Meet the Team
Expertise for every engagement, one standard of work.
Levi Global Strategies draws on a range of expertise to help organizations navigate growth, cross-border business and complex project preparation. Each engagement is shaped around the skills it needs.
Founder
Founder
& CEO, LGS
Host
Investment Podcast
Darrell W. Levi Sr.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Levi Global Strategies LLC
Consultant, US Capital Global · Host, Levi Global Strategies Investment Podcast
Darrell W. Levi Sr. founded Levi Global Strategies LLC to give business owners, project sponsors and executives a steady hand on strategy, commercial relationships, capital-related opportunities and new initiatives. His own background spans project finance development, international commercial relationships and executive advisory, and it shapes how the firm prepares and sequences its work.
Under his leadership, LGS pairs advisory work with venture development, including DriveDarrell and the ongoing development of RBEM™, a healthcare operations platform initiative. He also serves as a consultant to US Capital Global and hosts the Levi Global Strategies Investment Podcast, built around the idea that behind every opportunity are people worth hearing from.
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Levi Global Strategies LLC
- Background in project finance development, international commercial relationships and executive advisory
- Consultant to US Capital Global and host of the Levi Global Strategies Investment Podcast
Leadership and mandates
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
He founded Levi Global Strategies LLC to give business owners, project sponsors and executives a steady hand on strategy, commercial relationships, capital-related opportunities and new initiatives. He leads the firm and sets how its work is prepared and sequenced.
Project Finance and International Business
His own background spans project finance development, international commercial relationships and executive advisory. That experience shapes how LGS structures the narrative, assumptions and funding path of a project so lenders and partners can follow the case.
Advisory and Venture Development
Under his leadership, LGS pairs advisory work with venture development. That includes DriveDarrell and the ongoing development of RBEM™, a healthcare operations platform initiative.
US Capital Global and the Investment Podcast
He serves as a consultant to US Capital Global, a firm that connects businesses seeking financing with debt, equity and advisory solutions. He also hosts the Levi Global Strategies Investment Podcast, a forthcoming series of conversations with US Capital leadership and investment offering sponsors.
Darrell approaches each engagement through three steps: navigate the direction and the decisions that matter most, innovate practical options that fit the objective, and optimize the coordination so the work stays aligned as conditions change.
Read about our leadershipFeatured Team Member
$648M+
Expo 2020 Dubai transactions
1,030
Brazilian corporations aligned
Evandro Oliveira
Senior Business Partner & Strategic Advisor, Levi Global Strategies LLC
Chief Operating Officer, Private Office of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Ahmed Al Maktoum
Evandro Oliveira is a Brazilian executive and corporate strategist, and Chief Operating Officer of the Private Office of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Ahmed Al Maktoum in Dubai. For close to twenty years he has worked inside Middle Eastern family offices, structuring cross-border initiatives and building ventures that connect the Gulf with Latin America, Europe and Africa.
His path to the Gulf began in London, where he was working for an international consulting firm when he was invited to Saudi Arabia. There he worked directly with a prince of the Al-Awwad branch of the Al Saud family, who later introduced him to the Al Maktoum family when he arrived in the UAE. He moved to Dubai in 2008, advised private offices independently, and took his first in-house executive roles in 2011.
- Born in Campinas, São Paulo; based in Dubai since 2008 and working between Dubai and São Paulo
- Nearly two decades inside Middle Eastern private family offices, with deal work across eleven countries
- Portuguese, English and Spanish, plus basic German
Career and mandates
Royal Private Office Leadership
Since January 2020 he has run operations as COO of the Private Office of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, overseeing how proposals are vetted, modelled and structured before capital is committed. He joined the office in 2014 as Director of New Businesses, then served as Director of Business Development.
The Brazil–Gulf Corridor
His career began at the Brazil–Africa Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and he has spent the years since connecting South America with the Arab world. Agribusiness, food tech, fertilizers, oil and gas, aerospace, cosmetics, luxury hospitality and green energy are the sectors he returns to most.
Saudi and Cross-Office Ties
Since 2011 he has been Senior Legal and Transactional Advisor and Brazilian Representative for Golden Crossbow Saudi Arabia. He also ran Latin American operations as CEO of the Private Office of HH Princess Al Bandery Bint Faisal, and he looks after quiet commercial relationships between private offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Startups and Venture Building
As an independent advisor and venture builder he works with founders in emerging markets raising between $500,000 and $100,000,000. He looks mostly at FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech, AI and machine learning, and clean energy projects that link Latin American initiatives to UAE sustainability goals.
Expo 2020 Dubai
During Expo 2020 Dubai he was the central business facilitator for Brazil. About 1,030 Brazilian companies took part through the national pavilion, and roughly $648 million in capital and business transactions followed. He also steered the expansion of a UAE state-linked oil and gas brand into Brazil.
Technology and clean energy
Although his roots are in commodities, much of his attention now goes to technology: FinTech, HealthTech and EdTech platforms, AI and machine learning for private office operations, and climate projects. His advisory contacts include GoMovie, ENOC (Emirates National Oil Company) and PSA Trading.
Evandro gives 100% of his fees from advisory meetings booked through venture platforms to charity. Across GCC startup networks he is known for navigating the region and matching founders with the right key accounts, and for handling sensitive mandates with discretion.
Evandro in focus
A few markers from nearly twenty years in the Gulf.
Eighteen years in private offices
Based in Dubai since 2008, he began as an independent advisor to private offices and moved into in-house executive roles in 2011.
Chief Operating Officer
He has led operations at the Private Office of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Ahmed Al Maktoum since January 2020.
Deals across eleven countries
His work reaches Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Monaco, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sudan, Brazil, the UAE and the United States.
Expo 2020 Dubai
He was the business facilitator for Brazil, helping about 1,030 Brazilian companies take part and secure roughly $648 million in transactions.
The expertise we draw on
International Business Development
Market Entry
Planning how an organization enters a new market: sizing the opportunity, identifying local partners, and keeping legal, financial and commercial workstreams moving together.
Capital and Structure
Project Finance
Preparing projects so they can be evaluated clearly: structuring the narrative, assumptions and funding path so lenders and partners can follow the case.
Alignment and Relationships
Stakeholder Coordination
Clarifying who is responsible for what, and building the partner, customer and institutional relationships that cross-border work depends on.
Approvals and Sequencing
Cross-Border Coordination
Coordinating initiatives across time zones and regulatory regimes, with discipline around approvals, standards and the order in which work happens.
Documentation and Risk
Project Preparation
Organizing project summaries, responsibilities and risk registers so that an initiative is ready for review by people who were not in the room.
Governance and Change
Organizational Leadership
Helping leadership teams name their priorities, agree on ownership, and guide the organization through growth, succession and transition.
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