Country Advisors

Ex- Director Standard Chartered, Dubai - A UAE resident with over 30 years of varied experience in multinational banks, large conglomerate and professional firms of international repute such as Director- Standard Chartered Bank, CFO - Danube, UAE Head of Finance & audit - Societe General Bank, Manager - Price Water.

Contributed in Senior management positions across Finance, Audit, Client relationship, Corporate Finance and managed and motivated multi-cultural and cross functional teams to execute change across diverse international markets.

Expertise in facilitation of Debt Finance for SME and Corporate, Trade Finance, Mortgage and under Construction Finance , Merchant loan and Private Equity Funding, & Financial Advisory services

MD- Xenex Consultants Inc, , Canada - A Canadian citizen having over 35 years experience in multi-million $ cross- sectoral project management; public private partnership project development and implementation; industrial safety and environmental studies; techno-economic assessment, evaluation & selection; environmental assessment; due-diligence and lenders advisory; pollution assessment and abatement; and waste management.

Consulted with Canadian provincial and federal government; assisted in policy and regulations development; stakeholder engagements; and assisting with regulatory evaluations.

Currently consults international financial institutions, government agencies and ministries, local governments and private industries in Canada, Middle East and internationally.

Travelled to over 75 counties as part of client development efforts and attend client meetings/ conferences.

MD - Pankti International Pte. Ltd, Singapore - A Singapore citizen with over 22 years in international business in high value products, commodities, polypropylene etc. and have been interacting/ representing reputed large clients and generating high value international business.

Initial stage of career worked with the Birla Group of companies handling international trade from Singapore.

Ex-Commercial Director Techwings, India - Over 20 years of international senior level experience of having worked as Commercial Director- Techwings software solutions; Business Head Shanfari Travel,Oman; Country Manager Orbitz ( MICE) India; British Airways Oman & Bahrain.

Headed a SBU with complete responsibility of P&L delivery, in the Airline, Travel-Tourism and Software Sales industry, in India, Middle East and Australia, with a strong sales and operations background and a proven track record of growth and profitability and Partnered software company to develop a tool catering to airline software needs, and to fulfill the complex task of creating revenue budgets for airlines and offer day to day intelligence on performance, competing with established incumbents like Sabre and Amadeus. Successfully launched the product with a low cost airline Air Arabia, and the product was enhanced to cater to all airlines for passenger and cargo revenue budgeting and successfully further engaged clients like Etihad, Air Berlin, Sri Lankan, Fly Dubai, RAK Airways etc.

From a single outlet - non-IATA travel office with 8 staff, as General Manager Shanfari Travel grew the company to 3 SBU's with 5 retail outlets, with over 40 staff and adding franchise operations of BCD Travel, National Car rental & Air Arabia GSA, grew the top line to over US$ 20M (growth of 250% in 4 years from takeover)