Expertise
AMMAR AZHAR
PARTNER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Accountant (ICAEW, ACCA) with two decades of international finance and leadership experience across professional services, telecoms, and private equity.
Ammar’s career spans senior roles at world class organisations including KPMG, where he built a reputation for driving financial excellence, operational transformation, and regulatory resilience at scale.
Ammar has successfully guided businesses through complex fundraising rounds, IPO readiness, large scale finance transformations, and stringent regulatory environments. As a dual authorised individual with both the DFSA and ADGM, he brings the highest standards of financial governance, compliance, and board level oversight. In addition to his regulatory and corporate achievements, Ammar has designed, launched, and led high performing shared service centres and outsourcing solutions, giving him unique, first hand expertise in delivering cost efficient, cross border finance operations without compromising on quality or control.
As Partner & CEO of Integra Global Partners, Ammar leads with a sharp strategic vision and a proven delivery model. Under his leadership, the business provides firms with access to fractional CFO expertise, outsourced finance teams, and scalable back office
solutions that meet the highest ISO professional standards. Ammar’s mission is simple: to give global firms boardroom level confidence in their numbers, while unlocking the efficiencies and competitive advantage of world class offshore delivery.
John is the Worldwide Managing Partner, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Finovate, where he oversees global strategy and operations while preserving Bain’s renowned culture. With over 20 years at the firm, John has advised global CEOs and is a recognized expert in deal advisory and value creation for portfolio companies.
He has a strong background in private equity, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and consumer products. John is also involved in sustainability initiatives and serves on the Board of Directors of Cancer, a non-profit focused on fighting pediatric cancer. He holds master’s degrees in civil engineering and multilingual business communication from the University of Ghent and is based in New York.