PRIVATE REAL ASSET & CONSTRUCTION EXECUTIVE SERVICES
TUTUM Advisory represents private principals, investors and institutions across construction, development and real assets. We take direct executive responsibility for protecting capital interests, resolving delivery challenges and translating investment decisions into functioning, productive assets.
Engagements are selective, confidential and personally led, with specialist resources assembled to suit the mandate.
Our mandate
We operate as an independent executive representative, specialist adviser or subconsultant where an owner or professional intermediary requires direct accountability for a construction or real-asset problem. We work internationally and independently.
Who we serve
Family offices and private principals; investment funds and asset managers; banks and lenders; law firms, fiduciaries and restructuring advisers; listed companies and capital-market participants; sovereign wealth funds; governments and semi-government entities; developers, occupiers and institutional asset owners; technology and tokenisation platforms with physical-asset exposure.
Executive services
An experienced advisory executive acting for the principal across investment decisions, development strategy, contractor interfaces, capital expenditure, asset recovery and operational readiness. Authority, reporting and responsibilities are established by mandate.
Independent scrutiny of capital deployment, contractor progress, costs, programme integrity, physical evidence, operational readiness and asset condition. We help principals understand whether the reported position reflects the underlying asset.
We provide independent owner-side executive leadership across the development and construction lifecycle, from investment feasibility, strategic project establishment, preparation, briefing and concept development through procurement, construction, commissioning and operational handover. Our services include independent project governance, project and delivery-team audits, buildability assessments, refurbishment, repurposing, distressed-project recovery and international programme delivery. We assemble, assess and direct specialist resources to protect the principal's commercial interests and achieve agreed development and operating objectives.
We connect financial and digital representations of real assets with independently verifiable physical and operational evidence. Our Two Clocks framework and developing Third Clock research examine financial settlement, physical evidence and end-user utilisation as distinct but connected dimensions of asset accountability.
Digital-to-physical asset governance
We connect financial and digital representations of real assets with independently verifiable physical and operational evidence. Our Two Clocks framework and developing Third Clock research examine financial settlement, physical evidence and end-user utilisation as distinct but connected dimensions of asset accountability.
Explore the Two Clocks FrameworkPublications and researchMark Burns, Principal Executive, brings approximately 30 years of international executive experience across business ownership, listed-company leadership, sovereign wealth fund development portfolios, construction, capital strategy and real-asset governance. His record includes £100m+ P&L responsibility and leadership of large international teams. His experience connects boardroom decisions with commercial delivery and operating performance.
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