Ali-Fuad Turgut
Founder, AFT Global (Paris)
France/EU market entry: decision structuring, operating set-up, and execution coordination
Former OECD Policy Analyst & Team Leader | 10+ years in competitiveness, market entry, and EU operating environments
AFT Global® is a Paris-based advisory firm supporting companies in structuring and executing their entry into France and the European market.
The focus is not only on market access, but on decision quality, sequencing, and operational readiness, ensuring that expansion is grounded in validated assumptions and clear ownership.
The approach combines policy-informed frameworks with hands-on execution, bridging decision-making, administrative set-up, and coordination across partners.
Decision & risk-gating
(go/no-go)
Define decision criteria, run a readiness check, identify critical blockers and non-negotiables, propose mitigation options, and deliver a short decision brief.
France/EU operating set-up
(sequenced pathway)
Design and drive the set-up sequence and coordinate the ecosystem through practical go-live (administrative readiness, banking pathway, partner onboarding, and operational launch).
Execution coordination
(light PMO)
Coordinate stakeholders, run a weekly cadence, unblock issues, document decisions, and provide crisp progress reporting.
How we deliver
Single point of contact throughout. AFT leads sequencing and coordination; licensed specialists handle regulated scope (legal, accounting, banking).
You get one owner, one sequence, one decision log.
Simple, measurable
Frame
Objectives, constraints, decision criteria
Diagnose
Risks, gaps, priorities (evidence-based)
Plan
30–60–90 day sequence, owners, milestones
Execute
Coordination + reporting + decision log
Engagement models: fixed-scope package | monthly retainer | hybrid (scope + success fee when outcomes are clearly measurable).
Provides market entry support for Turkish and emerging-market SMEs in France. Developed EU Market Entry Decision Pack covering decision structuring, administrative setup, banking access, and partner coordination.
Strategic communication and go-to-market advisory. Advisory role; AFT Global remains independent.
Led projects on private sector competitiveness, EU enlargement, and business environment reform. Expertise includes public-private dialogue, SME policy, access to finance, and bankruptcy & second chance policies, directly relevant to cross-border expansion challenges. Has since undertaken separate OECD assignments as an external consultant.
The OECD is mentioned solely to describe the founder's professional experience. This does not imply any OECD endorsement of or institutional affiliation with AFT Global.
AFT Global's capabilities draw on sector and institutional experience across:
Competitiveness and SME policy programmes at the OECD
Agricultural sector assessments for Competitiveness in South East Europe 2021: A Policy Outlook and the Western Balkans Competitiveness Outlook 2024
Market development support in France for an international agricultural technology company
Institutional capacity building and public-private dialogue
(OECD)
SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2019
SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2022
Competitiveness in South East Europe 2021: A Policy Outlook
Western Balkans Competitiveness Outlook 2024
Boosting Regional Competitiveness in Türkiye (2016)
Decision-grade, execution-ready
Decision Brief
Recommendation, key conditions, critical risks, immediate next actions
30–60–90 Day Execution Path
Sequencing, owners, dependencies, milestones
Stakeholder & Dependency Map
Roles, required inputs, decision points, escalation triggers
Weekly Pulse
Progress, blockers, decisions needed, next steps
Typical engagement: decision brief → 30–60–90 path → execution coordination (as needed).
Proprietary Instrument
AFT Global combines advisory with a proprietary decision instrument designed to structure market entry readiness before execution begins.
The Decision Hub does not operate as a generic assessment or scoring tool. It is built to identify decision-critical gaps, clarify sequencing dependencies, and evaluate readiness based on evidence rather than assumptions.
It produces a structured outcome, Go, Conditional Go, or Hold, supported by a clear rationale and an actionable pathway.
The EU Market Readiness Instrument is AFT Global's structured readiness diagnostic: evidence-weighted, sector-calibrated, assessing operational readiness to enter or expand in the European Single Market. It is built on the AFT 7-Capability Framework™ and Evidence-Weighted Assessment™ methodologies.
The methodology is embedded within the instrument and its outputs.
Explore the instrument through the Decision Hub →