Asher Siddiqui, BA MSc



 

Experience

Dates
April 2006 - Present

Organisation
Etisalat International

Location
United Arab Emirates

Job Title
Transaction Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions

Description
Working within the Strategy & Business Development department (International Investments), responsible for managing the overall M&A transaction process and acting as the central point for all work streams and activities.

Involved in evaluating over 26 telecom-related investment opportunities across Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, including 7 cross border M&A transactions of a combined value of over US$31 billion. Transaction Lead in 4 deals and co-lead in 2.

Role in recent “announced” deals: Lead for Commercial Due Diligence & Business plan development for Etisalat’s bid for a mobile company in Lebanon; Transaction Lead (PMO) for Etisalat’s bid for the third mobile company in Kuwait; Post acquisition support to Etisalat Nigeria; and preliminary investment appraisal of Excelcomindo in Indonesia.

Transaction responsibilities include: managing financial advisers and consultants, managing the due diligence process, developing the business case/operating model, supporting development of valuation/price offer, coordinating financing, developing/negotiating the term sheet/SPA/SHA, interfacing with target representatives, taking responsibility for final bid submission/price offer and presenting the strategic rationale for opportunities to Etisalat Senior Management and to the Board of Directors.

Regular duties involve: managing multiple projects, managing relationships with Investment Banks/Consultants, identifying & developing new opportunities, business research, strategy, commercial analysis, preliminary financial analysis and forecasting, investment appraisal, post acquisition support to international subsidiaries, ad hoc strategy support to Senior Management, and preparing papers/presentations for the Board of Directors.

Dates
September 2005 - April 2006

Organisation
Various (Independent Consulting)

Location
United Arab Emirates

Job Title
Business Consultant

Description
Business consulting for a variety of clients in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Including Acer, The World Economic Forum, CNBC AFRICA and a number of private business groups in the region.

Projects involved: partnership development, business development and strategy, commercial due diligence, market research, feasibility reports, market analysis, financial/cash flow forecasting, sensitivity scenarios/analysis, business plan development and project managing new venture development.

Dates
December 2003 - September 2005

Organisation
CERT (The Centre of Excellence for Applied Research & Training)

Location
Abu Dhabi & Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job Title
Project Consultant

Description
Dynamic investment-related role, acting as a “facilitator” / “entrepreneur” for CERT, the high profile commercial arm of the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research in the United Arab Emirates and member of the World Economic Forum.

Involved in the full spectrum of new venture creation activities from project conceptualising/feasibility, set-up, incubation and roll-out.

Regular duties involved: business research, identifying & developing new opportunities, preliminary investment appraisal, due diligence, commercial analysis, cash flow forecasting, business plan development, reporting & presenting investment case/feasibility, managing partner relationships, and press/media relations.

Additional duties involved raising the profile of CERT and Entrepreneurship through events/networking and developing relationships with partner organisations.

Events organised: 2005 Festival of Thinkers, 2005 E-ducation Without Borders, 2004 International EMMY Awards Judging, 2004 HCT MIT Global Entrepreneurship Conference & 2004 MIT Sloan Executive Development Program, 2005 MIT Global Start-up Workshop.

Relationships managed: Honeywell, Intel, Accenture, International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, CNBC, MIT, Economist and various NGO’s and government agencies in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Dates
August 2002 - December 2003

Organisation
Asilica

Location
London, United Kingdom

Job Title
Business Consultant

Description
Knightsbridge-based consulting practice, providing solutions to a variety of clients, including:

Instantreg.Com – Silicon Valley-based Dotcom Company required market research/analysis, feasibility study, and business development to enter the UK market.

Six Star World Ltd – London-based event/venue management Company providing solutions to the Investment Banking community required business process development, technology requirements analysis, and web-based software design and development.

Rodgers & Gillespie Ltd – Knightsbridge-based recruitment firm required business process development, technology requirements analysis, and web-based software design and development.

Sphinx Solutions Ltd – London-based Software/Technology start-up Company required business strategy, market research/analysis, business plan development, including cash flow financial forecasts/sensitivities.

Froot – London-based retail concept required market research, business strategy, image/branding, and business plan development, including cash flow forecasts/sensitivities.

Dates
December 2001 - August 2002

Organisation
ASITE.COM

Location
London, United Kingdom

Job Title
E-Commerce Consultant

Description
Varied role, initially as a Developer/Analyst for customising Commerce One’s J2EE e-procurement application. Involved assessing requirements, creating development plans, and reverse engineering to customise functionality/brand the application interface. Work involved application software integration, testing, building and configuring the development and staging environments. In addition, developed multimedia training movies for the website and project managed the data migration/user creation process for the new platform.

Eventually responsible for managing and administering the b2b portal. This involved: managing various projects; troubleshooting the applications and connectivity between applications/servers, configuring/optimising application settings and performance, testing and installing new functionality, implementing change control, managing support process with application providers and hosting providers.

Technologies: J2EE; JSP; HTML; CSS; Flash MX; SQL Server 7; LDAP; XPC; TCP/IP.

Dates
January 2001 - October 2001

Organisation
ICBCS INC

Location
Indianapolis, United States of America

Job Title
IT Consultant

Description
Project Manager/Analyst for the development of a J2EE web-based academic portal that includes a secure student registration and academic system, web-based email and a learning portal with search engines, educational resources and e-library facilities. Involved analysing the business process and business requirements, developing software specifications, software design, software development plans, managing the development team and participating in application development and testing.

Provided post “Go Live” support for the portal and set up the support process and future development project plans and documentation. Also developed multimedia animation/interfaces and a promotional demo for the applications.

Technologies: J2EE; JSP; HTML; XML; Flash 5; Fireworks 4; Dreamweaver 4.

Dates
May 2000 - December 2000

Organisation
KM Consulting

Location
Indianapolis, United States of America

Job Title
Software Engineer (MSc Project Placement)

Description
Consultant Developer for a web-based JSP document management system project for a construction client. Involved research, documentation, gathering user requirements, developing software specification & design, application development and software testing.

Technologies: Java; JSP; SQL; HTML; Tomcat; MySQL; Lotus Domino r5.

Dates
June 1999 - February 2000

Organisation
Barclays

Location
Coventry, United Kingdom

Job Title
Sales & Service Adviser (While At University)

Description
Provided telephone banking services to Business customers, as well providing technical support to Barclays' Internet banking customers. Also involved in various marketing projects for the Direct Channels department.

Dates
August 1998 - April 1999

Organisation
ISNA Marketing

Location
Indianapolis, United States of America

Job Title
Market Analyst

Description
Involved conducting market research, market data analysis, feasibility studies, writing press releases, organizing media events and conferences.

Internships/Other

Dates
June 1997 - September 1997
Organisation
Criminal Justice Unit (UK Crown Prosecution Service / West Midlands Police)

Dates
June 1996 - September 1996
Organisation
Driving Standards Agency (UK Department for Transport)

Dates
June 1995 - September 1995
Organisation
Criminal Justice Unit (UK Crown Prosecution Service / West Midlands Police)

Dates
June 1993 - September 1993
Organisation
KPMG

Asher Siddiqui, BA MSc

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