Fractional CEO

Senior leadership at the helm — without the full-time seat.

Sometimes a business needs an experienced operator steering it, but doesn’t need (or can’t yet justify) a full-time CEO. We step in part-time to set direction, build operating rhythm, lead the team, and make the calls that move the business forward.

The seat, filled by someone who’s sat in it.

  • Sets and drives strategy — a clear direction, and the discipline to execute it.
  • Builds operating rhythm — the cadence, metrics, and accountability that keep a business moving.
  • Leads the team — mentors your people, fills the leadership gap, steadies the ship.
  • Makes the hard calls — the decisions an owner is often too close to make alone.
  • Prepares the business to scale — or sell — building a company that runs without you, and is worth more when you step back.

Built for owners and founders at a turning point.

Founders stretched too thin to lead and build at once. Businesses between leaders. Owners preparing for growth, succession, or a sale. Companies that need senior horsepower now, without a full-time executive salary.

Twenty years running my own company — now I’ll help you steer yours.

I’m Hema Dey, and Iffel International isn’t a firm I started last year. I founded it in 2006 and have led it as Founder and CEO ever since — nearly twenty years. In that time I’ve built it from the ground up, moved it across countries, hired and rebuilt teams, ridden out the lean stretches, and reinvented the whole business for the AI era. I’ve made the hard calls an owner has to make, in my own company, with my own money on the line. So the guidance I give you on steering your business isn’t theory from a textbook — it’s practical, lived experience from someone who has actually run a small business for two decades. I know what it’s like to carry everything, and I know how to help you build the systems, the rhythm, and the decisions that let you carry less.

A CEO who’s fluent in AI — and in business.

You work with an operator who has built and advised companies across 35+ countries, recognized as a Forbes Top 5 AI Leader and known as The AI Translator. That means leadership that doesn’t just understand the numbers and the team, but knows how to deploy AI across your operation to make the business stronger — Team Human and Team AI, led from the top. We work alongside your team and your existing advisors, not around them.

Let’s talk about who’s steering your business.

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