Nabeel Shaikh FCA, MSc, FMVA, CME-1

𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗙𝗢 | 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 | 𝗖𝗙𝗢 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 & 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 I turn finance into a driver of strategy, deals, and growth, not a scorekeeping function. A Chartered Accountant and Strategic CFO with nearly two decades across technology, investment management, and retail in the GCC, I build reporting, controls, and governance tight enough to pass diligence and useful enough to drive decisions. Today I do this in two ways: leading finance inside ambitious, high-growth businesses, and partnering with companies and founders to cut shared-services cost with AI, sharpen strategy, and raise capital. As a founder of AI ventures myself, I don't just advise on AI in finance, I build it. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 (𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆):I partner with companies and founders to: Cut shared-services cost with AI: deploying AI agents and automation to reduce cost and cycle time across Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and IT.Lead as a Virtual / Fractional CFO: embedded CFO support for scale-ups across reporting, controls, FP&A, cash, and board-ready numbers.Revamp strategy and scale up: sharpening strategy, unit economics, and operating models to get ventures growth-ready.Raise capital: financial models, valuations, pitch decks, and investor readiness across funding stages. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱:Finance leadership across leading GCC investment banks and a high-growth technology group, spanning FP&A, financial reporting, treasury, tax, and governance.Built fund-services and investment-operations functions from the ground up, administering public and private-equity funds to GIPS standard.Experienced across M&A, IPO and exit readiness, business valuation, project finance, and ERP implementation (SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics).𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀:Fellow Chartered Accountant, MSc Accounting & Finance (UK), Oxford Fintech Programme, CFI FMVA, and CME-1 (KSA). Keynote speaker on finance and transformation.𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: - Founder of Nashfact.com, The NashCast channel (100K+ subscribers and collective following of 450K followers) and Greenbrander (personal-branding agency); - Co-founder of AI ventures: Ed-watch.org (Ed tech specialized in AI & ESG), Virsme (virtual BPO) and Eblood.com.pk (AI health tech).Open to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and senior finance-leadership roles with ambitious companies, and to advising founders and investors on finance transformation, strategy, AI, and fundraising. Always glad to connect with fellow finance and venture leaders.