The falcon's discipline,
brought to the boardroom.

Falconry Solutions is a GCC-native strategic advisory firm, working alongside the region's most ambitious institutions across
governance, risk, resilience, cyber, technology and assurance.

Why Falconry.

Falconry is the oldest partnership between human judgement and a creature built for precision. For centuries across this region, the falcon has stood for vigilance, mastery and trust earned over time — a partner that sees further, moves faster, and returns to the hand that trained it.
We took the name deliberately. The work we do is the same discipline in a different field: anticipating what others miss, acting with precision under pressure, and building a partnership of trust that endures well beyond a single engagement.

Vision

Seeing risk and opportunity before they arrive.

Precision

Acting decisively, proportionately, without waste.

Vigilance

Constant watch over what matters most.

Trust

A partnership earned, and kept, over time.

One firm. Four practices. Four ways to engage.

We help the region’s most ambitious institutions — sovereign funds, financial services groups, public sector entities, listed corporates, and the professional services firms that serve them — govern with clarity, manage risk with confidence, and build resilience that lasts.

We are practitioner-led. Our senior team has built, run and audited risk and resilience functions inside the region’s sovereign wealth funds and the major global advisory and audit firms. The work we deliver for clients is the work we have done ourselves, in environments that did not tolerate error.

Our expertise is organised around four practices — Transform, Govern, Protect and Sustain — and delivered four ways: consulting, managed services, the Falconry Academy, and, where it adds value, our own GRC platform, Falconry360. Trust is not a tagline. It is the operating discipline of the firm.

At a glance

Reach

GCC-native, working across the region

Practices

Transform · Govern · Protect · Sustain

Ways to engage

Consulting · Managed Services · Academy · Platform

Tagline

Trust at the speed of transformation

Our Values

What we hold ourselves to.

Five commitments that govern the engagements we take, the people we hire, and the standard we hold our work to.

Trust above all

We earn trust the way a falconer does — slowly, through reliability under pressure. We protect it in everything we touch, because for our clients it is the asset that matters most.

Mastery, not theory

We send people who have run the function and lived with the consequences. Craft over credentials; substance over slideware.

Precision under pressure

We act decisively and proportionately when it counts — calm, exact and accountable when the stakes are highest.

Of the region, for the region

We are GCC-native by conviction. We build local capability rather than substitute for it, and we measure success by what endures after we leave.

Independence of mind

We tell clients what they need to hear, not what is comfortable. Honest counsel is the most valuable thing an advisor can offer.

Governance

Leadership & Team

An independent group of senior leaders who guide the firm's strategy, standards and growth bringing decades of board, regulatory and sector experience to bear on how we serve clients.

Imran Sadiq

Managing Director

Hamad Khanzada

Director Audit & Assurance

Saad Bin Tariq

Director GRC Platforms

Waqas Haseeb

Senior Director GRC

Amine El Haimar

Director Risk Quantification

Musawar Mustafa

Director Technology

Uzair Aman

Senior Manager GRC Solutions

Mohamed Kakira

Operations Director, Africa

Arvind Kumar Umedani, FCCA

Director, Assurance & Financial Governance

Governance

Board of Advisors

An independent group of senior leaders who guide the firm's strategy, standards and growth bringing decades of board, regulatory and sector experience to bear on how we serve clients.

Abdullah al Mukrami

Advisor

Susan Daniel

Advisor

Josh Deakin

Advisor

Aftab Bandukwala

Advisor

Marwan Shahada

Advisor

Farouk Shaikh

Board of Advisors

How We Think

Three convictions that define our work.

Five commitments that govern the engagements we take, the people we hire, and the standard we hold our work to.

Trust is the GCC's competitive currency.

As the region transitions from resource-led to knowledge-led economies, trust becomes the substrate of every growth strategy. The Gulf will be defined by which of its institutions become known globally as trusted — and which do not.

Resilience is a strategic discipline, not a compliance task.

The institutions that endure treat resilience as boardroom infrastructure. It is the operating capability to govern through volatility — and what separates the institutions investors and regulators back from those they do not.

The work we deliver is the work we have done.

We are practitioner-led. Our consultants have sat in the seats our clients sit in. We do not send theory; we send people who have run the function and lived with the consequences.

Looking to make an impact with your next role?

Join a team committed to building resilience and managing risk for a better future across the region's most consequential institutions.