Abdul Rauf Parkar, BA, MBA, PhD, Managing Director
Abdul is a successful STRATEGIC CHANGE and INTERIM PROJECT DIRECTOR with over 25 years worldwide experience, having worked and lived in over 10 countries (UK, USA, Germany, Malaysia, Brunei, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Mauritius, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Latvia, Hungary).
Abdul is a hands-on problem solver with a high rate of achievement and an appetite for complex and challenging projects, including the privatisation of companies. Excellent leadership skills with the vision and perception to build and lead results-driven, multi-disciplinary teams.
Abdul's experience spans Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Civil Aviation, Distribution, Pay TV, E-Commerce, Health Care, as well as the other parts of the public sector Comfortable with diverse cultures. He has implemented Balanced Scorecards in a number of organisations and he is a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt.
Abdul can speak 7 languages ( English, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Swahili) and has an compassionate but influential style. Strong project management (accredited Prince 2) , communications, financial modelling and analytical skills.
Zia I Usmani, MBA, MBB, Principal Americas
Zia is an accomplished senior executive who held several executive management positions in fortune companies, such as ABB Inc, Cable & Wireless Inc. USA, Chicago Tribune and Rockwell Automation Services. Zia possess diverse background and understanding of multiple industry and corporate environments strategic thinker with an aptitude for looking at the overall business environment to identify market dynamics and define changes through quantitative research, analysis and execution. Zia has proven leadership to build and manage major worldwide marketing, sales, and customer service & technology programs, while consistently exceeding company's profitability targets.
A graduate of City University of New York, Zia Holds a Master Degree in Global Business Management, as well as a Senior Executive MBA from MIT Sloan. He is a Sigma Sigma Master Black Belt and have saved over a $ 2 Billion dollars managing Six Sigma projects.
Among his achievements is the World's second largest CRM project covering over 60,000 users, consolidation of 471 contacts centers to 5 regional centers. Zia also is a co-founding a very successful US based consulting consortium, AGS. Zia has worked in executive capacity in North, South and Central Americas, Europe and Middle-east covering management of people processes and technologies.
Ian MacMillan, BSc
Ian is a APMG registered programme manager with extensive financial services experience within IT, front office, operations, risk and treasury departments.
He has strong relationship building/consultancy skills, developing and maintaining support of Business Heads as well as senior IT, Legal/Compliance and Operations Management. Highly attuned to the issues of all project stakeholders - IT/business background brings an optimum balance between technology enhancement and process improvements.
Ian has proven change management experience, delivering strategic change across global organizations. Ian has highly developed communication skills, with an empathetic but persuasive style. Hands-on approach to problem solving, with necessary drive, ambition and confidence to deliver results.
Helen Darcy, MCIPD, MIOD,
Helen has over 20 years of business experience in the Healthcare sector. She has held responsibilities for the provision of a Pan European HR Service, has held commercial roles in sales and business development.
Helen is experienced in the implementation and facilitation of change management, she is an expert in the recruitment and selection of high calibre staff. Helen has also got extensive experience of coaching and developing high performance managers.
Helen has investigative and analytical skills and can easily define client issues and find the means to get them resolved. She uses psychometric analysis to improve team motivation and performance enabling a positive impact to bottom line results.
John Freeman Bsc Phd
John has over twenty years experience as a programme and project strategist. His background is in setting up and running projects requiring integration of commercial and technical aspects often with high achieving teams.
John has extensive experience of working with Government departments and agencies as both contractor and service provider. John's core skill is matching tehnology to business process.
John's has work has involved on product research at GlaxoSmithKline, running the DTI development programmes in Image Analysis and Display, setting up a software marketing company and initiating new channels to market for an online travel services company.
John has excellent presentation skills having a regular spot on a major local radio station presenting latest developments in science and technology. He is comfortable with difficult technical propositions having been a visiting lecturer in Medical Physics at Aston University.
John has considerable international experience having worked in the USA, Europe and Middle East.
Eugene Richards, BSc, MBA
Eugene has over 20 years of controlling major multi-national brands and originating cost-effective communications campaigns in the Oil, Automotive and Digital Imaging markets as well as in the public and professional sectors.
Eugene has produced and delivered numerous marketing, PR, corporate and internal communications initiatives typically to launch new products and services as well as managing international exhibitions, conferences, staff training programmes and corporate change projects.
Before becoming a consultant, Eugene was the Marketing Director of a start-up n Internet Development company, helping it exceed £ 1 million in sales within 2 years of operations.
Eugene has developed an "Intangible Asset Management" framework to measure, assess and improve the benefits from companies' external structures, communications and internal strengths.
David Williams BSc, MSc MBA
David has over 25 years of experience in Change Management and change implementation, business process improvement and IT development. David has worked in the Energy and Chemicals industries as well as in Financial Services.
David during his career has been responsible for business planning, creating service products, setting and achieving service levels, managing performance for a £4 million professional services division of a European software company.
David is a creative and strong project leader with proven broad experience in full lifecycle management from sales to delivery to service. He has developed and applied best practice to achieve workable contracts and establish profitable relationships at senior director level.
David is multilingual with the ability to adapt to a;; situations, he has carried out change programmes implementing organizational, systems and technical improvements.
Menon Banarjee, Bsc, Msc
Menon has over twenty years experience in business software development and implementation, in telecommunications, manufacturing, banking and wholesale operations.
Prior to becoming a consultant Menon was Operations Director of a US based telecommunications software company, where he oversaw the business growth from US$1 million to US$ 5 million in just under twelve months.
Menon has well developed project management skills with an understanding of structures methodologies such as PROP and is able to manage complex programmes and multiple projects simultaneously. He has carried out Customer Care and Billing Systems implementation projects in telecommunications companies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Richard Aubrey, BA, MBA
Richard has over seventeen years experience in Mergers and Acquisition, Bid Management and post M&A integration. Prior to becoming a consultant, Richard worked for a number of Investment banks such as CSFB, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, working on Bid Management for client target companies and carrying out pre-acquisition Due Diligence.
Richard's expertise is in integrating the target organisation into then mainstream operation. Richard offers innovative and creative solutions for post-acquisition integration, proposition development and management.
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