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SA MEDIA

THE PEOPLEBEHIND THERESULTS

A small, focused team of strategists, creatives, engineers, and operators. We don't hire for headcount. We hire for impact.

LEADERSHIP

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Saim Abbasi

Founder · President & CEO

Saim is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Queen's University and a former XVA, Collateral and Credit Sales Trading Analyst at Scotiabank Capital Markets. He applies the same quantitative, systems-level discipline from institutional finance to every strategy SA Media builds, making the firm structurally different from agencies built by creatives alone.

Before founding SA Media, Saim completed three company acquisitions in under two years, culminating in an exit to Asset Entities (NASDAQ: $ASST) and a subsequent transaction with Strive Asset Management. He is currently Managing Partner at Iron Key Capital, one of the youngest individuals to hold that title globally.

Saim has served as Chief Technology Officer and Head of AI as well as CMO for Progress Group Inc., and CMO for Squirrel Wallet, Director of Strategy and Operations at Vosyn AI, and sits on the Board of Advisors at CMPUS. His content platforms have accumulated 250M+ views and the SA ecosystem has generated over $10M in collective economic value across 1,000+ founders and students mentored.

TRACK RECORD

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Successful business exits

250M+

Content views across platforms

$10M+

Revenue generated via SA ecosystem

10+

Active ventures across VC, Media & AI

1,000+

Founders and students mentored

THE TEAM

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Saim Abbasi

Founder & CEO

Saim brings an engineer's discipline, a capital markets analyst's rigour, and a serial entrepreneur's instinct to brand strategy. His expertise spans growth strategy, AI, venture building, paid media, and executive leadership. At SA Media, he is the direct senior point of contact on every client engagement.

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Anastasiia Krasnova

Co-Founder & CMO

Anastasiia co-founded SA Media and leads all creative and marketing strategy across the firm. She drives the visual identity, brand systems, and campaign direction that define how our clients show up in the world. Her approach combines a precise eye for design with a deep understanding of what converts across paid and organic channels, ensuring that every brand SA Media builds is both visually compelling and commercially effective.

Brand IdentityCreative StrategyCampaign DirectionCMO
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Aly Mandviya

Co-Founder & CFO

Aly co-founded SA Media and oversees the financial strategy, operations, and business development infrastructure that allows the firm to move fast and stay lean. His background in finance means clients work with a team that treats their budget with the same rigour applied to creative output. Aly leads commercial relationships, financial planning, and the internal systems that keep SA Media operating at a standard well above what the agency market typically delivers.

FinanceOperationsBusiness DevelopmentGrowth

COLLECTIVE EXPERTISE

One team. Every discipline.

SA Media is structured so that strategy, creative, technology, and finance operate as a single unit. There are no departments passing briefs between them. The team that plans your brand is the same team that builds and executes it.

Brand Strategy

Market positioning, competitive analysis, audience definition, messaging architecture, and brand narrative built to last.

Creative and Design

Visual identity, brand systems, campaign creative, social content, motion design, and production across every format.

Technology and Engineering

Web development, app builds, digital infrastructure, AI agent deployment, automation workflows, and CRM integration.

Growth Marketing

Paid media across Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn. SEO, AIEO, GEO optimisation, email, and influencer strategy.

Finance and Operations

Financial planning, ROI modelling, budget management, operational systems, and commercial partnership structuring.

Capital and Venture

Investor relations, fundraising support, M&A advisory, and access to the Iron Key Capital network across North America and the Gulf.

WHERE WE COME FROM

Built by people who have done this before.

The SA Media leadership team brings experience from institutional finance, engineering, venture building, and creative direction. This is not a team of career agency people. It is a team of operators who built real companies and chose to apply that standard to brand and marketing.

Scotiabank Capital Markets

XVA, Collateral and Credit Sales Trading. The quantitative rigour of institutional finance is baked into how SA Media evaluates strategy and measures performance.

Queen's University

Mechanical Engineering. Systems thinking, problem decomposition, and engineering discipline applied to every brand and growth challenge we take on.

Iron Key Capital

Managing Partner at one of the most active early stage capital platforms in the market. SA Media clients benefit from direct access to this investor network.

HOW WE OPERATE

The principles we
won't compromise on

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Results first

We measure everything that matters. If we can't show you how our work connects to revenue, we don't do it.

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No black boxes

Full transparency on strategy, spend, performance, and process. You always know exactly what's happening and why.

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One team

Strategy, creative, media, and tech work together in one room. No silos, no hand-offs, no information lost in translation.

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Built to last

We build systems and brand equity that compound over time, not campaigns that spike once and disappear.

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