Founder, Moustache Enterprises
Ryan Mills
Ryan is a British business developer and researcher working mainly across the UK and Saudi Arabia. He is at his best when handed an unfamiliar market and asked to find out what is actually going on.
Why he works this way
Businesses keep producing questions that sit between research, strategy and sales. They matter, but they rarely belong to anybody's job description, so they wait.
Moustache Enterprises exists so one person can take a question like that, own it, and come back with an answer and a next move.
Ryan's background
Business development
The full cycle: finding target organisations, reaching the right people, opening conversations, agreeing terms and keeping the relationship afterwards.
Professional-services recruitment
Legal and advisory markets, where reputation, relationships and timing decide who wins work.
Commercial research
Mapping fragmented industries and building a usable view of companies nobody has written about.
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf
Building a legal search practice in the Kingdom from scratch, travelling there, and writing publicly about its business environment.
Founding OwnIP
A venture built around making intellectual-property assets easier to find, buy and sell.
Those skills are useful far beyond recruitment.
Recruitment is not what Moustache sells. It is where Ryan learned that markets move through people: who is hiring, who has just left, which teams are being built, which offices are opening, who has taken their clients with them. Read those movements and you usually see a company's strategy before it is announced.
That habit is useful almost anywhere.
- Enter an unfamiliar market quickly
- Find information that is not published anywhere
- Work out which organisations actually matter
- Reach senior people without an introduction
- Read hiring and leadership moves as commercial signals
- Start conversations from nothing
No handover
Ryan frames the question, does the research, speaks to the people involved and writes the recommendation himself. He stays involved if the work carries on into introductions and first conversations.
Where a specialist is genuinely needed, he brings one in rather than pretending every capability sits in-house.
Company details
- Trading name
- Moustache Enterprises
- Based
- London, United Kingdom
- Model
- Independent and founder-led