Project-Based
A defined mandate with a defined outcome - a strategy, a diligence report, an integration through Day 100. Fixed scope, senior delivery, clear end state.
About the Firm
Boutique by design. Senior by default.
RME Consulting was founded on a simple observation: the clients paying for senior judgment too often receive junior execution. We built the opposite - a firm where the principal does the work.
The Firm
What we believe
Experience is not delegable. On every RME engagement, you work directly with the firm's principal - supported, where the work demands it, by a trusted network of specialist partners assembled for your specific programme. No leverage pyramid, no bait-and-switch between the proposal team and the delivery team.
Advice must be independent. We hold no audit relationships, earn no vendor commissions, and carry no competing interests. When we recommend a course of action, the only stake we hold in it is our reputation.
The region rewards those who know it. A decade of engagements across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the wider GCC - including regulator-facing work with central banks and virtual-asset authorities - means our advice starts from how this market actually works.
Leadership
Gautam Sharma - Founder & Managing Director
Gautam Sharma is a strategist and M&A advisor with more than ten years of experience across technology, media & telecommunications, digital, aviation, and financial services in the Middle East. His work spans the full deal and transformation lifecycle - from pre-deal commercial and operational due diligence to post-merger integration, carve-outs, corporate strategy, and transformation management.
Since 2021 he has practiced as an independent advisor to leading global strategy consultancies and their clients across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. In that time he has led the integration office merging four aviation services companies into one entity, planned post-merger integration across more than 20 buy-side targets for a UAE family office, executed market entry and regulatory licensing for global payments and digital-asset firms - including approvals from SAMA, the UAE Central Bank, and VARA - and developed growth strategies for regional telecom operators that converted directly into contracted revenue.
Earlier, he served as a strategy consultant with Redseer Consulting advising global technology platforms on Middle East growth, led real-estate and franchise advisory across the UAE and KSA, and worked within the strategy function of one of the region's flagship aviation groups. He began his career as an engineer delivering large-scale capital projects for energy and industrial clients - a grounding in real-world delivery that still shapes how the firm advises.
He holds an MBA from HEC Paris, a Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Gautam Sharma
Founder & Managing Director
- MBA - HEC Paris
- B.Eng. - Delhi College of Engineering
- PMP - Project Management Professional
- 10+ years - Middle East advisory
- Markets - UAE · KSA · wider GCC
How We Engage
Three ways to work with RME
Embedded Leadership
RME leads your PMO, TMO, or IMO from inside the organization for the life of the programme - an experienced hand on the machinery, accountable alongside your team.
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing counsel to a CEO, board, or investor - a standing senior sounding-board for decisions as they arise, without the overhead of repeated onboarding.
Start with a conversation
Describe the challenge. We will respond within one business day - and tell you honestly whether and how we can help.