"About Everest Business Consulting"

From linear to circular — powered by global expertise.

Driving Sustainable Growth Across the MENA Region

Everest Business Consulting is an internationally positioned strategic business engineering firm with deep operational roots in the MENA region and access to leading global financial and regulatory expertise. Our multidisciplinary capabilities span structuring national transformation strategies on a socio-economic base through financial inclusion, with FinTech at the forefront. Islamic finance, FDI, cross-border capital structuring, and sustainable finance. We deliver tailored solutions that integrate advanced financial engineering, GRCA, and digital transformation frameworks, while operating at the intersection of public policy objectives and private capital execution.

Everest Business Consulting designs and implements models that are legally robust, commercially viable, and fully aligned with Sharia principles, ESG standards, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, enabling our clients to achieve long-term value creation, resilience, and inclusive growth in global markets.

Our Vision

To support the development of resilient, diversified and sustainable economies and businesses across MENA through discipline strategy, responsible investment frameworks, and long term institutional alignments.

Our Mission

We advise Public and Private sectors leaders across MENA on engineering and structuring strategies - along with practical implementation - on FDI, sharia compliant sustainable frames, socio-economic transformation while ensuring alignment with regulatory specs, and long-term resilience. Our focus is on translating policy, capital and strategy into measurable economic and institutional outcomes.

Our Core Values

Integrity

Transparent, ethical decision-making at every level. We uphold the highest standards of governance and ensure all our solutions align with Islamic principles and global best practices.

Innovation

Pioneering solutions for tomorrow's challenges. We combine traditional Islamic finance wisdom with cutting-edge fintech and digital transformation strategies.

Collaboration

Partnering with clients as equals. We work alongside governments, institutions, and businesses to co-create strategies that deliver lasting transformation.

Impact

Measurable, lasting results. Every strategy we develop is rooted in governance excellence, catalytic investment, and quantifiable outcomes that drive real change.

The Story Behind
Everest Business Consulting

Everest Business Consulting is built on more than two decades of accumulated experience in business transformation, economic re-engineering, Islamic financial schemes structuring, and development architecting. The firm also brings exceptional experience in building and developing advanced systems that keep pace with economic change and transformation, placing people at the forefront of development and economic progress, and leading societies towards economic prosperity.

This expertise was developed through close collaboration with governments, multilateral institutions, and private sector leaders to elevate financial inclusion and sustainable growth into national priorities—work that has directly contributed to measurable GDP growth in four countries.

20+ Years of Experience
4 Countries with GDP Impact

Everest Business Consulting has delivered impact through sector-specific economic strategies across agriculture, tourism, pharmaceuticals, and education, boosting exports in the Euro-Med region, developing and monitoring Country Assistance Platforms (CAP) to accelerate trade, and implementing poverty reduction programmes for marginalised communities.

Its digital financial transformation advisory has supported fintech firms valued at over USD 1 billion, creating scalable solutions that bridge critical policy gaps. From crafting FDI-attractive policies to aligning key sectors with the SDGs, Everest Business Consulting transforms economic vision into tangible results through a unique blend of technical expertise and on-the-ground implementation experience.

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The firm's business background also encompasses deep expertise in co-structuring 18 Shari'a-compliant asset-backed international real estate Collective Investment Schemes and foreign investments in the form of close-ended mutual funds, SPCs, trusts, structural schemes, and administrative portfolios. These schemes have been capitalised with USD 1.5 billion through private placement and leveraged with 55% LTV, amounting to approximately USD 900 million.

$1.5B Capitalised
18 Shari'a-Compliant Schemes

The legal structures of these Collective Investment Schemes are tax-efficient, close-ended, and based on a Joint-Venturing model. The leverage involved includes senior loans from financial institutions and secondary financing amounting to approximately USD 900 million.

Despite the conventional nature of senior loan providers, all loans are structured using Islamic tools including, but not limited to, Master Ijara (lease-to-optional ownership), Property Commodity Murabaha, and Mudaraba. Secondary financing is raised on a mezzanine funding basis and includes priority funds subordinate to senior obligations.

The structuring themes are devised not only to acquire properties but also to finance Value-Added Services and development protocols using Istisna'a and Wakala Investment against a boca vacantia ownership in the properties' utilities. This expertise further extends to devising legal structures for Islamic banking products, international commodity syndications, and asset-backed financing solutions, including Corporate Ijara Sukuk and Tier 1 Capital Mudaraba Sukuk.

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Everest Business Consulting engineers economic transformation by starting with the most valuable input in any market: human behaviour. Built on 20+ years of partner-level experience, our work connects socio-economic reality to scalable financial systems, policy design, and investable growth.

From Kenya—where the real economic catalyst was the women's market participation, unlocking national-scale demand and accelerating financial inclusion from 26.7% to 84.8%, with women's participation rising to 84.1%. This shift fueled the emergence of 718 FinTech startups and reduced digital corridor transfer costs to under 4% in key markets—to Somalia—where the defining driver was risk mitigation: mobile money became the system of trust in a high-security environment, enabling US$2.7B in monthly transactions and reaching 73% of adults.

In Egypt, the same human-centred approach helped scale Egypt's first fintech unicorn, reaching 395,700+ POS terminals, 53.1M customers, and 1.93B transactions worth EGP 601.7B in 2024.

Everest turns economic vision into outcomes by designing systems around people first—so markets grow sustainably, inclusively, and at scale.

Our Services

Engineering transformation with precision and purpose

Industries We Serve

Delivering sector-specific solutions across diverse markets

Government & Public Sector
Financial Institutions
Healthcare
Real Estate
Energy & Environmental
Education
Retail
Hospitality
Manufacturing
Mining
Pharmaceutical
Private Equity
Marine
F&B & Restaurant

Our Client Journey

A proven 5-step process to transform your vision into reality

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Discovery

Comprehensive needs assessment aligned with SDGs and national visions. We deeply understand your challenges, goals, and market context.

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Strategy Design

Co-create actionable plans through stakeholder workshops. We develop customised strategies that align with your objectives and regional requirements.

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Implementation

Agile execution with Everest's cross-sector specialists. Our hands-on approach ensures seamless integration and minimal disruption.

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Monitoring

Real-time KPIs tracking including carbon reduction, ROI, and governance metrics. Transparent reporting keeps you informed at every stage.

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Evolution

Iterative refinement for long-term resilience. We continuously adapt strategies to ensure sustainable success in changing markets.

Why Everest? Engineering resilient growth that lasts.

Designed for complexity, built for impact. With solutions that convert strategic ambition into measurable outcomes across policy, capital, governance and sustainable transformation.

Precision tools for strategic clarity

  • Resilience Scorecard™: A proprietary diagnostic mapping exposure to geopolitical, financial, and ESG risks—revealing structural vulnerabilities and practical opportunities for long-term resilience and value creation.
  • Policy Co-Creation frameworks: Integrated policy engagement with government stakeholders to shape Sharia-compliant, FDI-attractive regulations early in the design process enabling clearer pathways for investment and institutional alignment.

MENA context, Global standards

  • Localised Strategic Integration: Solutions rooted in region-specific regulatory, cultural, and economic realities — spanning Islamic finance integration, circular economy transition, and policy alignment with national economic visions.
  • Capital Structure and Investment Engineering: Design and implementation of ethical investment vehicles that align Sharia realms with ESG and SDG targets — connecting ethical capital flows with sustainable growth outcomes.

Scalable impact across sectors

  • Shari'a compliant financial models: Asset-backed and operational backed solutions engineered for long-horizon capital mobilisation and structural sustainability.
  • Governance, Risk, Compliance & Assurance (GRCA): Governance systems harmonised with Islamic ethics, ESG standards, and international frameworks that transform compliance from a requirement into a competitive advantage.
  • Strategic Advisory & Transformation: Adaptive strategies for navigating volatility, from digital transformation to public-private placements, M&A advisory, corporate finance planning, and public-private partnership structuring that align with market realities.
  • Sustainability & ESG Integration: Net-zero pathways, circular business models, and SDG-aligned reporting frameworks that elevate sustainability from reporting obligation to strategic growth driver.

Our Team

Dr. Nada Elshazly

Dr. Nada Elshazly

Managing Partner

Managing Partner

Mr. Muhammed Alaa

Mr. Muhammed Alaa

Partner

Partner

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