Quality l Timely l Cost Effective Solutions
HAROBED & ASSOCIATES LTD
Nigeria
A Management Consulting Firm
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Operations
Gavin Baksh is the Senior Vice president of Strategic Planning and Operations for Harobed & Associates Ltd. Gavin has over 10 years of professional experience directing projects that build and optimise organisational processes, operations, and measurement systems, maximising business results in service and manufacturing organisations, including software development, finance, sport, construction, textile and food & beverage, across North America, Europe, and the Caribbean.
Gavin is a skilled strategist who has developed and transformed strategic plans into workable solutions for global finance and software companies such as Legal & General Group and Citrix Systems Corporation. He has a proven track record of structuring and implementing projects that yield measurable results, including reduced tactical planning cycle time, cost reductions gained from improved process performance, productivity gains through multiple change and improvement initiatives, reduced product delivery time and revenue growth. Gavin has led process and product quality improvements contributing to a 76% increase in new business, representing $554 million USD, and provided continuous end-to-end project management reducing production cycle times by 68%.
Gavin earned his BA in Human Resource Management and Marketing from the University of North London, UK, an Executive Certificate in Project Management from Florida Atlantic University, USA, and is certified: Project Management Professional (PMP), AgilePM, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSB), SCRUM Master, ITIL Foundation - IT Service Management.
At the core of Harobed & Associates Ltd (H&A), are the principles on which we were founded, providing our clients and partners with world class services that offer the right synergy and blend of domestic knowledge and infrastructure with international standards and know how. Through the strategic partnership of our executive leaders, who together have a wealth of experience performing in domestic and international markets, H&A is well placed to deliver our clients and partners Quality, Timely, Cost Effective Solutions to suit all requirements.
Deborah Abebe
President & Chief Executive Officer
Deborah Abebe is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Harobed & Associates Ltd. Deborah has over a decade of professional experience serving public and private sector organisations in Nigeria, providing expertise in areas of; Human Capital Development & Training, Risk Management, Program Management, Strategic Planning, and Operations Management. Deborah has led and had oversight for multiple complex capital investment projects, business process improvement initiatives, and extensive skills development programmes, having personally trained over 3500 candidates over the past 6 years across the private and public sectors.
For the past 10 years Deborah has performed in; Education, Hospitality, Telecommunications and Construction industries, and has sat on the board of privately held companies in Abuja. She has worked within local State Governments such as Kogi State, and successfully coordinated the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria’s (ASCON) “Millennium Development Goals” projects for three years, She is a founding member of the Nigeria-Serbia Chamber of Commerce, of which she also holds a seat on the Council.
Deborah earned her MBA in General Management, and a BSc in Business Management and Information Technology from the University of Hull, UK. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), an Associate Member of The Nigerian Institute of Management, and is both a Member and Consultant of and for The Nigerian Entrepreneurs Forum.
