Counsel for Governments, Founders & Capital

We advise.
Our partners scale.

DunavNET Advisory, in partnership with BluSky Consulting, sits where public-sector reform meets private capital — designing, validating, and delivering digital transformation programs for governments, founders, and investors. From New York to Nairobi.

Today's brief
18 · MAY · 2026
  • 01Smart-city procurement reform — memo for a US state CIOPublic
  • 02$140M nearshoring thesis — Mexico ↔ TX corridorCapital
  • 03DFI blended-finance structuring — Kenya & GhanaAfrica
  • 04Federal IT modernization — 52-agency playbookGov
DunavNET × BluSky

Trusted by · Validated by

Public institutions, scale-ups, and capital
partners across the Americas and Africa.

Practices

Four mandates · One outcome

Strategy, capital, and
operating muscle
— under one roof.

We integrate the work most firms split across three vendors. A government modernization mandate, a Series-B raise, and a market entry into Lagos can move through one team, one set of partners, one accountability ledger.

01Public Sector · Strategy

Digital transformation
for the public good.

Modernization programs designed by operators who have actually run them. We sit on your side of the table — from RFP to go-live.

  • IT consolidation & multi-agency operating models
  • Smart-city & critical-infrastructure programs
  • Procurement reform & vendor governance
  • Cyber resilience & identity modernization
02CFO Office · Capital

Financial & investment advisory.

CFO-grade thinking for scale-ups, family offices, and public-sector clients deploying or attracting capital across borders.

  • Financial planning, modeling & FP&A operating systems
  • Fundraising readiness, data rooms & investor narratives
  • M&A advisory & commercial due diligence
  • Treasury, FX & cross-border structuring
03Deal Office · Conviction

Investment consulting, end-to-end.

Where capital meets conviction — sourced, screened, structured, and stewarded through the messy middle.

  • Investment thesis & portfolio strategy
  • Deal sourcing & commercial diligence
  • Co-investment & capital placement
  • Post-investment value-creation plans
04Cross-border · Expansion

Market entry — Americas & Africa.

Country playbooks built by operators on the ground, not analysts on a flight back. Pilot to scale, with skin in the game.

  • Country & sector deep-dives
  • Regulatory, tax & entity structuring
  • Partner, distributor & talent search
  • Pilot-to-scale roadmaps with KPI gates
The contract

We are paid on
outcomes, not
on slide counts.

Every engagement is designed around two numbers: revenue generated and cost avoided. Our team puts a meaningful share of fees at risk against those numbers. If we miss, you don't pay it. If we exceed, we share the upside.

01

Senior partners on every engagement — no junior pyramid.

02

Outcome-based pricing available on day one.

03

Embedded for the messy middle — not just the kickoff.

04

Diversity of thought — MBE-certified through BluSky.

Method

Design · Build · Deploy

Method

A full-cycle engagement model. We stay through the messy middle.

Most firms parachute in for the strategy and out before the KPIs land. We don't. We sit at the table from first principles to first revenue — and we don't leave until your numbers move.

01Phase

Design

Strategic direction, scoping, and the operating model that makes it real — short-term wins and long-term horizon, no copy-paste frameworks.

Deliverables —Strategic memo · Operating model · KPI tree · Roadmap
02Phase

Build

Plans, models, governance, project management, and the operating muscle to execute. The structure that supports today and stretches to the end state.

Deliverables —Financial model · PMO · Governance · Vendor stack
03Phase

Deploy

Where it converts to outcomes. We work alongside your team into market — and stay accountable to the KPIs we agreed to on day one.

Deliverables —Go-live · KPI dashboard · Quarterly review · Hand-off
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Avg. cost reduction

Across IT modernization engagements with public-sector clients (3-year basis).

2.4×
Revenue multiple

Median two-year revenue multiple for scale-up clients post-engagement.

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Cross-border programs

Active programs spanning North America, LATAM, and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Senior-led delivery

Partner-grade attention from kickoff to handoff — never a junior bait-and-switch.

Regions

Americas + Africa

Two regions. One operating model.

Deep, on-the-ground experience in the Americas — and tight partnerships with operators across Africa's fastest-growing markets. We connect capital, talent, and technology between the two.

§ Primary focus04 jurisdictions

The Americas.

From the US capital corridor to São Paulo and Mexico City — alongside founders, family offices, and institutional investors deploying into established and high-growth markets across North, Central, and South America.

  • A1US, Canada & Caribbean — institutional & public-sectorLive
  • A2Mexico & Central America — nearshoring & manufacturingLive
  • A3Brazil, Colombia, Chile & Andean region — capital placementLive
  • A4Government advisory — federal, state, city levelAnchor
§ Emerging-market expansion04 jurisdictions

Africa.

The next great growth story — entered intelligently. We partner with local operators, DFIs, and regulators to translate ambition into durable footprints.

  • F1Market-entry · Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South AfricaLive
  • F2DFI & blended-finance structuringLive
  • F3Pan-African investment thesis & sourcingScoping
  • F4Smart-city & digital-infrastructureLive
Strategic partner — Americas

In partnership with

BluSky Consulting

MBE-certified · Brooklyn NY & Lanham MD · Public-sector specialists with two decades of federal and state delivery experience.

“Two firms, one accountability ledger. We picked BluSky because their public-sector record speaks for itself — and because they refuse to oversell.”

— DunavNET Advisory · Americas partnership memo, 2025

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Advisors
Americas senior counsel

Senior counsel. On the ground.

Anchored by senior advisors with decades of public-sector, Fortune 500, and financial-services leadership. The partner you meet is the partner you get.

Jem Pagan

Jem Pagan

Senior Advisor · Americas

President & Managing Partner, BluSky Consortium

Two decades driving business and technology transformation across public and private sectors. Former CTO/CISO for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, overseeing a $4B IT portfolio across 52 agencies. Prior roles include Director of Business Transformation at Oracle America and Director of Technology Strategy at JNK Securities. Led smart-infrastructure programs for American Dream and Asurion Global HQ.

NASCIO Cyber AwardIntl. Laureate · Gov InnovationOracle alumEx-PA CTO/CISO
Jami Pagan

Jami Pagan

Senior Advisor · Americas

CFO, BluSky Consortium · President & CFO, BluSky Consulting LLC

24+ years across financial services, business management, and strategic leadership. Leads sales, operations, and financial strategy at BluSky — with deep expertise in strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, and integration of acquired firms. Oversees FP&A, accounting, and reporting with transparency and regulatory rigor.

M&A · IntegrationFP&A leaderCFO · BluSky24+ yrs
John Wilson

John Wilson

Senior Advisor · Americas

VP, Client Services and Delivery, BluSky Consortium

30+ years leading technology teams and co-founding multiple consulting and delivery firms. Full-stack expertise across the entire OSI model — networks, cyber security, datacenters, cloud, IoT, and enterprise applications — with 12 programming languages in production. A consultant's consultant, repeatedly called in to rescue and deliver complex multi-vendor programs for American Express, Walmart, Chevron, FEMA, the US Navy, and the State of Maryland.

30+ yrsFull-stack architectProject rescueGov · Fortune 500
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Tell us where you want to grow — the public-sector reform you've been postponing, the capital you can't quite place, the market you can't quite enter. We'll come back with a clear point of view and a concrete way forward.

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