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The Firm

Senior leaders,
accountable for the result.

A partner-led firm with roots since 2000. Our leaders have run finance, operations, enterprise platforms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes across the Gulf, Africa, Europe and Asia, and today work worldwide, based out of Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Our founders’ commitment

Present for the decisions.
Accountable for what follows.

Ravi Shankar R

Enterprise platforms and operations.

Ravi connects enterprise platforms, Industry 4.0, automation, AI and human judgement into one transformation agenda.

Ravi Shankar RFounder & Managing Partner

Shankar Visveswaran

Enterprise transformation and SAP.

Shankar connects executive priorities with enterprise architecture, SAP programmes and delivery leadership.

Shankar VisveswaranCo-Founder & Managing Partner

Where senior judgement counts

  1. 01

    Shape the ambition

    Challenge the business case. Agree objectives and measures.

  2. 02

    Resolve the choices

    Connect architecture, operating reality and delivery responsibility.

  3. 03

    Review the value

    Test the evidence. Strengthen the capability you keep.

Enterprise coherence

One order. One enterprise promise.

Connect what customers expect with what the enterprise can deliver.

What changes when every function sees the same commitment?

A controller checks a dispatch record while a colleague labels a component crate.
Customer promise · Reserved capacity · Delivery owner · Finance evidence · One shared meaning

  1. Recognise

    Each function sees one part of the promise.

    Sales sees a commitment. Operations sees capacity. Finance sees a receivable. The enterprise must see all three.

  2. Connect

    Carry context across every hand-off.

    We follow the order across functions, linking process, record and the next decision-maker.

  3. Deliver

    Keep the promise as one enterprise.

    Shared meaning and connected timing give teams a basis to act and leaders a clear view of value.

Our leadership

The people you’ll work with.

Partners and practice leaders who have run this work before. Each profile leads with one thing they have delivered; your proposal names who joins your engagement.

Ravi Shankar R

Ravi Shankar R

Founder & Managing Partner

Abu Dhabi · Chennai · London

Led the Abu Dhabi Farmers Services Centre grower platform: registration, crop intake and payment for 2,000+ farmers on customised JD Edwards.

Directed East Africa’s largest JD Edwards programme, for Ethiopian Sugar Corporation, and a long-standing partnership with NSSF; 28+ years across 14 countries and 15 industries in Oracle and JD Edwards transformation.

“A platform is only finished when the plant manager trusts the number on the screen.”
Shankar Visveswaran

Shankar Visveswaran

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Dubai · London · Bangalore

Led British Council’s finance platform across 153 countries: an SAP-certified reference architecture, closing in 4 days.

Has led USD 250M+ of transformation portfolios across 12+ countries, including an SAP-certified reference architecture for British Council’s finance platform across 153 countries; has directed transformation for Saudi Aramco, Jazz · VEON and ABB.

“Most transformations don’t fail in the build. They fail at the handover, when nobody owns the result.”
Mohammed Yasser Ammar

Mohammed Yasser Ammar

Senior VP — Business Transformation

Dubai

24 years guiding government and retail organisations across the UAE, GCC and Egypt from strategy to working platforms.

Aligns executive priorities, roadmaps and delivery across business transformation. Brings Middle East and North Africa experience to stakeholder decisions, programme accountability and the capabilities organisations need to build.

“A strategy is only real when someone owns the first step on Monday morning.”
Mary Agnel

Mary Agnel

Head — JD Edwards & ERP Delivery

Abu Dhabi · Chennai

Has led NSSF Uganda’s JD Edwards estate: stabilised, upgraded twice, and now migrating it to Oracle.

Over 20 years in JD Edwards across the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa: programme manager, solution architect and finance lead on implementations, upgrades, cloud rollouts and data migrations.

“A system earns trust the way people do: by being right, month after month, for years.”
Maruthi Krishnaswamy

Maruthi Krishnaswamy

Head — Industry 4.0 & ESG

Abu Dhabi · Chennai

Led Smart Loom and Rane Automotives’ machine sensing: Industry 4.0 from the loom to the plant floor.

Connects industrial automation, IoT, enterprise platforms and sustainability reporting (GRI, SASB, TCFD) with operating decisions, from tool monitoring and SAP integration to plant-level dashboards.

“Sustainability reporting gets easier the moment it comes from the same data that runs the plant.”
Ganapathy Sivakumar

Ganapathy Sivakumar

Head of AI & Product

Abu Dhabi · Chennai

AI healthcare innovator: 10+ programmes, including document intelligence and revenue-cycle automation for US healthcare.

Turns AI and product engineering into workflows the business can use and govern, with the evaluation, integration and controls that make them dependable in regulated settings.

“AI earns its place when someone accountable is willing to act on what it says.”
Lochan Narayanan

Lochan Narayanan

Head — Adoption & Change

Dubai · Bangalore

Leads the change-management office on large SAP and Oracle transformations.

Makes adoption part of transformation from the beginning. Connects leadership, process design and practical learning so people can understand change, build confidence and sustain new ways of working.

“People rarely resist change. They resist being surprised by it.”
Ramesh Kumar

Ramesh Kumar

Head — Strategy & Analytics

Sydney

25 years building enterprise data platforms on AWS for government, banking and insurance.

Designs data lakes, warehouses and analytics that leaders can trust. Helps organisations establish quality, lineage, security and shared meaning so they can act on their data with confidence.

“When two reports disagree, the board stops trusting both. Fix the data before the dashboard.”
Leo Joseph

Leo Joseph

Head — Cloud & Cyber Security

Bangalore

Builds secure, resilient technology foundations across infrastructure, cloud and cybersecurity. Helps clients modernise while protecting continuity, identity, performance and the enterprise capabilities that depend on them.

“Resilience is not the absence of incidents. It is knowing exactly what happens next when one comes.”
Zelalem Lemma

Zelalem Lemma

Head — Transformation, East Africa

Addis Ababa

Project and Delivery Manager on East Africa’s largest JD Edwards programme, for Ethiopian Sugar Corporation.

Connects executive priorities with disciplined delivery across East Africa, bringing ERP and infrastructure experience to implementation, operational ownership and capability transfer that lasts beyond go-live.

“A programme succeeds when the factory team can run it without us.”

The firm team

Aiyshwarya Sadasivam

Aiyshwarya Sadasivam

Director — HR

Abu Dhabi · Chennai

Nandini Ram

Nandini Ram

HR & Recruitment

Dubai

Several of our leaders also serve as fractional leaders inside a client’s leadership team, for agreed days each month. How fractional engagements work

Senior attention. Organisational depth.

A deliberately composed team.
A clear line of accountability.

Your mandate determines the team. Partner, specialist and continuity roles are clear before delivery starts.

A named partner and delivery lead

Agree decision forums, availability and escalation. Know who owns the recommendation and who coordinates execution.

Specialists for the actual work

AI engineering, data and analytics alongside architecture, processes, enterprise systems and adoption. Each specialist has a defined contribution.

Continuity built into delivery

Shared decisions and documented designs keep essential knowledge with the team. Critical responsibilities have agreed cover.

Stronger client ownership

We work with your process, technology and service owners and transfer knowledge as we deliver, so you improve independently.

Our journey since 2000

Enterprise roots.
An expanding horizon.

Predecessor practices and our leaders’ experience, from ERP advisory in Wellington to transformation, connected operations and AI.

  1. A small Wellington harbour-side consulting team reviews printed plans beside period computers in 2000.

    Founded in Wellington

    Founded as Nectarsoft, an ERP consulting and advisory practice in Wellington, New Zealand.

  2. A Chennai delivery centre team works through a problem together at a period workstation in 2007.

    A stronger delivery foundation

    India Consulting & Delivery Centre established, extending global reach and technical capability.

  3. An SAP practice team gathers around a whiteboard as a consultant sketches a process in 2013.

    SAP joins the practice

    Nectar Global Consulting co-founded, adding an SAP practice.

  4. Two colleagues compare go-live records beside a working Kenyan tea-processing line.

    Transformation at scale

    East Africa’s largest JD Edwards programme brings ten Ethiopian Sugar Corporation factories onto one platform.

  5. A specialist adjusts an assembly cell while colleagues work beside an autonomous mobile robot.

    Connecting the physical enterprise

    Industry 4.0 practice branded as Future Connect, for connected plants and machines.

  6. An operator checks gauges while two colleagues work across a sugar-mill yard.

    One integrated portfolio

    Merged into one NectarGlobal, with ERP, ESG and Industry 4.0 in one portfolio.

  7. Colleagues greet each other at the opening of the UAE headquarters in 2024.

    A new global headquarters

    GCC operations expanded. Global headquarters moved to the UAE to serve regional and international clients.

  8. An international project team reviews plans with client colleagues in Muscat, luggage beside the door.

    Global delivery, growing reach

    Our leaders now deliver across the Gulf, Africa, Europe and Asia, and every proposal names the people who will do the work.

  9. A depot dispatcher approves a proposed route change at a dispatch window while drivers wait with their delivery paperwork in Sharjah.

    Enterprise platforms meet agentic Artificial Intelligence

    Developing AI agents and workflows for enterprise systems.

The future

Let’s build it together.

A dependable ERP ecosystem. Connected operations. Intelligence that helps your business shape what comes next.

Our partners

Partners

Our partners add specialist expertise and practical experience to the work we deliver together.

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