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In a rapidly evolving market, visionary leaders are choosing smarter ways to grow. Frktal provides tailored executive leadership, bringing practical experience across the built environment with strategic clarity and grounded insights.
With Frktal, you gain on-demand, executive-level expertise for a fraction of time and the dedicated execution needed to drive your most critical initiatives, empowering your organization to adapt and thrive.
Fractional Leadership
For Intelligent Change
Fractional Roles
Strategy
Frktal provides the strategic clarity needed to succeed. By bringing practical experience to identify market opportunities, refine product-market fit, and navigate competitive dynamics, Frktal helps companies develop actionable strategies that support their growth and establish a lasting presence in the built environment ecosystem.
Innovation
Frktal helps built environment firms win the future. Frktal provides the strategic leadership to systematically convert new ideas into tangible value, ensuring your organization remains competitive and future-ready.
Digital Transformation
For companies in the built environment, digital transformation can be complex and daunting. By ensuring technology and data strategies are fully aligned with business goals, Frktal helps clients not only adopt new tools but also leverage them to deliver better project outcomes and more valuable client experiences.
Customer Success
Frktal combines a deep understanding of the industry with design thinking to drive adoption and increase lifetime value. The focus is on ensuring clients don’t just use a platform or service; they achieve measurable success that fosters strong, long-term partnerships.
Value Creation
Frktal helps organizations define, articulate, and maximize value for all stakeholders. By bridging the gap between strategy and execution, Frktal ensures every initiative delivers measurable outcomes and creates a lasting impact for clients, users, and investors.
What is Fractional Leadership?
In an industry facing a leadership gap, traditional hiring models fail to deliver the experience and expertise needed for digital transformation and innovation. Fractional leadership is the strategic and agile solution designed to bridge this gap.
Fractional leadership provides organizations with access to high-caliber strategic leaders without the long-term commitment and significant investment of a full-time executive. It involves bringing a seasoned professional into a company for a "fraction" of their time, such as a few days a month, specific hours per week, or for a critical project.
Going beyond traditional consultancy, we take the time to understand your business and provide hands-on support to execute critical initiatives, taking on direct ownership. This approach ensures strategic plans are effectively implemented and that every initiative delivers measurable outcomes, bridging the gap between strategy and execution.
Why Frktal?
Access Top-Tier Strategic Expertise, Instantly
Fractional leaders are seasoned professionals with a wealth of knowledge gained from diverse business settings. This expertise allows them to immediately apply proven strategies to your specific challenges, bypassing the learning curve. Frktal provides leadership at a level of expertise that would otherwise be out of reach for many organizations, providing immediate value from day one.
Cost-Effective
& Sustainable Growth
Hiring a full-time executive comes with substantial costs. With fractional leadership, you only pay for the expertise and time you need, when you need it. This model allows you to tap into high-level talent at a predictable and manageable cost. This cost-effective approach allows Frktal to support sustainable growth, ensuring that financial resources are used efficiently while still achieving your strategic goals.
Embedded & Accountable Partnership
A fractional leader becomes a genuine part of your team, taking direct ownership of their responsibilities and actively participating in daily operations. They are accountable for the outcomes they help create, building trust and ensuring that strategic plans are effectively implemented. Frktal is a partner invested in your success, not just a consultant.
Agile, Flexible
& Scalable Leadership
Fractional leadership provides an agile solution that adapts to your business’s changing needs. Whether you require a leader for a short-term project or on an ongoing basis, the model can be scaled up or down as needed. This flexibility allows you to access the right level of support without the constraints of a rigid employment structure. Frktal provides a solution that grows with your business, ensuring you always have the right leadership support.
Accelerated Impact
& Tangible Results
Fractional leaders are brought in to drive measurable results. Unburdened by the administrative and political aspects of a full-time role, they can focus their energy on creating value from day one. This focused approach leads to accelerated progress and tangible outcomes. Frktal is dedicated to delivering results, ensuring every hour spent with your organization moves you closer to your strategic objectives.
Complexity. Simplified. Delivered
The built environment presents a unique blend of complex technical systems, intricate processes, diverse professions, commercial sensitivities, and statutory regulations, spanning property development, design, and construction.
As a partner, we bring practical experience and grounded insights in strategic execution, innovation, and digital transformation. Our approach is to help you shape new solutions, cultivate an innovation culture, and ensure every initiative delivers tangible, measurable outcomes.
Complexity. Simplified. Delivered
Navigating the inherent complexity of the built environment requires hands-on, executive-level leadership. Frktal provides just that, embedding seasoned expertise in innovation, digital transformation, and strategic execution directly within your team.
Frktal helps you shape new solutions, cultivate an innovation culture, and lead organizational change with the grounded insight and creative precision needed to thrive in this multifaceted industry. It's all about providing the high-caliber leadership you need, without the significant investment or long-term commitment of a full-time executive.
Approach
Advisory & Strategic Guidance
For founders and C-suites seeking a trusted advisor to help shape digital and innovation strategy; whether to navigate transformation, unlock new value, or challenge legacy thinking. Ideal for leaders who need a clear direction and an experienced sounding board.
Embedded Projects & Delivery
For teams needing hands-on support to execute critical initiatives; such as DfMA productization, platform strategy, outcome-based BIM, digital operating models, or AI adoption. I help define the playbook, mobilize action, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Fractional CXO Leadership
For organisations ready to scale innovation, digital, or product functions with senior leadership—but without the overhead of a full-time hire. I embed as your part-time executive (CDO, CSO, CInO, CVO), bringing deep sector expertise to lead from within, build capability, and deliver lasting change.
Leadership
Richard Kuppusamy is a mission-driven leader, strategist, and innovator with over 25 years of experience in the global built environment industry. As an architect, technologist, and operator, he’s known for transforming bold ideas into grounded, executable strategies, bridging vision and delivery with precision, purpose, and principle.
Richard has led advancements across architecture, construction, and real estate, pioneering new methods in both digital and product innovation, including ConTech, PropTech, and DfMA. He is a firm believer in building not just projects, but the systems that shape them by harnessing the fusion of technology and a deep understanding of the industry.
His leadership style is defined by quiet intensity, high standards, and deep integrity. Calm under pressure and relentlessly focused on outcomes, he thrives in complex, high-stakes environments where good judgment, operational rigor, and principled decision-making matter most.
Whether in the boardroom or on the ground, Richard builds trust, loyalty, and high-performing teams. He champions fairness, diversity, and long-term value, creating cultures of accountability and purpose.
Previously a Group Executive at Lendlease and a project architect at award-winning WOHA, Richard’s career has spanned strategic, technical, and creative domains. He holds a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design and is a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He currently serves on the board of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority and is a Director of the SAF Care Fund.
Leadership
Richard Kuppusamy is a mission-driven leader, strategist, and innovator with over 25 years of experience in the global built environment industry. As an architect, technologist, and operator, he’s known for transforming bold ideas into grounded, executable strategies, bridging vision and delivery with precision, purpose, and principle.
Richard has led advancements across architecture, construction, and real estate, pioneering new methods in both digital and product innovation, including ConTech, PropTech, and DfMA. He is a firm believer in building not just projects, but the systems that shape them by harnessing the fusion of technology and a deep understanding of the industry.
His leadership style is defined by quiet intensity, high standards, and deep integrity. Calm under pressure and relentlessly focused on outcomes, he thrives in complex, high-stakes environments where good judgment, operational rigor, and principled decision-making matter most.
Leadership
Whether in the boardroom or on the ground, Richard builds trust, loyalty, and high-performing teams. He champions fairness, diversity, and long-term value, creating cultures of accountability and purpose.
Previously a Group Executive at Lendlease and a project architect at award-winning WOHA, Richard’s career has spanned strategic, technical, and creative domains. He holds a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design and is a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He currently serves on the board of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority and is a Director of the SAF Care Fund.
Principles
Purpose Before Process
I’m driven by work that creates meaningful impact and leaves things better than they were. I focus on leveraging design and technology to improve society, shift industries, and deliver lasting positive change. I find satisfaction in making a tangible difference and being productive toward a clear purpose.
Integrity Without Compromise
I believe in doing the right thing and hold myself to high standards of accountability, transparency, and follow-through. Trust is built through consistent action, not intentions. Ethics and responsibility are foundational to how I lead, grounded in core values and a strong commitment to honesty and loyalty.
Diverse Perspectives, Better Outcomes
I value diverse thinking and collaboration, knowing that real progress comes from listening to different viewpoints before deciding. I learn most when challenged by new perspectives and prefer to work closely with others to build trust and achieve shared goals. Curiosity and analysis drive me to fully understand the problem before shaping solutions.
Authenticity in Leadership
I lead by being my authentic self; consistent in principles, direct in action. I lead from the front, practicing what I believe in every day. For me, authenticity builds trust, and trust is what enables strong, high-performing teams.
Built for Change. Led by Insight.
Lead change with fractional leadership that connects innovation, delivery, and performance in the built environment.
My focus is to help organisations like yours by providing seasoned strategic and execution expertise precisely when and where you need it.
The future isn't about rigid hierarchies; it's about agility. Frktal empowers built environment firms to lead change. We help you bridge the gap between traditional industry practices and emerging technologies and techniques.
Values
Translating Complexity into Clarity
I sit at the rare intersection of industry and technology, able to decode how the built environment actually operates and clearly articulate the value and impact of digital transformation. I make complexity actionable; bridging industry realities with tech execution.
Providing End-to-End Industry Insight
Having worked across property development, design, and construction, I bring a holistic view of the built environment value chain. This allows me to connect the dots in ways others can’t, and to deliver strategies that work across silos, aligning vision and execution across the full lifecycle from concept to delivery.
Offering Global Acumen with Local Sensitivity
With hands-on leadership experience in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, I understand how to navigate diverse operating environments, cultural nuances, and stakeholder expectations. I bring global insight with local fluency; building trust and enabling transformation across regions.
Helping organisations by
Connect
With over 25 years of expertise in pioneering digital transformation, construction innovation, prop-tech, con-tech, and strategy, I help organisations Design Smarter, Build Better, and Lead Differently through the complexity of the built environment industry.
Let’s connect and lead together.
Connect
With over 25 years of expertise in pioneering digital transformation, construction innovation, prop-tech, con-tech, and strategy, I help organisations Design Smarter, Build Better, and Lead Differently through the complexity of the built environment industry.
Let’s connect and lead together.
richard@frktal.com
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