NIMSAS Group founds and operates its own ventures, and works with leadership teams on what decides whether a business succeeds in the U.S.: customers, capital, financial structure, operations and execution.
Three practices, one senior team.
For defense, homeland security and dual-use companies entering or expanding in the U.S.
Explore the practice Practice 02For founders and leadership teams facing growth, transition or a major financial decision.
Explore the practice Practice 03For owners and restaurant groups opening, improving or scaling a hospitality business.
Explore the practiceThe goal is not to produce a market-entry plan. The goal is to help build a functioning U.S. business.
A six-month program for defense and dual-use companies, run alongside the leadership team, from market strategy to a working U.S. organization.
See the programOur own ventures, founded, owned and operated by NIMSAS. We do ourselves what we help clients do.
Selected clients.
Operators who have built and run companies in the fields we work in.
Entrepreneur and company builder. Opened six national markets for a defense technology company and has guided founders from concept to break-even. Leads market development, product and business advisory.
View profileEntrepreneur who builds and scales hospitality businesses across markets. Leads operations, purchasing, supply chain and execution.
View profileCEO of Ametrine since 2018, working across Department of War, government and congressional channels. Previously led supply chain at Sears Holdings, defense and counter-terrorism technology programs at Praevius Group, and operations at Dell, after serving as a U.S. Army infantry officer.
View profileCFO with more than a decade in senior finance roles, including CFO and President of Community Impact and CFO of Texas Enterprises. Leads financial planning, CFO-level support and financial systems.
View profileTell us where the company is today and what has to be true a year from now. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right team for it.
For defense, homeland security, dual-use and technology companies entering the U.S., expanding here, or building the commercial, financial and government-market infrastructure to compete.
Proven technology, but no clear customer, end user or budget holder in the U.S.
Registration, contracting vehicles and acquisition pathways that slow every step.
Programs sit with integrators and channel partners the company has no access to yet.
No plan across government, congressional and private capital.
A founder-led entry without a U.S. team, suppliers or management in place.
Financial, reporting and management systems that U.S. customers and investors will question.
Four engagement paths, from a defined project to ongoing board-level support.
One clearly defined business challenge, with a specific objective, timeline and deliverables.
We solve a defined problem and deliver a defined outcome. We do not take on building the full U.S. company.
Hands-on work alongside the leadership team on the priorities that move the business.
Our flagship program, from market strategy to a functioning U.S. operation.
Ongoing senior support for founders, CEOs and boards, and the natural continuation after the buildout.
The goal is not to produce a market-entry plan. The goal is to help build a functioning U.S. business.
Market and customer strategy, government and funding pathways, U.S. operating model and management structure.
Customer, partner and channel development. Suppliers, sourcing and logistics. Financial and management infrastructure. Recruiting key leadership.
Onboarding senior management, management cadence, accountability and reporting, and a working commercial pipeline.
After the program, the relationship can continue as Executive & Board Advisory as the company scales.
Discuss the programEvery engagement has a single senior lead, accountable for the work and the relationship.
Strategy, government markets, finance and operations partners join as the work requires.
We work alongside your leadership team, on site in Austin and with your team wherever it is, in English and Hebrew.
Entrepreneur and company builder. Opened six national markets for a defense technology company and has guided founders from concept to break-even. Leads market development, product and business advisory.
View profileCEO of Ametrine since 2018, working across Department of War, government and congressional channels. Previously led supply chain at Sears Holdings, defense and counter-terrorism technology programs at Praevius Group, and operations at Dell, after serving as a U.S. Army infantry officer.
View profileCFO with more than a decade in senior finance roles, including CFO and President of Community Impact and CFO of Texas Enterprises. Leads financial planning, CFO-level support and financial systems.
View profileTell us where the company is today and what has to be true a year from now.
For owners, restaurant groups and hospitality concepts opening a new business, improving one that already runs, or growing into more locations.
We don’t just advise hospitality businesses. In selected situations, we partner with owners to build, improve and scale the business alongside them.
A new concept, location or investment with no hard look at the numbers yet.
Food, labor and purchasing costs rising faster than revenue.
No management layer, procedures or reporting the business can run on.
A launch that needs vendors, staff, systems and a plan, on a fixed date.
What works in one location doesn’t carry to the second or third.
Decisions made without unit economics, KPIs or cash discipline.
Four engagement paths, matched to where the business is.
For owners evaluating a new concept, location, business model or investment.
For existing businesses that need better profitability, operations or management discipline.
For opening a new restaurant, hospitality concept or location.
For businesses that work and want to grow into more locations, a larger brand or a scalable platform.
Every engagement has a single senior lead, accountable for the work and the relationship.
Strategy, government markets, finance and operations partners join as the work requires.
We work alongside your leadership team, on site in Austin and with your team wherever it is, in English and Hebrew.
Entrepreneur who builds and scales hospitality businesses across markets. Leads operations, purchasing, supply chain and execution.
View profileEntrepreneur and company builder. Opened six national markets for a defense technology company and has guided founders from concept to break-even. Leads market development, product and business advisory.
View profileCFO with more than a decade in senior finance roles, including CFO and President of Community Impact and CFO of Texas Enterprises. Leads financial planning, CFO-level support and financial systems.
View profileTell us where the company is today and what has to be true a year from now.
For founders and leadership teams in any sector facing growth, a transition or a major financial decision, where what is needed is clarity on the numbers, the structure and the next stage.
The business has outgrown its budgeting, reporting and cash management.
Major decisions made without a financial model the team trusts.
Raising, borrowing or restructuring, without a clear capital strategy.
Management and organization built for an earlier stage of the company.
Pricing, margins or cost structure that need rethinking.
A transition, new market or new line of business that needs a plan with owners and dates.
One defined challenge, with a specific objective, timeline and deliverables.
Senior financial leadership without a full-time CFO.
Ongoing senior support for founders, CEOs and boards.
Every engagement has a single senior lead, accountable for the work and the relationship.
Strategy, government markets, finance and operations partners join as the work requires.
We work alongside your leadership team, on site in Austin and with your team wherever it is, in English and Hebrew.
CFO with more than a decade in senior finance roles, including CFO and President of Community Impact and CFO of Texas Enterprises. Leads financial planning, CFO-level support and financial systems.
View profileEntrepreneur and company builder. Opened six national markets for a defense technology company and has guided founders from concept to break-even. Leads market development, product and business advisory.
View profileCEO of Ametrine since 2018, working across Department of War, government and congressional channels. Previously led supply chain at Sears Holdings, defense and counter-terrorism technology programs at Praevius Group, and operations at Dell, after serving as a U.S. Army infantry officer.
View profileTell us where the company is today and what has to be true a year from now.
Entrepreneur and company builder who has founded businesses, opened international markets, built products, and advised founders from first concept to growth.
LinkedIn profileNimrod has been building companies for two decades. He co-founded Ametrine, ORYN and Black Aether, and before that founded and ran businesses in hospitality and consumer services.
At Ametrine he led product, marketing and business development from the first prototype to an established international defense supplier, opening six national markets: Australia, Germany, France, India, the Netherlands and the United States. In 2023 he moved to Austin to lead the U.S. build-out.
He builds products that ship and scale: setting portfolio strategy and roadmaps, taking products from concept to commercial release, and scaling U.S. manufacturing on a qualified domestic supply chain.
Alongside his own ventures, he has advised founders and business owners from concept to break-even, and works with leadership teams on strategy, market entry and commercialization.
Entrepreneur who has built restaurant businesses across New Orleans and Houston, and co-founder of ORYN and Black Aether.
Shachar (Sash) Kurgan is an entrepreneur who builds and runs hospitality businesses. Since moving from Israel to the U.S. in 2013, he has helped take Israeli-inspired restaurant concepts into new American markets, from New Orleans to Houston.
He is a partner in Doris Metropolitan, the steakhouse group operating in New Orleans and Houston. He co-founded Hamsa in Houston's Rice Village and took the concept from three years of development to its opening in 2022. Texas Monthly named Hamsa one of the best new restaurants of 2023.
He knows the business from the floor up: concept and product, purchasing and suppliers, building teams and running daily operations. His background as a chef shapes how he sets standards and holds operations to them.
With Nimrod Diskin, he co-founded ORYN and Black Aether, where he leads operations, supply chain and physical execution.
Executive and former U.S. Army officer, with two decades across defense technology, operations and supply chain.
LinkedIn profileBrandon has been CEO of Ametrine since 2018, leading the company through a period of significant growth in the U.S.
His work spans the Department of War, government agencies and congressional channels: contracting and procurement pathways, government and congressional funding, and the relationships that move defense programs forward. He serves on the board of the Warrior Protection & Readiness Coalition, which advocates for the U.S. military and the domestic defense industrial base.
Before Ametrine, he led supply chain as a divisional vice president at Sears Holdings, and was partner and business unit leader at Praevius Group, putting advanced technologies into the hands of military units and law enforcement agencies focused on counter-terrorism.
He began his career as a U.S. Army infantry officer, serving seven years, and then moved into operations leadership at Dell, where he ran warranty fulfillment operations of around 350 employees and led the transition of a major operation to a new site.
Finance executive with more than a decade as CFO and president of growing Texas organizations.
LinkedIn profileKelly spent ten years at Texas Enterprises, moving from accounting and business analysis to running the fuel transportation division, and then serving as Chief Financial Officer.
She went on to serve as Chief Financial & Operations Officer of Austin Habitat for Humanity, and then as CFO, President & CFO, and President of Community Impact, through its expansion into new markets.
She now advises growing companies on financial strategy, planning and execution.
