Sarah Adam

Lead multidisciplinary teams on corporate strategy, transactions, new ventures, partnerships, and operational transformation for energy, chemicals, and mining entities across the GCC and North America Select engagements: - Led commercial due diligence for $14B petrochemicals acquisition, assessing the market outlook, competitive positioning, business plan feasibility, and value-creation opportunities to inform a GCC energy major's investment decision - Developed the business plan, governance model and 11-workstream activation roadmap for a digital services joint venture projected to generate $375M over five years; aligned more than 35 stakeholders and supported two investment committee approvals - Led an end-to-end critical-minerals assessment for a global energy company, developing supply-demand forecasts and mapping mineral dependencies; evaluated supply concentration, geopolitical and disruption risks, to inform development of mitigation scenarios - Coordinated the “100 days” post-merger integration and activation of a large oilfield services business, involving more than 1,000 employees operations across multiple GCC countries - Identified opportunities to improve efficiency by 20-30% across five processes and five subsidiaries of a GCC energy major, developing the supporting business cases and securing executive backing - Evaluated an industrial IoT market-entry opportunity for a global energy company, assessing market attractiveness, investment criteria, and potential partners and developing joint business cases that helped progress multiple partnerships to signed MoUs

Select engagements: - Designed the procurement operating model for a multibillion-dollar rail, transport and logistics organisation, covering organisation structure, governance, processes and capability requirements - Developed the digital and IT strategy and operating model for a national research organisation, translating strategic priorities into initiatives and an implementation roadmap - Helped design the strategy and lean, digital-first operating model for a new GCC government authority - Defined the strategy and assessed growth opportunities for a private aviation company across new customer segments and service offerings

Select engagements: - Identified and evaluated more than 30 partnership and investment opportunities worth over $15B to support the development of strategic alliances between a GCC country and multiple African countries - Evaluated the non-fuel retail business strategy and prioritised initiatives for a multi-national energy company seeking to diversify downstream revenue and improve profitability - Designed an executive workshop on emissions reduction and decarbonisation for a multi-billion dollar African petrochemicals company

Select engagements: - Prepared a 5-year development roadmap for a sub-Saharan African gas company, defining strategic priorities, organisational requirements, and implementation approach - Assessed & modelled market attractiveness of African countries and sectors, using more than 50 socio-economic indicators to develop an international investment strategy