Founded By:

Hamza Taqi: An Electrical Engineer graduated from the US early 1988, now after 20 years of working experience in the private sector within Kuwait yet exposed to multi cultural and International brands and businesses. He started to coach, train, and mentor in the IBS and Arabi Co as early as 1992. Infatuated with PEOPLEs’ capabilities by experience made it all natural to establish a business focused on touching PEOPLE lives to enable them transform businesses and nations.

A Chartered Marketer, a Professional Member of the CIM UK, Fellow Member of the IBC UK, and a Certified Behavioral Consultant OTi Singapore.

In the Financial sector worked with Visa Inc, MasterCard Int, and Barclays; helped in the recovery of banks cards business after liberation of Kuwait in 1991. He introduced the first revolving credit card service in Kuwait after comprehensive negotiation with Central Bank. Hamza also introduced the first Cobranded card with MTC (Zain) back in 1996. Hamza led a team of Local Police officers and CID personal with the help of merchants and the bankCard system to capture the largest Credit Card Fraud led to the capturing of big fraud chain in Hollywood California.

In the telecommunication sector, Hamza worked with Nokia, SanDisc, NDS, Disney, and Warner Bros and helped to grow FCC’s business to claim 65% market share and into a holding company with multiple subsidiaries traded in KSE. On the B2B area established the company’s vision to be the preferred micro payment hub for MENA region with 26 Telecom operators connected and ready for mobile VAS services acquired internationally. Before focusing fully on Knowledge Consulting Hamza, briefly joined Wataniya Telecom early 2008 to gained excellent and in depth knowledge in the operation of the operator business.

Putting all these experiences together and partnering with the best in the human development business, Hamza decided to transfer the knowledge he and others have to the young and new Kuwaiti generation. Our young generation is the future success of Kuwait and this is a small contribution to this development.

Partners:

Mr. Khoo is the Founder and Executive Chairman of OTi Group, an international management consultancy in Total Organization Renewal, operating in global hubs: Singapore, Philippines and Shanghai. Oon Theam agreed to partner with Knowledge Consulting Co. bringing more than 35 years of experience in the areas of leadership coaching, organization development (capacity strengthening), strategic planning and business processes, Oon Theam has founded, built and guided OTi to become one of the leading and largest local management consultancies operating in the Asia-Pacific region, providing a holistic approach to organization transformation.

He was a recipient of the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation and United Nations Leadership Institute Scholarships. A graduate from the University of Malaya (Singapore) in Social Studies, he also holds a M.S. in Group Work and M.A. in Social Psychology and Organization Behavior from Northwestern University, USA.

One of the pioneers of Organization Development (OD) in Singapore, he founded and directed the Center for Applied Behavioral Science in Singapore and for some years taught Organization Behavior in the undergraduate and post-graduate programs at the University of Singapore in the Business School and Group Dynamics in the Psychology and Social Work Department. He has also served as the first Director of PA Consulting Group in the Asia-Pacific region.

An accomplished consultant, facilitator and coach, Oon Theam has led top management teams in managing corporate cultural transformation and values alignment. He imparts the principles of strategic planning to equip corporate and industrial leaders to assess situations and formulate appropriate strategies. As mentor and coach, he has impacted the lives of top management leadership in personal transformation. He also received the Leader-Mentor Award at the Global Leadership & Mentoring Congress 2003.

A Certified International Management Consultant, Oon Theam has been joined hand with Knowledge Consulting Co. to transfer the knowledge he and his team has to Kuwait.

Over the years, Mr Khoo has been a consultant to a wide range of corporate and government clients.