Global Management Consultants is our partner!

Saira Akbar, Founder & CEO

A design company that innovates, fix things and gets results

Based out of Dubai, Global Management Consultants is a leading ideas and business design firm. Design that enables to create, innovate, prototype, and fail-fast and fail-forward. Since their inception, Global has been using design to create unique and new solutions for companies and people. With sprint teams of creative dreamers and doers, Global is always ready to take on impossibility as a challenge.

Founded in 1997 by entrepreneur Saira Akbar who developed the early years of her career in the aviation sector with British Airways and Emirates. Since the inception of Global, Saira Akbar has become one of the UAE's most innovative and established leaders focused on guaranteeing outcomes as an inspirational coach and mentor to some of the biggest names in the UAE including Pepsi, Accenture, GE, MasterCard, Coca Cola, GSK, Shell, Unicef and Zurich Insurance Group to name a few.

Also involved in architecture of the partnership was Managing Partner Shayan Azhar who will be the lead facilitator in driving the Business Development Team at Global who is expected to begin actively bringing the PRESTO brand to their Middle East client portfolio this autumn.