What We Do

You want to improve, innovate and grow your business. But you’re so immersed in operational issues that you have limited time or capacity for strategic planning or rigorous process improvement.

Trow Avenue Partners brings experience and expertise to improve your operations and strategy. Using proven methodologies and hard-won experience as advisers and executives, our experts help your team develop and implement operational improvements that make your company more efficient.

We do it in the following ways:

• Quantifying operational performance and using lean methodology to find efficiencies and measure impact
• Market analysis, pricing, and service analysis to drive deeper competitive awareness
• Continuous operations improvement processes using lean principles
• Disciplined sales and operations structures and incentives to improve employee accountability
• Developing strategy that is practical, achievable and develops team accountability

Above all, we help owners transform their businesses by making them standardized and metrics driven. You and your team will perform better with clear, consistent objectives and priorities along with measured outcomes and consistent accountability.

We improve your business quickly, and support you in making the permanent changes that benefit your organization for the long-term.

Our Clients

We work almost exclusively with owners of small and medium-sized business. Our typical clients are entrepreneurs and investors that want more from their organization and who engage us to make operational and planning improvement that will directly impact their bottom line.

In the short or medium term (within 1 year), our projects typically generate a 4:1 return from operational changes- and often more.

We specialize in working with businesses between $5-50 MM in revenue because we know how they work, their strengths and their weaknesses. We share their passion- and complement their skills and capabilities. We understand the mindset of the entrepreneur and how critical it is that this aggressiveness is not lost as a company grows.

On most projects, there is a major catalyst for change such as stalled growth, ownership change, or ‘idea fatigue’ when too many ideas are constantly changing management focus. We bring order and growth to owners that want to change their operations, tactics or strategy.

Types of Projects

Our strength is our breadth of experience and background working with best-in-class manufacturers and service. This experience will improve your processes, sales systems, and how you manage performance. Some examples include:

• Service industry – including industrial and professional service
• Manufacturing
• Entrepreneurial, fast-growth companies

We have supported clients across North America, but focus heavily on improving businesses in Southern Ontario.

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About Us

Tom Hamza founded Trow Avenue Partners in 2017 to create a service that gives a genuine leg up to smaller business in Southwestern Ontario. He combines his experience in strategy consulting for Fortune 500 companies and 15 years as an executive with his passion working with entrepreneurs and private-equity-run businesses ranging in size from $5 million to $50 million in revenues.

His projects are designed to give owners a return that is at least 4 times the project spend. He helps make sure that the changes are ongoing and continue to improve your operations in the future.

Tom and his team bring distinct talent and experiences to your organization:

• World class analytical training and change methodology from A.T. Kearney Consulting and Deloitte Consulting
• Experience building a start-up into a publicly listed company
• Hands-on expertise advising global leaders at global leaders like Ford, RBC, and Amazon Web Services
• Access to a global network of best-in-class experts in services and manufacturing

As your trusted advisor and implementer, Tom and his team implement meaningful change that impacts your bottom line. He works on a project basis but can also help your team as a fractional executive.

Tom has an MBA from Canada’s Ivey School of Business. When he’s not helping clients, he enjoys time with his family and his collection of old motorcycles.