Profile: Bakir Lashkari is a pragmatic Interim Project Manager, Business development Manager, strategist in Infrastructure, Finance Reporting, Risk Compliance, Business & IT. He is result-oriented, innovative, people centric, professional with over three decades of experience as a senior manager (in good & less good times). Based on his knowledge, skills and years of experience like he wears to the success of your projects. Of course he can also lead the entire management of a project. Both at strategic, tactical and operational level!

The professional matchmaker in international business development & emerging markets!

Project Manager in IT, Business Development & Finance Improvements!

My credo is: Business first, pleasure afterwards!

Bakir Lashkari has extensive professional business development manager with financial & ICT background and experiences in banking, insurance and asset management. He is an excellent communicator & thinker, doer aligner matchmaker/speaker and presenter driven strategic listener. An authentic & inspirational leader, he focuses on results and continues to still keep motivation among the employees at a high level & managers. He contributed much to the bottom-line results in Business development, Finance, Risk Management & IT (Data Quality), Business Improvement and Finance-related projects. He has knowledge of complex markets dynamics, mixed cultures, integrator and a charismatic leadership. He always enjoy the experience to really be able to deliver the added value, or because a saving of costs and risks vs. optimizing revenue, outcome or bottom line of added value.

Recent projects:

► 2012 Business Development Manager in sectors of Oil, Gas & Water / Agro & Food / Financial Services & IT (Banking, Investment & Insurance)

►2011-2012 Rabobank GICT , Project Manager “1Shop4All”.

►2010 RBS Royal Bank of Scotland; Project Manager for SWIFT//MTS/GTS/LPM MIFT File handler/& cash management liquidity (cash pooling and notional pooling), billing, manual payments and swift. System upgrading, separation, outsourcing, migration, decommissioning projects & integration.

►2008-2009  Rabobank; Business & Risk Project Manager (Data Management & Quality)

►2007-2008  AEGON; Business Program Manager (Asset Management Outsourcing/Migration)

►2005-2007  SNS Reaal (Bank, Insurance, Asset Management); Business Project Manager (Basel 2 & DNB)

►2006-2007  Delta Lloyd Bank; Project Manager (Basel2, Globus T24 system)

►2007  Bank Mandes Gans (Cash Pooling, Netting); Project Manager (Basel 2)

University studies:

►University of Utrecht – The Netherlands ( Dutch Law)

►Nyenrode University & London Business School (Executive MBA)

►IMD – Lausanne- Switzerland ( Executive Management – Leadership dilemma’s & Profitable Growth)

►Insead – Paris – France (Executive Management – Marketing Access)

Project Management Certifications: 

►Certified Professional Interim Management (PIM Nyenrode University)

►Certified Crisis & Turnaround Management (Nyenrode University & London Business School)

►Certified Agile Scrum Product Owner (2011) Certified Agile Scrum Master (2011)

►Certified Blue Carpet (Lean Community)

Special international Activities: Organizing trade missions & special expertise & skills in international business development matchmaking for business promotions between The Netherlands & other countries in the World ( like Iraq, other Middle East countries & North Africa)

►We offer the Dutch & other European companies to all Exhibitions in Iraq with the maximum discounts.