Ash Ali

Co-Founder & Growth Hacker

Uhubs

At Uhubs, we empower sales teams to unlock their full potential by transforming skill development into a precise, data-driven unfair advantage. 

By industrialising the monitoring and tracking of essential sales skills, we provide leaders with rapid insights to identify growth opportunities that genuinely drive revenue impact. 

Uhubs streamlines skill development, enabling modern sales teams to achieve measurable success faster and more effectively.

Co-Founder

The Unfair Advantage

The new Book "The Unfair Advantage" uncovers the secret behind why some startups make it and others don’t. Available in Jan 2020- Pre-order book from Amazon, WHSmiths, Foyles & Waterstones.

Wrapping up my experience as the first UK Marketing Director of £3.5 billion company JUST EAT into a practical narrative, I break apart the different types of unfair advantages swimming just under the surface of your favourite success stories. Every single one of them has an unfair advantage within the MILES structure (Money, Intelligence & Insight, Location & Luck, Education & Expertise, Status).  Out on January 9th 2020!

I've done keynotes on "Startup Marketing", "How to find your unfair advantage", "My personal/JUST EAT success story", "The first 3 years in startups" and have been part of several panel debates, pitch judging and discussions.

Author, Keynote Speaker & Co-Founder

Private angel Investments in seed stage startups across the globe. Mentorship and advice to startup entrepreneurs in various sectors and markets with a specific focus on online marketplaces, mobile app's and interesting social & community projects.

If you have startup requiring seed capital, an experienced startup advisor or non-executive role get in touch. 

- Idea assessment, including market sizing, competitive analysis, go to market strategy
- Applying lean methodology techniques to launch MVPs and find product market fit
- Growth Hacking
- Product and business development
- Digital marketing strategy
- Capital raising including marketing materials and business introductions
- Entrepreneur Mentorship & Advisor
- Lean startup
- EIR or non exec roles

Mentor @PiLabs @turn8 @istarter @TeamPK

Startup Investor, Advisor & Mentor

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Guest Lecturer

Spinks

Advising the senior Spinks team on continual growth for being the talent partner to the Start-Up / Scale Up sector.

Spinks Advisory Board Member

Royal Holloway, University of London

UCL School of Management

Loughborough University

Imperial College Business School

ESCP Business School

Washplus - Dubai's Laundry App

Acquired by new player in GCC with great ambitions. 

Seed investor and marketing advisor to Dubai's leading on-demand laundry and dry cleaning app, washplus. 

Founded in Dubai Silicon Oasis as part of Dubai's smart city drive we have an awesome vision and a very strong founding team and set of angel investors. 

Have been featured in 7 days, Time Out Dubai, Dubai Chronicle and Ahlan!

Washplus - On demand Laundry App

Co-Founder of Uhubs | Bestselling Author: 'The Unfair Advantage' | Empowering SaaS Sales Leaders to Exceed Targets

Hey there! I’m Ash Ali, an entrepreneurial spirit who thrives on turning ideas into reality. 

Best known as the first marketing director at Just Eat, I helped scale it to Series A which then went onto become UK’s first tech unicorns.

But my journey didn't start in the usual boardroom. Without a formal degree, I carved my path through sheer grit, instinct, and a knack for seeing opportunities where others see obstacles. 

Today, I leverage my 20 plus years experience to mentor, invest in, and fuel the next generation of startups.

I co-authored "The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed" which won Business Book of the Year.

Our book dives into leveraging your unique traits for success — something I live by and encourage others to recognise in themselves.

I'm currently leading Uhubs, a cutting-edge B2B sales performance startup that empowers sales leaders to define and measure excellence in their teams. 

Our unique Pulse technology provides real-time insights and metrics, helping businesses understand "what good looks like" in sales performance. 

It's about bringing clarity and precision to skills for better sales strategies, enabling teams to thrive in today's competitive markets.

My personal philosophy is to:

"Embrace your unique journey, your most significant 'unfair advantage' might just be something you already possess."

If you’re an entrepreneur at heart, a sales leader looking to elevate your team, or just want to chat about the startup world's highs and lows, feel free to connect! 

I'm always open to sharing ideas, speaking at events and conferences and specialise in GTM, Marketing, Sales and everything to do with starting tech startups.

Co-founder - We're hiring!

Uhubs helps busy sales leaders at top SaaS companies optimise their sales enablement to develop reps and grow revenue, by uncovering blind spots on performance, motivation and skills.

The Uhubs Pulse platform visualises each team’s development needs for personalised upskilling & provides data-driven coaching recommendations that are saving Sales Managers 40+ hrs per quarter and helping reps ramp up 30% faster.

Supercharge your sales team by booking a demo with us today.

The Pave

The Pave is a 10 Million Dollar Private Equity Fund that is buying cash flowing paving businesses doing between 1-10 Million Dollars of EBITDA. 

We love this industry as it's high margin, has a hard barrier to entry, AI resilient, we're solving roads for the increasing amount of self driving vehicles.

General Partner

S&P Ventures

S&P Ventures is focused on Micro Cap PE and Lower Middle Market Small Business and M&A Advisory. 

We target cash-flowing businesses between 1-10 Million EBITDA. We love boring, simple, cash flowing service based businesses that we can hold on to for a very long time and use a roll up strategy within a given sector.

Partner

The Peers Project

Investor/ Advisor

Surgical Republic LLC

Surgical Republic has a two sided business model. We manufacture high quality surgical instrumentation that is sold nationally into healthcare accounts. 

Known for the highest quality kerrisons on the market. 

Secondly serve as a Distributor partner to Neurosurgery and CardioThoracic medical device companies to distribute across Southern California. 

Spinal Fusion Implants
Cranial Implants
Cardio-thoracic reconstruction

President

Surgical Republic was completely bootstrapped as a Medical Device company based in Southern California. 


Surgical Republic distributes as a Holding Company in the Neurosurgery, Spine, & Cardiothoracic specialities along with manufacturing surgical instrumentation. 

For Inquiries please email sales@surgicalrepublic.com

Founder & Principal Distributor

Republic Real Estate

Owner and Operator of a Mulit-Family real estate portfolio in Southern California.

Real Estate Investor

Better Mouth Tape

Founder

Acumed

I worked as a W2 medical device sales rep for 6 months before opening up a Hold Co that sold multiple different medical device companies under my umbrella. 

Went from $110K in sales to 745K in sales in 10 months.

Rookie of the year.

Medical Device Sales Representative

Edwards Lifesciences

I used my degree in global supply chain to dictate where the aortic heart valves were being shipped around the globe based on forecast and demand planning.

Supply Chain Analyst

Founder of Surgical Republic| Partner at S&P Ventures, A Hold Co Investing in Cash Flowing Companies | Writing a Business Newsletter Every Friday 🔑

I'm a former D1 soccer player that has an entrepreneurial desire to grow, and scale businesses.

I bootstrapped a medical device company at the age of 25, distributing and manufacturing implants and instruments nation wide.

I was fortunate enough to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of medical devices before the age of 30. 

With that, I started a Private Holding Company that buys and builds lower middle market, and micro cap companies. 

We currently have a Private Equity Roll Up Fund called The Pave, that buys paving companies in the South West doing between 1-10M of EBITDA. 

Our mission is to continue buying and acquiring great businesses.

My mission to post here is to share my journey on how to build and buy great businesses to have a scalable life. 

I have a newsletter that talks about my ways of building and growing a business while honing in your personal development skills.

Link in my bio.

If you're interested in learning how we invest and build businesses please shoot me an email at 
sam@spventures.io

Sam Mahmood

I'm on the constant hunt to hire my replacement everyday, this is what has enhanced growth.

A true testament of where my growth has occurred is knowing there's someone out there who can do the job better than I can. 

Today I get to wear the authoritative title of CEO. 

In reality I have job post out all the time to meet better more qualified individuals. 

I think this is where most founders get stuck as ego can be the enemy. 

I notice people feeling threatened by bringing someone in to their company with similar or better skill traits than themselves.

If that's the case switch the lens and learn this is an opportunity for you to get better. 

As a former footballer ⚽️ you want another striker to battle against every single day. Or better yet you turn into a coach at some point and solely be the best recruiter of talent. 

This has been the most transformative part of my journey of building and acquiring companies. 

Follow Sam Mahmood for more content.

CEO of The Pave | Acquiring Asphalt Paving Companies | Subscribe to my Newsletter

I’m investing in recurring-maintenance asphalt paving companies.
They’re one of the most underrated, highest-margin businesses you can buy today.

My take: 

1️⃣ Every parking lot in America needs maintenance.
 
  If it’s asphalt, it cracks. If it cracks, it fails.
 There’s no AI replacement. No offshore replacement. No SaaS disruption.
Secondly there's an insurance liability aspect if the parking lots are not maintained. 

2️⃣ A parking lot is a retail store’s first impression.
 
If the lot looks bad, customers assume the business is bad.
 Traffic drops. Brand perception drops.
 Smart operators don’t let that happen, they pay every year to keep their assets tight.

3️⃣ National brands want one partner, not 50 contractors. 
 
If you can self-perform in multiple markets, you become the default contractor across multiple accounts with multi years MSA's.  This is highly attractive and scalable.

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