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COUNTRY MANAGER (QATAR)

PAUL JOSE ARICATT

Paul has over a decade of experience in strategy & management consulting, operations & HR advisory, organization development, organization restructuring, project management, business valuations, merger & acquisitions, feasibility studies, stakeholder management & business development across Europe, the U.S and the Middle East. Currently, he acts as the General Manager for Empact Qatar and is also an advisor to multiple businesses across GCC. Paul is also associated with numerous families and business owners across GCC for curation and evaluation of attractive deals.

Experience & Activities

Paul worked as the Chief advisor for a well-known Group in Qatar and spearheaded the organization’s financial restructuring. He has extensively worked and given opinions to stakeholders and businesses across healthcare, F&B, Education, Agriculture, E-commerce and Manufacturing industries. In the recent past Paul, worked on valuation and due diligence for multiple medical centers, physiotherapy centers, trading and landscaping companies and Oil and gas service companies across GCC. 

Paul worked as an Organizational Developer for a subsidiary of Kuwait Finance House. He was directly involved in the recruitment of top management, conflict management, strategy development, organization restructuring, budgeting, process improvements and resource optimization. A couple of years ago, Paul worked on strategy implementation for an IT firm wherein he had designed and implemented a comprehensive HR strategy including the design of performance management framework and compensation management framework. Paul has worked with a UAE- based company, TruKKer Technologies, undertaking a consultation project for market expansion of TruKKer, a logistics and warehousing aggregator company.

During his career with Capgemini, Paul handled projects in the BFSI domain and spearheaded end-to-end project development, project implementation and monitoring. During his tenure, he headed GE projects that aimed at optimization of existing business processes. While he was associated with Capgemini and GE, he had handled development projects worth $220 Mn and had brought additional savings worth $14.2 Mn to clients through the process improvements and value additions. Paul’s contribution to Genworth Financials across 28 countries has brought him various customer satisfaction awards, initiative awards & Pat on the Backs from GE, Genworth and Capgemini. 

Paul is a veteran at handling the implementation of change management initiatives, best practices and value innovations. Apart from being a disruptive technology enthusiast and an out of the box thinker, Paul’s business skill set includes blue ocean strategy, balance scorecard, root cause analysis and elimination, curation of deals, analytics and business intelligence.

Paul holds a Master’s in Business Administration degree from S.P. Jain School of Global Management (Australia), Masters in Science degree from BITS Pilani (India) and a Bachelor’s in Technology Degree from Mahatma Gandhi University (India). Currently Paul is doing his Doctorate in Business Administration from Swiss Business School (Switzerland).