Sector-specialist and regional advisors engaged per mandate.
Arif has led strategy and policy advisory for 25 years across three continents. He has advised governments, sovereign entities, and Fortune-500 organizations on complex strategic, operational, and organizational challenges. His policy innovation work spans a wide range of sectors; in the last decade, he has focused on AI + System Dynamics for executive support. His track record includes high-impact, evidence-based policies across transport, mobility, healthcare, defense, education, sustainability, and digital infrastructure. He is recognized for leading cross-disciplinary teams, delivering board-ready strategies, and driving resilient, data-driven solutions in dynamic environments.
Education / Affiliations: Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada • Master's, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand • Multiple awards and scholarships winner • Author and speaker • Principal Architect of Executive Decision Support Systems.
Ash is a board member and chief executive with large-scale operating and advisory experience across the U.S. and MENA region. He has led conglomerates and growth companies, delivered P&L impact exceeding $400 million, and worked across construction, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, private equity, and consumer businesses. He is especially strong in enterprise growth, operational transformation, and multi-firm integration.
Education / Affiliations: Degrees with honors, University of Manila • Fluent in Arabic, English, and Tagalog.
Ed is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and senior transformation leader with over 30 years of consulting, managing, and training experience across three continents. His work spans large-scale strategic programs, organizational transformation, alliances, acquisitions, operational excellence, and federal stewardship, including leadership on a $20 billion acquisition and integration program. He has also trained over a 1,000 professionals and leaders in the military and corporate worlds.
Education / Affiliations: Degrees in Educational Administration, Systems Management, and Law • Graduate of four defense schools • Former Adjunct Professor, Northrup University.
Greg has spent 25 years advising boards and senior executives across Fortune 500 companies and the public sector. Formerly a leader of Deloitte Consulting's Global Benchmarking Center, he works across finance, HR, IT, marketing, and strategy, with particular strength in people systems, organization design, culture, talent management, and M&A-related transformation.
Education / Affiliations: Multi-field management education • Industry committee leadership in training and development • Fluent in English and French.
Hennessy is a management consultant with 30 years of experience in strategy and organizational development. He integrates human and organizational behavior, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and complexity-oriented thinking to help leaders solve difficult problems and strengthen strategic capability. He has worked on client engagements and internal professional development programs at McKinsey and teaches strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, and communication.
Education / Affiliations: Master's, California Institute of Technology • MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management • Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University • Faculty, University of Oregon.
Powdermaker advises boards and senior executives on company-wide and across-company business systems. Over more than 25 years at McKinsey and other corporations, he has led strategic planning and process change programs on four continents and combines advisory depth with direct implementation experience in large-scale information and infrastructure systems. His global network and datacenter work spans 150 sites in 48 countries and delivered major cost savings and performance gains.
Education / Affiliations: Humanities studies at SUNY • Scrum leadership distinctions • McKinsey leadership training recognition.
Michael is a senior business and technology leader with consulting, board, and academic experience across three continents. He has worked with Chevron, Ericsson, Kaiser Aluminum, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Security Agency, and has led work in digital transformation, cybersecurity, data and information systems, quality, and talent development. He also served as Chair of the Budget, Finance, and Audit committee of a major public board overseeing large financial portfolios.
Education / Affiliations: Engineering degree • MBA • Ph.D. in Operations Management with focus on business information systems.
Randy has advised and coached boards and C-level executives for more than 30 years across strategy, marketing, operations, and organization. He is especially known in people and organization development, having architected Deloitte's Talent Management practice and served as HR Transformation leader at KPMG. His work integrates people, policy, workforce analytics, learning, and implementation into enterprise-wide transformation.
Education / Affiliations: Broad multi-university business education • Charter Member, International Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) • Author and speaker.
Rashmi works across strategy, innovation, analytics, and business systems for Global 1000 companies in Asia and the United States. Her work includes banking platforms serving more than 17 million deposit accounts across more than 1,000 financial institutions, retail forecasting and replenishment redesign, multi-firm supply chain improvement, and healthcare claims-processing applications. She has been recognized through multiple contributor and performance awards.
Education / Affiliations: Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications, RGPV • Master's in Business Analytics • Fluent in three languages.
Razi is a former chief executive who now advises boards and CEOs on strategy, international mergers and acquisitions, and transformation. His 30-year career spans advisory, executive, training, and implementation roles across three continents and seven industries. As CEO of Al Ghurair Foods, he led a $1 billion business with 9 manufacturing plants, 1,200 employees, and operations in 40 countries. His executive career in chemicals and manufacturing have received top-quality awards.
Education / Affiliations: Bachelor's with honors in Applied Physics • MBA in Marketing • Postgraduate studies at Babson College • Founder-Chair, IBA Center for Executive Education.
Usama Samad is a consultant and systems-oriented improvement leader known for decision models, gap analysis, and measurable process gains. He has led process teams at Alcatel-Lucent, NEC America, and Verizon, delivering major cost reductions, cycle-time compression, quality improvement, and implementation success. He is valued for training client teams during engagements so capability remains after the project ends. He intensely pursues advancements in decision- and executive-support.
Education / Affiliations: B.S. and M.S., Electrical Engineering • Stanford postgraduate in Strategic Decision Making & Risk Management • ASQ Six Sigma • PMP • SCPM.
Partners combine sectoral and industry experience, implementation expertise, multiple specializations, and ongoing academic affiliations.
