The Human at the Seal

Meet the principal and the partners

Every firm has an org chart. Ours is simpler than most: nineteen illustrated partners, and the one human they answer to.

Photograph of Alexander Afolabi

Alexander "Q" Afolabi

Chief Executive · Keeper of the Seal

A Solicitor whose career has run through the engine rooms of British regulation: financial services conduct, central government, data protection and statutory inquiries. He has read the rulebook from the inside, which is why the firm's boldness never crosses its lines.

He is also a serial founder. The Lyrīon portfolio he built spans software, circular electronics and digital heritage, and it was inside that portfolio that Ninth House was forged: first as his own war room, now open to a select clientele. He is a published author, a recording artist, and the architect of the model itself.

Clients do not get an account manager. They get the principal. Every engagement is signed by him, and nothing the firm produces reaches the world without his seal.

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The Partners

Nineteen partners. Six departments. Zero passengers.

Every partner is a persona of the house: a working tradition distilled, with a desk, a docket and an address. What they are and how they are governed is set out in full in the Charter. Every deliverable is sealed before it touches the real world.

Leadership
Portrait of Maren Okafor-Vale

Maren Okafor-ValeGLOBAL

Managing Partner

Twenty years running network agencies taught her that meetings are where momentum dies. Her standups start on time, end in assignments, and have never once run long.

maren@9thpoint.com
Growth, Creative & Media
Portrait of Jonah Whitfield

Jonah WhitfieldAMERICAS

Head of Brand & Creative

Portland school. He has given a bicycle brand a philosophy and a plumbing firm a fan club. Big organizing ideas, built to travel.

jonah@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Ingrid Sørensen

Ingrid SørensenEMEA

Head of Strategy

London planning tradition. She once repositioned a product by deleting half its features from the page. The single minded proposition is her religion.

ingrid@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Valentina Ibarra

Valentina IbarraLATAM

Head of Social & Culture

São Paulo energy. She writes the actual posts, names the series, and knows the hour your audience stops scrolling in three time zones.

valentina@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Adaeze Nwosu

Adaeze NwosuAFRICA

Head of Growth, African Markets

Lagos operator. She has priced for the danfo commute and the corner office in the same afternoon. WhatsApp is her distribution empire.

adaeze@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Theo Lindqvist

Theo LindqvistEMEA

Head of Performance Media

Stockholm precision. Every plan arrives with budgets, audiences and kill criteria. He treats a wasted pound as a personal insult.

theo@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Priya Raman

Priya RamanGLOBAL

Head of SEO & Content

Search architect. Her keyword clusters read like battle maps. She builds content that ranks quietly and compounds for years.

priya@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Sipho Dlamini

Sipho DlaminiAFRICA

Head of Partnerships & PR

Johannesburg earned media tradition. His pitches get replies because he writes the headline the journalist wishes they had thought of first.

sipho@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Kenji Hara

Kenji HaraAPAC

Head of CRM & Retention

Tokyo. He believes a welcome email is a first impression and a win back message is an apology done well. Every flow arrives with the copy already written.

kenji@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Noor Haddad

Noor HaddadGLOBAL

Head of Communications & Brand Uniformity

Guardian of every official handle. One voice per brand, enforced without mercy. She has rejected finished work over a single stray exclamation mark.

noor@9thpoint.com
The Studio
Portrait of Lin Chen

Lin ChenAPAC

Head of Studio & Motion

Shanghai trained, festival sharpened. Shanghai. Storyboards a NAGORI film before breakfast and hands you the exact prompts to make it. Image and video engines answer to her.

lin@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Mei-Ling Chow

Mei-Ling ChowAPAC

Head of Visual Design & Image

Hong Kong eye, global taste. She art directs every pixel the house releases and keeps a prompt library that turns image models into obedient interns.

mei@9thpoint.com
Operations & Assurance
Portrait of Tobias Renner

Tobias RennerEMEA

Head of IT & Site Reliability

Berlin site reliability. He notices a slow page before your customers do and files the incident report before breakfast.

tobias@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Margaret Osei

Margaret OseiAFRICA

Head of Finance & Accounting

Big Four trained, Accra and London. She reads a burn rate like a diagnosis and has never met a subscription she fully trusted.

margaret@9thpoint.com
Intelligence & Impact
Portrait of Rocco Fuentes

Rocco FuentesLATAM

Head of Data & Analytics

Mexico City. He finds the leak in the funnel, names it, and designs the experiment that closes it. Numbers first, feelings after.

rocio@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Dr. Lena Castellanos

Dr. Lena CastellanosLATAM

Head of Research & Intelligence

Bogotá. Her competitor teardowns are respectful, forensic and slightly frightening. Nothing enters strategy without her evidence.

lena@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Amara Diallo

Amara DialloAFRICA

Head of CSR & Impact

Dakar. She measures impact in kilograms diverted and hours given back, then writes the story that wins the award without stretching a single fact.

amara@9thpoint.com
Advancement & Philanthropy
Portrait of Chidinma Balogun

Chidinma BalogunAFRICA

Head of Advancement & Grants

Abuja and London. She finds the money that funds the mission: grants, funds and partners, with applications drafted ready to send.

chidinma@9thpoint.com
Portrait of Harrison Cole III

Harrison Cole IIIAMERICAS

Head of Capital & Institutional Funding

Manhattan raised, spreadsheet fluent. Investor and institutional funding outreach with term sheet polish. Chidinma finds the grants; he finds the capital. Both write the letters themselves.

harrison@9thpoint.com
Engage the Firm

The floor is open. The seal is waiting.

Tell us what you are building. The Managing Partner reads every enquiry, and the human signs every engagement.