The Operating Layer

The institution behind the work.

QWM operates across three integrated layers — CEO-led counsel from Zürich, regional executive teams across QWM Africa, and a continental network of media and institutional partners. Built to deliver strategic intelligence at the scale African sport now demands.

Three Layers

Counsel. Execution. Network.

The same three-layer architecture delivers all five mandates — including the Market Access Suite for international brands and capital allocators, where Zürich-led strategy meets continental on-ground deployment.

Layer 01 · Zürich

CEO Counsel

Direct strategic counsel from the CEO. Federation presidents, ministers, and host-nation principals deal with the person who built the read — not an account team layer.

This is where governance reads, electoral landscapes, integrity diagnostics, and high-stakes positioning live. Signed off at CEO level. Never delegated.

Layer 02 · Continental

QWM Africa Regional Offices

Execution is orchestrated through QWM Africa — regional teams operating across the Maghreb, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.

Each regional office is led by senior executives with direct standing in their markets — former federation officials, ministry advisors, sports-rights operators, and intelligence-led communications specialists. The mandate brief travels from the CEO to the regional executive who owns delivery on the ground.

This is the layer that distinguishes QWM from boutique advisories without continental presence and from international agencies without local depth.

Layer 03 · Network

Continental Influence Network

A curated network of 800+ working journalists, 200+ creators, and platform-native distribution channels across 23+ African markets — activated by the regional teams to a defined narrative brief.

Network capacity is a delivery surface for strategy. We do not run campaigns for organisations that have not first done the strategic work.

QWM Africa

Five regional offices. One mandate brief.

Each QWM Africa regional office is led by senior executives whose careers have been built inside the institutions our clients are trying to navigate. This is what allows a single mandate brief to travel intact from Zürich into the room where the decision actually lands.

QWM Africa regional offices network
Operating Geography

Continental scale, not continental theatre.

QWM Africa operates across all five regions of the continent — with deepest institutional standing in the Maghreb, francophone West Africa, and the Horn. Native-language delivery in English, French, and Arabic.

Regional offices coordinate continuously. A federation electoral cycle in West Africa, a host-nation positioning play in the Maghreb, and a sovereign-capital brief in Southern Africa run on the same operating rhythm — managed centrally, executed locally.

Maghreb

Casablanca

Federation, ministerial, and host-nation positioning across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Lead office for the Morocco mandate.

West Africa

Abidjan

Francophone West Africa coverage — Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea — with bilingual EN/FR delivery and federation-level access.

East Africa

Nairobi

Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda. Strong standing in CECAFA institutional landscape and the Horn of Africa diplomatic surface.

Central Africa

Yaoundé

Cameroon, Gabon, DRC, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea. CEMAC-zone federations and resource-state sport-investment positioning.

Southern Africa

Johannesburg

South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia. COSAFA-region work and the gateway market for sovereign capital allocators.

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Regional Offices
3
Working Languages
23+
Active Markets
54
CAF Member Associations Mapped
Institutional Domains

Where we sit at the table.

Domain 01

Football Governance

FIFA, CAF, member associations, electoral cycles, integrity bodies, regulatory frameworks, and the continental institutional landscape.

Domain 02

Sports Diplomacy

Host-nation strategy, bid positioning, soft-power architecture, ministerial coordination, and the geopolitics of major tournament hosting.

Domain 03

Capital & Allocators

Sovereign wealth, family offices, and institutional capital evaluating African sport as an asset class, influence vector, and continental positioning play.

Strategic intelligence architecture

The architecture is built. The question is whether your mandate is.

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