customers who change your trajectory. Build the engine that wins them.

03

Executive Partner

Long-term strategic advisor for founders and executive teams navigating growth.

04 / Selected work

Selected
engagements.

International growth / Advisory

Treamer

Leadership partner through
international growth.

Challenge

Scaling internationally without a repeatable growth playbook.

Approach

Supported leadership with international growth strategy and business development across markets.

Outcome

A sharpened international strategy and disciplined execution across new markets.

Executive recruitment / Asia

Formula 1

The right customers.
Won on purpose.

Challenge / Approach / Outcome

Redefined the ideal customer, rebuilt the target list and pointed the whole engine at accounts that could actually move the number.

Expansion

Europe

Executive talent
across Asian markets.

Challenge / Approach / Outcome

Supported international executive recruitment across Asian markets for a global Formula 1 programme.

05 / Notes on building

Ideas for the
decisions ahead.

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01Expansion · 9 min read

New markets punish borrowed conviction.

July 14, 2026Read insight
Acquisition

Most pipelines are full of the wrong customers.

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Sales

Deals are not lost at the end. They are lost at the start.

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Expansion

Sequencing beats speed.

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