Executive summary / Personal profile
Arif Rahman
Chief Strategy Officer Singapore / Southeast Asia · Global perspective
Making the choices that shape the next enterprise.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversation01 / Leadership approach
Strategy should make a consequential choice clearer. I examine assumptions, alternatives and capability demands, then help the organisation connect its chosen direction with capital, ownership and a disciplined plan to learn.
02 / Areas of responsibility
- Enterprise strategy
- Portfolio direction
- Strategic partnerships
- Scenario planning
- Portfolio reshaped
- ₹6,200 Cr
- Exits, entries and partnerships
- New growth businesses
- 4
- Incubated to independent scale
- Strategic partnerships
- 15
- Across three continents
- Strategy horizon
- 2030
- Approved by the board, funded and tracked
Evidence from practice
- Portfolio strategy
- A portfolio review had become a debate about individual business plans.
- Strategic options
- A growth opportunity depended on assumptions the organisation had not tested.
- Strategy execution
- Strategic priorities were being added without changing budgets or leadership attention.