Industry Experience
• Financial Services
• Real Estate
• F&B

Geographic Coverage
• United Kingdom
• GCC
• Asia

Mehdi is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Cube 3 Global and is based in London. In addition to holding senior executive position in large multi-national bank, Mehdi has started and successfully sold several businesses. His key focus is on strategy and finance where he challenges business to really understand the P&L levers as well as how to enhance monetisation. His clients say he has the ability to bring team together and lead teams from ‘with-in’ the pack.

Industry Experience

• Financial Services
• Real Estate
• Manufacturing

Geographic Coverage

• United Kingdom
• Middle East
• Asia Pacific

An internationally accomplished senior executive who has been an active boardroom influencer and mentor in large international organisations and a broad range of growing businesses. Abid supports executives in making strong commercial decision making through detailed data based analysis of information. He provides the challenge and rigour to ensure businesses have a solid foundation to grow and prosper whilst providing the experience to restructure and realign strategy to changing economic and market conditions.

Robert Rooks
Senior Partner

Hong Kong Based

Advisor | Investor | Management

Industry Experience

• Financial Services
• Wealth Management
• Fintech

Geographic Coverage

• Hong Kong
• Asia Pacific
• United Kingdom

Robert brings financial servies experience at a global level. As a former executive at some of the worlds largest banks and consulting companies, his network and reach is global, connecting people around the world. In recent years, he has been advising and supporting a number of startup technology companies on their proposition and accelerating their launch.His cliennts would say his ability to focus on launching has helped them monetise their propositions sooner than they had anticipated.

Industry Experience

• Wealth Management
• Investment Advisory

Geographic Coverage

• United Kingdom
• Middle East
• South East Asia

Najeeb is a former Private Banker looking after UHNW client relationships and providing strategic advisory services to them. With a deep understanding of value creation and investment categories, he has worked with clients to diversify their asset classes and increase returns on existing investment portfolios they have. His clients would say he knew which questions to ask business which would help them focus on value creation.

Industry Experience

• Financial Services
• Wealth Management
• Real Estate

Geographic Coverage

• United Kingdom
• Middle East
• South East Asia

Liaqaut is a Partner at C3G and is widely regarded as an idea’s generator, with innovative and disruptive concepts that offer a competitive advantage to businesses. Combined with his networking and relationship building skills, Liaqaut is able to further enhance propositions clients bring to C3G. His clients would say his lateral thinking, passion and workable ideas, have significantly added to their success.

Industry Experience

• Financial Services
• Public Sector
• F&B

Geographic Coverage

• United Kingdom
• Middle East

Zahid has over 8 years of management consulting experience, most of which has been with two of the global ‘Big-4’ firms. He has made an impact by bringing his expertise to the table and delivering multiple high value and multidisciplinary projects to clients. He brings with him a wealth of experience having worked on a variety of projects with some of the largest banks across the MENA region on their change programs. He is an expert on report development, market assessment feasibility, operational efficiency review, requirements gathering, business process reengineering and strategy development requirements.

Industry Experience
• Defense & Security
• Public Sector
• Financial Services

Geographic Coverage
• United Kingdom
• MENA
• Asia

Dr Zaidi’s areas of specialism are Leadership, Change and Innovation, Strategic Management, Strategy, and Communication. He is currently Academic Director of UK Ministry of Defence Strategic Leadership Program (Export), various variants of the program have been delivered to senior military and business leaders in over 40 countries in 5 continents. He lectures and consults on a variety of management subject including lecturing on the Cranfield University’s prestigious Executive MBA Programme. Dr Zaidi’s clients include military and government organizations in over 40 countries, banks and commercial organizations, including HSBC, Mexico, the UK’s NHS among others.

Industry Experience
• FMCG
• Public Sector

Geographic Coverage
• Europe
• USA
• Middle East

Shafqat is a result-driven business executive with near 40 years of international experience at some of the most respected organizations across Private and Public Sector. He has held various senior executive positions and operates with competitive entrepreneurial enthusiasm. Shafqat’s client value his ‘out of box’ innovative strategic approach to deliver results.

Industry Experience

• Fintech
• Regtech
• Banking Technology

Geographic Coverage
• Middle East
• Levant Countries
• CIS Countries

Hal brings experience of working in the financial services sector for some of the largest banks in the world and the Middle East region, with a focus on technology and fintechs. As an Advisor, he has helped launch two mobile wallets with unique propositions with terminal values of circa $1bn adding value throughout the design and build phase. He has also worked with software development companies to help design and refined their solutions to enhance customer engagement for the end user. His clients would say he has real understanding of the complexity of technology build and monetisation of the customer data and insights.

Industry Experience

• FS Regulations
• Real Estate
• Business Advisory

Geographic Coverage

• Oman
• Middle East Region

Iqbal is a seasoned Central Banker, bringing 34 years of experience holding executive roles across strategic, IT and operational responsibilities. He has participated in numerous national level initiatives and offered consulting services to other Central Banks in the region as well as commercial banks. He also brings entrepreneurial skills having setup and managed IT and vocational training business in Oman and has been an active investor in the real estate sector. His clients say he has helped them in navigating the financial services regulatory requirements when designing and launching technology solutions.

Industry Experience

• Corporate Law
• UK Property Law
• Investment Framework Agreements

Geographic Coverage

• United Kingdom
• Middle East & North Africa
• South East Asia

After training and gaining experience in one of the prestigious Magic Circle Law firms in the UK, Abdul Hafeez took the entrepreneurial approach and setup Blakewater Solicitors offering a variety of services through a team of Legal professionals with domain expertise in their chosen field. As an Associate Partner of C3G he provides invaluable legal advice and support needed by investors and entrepreneurs to safeguard his clients whilst highlighting the nature of agreements is for amicable outcomes.

Industry Experience

• Fintech & Regtech
• Financial Services
• FMCG

Geographic Coverage

• Middle East
• Europe
• Pakistan

Sam has been entrepreneur for over 15 years with achieving major success in numerous start-ups he has been involved with. He was part of the team to launch one of the first mobile money solutions in the world and which now boasts over 10m users and has a valuation of over $500m. He has also been working closely with technology solution providers in the design and build phases of projects to banks in the Middle East. His clients would say his experience and attention to detail has helped them identify and realise risks early enough to prevent them becoming issues, saving them potential brand equity loss.