Trusted Experts

Leadership & Expertise You Can Count On

These profiles highlight the individuals guiding our strategic growth with expertise and integrity.

Omar Yousaf — Founder & CEO
I’m the Founder and CEO of OY Consultancy, with nearly 20 years of hands-on leadership experience across manufacturing, defence, and industrial operations. My focus is on helping organisations improve performance, enhance compliance, and deliver safe, efficient, and scalable operations — particularly in high-risk, regulated environments such as explosives and munitions manufacturing.
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Defence & Munitions
Explosives and munitions expert with 20+ years as an ammunition technical officer and EOD specialist. Offers hands-on experience in explosives formulation, munitions systems, safety oversight, and international training assignments in complex operational environments across defense sectors.
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Process Optimisation & Explosives Manufacturing
Consultant with broad experience in process optimisation, explosives manufacturing, and operational efficiency. Focused on boosting productivity, improving quality systems, and embedding sustainable practices in defense-related production and engineering environments across international projects.
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Finance
Finance expert with 20+ years across defense, telecom, shipbuilding, manufacturing, and geotechnical sectors in UAE and Sri Lanka. Brings deep expertise in financial planning, ERP implementation, budgeting, and corporate governance to support strategic and operational decision-making.
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Explosives Safety & Production Leadership
Senior explosives and munitions consultant with 30+ years of leadership, safety, and production experience. Expert in high-energy explosives, compliance, and risk management, with proven success in supporting defense teams and global projects in complex operational environments.
Trusted Experts

Senior expertise, assembled around the assignment

OY is founder-led and supported by a trusted network of independent advisers and subject-matter experts.

We select expertise according to the client’s objectives, technical scope and delivery stage. This gives clients access to relevant experience without presenting a fixed internal team or applying the same solution to every programme.

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Founder and programme lead

Omar Yousaf

Founder and CEO

Omar leads OY engagements, bringing nearly 20 years of leadership experience across defence manufacturing, industrial operations, finance, quality and programme delivery in the UK and UAE.

His approach combines strategic thinking with practical, ground-level insight, helping clients turn complex requirements into realistic decisions, coordinated delivery pathways and sustainable operational capability.

Defence industrial capability
Manufacturing readiness and performance
Programme integration and delivery assurance
Commercial, quality and risk leadership
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Specialist network

Expertise matched to the programme

Where an assignment requires additional depth, OY coordinates suitably qualified specialists and delivery partners across six connected areas.

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Defence Manufacturing, Ammunition and Energetics

Specialist input for manufacturing capability, ammunition systems, energetic materials and operational safety.

02

Facilities and Specialist Infrastructure

Experience relevant to factories, laboratories, ranges, storage infrastructure and other safety-critical facilities.

03

Programme Governance and Delivery Assurance

Structured support for planning, controls, interfaces, risk, reporting and executive decision-making.

04

Quality, Safety, Risk and Compliance

Support for quality systems, traceability, qualification readiness, process control and applicable requirements.

05

Commercial, Finance and Investment Analysis

Financial modelling, feasibility, cost analysis, operating models and investment decision support.

06

Procurement, OEM and Supply Chain

Supplier assessment, OEM coordination, procurement planning, localisation and supply-chain resilience.

How specialists engage

Clear roles. Controlled delivery. Senior oversight.

The specialist team is shaped around the assignment and integrated into an agreed governance structure.

01

Engagement-specific selection

Expertise is matched to the defined scope, technical challenge and required depth.

02

Clear responsibilities

Roles, deliverables, interfaces and decision rights are agreed before work begins.

03

OY programme integration

OY coordinates the team, maintains visibility and supports consistent client communication.

04

Knowledge transfer

Work is structured to strengthen client capability and support sustainable operations.

Specialists may be engaged as independent consultants, external advisers or delivery partners according to the assignment. They are not represented as permanent OY employees. Participation is subject to scope, availability, client approval and applicable confidentiality requirements.

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