Thames Kay Consultancy LLCTwenty-eight years of governance. One independent practice.
Thames Kay Consultancy LLC is an independent advisory practice led by four principals — a Chartered Accountant with twenty-five years in GCC banking, corporate finance and restructuring, and a career GRC practitioner who was most recently Head of GRC at the Dubai International Financial Centre. Our judgment stays independent: we do not build what we audit.
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Principals
Mustajab Ahmad
Managing Director — Finance & TransactionsSenior financial advisor and Chartered Accountant with over 25 years across banking, corporate finance and restructuring in the GCC — specialising in complex distressed situations, multi-bank negotiations and turnaround execution. Led the turnaround of two UAE-based family conglomerates, managed corporate and credit portfolios exceeding AED 10bn, arranged private equity and private debt structures, and served as Group CFO across diversified business groups. His banking career spans corporate credit, risk management and special assets, including IFRS 9 implementation and risk-appetite framework design.
Khurram Masood
Partner — GRC & AI AssuranceCareer GRC practitioner with twenty-eight years across governance, risk, compliance, audit and information security — ten years in Big Four practice at KPMG, group risk and audit leadership at Emaar and across SEHA's 80-entity healthcare network, and most recently Head of GRC, Risk, BCM and Information Security at the Dubai International Financial Centre (2017–2025). Leads the Govern & Assure pillar, including the AI governance, risk, audit and security practices.
Athar Shakoor
Principal — Taxation and Accounting Advisory15 years of professional experience across financial services, transaction advisory and corporate governance, including leadership roles as Vice President, Assistant Vice President and Unit Head in the banking industry.
Hassan Kamal Farooqui
Principal — Investment Management, Capital Raising & RestructuringInvestment and capital markets leader with a track record managing large-scale portfolios and advising on capital raising, restructuring and strategic financial solutions across global institutions. Focused on execution, structure and consistency in delivering financial outcomes.
Senior Leadership
Muhammad Ghias Qureshi
Director — Risk, Internal Audit & Forensic AdvisoryRisk and internal audit specialist with over fifteen years of international experience spanning internal audit, enterprise risk management, fraud and forensic investigations, and regulatory compliance across regulated markets.
Abrar Qaisar
Director — Corporate Finance & Banking SolutionsBanking professional with over twenty-five years of experience in corporate banking, credit risk management, and client relationship management across the UAE and Pakistan.
Shahab Abidi
Director — AI Business TransformationTreasury and technology transformation leader with over 20 years of global experience delivering system implementations for Fortune 100 and multinational companies. Deep expertise in cash management, liquidity forecasting, in-house banking and derivatives valuation, applied to AI-driven business transformation programmes.
Adil Ansari
Director — Technical ArchitectTechnical architect with over two decades of experience progressing from software engineer to chief technical architect on enterprise financial systems. Strong background across the full software design lifecycle — requirements, domain analysis, prototyping, construction, deployment and maintenance — with large financial institutions.
Where the judgement comes from.
The assurance practice draws on Khurram Masood's career inside the organisations our clients answer to — the auditor's seat, the risk owner's seat, and the regulator's own house.
Ten years in Big Four practice
Audit and advisory foundations: how evidence is built, how findings are defended, and how professional scepticism becomes a habit.
Risk & audit in regional scale
Governance and audit inside one of the region's largest developers — where controls meet construction-speed commercial reality.
GRC across 80 healthcare entities
Group-level governance, risk and compliance across an 80-entity healthcare network — high stakes, federated structures, board-level reporting.
Head of GRC, Dubai International Financial Centre
Leading governance, risk and compliance at the region's leading financial centre — the vantage point behind our GCC regulatory depth.
Independent practice
All of it brought to bear on one question: can your organisation's AI survive scrutiny — from your board, your auditors and your regulators?
Four commitments behind every engagement.
Independent, always
No implementation mandate on the systems we assess. When we test your AI, the only thing we have a stake in is the accuracy of the finding.
GCC-native depth
CBUAE, DIFC, ADGM, PDPL and DFSA aren't research topics for us — they're regimes we've worked inside. Regional regulation is read in the original, not summarised from afar.
Boardroom translation
Eight years of briefing boards and audit committees taught us the difference between a technical report and a decision-ready one. You get the second kind.
Partner-level attention
The person who scopes your engagement is the person who delivers it and the person who signs it. Nothing is handed down to a bench.
Offices
Dubai
Office #1105-A, Prime Business Center, JVC (Jumeirah Village Circle), Dubai, UAE
Abu Dhabi
M20, Hanging Garden Tower, Hamdan Street, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Sharjah
Business Center, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
33 King's Road, Reading, RG1 3AR, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 20 30 266 885
United States
801 Travis Street, Suite 2101, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Board training: AI Governance & Security
Executive workshops that get directors fluent in AI risk, accountability and the regulatory landscape — delivered by someone who has sat on their side of the table.
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