Saad Kakakhel
Started in accounting at PwC. Spent a decade in telecom, strategy, and capital markets. Now back in both — as COO of a telecom firm I cofounded in 2013, and as a partner helping accounting firms navigate AI. Tuck MBA.
COO at TNSS Global — the telecom services firm I cofounded in 2013, operating across North America, Africa, and the Middle East. In parallel, a Partner at Durability Labs, helping accounting firms automate their practices with AI.
Separately, I advise on mid-market acquisitions.
Community: TuckCircle connects Tuck alumni to mid-market companies. PK Accountants is a platform for Pakistani accountants adapting to AI.
I began at PwC in audit and accounting — financial statements, controls, reconciliations, and the operational detail that underpins how businesses actually run. The grunt work was the education.
I worked on Pakistan’s 100-Day Reform Plan during the election period — my first real exposure to how business, government, and society intersect. Translating a national policy agenda into a sequenced, executable plan across ministries made the relationship between the three concrete.
Tuck deepened that lens. The MBA gave me a structured framework for how capital, institutions, and markets shape each other — and how to act at the intersection.
At Altman Solon, I put that to work on the buy side — advising PE funds and family offices on telecom and data center investments, stress-testing theses, and helping capital find its best use in the TMT sector.
After Altman Solon, I spent several years in PE advisory — closer to deal flow, working independently. In 2026 I came back to TNSS as COO. The context accumulated over twenty years — auditor, policy hand, MBA, telecom strategist — finally collapsed into something coherent. AI is what makes running two focused practices simultaneously possible.
Born in Japan, raised in Pakistan, educated in Hanover, NH. I live in Dallas, TX.