An Executive Assistant to CEOs Who Operates at Founder-Level Pace

For CEOs & founders

What a Senior EA Actually Does for a CEO

If you're a founder or CEO, your week probably has three categories: high-leverage work that only you can do (selling, hiring, strategic decisions), high-volume coordination that someone else should do (calendar, follow-ups, board pack assembly), and a bunch of stuff in between that gets dropped because nobody owns it.

A senior EA to CEO owns category two completely and most of category three. The result is straightforward math: you get back 15+ hours a week of high-leverage focus, and the company stops dropping balls in the middle.

The Specific Workstreams

• Calendar architecture: Strategic blocking for deep work, focus days, no-meeting mornings. Not just scheduling — designing the week around what matters.
• Inbox & comms: Triage rules with escalation criteria. Drafting responses you approve. Internal CEO comms (all-hands prep, leadership messaging).
• Board operations: Pack assembly, financial-data coordination with finance, action log circulation, board portal hygiene.
• Investor relations: Update cadence, intro request triage, materials prep, quarterly cadence enforcement.
• Leadership-team rhythm: Weekly leadership meetings, OKR check-ins, decision-log discipline.
• Strategic projects: Cross-functional initiatives where the CEO is the de facto sponsor — moved end-to-end with status discipline.
• External presence: LinkedIn, conference logistics, podcast/press coordination, executive ghostwriting.
• Travel: Multi-city itineraries with embedded meeting prep, ground transport, contingencies.

When This Engagement Makes Sense

You probably need a senior EA to CEO if any of these are true:

• You're losing more than 10 hours a week to coordination overhead.
• Your board pack is assembled in a panic the night before.
• Decisions get made in meetings then forgotten because nobody captures them.
• Your company is 15–80 people and you don't have a Chief of Staff yet.
• You've tried EA agencies and got back junior task-runners.
• You're entering a new market and the cross-stakeholder coordination is on fire.

How I Operate as EA to CEO

Three operating principles:

1. Decision rights, written: We agree what I can decide on your behalf vs. escalate. Codified in week one. Updated as trust grows.
2. Async-first: Loom updates, written briefs, decision logs. We don't add meetings to your calendar; we remove them.
3. Confidentiality by default: Mutual NDA, encrypted storage, client-owned drives, no personal channels for client work.

For more on the operating cadence I install in the first 30 days, see the services page. For real-world examples, see case studies.

Past CEO Engagements

Engagements with CEOs and founders across MSTRpay (Sweden), Insight BPO, Pioneer Outsourcing, and others. Quotes from those engagements:

"Working with Abraham during our service transition was remarkably smooth. His strategic planning and meticulous execution made what could have been a complex absorption process effortless." — Abdul, CEO, Insight BPO

"His ability to facilitate clear, effective communication between our stakeholders and CEO streamlined our operations significantly." — Mathew, Lead of Operations, Generation Kenya