Jamal S. Shah

Jamal is the founder of Broadview Consultants and has over 20 years of experience as a management consultant helping senior business and IT executives plan, manage and obtain value from investments in technology. Jamal is a business leader first, who focuses on understanding the value of and management issues around information technology.

During his over 20 years consulting career with well-known organizations such as Accenture, KPMG, and Nolan, Norton & Co., Jamal has advised senior business and IT executives on addressing Strategic Business and IT issues, creating and harvesting business value from investments in technology, and supporting the CIO Agenda.

Jamal holds an MBA from Manchester Business School in the UK, and a B.Sc. (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London, UK.

Jamal's clients have ranged from small-medium businesses to the largest global companies and industries, and have included:

Energy, Oil & Gas: Ameren, Ontario Power Generation, Hydro One, Sault Ste. Marie PUC, British Petroleum, Burmah Castrol, Shell Expro, Philips Petroleum, First Solar.

Health and Pharmaceuticals: GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Biogen, AstraZeneca, Collaborative Clinical Research, Calgary Health Region

Telecommunications: Nextel International, AT&T Wireless, Bell Canada, EnPhrase

Retail and Food: Best Buy, LSG SkyChefs, Cara Foods, Oshawa Foods, Ready Bake Foods

Other: DuPont Chemicals, Methanex, Purolator Courier, Sabena Airlines, WestJet Airways, 407 ETR and others

Jamal started his career as a field engineer for Schlumberger Technical Services, working internationally in Europe, Africa and the Middle East while prospecting for oil & gas reserves.

During his 20 years consulting career with well-known organizations such as Accenture, KPMG, and Nolan, Norton & Co., Jamal has advised senior business and IT executives on addressing Strategic Business and IT issues, creating and harvesting business value from investments in technology, and supporting the CIO Agenda.

B.Sc. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, University of London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Energy, Oil & Gas: Ameren, Ontario Power Generation, Hydro One, Sault Ste. Marie PUC, British Petroleum, Burmah Castrol, Shell Expro, Philips Petroleum

Health and Pharmaceuticals: GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Biogen Idec, AstraZeneca, Collaborative Clinical Research, Calgary Health Region

Telecommunications: Nextel International, AT&T Wireless, Bell Canada, EnPhrase

Retail and Food: Best Buy, LSG SkyChefs, Cara Foods, Oshawa Foods, Ready Bake Foods

Other: DuPont Chemicals, Methanex, Purolator Courier, Sabena Airlines, WestJet Airways, 407 ETR and others

Most recently, Jamal has been working on a project in the renewable energy space to understand the solar energy industry and evaluate the economic feasibility of constructing a solar generation facility under Ontario's Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program (RESOP) for mid-size electricity generators.

Jamal started his career as a field engineer for Schlumberger Technical Services, working internationally in Europe, Africa and the Middle East while prospecting for oil & gas reserves.

Working Style

Jamal is a seasoned and experienced facilitator for executives, and utilizes a collaborative coaching style of consulting to develop a joint understanding of the business issues, the relative value of resolving them, and buy-in to the solutions.

He is prepared to ask the difficult questions - taking a broad business-focused view of the issues - and balances factual data with experience to deliver advice.

Education

MBA, Manchester Business School, Manchester, United Kingdom

B.Sc. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, University of London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence in Finance, CFTE – Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Singapore, London, United Kingdom.