ABOUT US
Focused, dedicated and committed to supporting our clients achieve their objectives
We provide independent advice to a variety of clients across the regions in which we operate. Whether you are seeking to expand organically or via a strategic acquisition, realize value through the sale of a business, a subsidiary, list on the stock exchange or require support with establishing or enhancing the governance framework of your business, the Consulting HAUS team is here to help.
Our team has extensive experience, global reach, cross-functional capabilities and combination of client service and middle market focus. We support a range of clients from across the globe including corporates, private equity, financial investors and governments to private companies, family-owned businesses, and entrepreneurs, with a view to realize strategic objectives and shape your future vision.
We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality services to businesses and their owners to support them in increasing and creating value. The team has a wealth of experience working alongside companies and entrepreneurs alike to create and execute various strategic initiatives to help ensure that future targets are met. We view ourselves as your partners, rather than service providers, and are here to support you throughout the business life-cycle.
OUR TEAM
Team Snapshot
corporate finance
Laith Dajani, ACA
(MANAGING PARTNER)
Laith is a fully qualified chartered accountant with over 14 years’ experience working in financial consultancy. He started his career with Zolfo Cooper in the UK where he worked for 7 years in a corporate restructuring role. Following his time at Zolfo Cooper, Laith relocated to Qatar as a Director in Ernst & Young’s (“EY”) transactions team. Having successfully led EY’s transactions team for over 5 years, Laith established Qatar’s first boutique corporate finance consultancy company – Consulting HAUS. Over his career, Laith has led a large number of detailed business reviews, investment appraisals (through the development of financial feasibility studies), synergistic analysis assessments and formal business valuations in a variety of sectors including banking, construction, retail and manufacturing.
Key skills: M&A, valuations, business plans, feasibility studies, investment appraisal, market assessments & restructuring
Seif Hourani, M.A
(PARTNER)
Seif joins Consulting HAUS with almost 20 years of experience with his most recent position being a Director at Ernst & Young (EY) where he was responsible for leading the Strategy and Transactions service line for the Qatar, Kuwait and Oman markets. Prior to his time at EY, Seif was a Senior Director with Alpen Capital Investment Bank (Qatar and UAE) where he was responsible for co-leading the M&A and advisory practice. Throughout his career, Seif delivered a number of large strategy projects including assisting a regional regulator in enhancing competitiveness of locally manufactured products, reviewing SME development strategies for a European SME development bank and benchmarking SME products and services for a regional SME development bank. Seif has also worked on a number of valuation and market and financial feasibility studies in the region across various sectors such as construction, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture and hospitality. Furthermore, he was involved in various regional M&A transactions, including sell-side advisory of a packaging company, electronics retailer, financial and non-banking financial institutions. Seif holds a BA in Finance and a Masters (Hons) in International Economics and Finance from University of Toulouse, France.
Skills: M&A, strategy development, valuations, business plans, feasibility studies, portfolio optimization, market assessments & restructuring
Ashish Mishra
(DIRECTOR)
Ashish has close to 15 years of rich experience in management consulting, research, and advisory across the global markets, including the US, Europe, and the MENA region. Before becoming a Director at Consulting HAUS, Ashish spent ten years at Sutherland Global Services and played an instrumental role in building and developing their business research and consulting practice.
Ashish has worked on several significant implementation projects and advised various clients on setting up businesses, optimizing their operations, and assessing diversification strategies across industry segments, including BFSI, infrastructure, healthcare, retail, consumer products, chemical, education, telecom, F&B, steel, construction, mining, and industrials. His specialties include business advisory, corporate strategy, market research & analytics, digital future casting, opportunity assessment, commercial due diligence, and feasibility studies.
Ashish has an MBA in International Business from the Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, India, and a science degree specializing in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from Awadh University of Faizabad, India.
Melvin Mathew
(MANAGER)
Melvin has over 12 years of diversified experience in multiple industries in Qatar, including Information Technology, Construction, and Consulting. His areas of expertise include Financial Modeling, Business Modeling, Financial Analysis, Business Valuation, and Market Assessment. He evaluates the business ideas and assesses the viability of the project idea, and provides recommendations to the entrepreneurs. He also conducts strategic audits for SME clients and supports them in enhancing their business capabilities to be competitive in the market.
Melvin holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering, a Master’s degree in International Business and Management with a specialization in Entrepreneurship from the School of Management- Bradford University, UK.
Prior to joining Consulting HAUS, he worked with Morison Menon Chartered Accountants and Partners, where he was responsible for growing the business and managing and executing various services such as feasibility studies, business plans, investment appraisals, financial modeling, due diligence, business valuations, strategy development, and strategy audit.
Over his career, he has conducted multiple feasibility studies in various sectors for both entrepreneurs and banks, completed business valuations in multiple sectors, including IT, finance, construction, trading, etc., and supported clients in preparing detailed market assessments. He has also provided strategic audits for a range of clients and supports enhancing their business capabilities to be competitive in the market.
Key skills: Business valuations, Business modelling, Investment Appraisals, Due diligence, Business Transformations, Strategy development and Compliance Audit
Nabih Jaroudy
(ASSISTANT MANAGER)
Nabih is a MSc graduate from the University of Newcastle in the U.K. in International Economics and Finance. Prior to pursuing the graduate degree, Nabih has a BBA in Accounting and Finance and started his career working as a receivables officer in Intercontinental Group Phoenicia hotel, one of the leading hotels in Beirut, Lebanon. Following that endeavor, Nabih relocated to Qatar and spent two year with The Commercial Bank of Qatar (“CBQ”), where he undertook the role of relationship officer helping individual and corporate clients with their banking need as well as enlarging CBQ’s portfolio of clients and companies.
During his MSc, Nabih gained knowledge about the international economics and the financial markets’ dynamics. In fact, his thesis entitled: “Brexit’s Take on Market Efficiency” awarded him a Merit and it tackled the effects that the announcement of Brexit, and subsequently the results, had on the efficiency of the FTSE100. Doing so required Nabih to analyze and model the bid-ask spread from the 100 most valuable companies in the U.K. and using the results in a regression with market liquidity and volatility to determine and compare the effects of each in 3 different time frames: before the announcement of Brexit (efficient conditions), after the announcement until the referendum results, and after the referendum results.
Key skills: Economic and financial modeling and analysis, portfolio management, equity market research, econometrics, relationship and communication, fluency in 3 languages: French, English, and Arabic.
Sreejith T, MA
(ASSISTANT MANAGER)
Sreejith has more than 6 years of experience in specialized financial modelling and valuations.
Sreejith holds a bachelor degree in commerce and a masters degree in business administration with specilization in finance and marketing.
Prior joining to Consulting HAUS, Sreejith worked with Macquarie where he was responsible for quarterly valuation of Macquarie assets. Prior to that he worked with KPMG and EY for almost 6 years where he was responsible for building financial models, review of financial models, project management and research. Over his career, he has built multiple financial models for feasibility studies, project finance and valuations.
Uhood Ismail
(FINANCIAL ANALYST)
Uhood holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accountancy from the University of Wollongong in Australia. She is currently pursuing her ACCA professional qualification, with 4 papers remaining. Prior to joining Consulting HAUS, Uhood spent 15 months in Ernst & Young Qatar’s audit and assurance team. She has assisted in auditing entities across various sectors including financial services, automotive, real estate and hospitality.
During her audit experience, Uhood furthered her knowledge of accounting fundamentals including testing of internal controls to determine whether they are sufficient to avoid material misstatements. Since joining Consulting HAUS, Uhood has worked on multiple feasibility studies and business plans that required rigorous market research, in depth benchmarking and detailed financial analysis for various industries.
Key skills: Accounting, Business valuations, Business modelling and Investment Appraisals
Mohammad Chamali
(ASSISTANT MANAGER – DEBT ADVISORY)
Mohammad Chamali has over 4 years of corporate banking experience in Qatar. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Global Financial Management from Regents University London and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA) from John Molson Business School, Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Prior to joining Consulting HAUS, he was working in Corporate Finance in Doha Bank, Qatar where he took active roles in a variety of credit transactions, including syndicate finance, project finance, acquisition finance and leverage-buyouts. He took a leadership role in the execution and management of a variety of transactions within healthcare, real estate, financial services, hospitality and manufacturing across the MENA region.
Key skills: Credit and Financial analysis, Loan Structuring, Debt Restructuring, M&A, Investment appraisals, Financial Modelling, Business Valuation
Corporate Governance
Jessica Pandya
(DIRECTOR)
Jessica joins Consulting HAUS with 12+ years’ experience in consulting and business advisory. She leads our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services, and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) advisory services, as part of overall GRC. Jessica was a part of Ernst & Young’s (Mumbai, India) risk advisory services of the healthcare and life sciences sector where she led critical engagements with leading listed companies. Later she moved to Doha, Qatar to join Protiviti’s internal audit and financial advisory services, to support on multi-faceted projects within diverse sectors.
Jessica has a unique blend of industry and advisory experience, whereby she has seamlessly managed multiple projects within corporate governance, risk management, compliance management, IPO/listing readiness assessment, and ESG advisory, delivering tangible outcomes in complex operating set-ups, with customized solutions catering to the client priorities. Her sector exposure encompasses Banks and Financial Institutions, Healthcare and Life sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate, Hospitality, E-Commerce, Retail and FMCG, Diversified Conglomerates, Technology Solutions and Telecoms.
Jessica is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) from ICAI and Management Graduate with specialization in Finance and Human Resources from leading B-schools in India.
Expertise : Corporate governance, enterprise risk management, compliance management, internal audits, business / management consulting
Nasser Barghouthi
(MANAGER)
Nasser joins Consulting HAUS with 8+ years’ experience in consulting and business advisory, to support our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services, and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) advisory services, as part of overall GRC. Prior to joining CH, Nasser was a part of Deloitte and Ernst & Young’s risk advisory services where he has worked on several projects in diverse geographies of Jordan, UAE and KSA. Nasser has led many critical engagements consisting of internal audit reviews, risk assessment, designing risk framework, compliance reviews, corporate governance, quality assurance reviews and development of policies and procedures for multiple processes. His sector exposure comprises of Banks and Financial Institutions, E-Commerce, Retail and FMCG, Diversified Conglomerates, Technology Solutions, and Manufacturing and Production.
Nasser holds a MSc with specialization in Finance and BA in business administration.
Expertise : Corporate governance, enterprise risk management, compliance management, internal audits, business / management consulting
Mohammed Mufeed
(Senior Consultant)
Mufeed joins Consulting HAUS with 5+ years’ experience in consulting and business advisory, to support our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services. Prior to joining Consulting HAUS, Mufeed was a part of a leading audit firm in Doha, Qatar, where he supported on audit and advisory engagements. He has successfully executed multiple projects in various sectors serving large corporates and SMEs. Mufeed has also led the treasury team of a leading group in Doha, Qatar, with focus on improving the financial controls and overall process efficiency. His sector exposure comprises Technology Solutions, Retail and FMCG, Real Estate and Financial Services.
Mufeed holds a BSc with honors in applied accounting and is currently pursuing ACCA.
Expertise : Financial analysis, internal audits, risk management and financial reporting
Amna Hannachi
(Consultant)
Amna joins Consulting HAUS with 3+ years’ experience in consulting and business advisory, to support our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services. Prior to joining Consulting HAUS, Amna was a part of a leading consulting firm in Doha, Qatar, where she supported on governance, compliance and advisory engagements. She has supported clients in enhancing their internal control framework, assessing gaps within their governance structures and remediation where the entity is subject to legal and/or regulatory requirements. She has assisted on multiple projects encompassing ESG, ERM, and BCM, where she was involved from project initiation to closure. Her sector exposure comprises of Retail and FMCG, Research and Development, Manufacturing and Financial Services.
Anma is qualified Management Graduate from the American Business School of Paris.
Expertise : corporate governance, risk management, internal audits, compliance management, ESG
Gayatri Singh
(CONSULTANT)
Gayatri joins Consulting HAUS with 2+ years’ experience in consulting and business advisory, to support our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services. Prior to joining Consulting HAUS, Gayatri was a part of a leading consulting firm in Mumbai, India, where she supported on internal audit engagements. She has supported with assessment of investments risk, credit risk and treasury management for leading financial institutions. She has also assisted on projects with focus on enhancing the client’s internal controls and ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance. Her sector exposure comprises of Retail and FMCG, E-Commerce, Banking and Financial Institutions.
Gayatri is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) from ICAI and is currently pursuing her PhD in Economics.
Expertise : risk management, internal audits, compliance management
