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In Qatar, he has worked on financial restructuring, internal audit, and forensic audit projects for private companies to identify process inefficiencies & revenue leakages and has set up strong financial processes. He has headed projects for development of feasibility studies and business plans in the agricultural and manufacturing sector. The projects included modern methods of farming like hydroponics, indoor vertical farming and set up of green houses for agriculture. He has worked on a strategic project with Qatar Development Bank for the set up of indoor vertical farms in Qatar. In the manufacturing domain, he has worked on processed food manufacturing and prefab construction material. Also, he has completed due diligence and valuation of several companies as part of transaction and advisory support services in the manufacturing, trading and services domain. In the space of venture capital investing, he has an exposure to sectors like Healthcare, Fintech, Education and Renewable Energy. He has been engaged in the pre-investment stage and completing investment documentation. Pre-investment assessment includes an assessment of the business potential, competitors and evolution of customer preferences in the specific business areas. This would be followed-up with a verification of the company’s financials and an assessment of the profitability of the business.  He has been engaging with portfolio companies for financial management and strategic initiatives including restructuring. In the recent past he has been part of audit teams for larger corporations like Shipping Corporation of India and National Thermal Power Corporation of India. He has also been an internal auditor to one of the largest educational trusts in India, having 29 institutes under them. He set up a cost-effective monitoring fund system which allowed the trust to plan and generate resources for capital expenses along with increasing returns on surplus funds available. He was instrumental in identifying and recovering funds diverted from the trust and setting up a monitoring mechanism which led to drastic reduction in such activities. The system was based on cross checking each data point with alternate data thereby reducing instances of leakages in the system. The client recovered close to INR 2 million through implementation of the process. He is proficient in working with multicultural teams and gives emphasis to simplicity in communication to increase its effectiveness . He has experience in getting systems implemented in organizations where there were lack of skilled personnel with the ability to understand complex processes. He is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW)  and from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and holds a diploma in information systems audit from (ICAI). He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from S.P. Jain School of Global Management ( Australia ) specializing in global finance , and bachelor’s degree in commerce from university of Mumbai. He is also a winner of the CFA equity research challenge at the Dubai chapter of the organization in 2017. He has also completed a course in “Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economic” from HarvardX.

Burzin has managed and led teams to execute several types of projects including business plans across a wide variety of industries (industrial products, agriculture, healthcare, fintech, specialty chemicals). He has expertise in developing business plans, feasibility studies, valuations, due diligence and buy & sell-side transaction advisory. Burzin also runs the Strategy management office of a private strategic company. His responsibilities include advising the chairman on strategic expansion as well as strike deals with global companies to enable them to expand in the MENA region. Burzin independently managed the valuation of a landscaping business. This involved gathering of management input and a site visit of operations. This was followed by a detailed market assessment of the industry and similar competitors. Using this input, a robust valuation model and report was generated detailing the valuation of the company. His superior project management skills ensured the deliverable was of high quality within the stipulated time frame. Burzin conducted a valuation of a physiotherapy center in GCC. This was followed by submission of initiatives in the form of a strategic road map so that the business improves its valuation to ready itself for a stake sale in the near future. He recommended cost-saving initiatives such as shutting down of unprofitable centers and termination of certain high-cost sponsorship contracts from which the business was not deriving incremental benefit. He also prepared organizational templates through which management could track performance of administrative staff and doctors and recommended incentives that would improve employee productivity. Before joining Empact Consulting and prior to his postgraduate qualifications, he worked as a risk and research analyst where he researched arbitrage opportunities across the forward curve of energy commodities. He developed and maintained high probability-low risk investment strategies across the following products: Brent oil (ICE), WTI (NYMEX) and Gas Oil (ICE). He conducted, reported and analyzed primary and secondary research related to these commodities. He generated research reports on these energy products detailing arbitrage opportunities in inter-commodity and crack spreads. He had also analyzed the risk/return profile of several positions using Value-at-Risk models as well as Sharpe Ratio and Jensen’s Alpha metric of analysis. He holds a Masters in Finance from S P Jain School of Global Management (Singapore, Sydney, Dubai) and a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA.

Alec currently works as a financial manager at a prominent group in Qatar. His duties included review of the financial information and reports prepared by the accountants. By analyzing daily collections and seasonal trends, he was able forecast the financials of the company. This led to cashflow management such that the company could meet its liabilities and vendor payments were made in a timely manner.

Alec also independently presented robust financial reports to management and stakeholders which helped them make decisions that improved the financial health of the company. A recommendation he made was alteration of the compensation formula of trainers in a way that benefitted the company as well as the employees.

Alec also spearheaded a shift in accounting policies and processes such that the productivity of members of the finance team improved. Alec worked closely with the IT department to overcome shortcomings of the company software in order to extract the relevant data required for accurate and timely reporting. Along with the CFO, he was also responsible for preparing, reviewing and managing the budget of the company and to highlight any deviation of expenses. Alec was also responsible for the group receiving its first unqualified audit report in three years.

Previously, Alec worked as a senior auditor at the Bank of Beirut in Lebanon. He oversaw audit planning and reporting communicating this directly to the management. He reviewed audit work papers prepared by the audit staff in order to ensure sound audit theory and comply with the department's methodology. He ensured the department followed the appropriate policies and procedures in line with in-house systems and controls. He managed a team of auditors and was responsible for their training and evaluation. He also worked previously as the assistant branch manager of Byblos Bank in Lebanon. He was responsible for promoting, developing and managing on a daily basis the retail business of the branch. In liaison  with the treasury department, he coordinated and finalized reconciliations of foreign exchange and capital markets.

Alec has a Bachelors in IT management from the University of Balamand in Lebanon and a Masters in Business Administration from Sagesse University in Lebanon.

Sandeep has conducted feasibility studies for diverse sectors which encompass Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, M-commerce, and Educational. He has conducted feasibility studies across GCC countries and provided his expertise in market assessment. Sandeep has been evaluating the project teams and communicating opinions to senior management to ensure feasibility studies meet client satisfaction. He has provided strategic review services to business partners and identified alternative solutions and recommendations to improve business efficiency. Sandeep was part of the hospital valuation team in Bahrain, KSA and Qatar. He was also a part of the commissioning committee in setting up a medical hospital and monitoring HR plan, procurement of medical equipment and other pre-operating functions. Prior to joining Empact, Sandeep had worked with a Non-Governmental Organization. In his previous company, he has provided assistance in technology sourcing, and commercializing new products. He had promoted healthcare interventions and assisted start-ups by building consortiums of Social Entrepreneurs, NGOs and Public Health Organizations with the objective of improvement in the following areas: primary healthcare and diagnostic centers, mobile clinics, sanitation, health promotion and disease management. He had also worked in collaboration with overseas employees and volunteers in a sustainable development project, funded by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Government of India. During his career, he has been a member of the project monitoring and implementation committee that organized meetings, presentations and preparation of project reports. He has acquired technical skills in the field of biotechnology through working with the senior research team in a project based on waste water treatment. Through his tenure, he has assisted in managing projects aimed at optimum resource utilization. Sandeep has been awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship, considered among the prestigious awards for international study and professional development. He is among the two awardees across the commonwealth countries to receive the scholarship (year 2015) at University of the West of England, to pursue MSc Public Health. He also holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai.

He has an in-depth understanding of diverse markets across India as well as different models of business and structures of distribution (Distributors, DSA, DST and Organized retail). He has proven capabilities in expanding channel business by sourcing new partners and maintaining effective business relationships with existing partners to enhance profitability of business operations. He has consistently delivered exceptional performance and has been acknowledged with multiple awards/appreciations such as Sales Head Trophy, Star of the Month in Vodafone Idea Ltd., Maestro Award in Tata Teleservices Ltd., and Eklavya Award in Eveready Industries India Ltd. He is an achievement-driven professional with outstanding success in managing Sales and Distribution business controlling overall EBITDA / P&L and consistently improving top-and bottom-line performance. Currently, he is working as Strategy Manager at Empact Consulting. At Empact he has been successfully delivering the following key results areas; Strategy and Internal Projects; Business Development; Internal Initiator-Project Management Office; Analytics and Inference; Organizational Efficiency; Deal Management. He has successfully delivered the Development Bank strategy project to help the project team to make an info-graphics strategy presentation. In the Plasma Fractionation Plant project, he acted as a coordinator between the client, the project team, medical expert, and the competitors to get the KPI’s delivered as per the Project Gantt chart. In this project he helped the project team in making the slides on market and technical assessment in the feasibility study. Animal Feeds project, he handled the client to coordinate between the primary research team to get the inputs concerning the project. He created various reports in excel and drafted a questionnaire as per the expectations of the client. In the Sanitizer business project, he acted as the in-charge for strategy of the business, helping the on-field team in sales. He has been instrumental in creation of different templates like quotations, proposals, presentation slides, and inventory formats to manage the inventory. In the project of vertical farming, he coordinated with the different technical providers for techno commercial feasibility of the project. He has successfully multitasked in different projects and assignments which were required in Empact. He delivered multiple reporting formats and templates like proposals, scoping template, management presentation slides, helping Empact in expansion activities in GCC and Europe. He has been one of the key team member of research and development team to conduct research on various projects similar as the Hydrogen project. He has been successful due to the effective use of a consulting approach, go to market strategy, and the Kaizen way of consistently improving. He has certifications in SPIN selling skills, Google Analytics, Financial Modelling and Leadership in the time of crisis. His interest areas are Design Thinking, Sustainability, and Technology. He holds an MBA from S.P. Jain School of Global Management (Singapore, Sydney, Dubai), specializing in Consulting Management; EPBM from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Masters of Commerce in Economics; Bachelor in Commerce from University of Lucknow, India; and has done PGDGSM from NIS school of Marketing.

In the recent past, he has conducted feasibility studies over a diverse range of sectors including pharmaceutical products manufacturing, paint manufacturing, industrial coating manufacturing, innovative farming technology, medical laundry, catering services, healthcare, food & beverage (F&B), label manufacturing, e-commerce and general services.  He was also responsible for valuation of geotechnical services/geographical information system company, for its acquisition. He had also developed a post-acquisition business plan for the same. Shrey has also worked on a strategy project to visually represent the as-is state of process across all bank operations and departments, for a leading bank in Bahrain, based on the bank’s current policy documentation and stakeholder meetings with the respective process owners and department heads, which required him to gain an understanding of the internal steps involved in banking operations, policy and procedures and also be well versed in using Microsoft Visio – as a visual representation tool. Shrey has also developed a valuation report and investment teaser/pitch deck report for a Qatar based POS and payment gateway solution provider. This involved a detailed market assessment of the payments industry, technical assessment of the technology required and a robust 10-years financial forecast within which the return metrics of the project were analyzed. He has also built financial forecasts models for a carpet manufacturing facility setup and pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. He was involved in recommending a manpower plan and the marketing budget and strategies for these business concepts. Before joining Empact Consulting and prior to his postgraduate qualifications, he worked as a business analyst for Tata Consultancy services where his major client was the NSE, India. He has also worked as a product manager for Dell  (PSG – Personal System Group) managing the import and sale of Dell in the East –Africa region, in a  B2B market segment. He was responsible for both structured deals with Dell Global Partner in Africa as well as reselling partners controlling the pricing and marketing of the products. He was based in Nairobi, Kenya and over-looked Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania markets. He has also interned as a Finance and Accounting Consultant, for a Food and Beverage (F&B) holding firm based in Singapore. He holds a Masters in Finance from S P Jain School of Global Management (Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai) and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, India.