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Osman Esedov

AI Consultant

$300/day
Abu Dhabi Island and Internal Islands City, AE
3-7 years
AI Automation
Product management
IT Strategy
Communication
User Testing

Average response time: 1 hour

About Osman

AI Product Specialist with experience in strategy consulting and AI product delivery. My scope includes defining product strategy, conducting ROI assessment, structuring data and tech requirements, and managing end-to-end implementation of AI solutions. Conducted M&A and investment analysis, including market entry and valuation assessments. Worked on projects across ports, finance, healthcare, retail, and heavy manufacturing with measurable business impact.

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

  • Arabic

    Basic

  • Prussian

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Abu Dhabi Island and Internal Islands City (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Quantum One
    Senior AI Consultant
    DIGITAL AND IT
    November 2024 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
    Led end-to-end digital transformations and delivery of AI initiatives across GCC clients, contributed to 7 proprietary product launches and 12 scaled implementations
    • • Logistics: defined AI strategy and ROI framework for a leading UAE ports operator; built business case for vessel speed and container flow optimization, delivering ~USD 14M annual value
    • • Heavy manufacturing: identified critical operational bottlenecks at a GCC steel producer and designed a mitigation strategy, translating inefficiencies into real-time Tap-to-Tap optimization and overheating risk decision tools, delivering ~USD 2M annual impact
    • • Agriculture: developed product strategy and solution design for an AI irrigation optimization use case; structured multi source inputs and defined adoption roadmap, delivering ~1% EBITDA uplift
    • • Healthcare: drove end-to-end Revenue Cycle Management transformation for a leading provider; led buy vs. build assessment and go/no-go decisions, delivering ~USD 7M annual impact
    • • Retail: led commercial optimization (SKU and planogram strategy) for a UAE retailer; translated customer insights into in store decision tools, delivering ~2% sales uplift
    AI Automation Product management User Experience Design User Interface Design Use-case prioritization
  • Yakov and Partners (former McKinsey CIS)
    Business Analyst
    January 2024 - November 2024 (10 months)
    Moscow, Russia
    Supported market entry, M&A, financial and AI strategy workstreams across consumer and industrial sectors
    • • Market entry and M&A: conducted KSA market entry and M&A analysis for a UAE retail group, sized the market, assessed the competitive landscape, and valued 2 acquisition targets to support expansion decisions
    • • Market entry (FMCG): assessed entry into the meat-based high-protein snacks market, conducted market sizing, competitive mapping, go-to-market and production launch analysis, resulting in a defined entry strategy and prioritized channels
    • • Financial strategy: built financial strategy scenarios for a leading plastics manufacturer, including contractor price sensitivity and debt-restructuring cases to inform negotiations and financing choices resulting in renegotiated contractor pricing and ~4% EBITDA uplift
    • • Investment strategy: led analytical assessment of cross-industry investment and Russian market entry opportunities for a UAE sovereign investor, structured datasets and competitive benchmarks, enabled prioritization of entry strategies and acquisition targets, resulting in clear go/no-go decision and focused investment pipeline
    • • AI strategy: contributed to Sprint AI initiative with a major CIS agriculture company, conducted stakeholder interviews, framed use case hypotheses and developed storytelling presentations resulting in 3 AI pilots launched
  • EY (Ernst & Young)
    Associate
    February 2022 - December 2022 (10 months)
    Moscow, Russia
    Contributed to 5 strategy engagements across 2 industries, delivering data-driven insights and executive-ready recommendations
    • • Structured executive presentations and developed storyline frameworks for strategy engagements, synthesizing complex analyses into clear recommendations, resulting in adoption of recommendations in 3 client workstreams
    • • Built market sizing and competitive benchmarking models for 2 industries (oil & gas and agriculture) enabling data backed investment and market entry decisions
    • • Synthesized multi-source data into client-ready insights and materials, improving clarity and speed of decision-making, resulting in ~30% reduction in iteration cycles with stakeholders
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Education

  • M.S. in International Financial Analysis
    Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO)
    M.S. in International Financial Analysis
  • B.S.
    Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO)
    B.S.
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