About Us

Ainslie Street Advisory partners with NGOs, development ministries, and mission-driven companies to enable operations and deliver sustainable capital projects in the world’s most challenging contexts.

From rural hospitals to international supply chains, we turn your bold ambitions into operational realities: on time, under budget, and ready to actually work.

Our Experience

We bring nearly two decades of operational leadership in complex, high-stakes environments.

Past roles include:

  • Partners In Health – Led health facility infrastructure and operations initiatives across eight countries, improving uptime and decreasing operational costs for critical technical systems.

  • Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders – Managed security and operations at hospitals in Haiti, South Sudan, and Malawi under challenging field conditions.

  • High-growth startups – Built systems and teams from the ground up, balancing speed with long-term sustainability.

This unique blend of global health, humanitarian response, and agile private-sector execution allows us to deliver results when stakes are high and resources are tight.

Our Services

Infrastructure

  • Capital planning and facility readiness

  • Critical systems audits: safety, electrical, water, and medical oxygen

  • Contingency planning in limited-resource contexts

    Example Outcome: Partnered with Ministry of Health to install a PSA oxygen plant and upgrade electrical infrastructure at a rural district hospital in sub-Saharan Africa. Coordinated design review, procurement, supplier and contractor management, and commissioning. PSA plant continues to supply life-saving medical oxygen to neighboring health facilities two years after commissioning.

Operations

  • Process design and improvement

  • Operations and maintenance programs

  • Procurement, supply chain, and inventory management for technical systems

    Example Outcome: Reduced downtime by 91% in two years by re-organizing a four-country PSA oxygen plant network supplying multiple hospitals and health centers in sub-Saharan Africa. Built, implemented, and ran a preventive maintenance program with structured workflows, local accountability, and targeted training.

Teams

  • Org chart design and recruitment

  • Coaching for infrastructure and operations leaders

  • Operations and applied security training (tailored 1–5 day sessions)

    Example Outcome: Developed recruitment strategy for local technical teams across four countries, decentralizing expertise and improving electrical, water/sanitation, and medical gas capital project implementation.