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25 years of diverse assignments and contributions, which pot many professional disciplines to create a solid base of analysis, decision making, assessment and delivery. Assemble and lead teams for adequate processing and synergy to secure efficiency and client's satisfaction. |
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In Dubai: Contributed to Heritage Management at DM, TECOM initiatives & projects, and DIFC development. Also in developing South Johor of Malaysia. Strong Advocate for measurable Quality, Knowledge implementations and CSR obligations. |
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Project Management
Cultural Preservation
Development Management
Facilities Management
Knowledge Management |
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Director & Board Member Medini Malaysia
Director Technical Group-UWI
Director Prejects & Assets Management-DIFC |
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BA Arch.
ICOMOS, ULI, PMI, ACCE,APMG, PRINCE2, 6σ, MBIFM, IFMA. |
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Photography, Anthropology, Humanitarian Studies, Academic Researches, Travel and Blogging. |
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Adil Abdalla
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Associate: Construction & Facilities Management |
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Twenty Seven years of experience in the field of Accounting, Auditing, Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Treasurery, Stock Brokerage, Chemical Distribution, Lubricant Manufacturing, Trading, Journalism and on the Board of Front line regulator for Stock Market.
Key role in the past ten years has been of providing Leadership, Building businesses, Financial Engineering and Private Equity Management.
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Set-up Businesses in the field of Corporate Brokerage, Manufacturing, Distribution, Media and Marketing. Structured first ever Reverse Take Over, First ever hostile take-over, fund raising and corporate finance deal structuring. |
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Corporate Finance
Financial Management
Stock Brokerage
Auditing
Accounting
Media
Oil and Chemicals |
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Chairman of number of companies in past ten years and Director of Karachi Stock Exchange |
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ACA England and Wales. |
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Writing for newspaper, Reading fiction and Newspaper editing |
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Munir Muhammad
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Lead Consultant |
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With 25 years experience in the broadcast and print media industries, Kevan brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Istesharah team. He's the executive director of MECIA (Middle East Communications Industries Association) and a regional advisor to the Association for International Broadcasting. |
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Launched MECIA - first industry Association for broadcast industry in GCC |
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Broadcasting, multi-media, professional AV, magazine publishing |
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Managing Director - AV Specialist MENA FZ LLC
Executive Director - MECIA
Regional Advisor - Association for International broadcasting |
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CTS: certified technology specialist with demonstrated knowledge in the science and technology behind audio, video and display systems. |
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Climbed Kilimanjaro |
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Kevan Jones
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Associate: Broadcasting |
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Imad has over 25 years of experience in the fields of Life Sciences, Industry Development Zones and Research. |
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Foundation for Research and Innovation at the Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park. |
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Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Medical & Pharmacology
Industry Development
Life Science Clusters |
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Lead Investigator, NASA Space Medicine and Life Science Research Center;
Director of Clinical and Analytical Laboratories and Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Morehouse School of Medicine-USA;
Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Food at the FDA;
Professor of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Philadelphia University in Jordan;
Director of Science Affairs at Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park;
Director, Science Consultancy and Research at Almijhir Consultancy and Research
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Ph.D in Biochemistry, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Toxicology, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Fulbright Fellowship in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering. |
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Reading, Travelling. |
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Imad Abukhalaf
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Affiliate: Science & Research |
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Beate is a seasoned career professional with over 20 years of experience, across industries and continents. Her specializations lie mainly in ICT, BPO, economic development clusters, start-up's, strategy and financial modelling. |
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Built largest call center outside of USA for a telco.
Set up new business unit for Siemens.
Pioneered business development, procurement, FM and Sales for Dubai Holding
In R&D unit at Uniys, USA. |
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Telecoms & ICT (software)
Public Sector, Economic Development Zones
Real Estate & Facilities Management
Asset Management, Insurance |
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Board Member
CEO
Director
Business Development Manager
Project & Product Manager |
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Post-grad in ICT; MBA in Islamic Finance - Sir John Cass City School of London - CASS (2010). |
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Social Work, Anthropology, Quantum Physics, Philosophy, Psychology, Exploration, Learning, Creativity, Enabling. |
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Beate (Aisha) Kerlis
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Independent Director |
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Fatma Mahfoudh has more than 14 years experience in the UAE in the field of marketing and brand management. Her experience ranges from change management and developing e-based solutions for multinational corporations through process re-engineering. |
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Set up two successful businesses.
Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Part of Emirates Diving Association Group, sent to Thailand by the Government of Dubai to assist in recovery of underwater debris, after the Tsunami.
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Facilities Management |
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Publisher
Marketing brand Communications Manager-Gulf region
Associate Partner-Human Resource
Customer Service Manager
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MBA(marketing and employee relations) from Leicester University.
Postgraduate Diploma Marketing from Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Trained as Internal Auditor of ISO Procedures from DNV.
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Reading, Writing, Trekking, Scuba Diver. |
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Fatma Mahfoudh
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Associate: Asset Management |
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A perfect fusion of the western and middle eastern culture. More than eight years of experience of all commercial aspects for telecommunication projects in the Middle East and Asia Pacific region. |
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Profit and Loss Responsibility for the most important and difficult projects within Siemens Mobile Network(Thailand, India, Iran and Iraq). |
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Telecommunication-Mobile Network(2G/3G) |
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Account Director Commercial Sales
Finance and Control |
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Higher Diploma in Business Administration, graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in Germany. |
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Travel,Sports,Politics,Intercultural Management. |
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Eshvagh Roessner
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Senior Consultant |
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Rami has over 10 years of experience, worked and studied in Germany and the UAE with multinational companies, focusing on sophisticated webhosting applications and networking.
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Dead Angle/Blind Spot System for Bosch in
Germany.
Engage Server for Istesharah Dubai.
IT infrastructure Health Insurance company in Dubai. |
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Industry
Webhosting
Finance
Healthcare Management
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Programmer
IT Support
Network Administrator
IT Manager |
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M.Sc.(Informatics Engineering)from Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany(2004). |
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Islam and other religions, E.U. Culture, Movies, Music, Sport, Cooking. |
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Rami Ajjan
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Istesharah Diagnostics Toolkit |
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An executive director with over eight years of experience in setting up, structuring and developing companies in various sectors. Specialist in P&L Management, Cash Flow Forecasting, Sales and Business Development, Budgeting and Expense Control, Strategic and Market Planning, Business Plan Development, Financial Modelling and Information Technology. |
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Set up a number of succesful business in the consulting sector in the UK. |
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Oil, Gas and Energy
Finance
Technology
Consultancy
Retail |
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Managing Partner-Levitas Investments
Head of PMO-TAQA
MD-PL Technologies
MD-Britannia IT Solutions
CEO-Incept Consulting |
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BSc Computer Science; CIMA 2010 Candidate; Fellow at Chartered Management Institute(FCMI) |
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Business, Basketball, Power boating, Fencing, Boxing and Chess. |
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Imran Ali Sheikh
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Senior Consultant |
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Leila has alomost 10 years of experience in strategy and product development. She also has extensive experience in running day-to-day operations for various business center offerings in Dubai. |
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Financial Feasibilities for large scale property developments
Project Management
Setup and Management of Business Centers |
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Real Estate
Hospitality
Insurance
Property Management
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Product Manager
Project Manager
Senior Manager Business Centre
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BA in Information Systems and Technology, MBA, Project Management Training. |
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Tennis, Reading, Education |
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Lenka (Leila) Basweidan
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Senior Consultant |
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Mohammed has a diverse career professional with 8 years of experience across industries in the MENA region. His expertise lies mainly in strategic planning, business modeling, organization development, entrepreneurship and change management. |
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Due diligence for the largest gold jewellery manufacturer in the Gulf region.
Engaged extensively in developing strategies for the “Best Saudi Company to work for competition” 2007, 2008.
Established TeamOne Consulting in Amman a well known Saudi company based in Riyadh with offices in Khobar, Jeddah, Cairo and Doha.
Had been selected by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship in UK to represent the Middle Eastern students at the University of Cambridge
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Consultancy
Medical Marketing and biomedical device Sales and marketing
IT and Telecommunication
Real Estate and project management
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Manager –Strategic Planning Section Head
Partner-Global Medical Instrumentation-Jordan
Product Manager
Senior Consultant
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M.Sc (with distinction) in Process Technology & Business Management (University of Warwick-UK,
Postgraduate Certificate in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn),
B.Sc in Electronics Engineering, Royal Scientific Society,PMP.
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Boxing, Football, Swimming, Travelling, Social Work, Reading Business, Politics.
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Mohammed Al Jilani
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Senior Consultant |
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Hameed is creative and innovative in developing web-based business solutions and interfaces. He has six years experience in the e-commerce arena. |
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Design & Develop e-commerce applications
Multimedia & Animations
Print Media Creatives
www.Istesharah.com
www.almadallah.ae
www.ad-mind.com
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IT
Services and Consultancy
Advertising & Media
Hospitality
Energy
Travel & Tourism
Automobile
Healthcare |
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e-commerce manager
Web Designer
Project Manager
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BBA from GSM Institute of Graduate Studies, Canada.
Professional Diploma in Software Engineering from Datapro(India). |
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Creating concepts, Traveling, Movies, Music, Photography and Sports. |
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Abdul Hameed
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E-Commerce Support Specialist |
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Jamal has worked in different fields of the finance industry. His specializations are mainly in Finance and Business Strategy development. |
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Carried out structuring of the profit allocation in Emirates Islamic Bank with a team of different departments. Involved in the process of setting up the investment department for GapCorp. |
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Finance
Government |
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Analyst
Financial Analyst
Consultant |
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CMA part one, BBA in Finance and Banking, EMBA from Cass Business School.
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Reading
Research
Riding
Swimming |
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Jamal Al Mahamid
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Advisory - Finance |
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Shadiya is is versatile and multi-talented, with her strong administration skills, she facilitates the all administrational and PRO work for the Istesharah Team. |
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Administration
Accounts
Education
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Office Administrator
PRO
Assistant Accountant
Teacher
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B. Sc – Physics
Diploma in Accounting
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Crochetting, Reading,Learning. |
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Shadiya Aboobacker
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Office Administrator and PRO |
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Saqar has conducted research and analysis across different projects for Istesharah. He is also instrumental in the development of financial modelling tools for the ISTESHARAH DIAGNOSTICS TOOLKIT. |
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Developed first ever English Online Zakat Calculator approved by Islamic Affairs Department of Dubai.
Research, data collection and analysis for Feasibility Studies, Strategies and Business Plans
Product Plans. |
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Public Sector
Finance
Real Estate
Property Management
ICT |
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Research Analyst
Financial Analyst
Consultant
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Bachelor of Science (Indiana State University) |
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Travelling, Sports, Reading, Music |
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Saqar AlZaabi
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Consultant |
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Consultancy and Research Services |
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Planning and performing audits of information systems, and taking part in preparing feasibility studies and due-diligence for clients |
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Information Systems
Business Administration |
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Researcher
IT and Management Consultant
Technical Personnel
Software Developer |
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2010 MBA candidate, Computer Science Bachelor Degree Holder. |
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Technologies and Sports |
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Maisa Qamheyeh
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Researcher |
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