People At Scryer OAK Advisors

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Omar Ahmed Khan - Managing Partner & CEO

With over 35 years of leadership experience across the MENA region, Levant, and Pakistan, Omar Khan has held senior roles heading international treasuries and liquidity & market risk functions at global and regional financial institutions, including Citigroup, Société Générale, Samba Financial Group, and Gulf International Bank.

His leadership and ability to transform treasury and risk management frameworks, Omar has consistently aligned institutional practices with global best-in-class standards. His core expertise spans the design and implementation of liquidity and market risk frameworks, stress testing models , contingency funding plans, funds transfer pricing (FTP), and risk & liquidity modeling.

His experience running large cluster treasuries and revenue-generating books has given him deep insights into balance sheet optimization, ALM, fixed income and FX trading, treasury sales, product development, and comprehensive treasury growth strategies.

With a unique combination of technical depth and a proven track record of revenue generation and risk mitigation, Omar has consistently delivered tailored, robust solutions that drive long-term performance while upholding strong risk governance standards.

Omar holds a Bachelor’s degree from Richmond, The American International University in London.

Yousuf Ramjoo - Advisor, Consumer, Industrial & Corporate Strategy

Yousuf is an accomplished General Manager with 3 decades of experience in starting, managing and successfully leading several BU’s /companies across different countries/regions, including large scale ($800 million turnover) businesses in complex environments, where he was overseeing full supply chain operations.

Yousuf is credited with many turn-arounds and is able to find opportunity through understanding of the value chain, identifying new revenue streams, cutting costs, reenergizing lagging brands, optimizing pricing & championing innovation.

Yousuf has well honed commercial skills - he led both marketing and sales departments for several years as well as financials skills, and is responsible for P&L for over 2 decades. He worked in several countries in the Middle East and Central Asia and has managed Gulf and Levant regions in past roles, and served as an executive director on two boards.

Yousuf has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and has a Professional Directors certificate from Hawakamah Institute in DIFC.

David Blackshaw - Advisor, Asset Management & Risk Governance

David Blackshaw is specialised in providing consulting and interim management services to the asset management industry. He has more than 35 years operational and financial experience in the UK and Europe, holding national and regional positions for Citigroup at offices in Brussels, Madrid, Dublin and Barcelona, as well as consulting to asset managers in Luxembourg, Ireland and the UK including M&G, Aviva, BlueBay and RBS.

He has a deep understanding of governance, compliance, distribution, and risk challenges for investment funds (UCITS and AIFs) and fund management companies in Luxembourg, Ireland, and the UK.

He has held senior national and regional roles at Citigroup EMEA Head of Market Risk Management, COO for European Regional Treasury, CFO for all the group businesses in Ireland. As well as serving on Citigroup subsidiary boards, he also served on the board of the Irish RTGS clearing company (IRIS) and was Chairman of the Operations Committee of the Federation of International Banks in Ireland.

David is a UK Chartered Accountant (FCA), Business and Finance Professional (BFP), has a degree in Economics from the University of Exeter, ICAEW/NEDA Non-Executive Directors Certificate, ERM Certified ISO 31000 (CICRA) and is a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner.

Fethi Jeridi - Advisor, Quantitative Risk & Model Validation

Fethi has over 21 years of international experience in risk management, model validation, and quantitative finance. He has an extensive track record across global banks including Standard Chartered, HSBC, Nordea, Credit Agricole, Rabo Bank, SEK Bank, SABB, GIB and Julius Baer. Fethi has worked across multiple jurisdictions in London, Paris, Zurich, Copenhagen, Utrecht and Stockholm giving him deep exposure to diverse markets & regulatory environments.

He is an SME in risk regulatory change programs (FRTB, IBOR transition, Basel reforms). Model Validation: XVA, derivatives pricing, risk & valuation adjustments. Quant Libraries: design & implementation of front-office pricing/hedging models alongside risk model and methodology validation (credit, market).

Fethi brings a wealth of experience in risk management systems on advising and implementation of multiple projects for banks across EMEA and the GCC. He has worked alongside market risk managers, counterparty credit risk teams, traders, sales, and structurers bridging technical quant expertise with business and regulatory needs.

Mian Saqib Sohail - Advisor, ESG, Climate & Sustainable Supply Chains

Saqib brings over 25 years of international experience across sustainability, ESG and textile-sector transformation, with deep expertise in responsible supply chains, sustainable cotton, climate-smart agriculture, traceability and quality systems.

Core Competencies

Sustainable Agriculture & Raw Materials
ESG Strategy & Responsible Business
Factory Optimization & Lean Systems
Energy, Climate Action

Saqib has led major sustainability and CSR initiatives spanning responsible sourcing, ESG reporting, digital traceability and circular economy strategies. Contributor to the UNFCCC Steering Committee and The Microfibre Consortium; recognized via the Ryan Young Climate+ Award and Vogue Business 100 Innovators.