WHO WE ARE
When the pieces need to come together.
Your next opportunity may require more coordination, operating discipline, or technical capability than your current team can provide.
Materials Management Advisors works alongside owners and business leaders to resolve complex challenges, coordinate execution, and build the systems needed to grow.
A development project needs its budget, funding, construction scope, and operating requirements aligned. A growing company needs experienced leadership beyond its founders. A technology investment needs someone who understands both the systems and the business.
We bring commercial judgment, operating experience, and engineering depth to these situations. You work directly with an experienced principal who stays involved as plans become action.
LET’S TALK
A project that needs coordination. A business that needs leadership capacity. A technology challenge that needs practical execution.
Let’s discuss what needs to move forward.
How we help
Owner’s Representation & Project Delivery
Keep the owner’s objectives at the center of execution.
We help property owners and developers connect project economics, funding requirements, construction delivery, and readiness for operations.
Our work includes budget and funding reconciliation, identifying scope gaps, procurement planning, contractor and vendor coordination, cost and schedule visibility, and project closeout.
We work alongside your lenders, attorneys, contractors, and design professionals to clarify decisions and keep critical actions moving.
Fractional Business & Operations Leadership
Add leadership capacity as your business grows.
We work alongside founders and owners who need experienced support to pursue opportunities and manage increasingly complex operations.
We help evaluate new markets, develop operating plans, assess business partners, prepare for commercial negotiations, and coordinate delivery. We also establish practical workflows, reporting, and accountability so progress depends less on the owner managing every detail.
Support can range from a defined business challenge to an ongoing leadership role.
Technology Architecture & Implementation
Make technology work for your operations.
We translate business and property requirements into systems that people can use and operators can manage.
For buildings, this includes connectivity, access control, smart locks, intercoms, surveillance, automation, and energy monitoring.
For businesses, it includes enterprise systems, integrations, digital platforms, and automation and AI-enabled workflows.
We support architecture, vendor selection, implementation, testing, and handover—connecting technical decisions to everyday operations.
Our work in practice
Bringing development projects into alignment
For residential development and property operations, our work spans owner-side project coordination, budget and funding review, procurement, closeout, and building technology. We help owners connect the decisions made during development with the requirements of leasing and operating the finished property.
Building and commissioning connected properties
Our building technology work has included the design and installation of network infrastructure, video intercoms, access control, surveillance, HVAC automation, and energy monitoring. We coordinate the individual systems so they support the property’s operating needs.
Working through complex commercial arrangements
For industrial and international business relationships, we help assess how pricing, payment terms, delivery obligations, and financing exposure affect the economics of a deal. That analysis supports negotiations and operating arrangements that the parties can execute.
A practical approach
Clarify the outcome.
Establish what the business or project needs to achieve and which decisions matter most.
Connect the plan.
Align economics, responsibilities, delivery requirements, and technology around a workable path.
Stay involved through execution.
Coordinate actions, resolve obstacles, and maintain visibility as the work progresses.
Build lasting capability.
Put systems, documentation, and operating practices in place to support the next stage.
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PhilOSOPHY
Think right to left…deliver compelling outcomes.
Lawrence Dowe
Principal | Business, Operations & Technology Leader
Lawrence Dowe combines commercial judgment, hands-on operating experience, and deep technical capability.
An electrical and computer engineer by training, his background includes AT&T Bell Labs, Chevron, and Amazon, with experience across manufacturing, supply chain, enterprise technology, and major capital projects.
Today, he works with owners, developers, and growing businesses to strengthen execution, navigate commercial decisions, and implement technology. His experience as a founder also informs his understanding of the choices and constraints facing owner-led companies.
Lawrence’s strength is connecting the whole picture—and working through the details required to deliver.
What needs to move forward?
If you have a project that needs coordination, a business that needs leadership capacity, or a technology challenge that needs practical execution, let’s talk.