HARESH SHUKLA

In his recent experience, Haresh has been instrumental in guiding and directing projects with Tamkeen, Bahrain Islamic bank, State Bank of India, as well as providing strategic advisory to large private sector firms in GCC. In 2016, he managed a strategic credit evaluation project for Qatar Development Bank by evaluating and providing a credit opinion on 23 projects pertaining to the Food & Beverage manufacturing industry.

In the past, Haresh has delivered a project for the HRD Fund (established under the supervision of Central Bank of Bahrain) to design and develop training programs for skill-development in the financial sector of Bahrain. During this engagement, he has met more than 45 FSI sector entities in Bahrain and elicited their inputs on skill-gaps, required competencies, staffing needs for various entities for a period of 5 years. 

As an Engagement Manager and Head of Bahrain Operations for Research and Advisory at Dun & Bradstreet SAME, Haresh had executed varied types of projects like Development of Business Plans or Feasibility Studies, Performance management & Compensation management system design and implementation, Impact Assessment Studies for SME Development schemes, Skills-gap Study, Development and implementation of Balanced Scorecard Strategy, Development of operational roadmap for client’s strategic objectives (such as new market development, increasing market penetration and diversification of product portfolio). 

Haresh has been actively engaged in projects related to SME Sector development. In Dubai, he has worked with Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for SME Development (MBRESD) on SME Financing Study involving 42 banks and 650 SME Enterprises, wherein various aspects linked to SME Lending were studied. Thereafter, he has worked with SME Development Authority of Bahrain, Tamkeen on several projects like Impact Assessment of Financing Scheme launched for SMEs, Impact Assessment for ICT Financing Scheme for SMEs as well as Impact Assessment for various SME Development schemes launched by Tamkeen under ‘Enterprise Growth Management – III’. For all these projects he has worked in the capacity of a project manager and has experience of both managing and executing such engagements with high levels of professionalism, accuracy and rigor.

In the GCC region, Haresh has worked within multiple industry sectors like Furniture Manufacturing, Jewelry Retail, Luxury Retail, Information and Communication Technology, Real Estate & Construction as well as Government & SME Development.

Haresh holds a Master’s in Business Administration degree from S.P. Jain Center of Management, Dubai/Singapore and a Bachelors of Technology Degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.