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Quentin
Lowcay is Managing Partner
of Kensington Swan’s Abu Dhabi Branch. He heads a United Arab
Emirates-based team of energy, outsourcing, government, construction,
commercial, and investment experts. Our Abu Dhabi
branch focuses on meeting the needs of New Zealand
and Australian businesses looking to work throughout the Middle East,
as well as Gulf companies looking to Australasia
for investment and commercial opportunities. For more information,
see our website www.kensingtonswan.ae
Quentin is a leading advocate for
increasing New Zealand
and Gulf
State
business, a regular New Zealand
government presenter on doing business in the region. He is committed
to delivering products and services directly to Gulf
State
organisations. He has been working in the region for more than 5
years.
In Abu
Dhabi Quentin is supported by
Richard
Cathie, one of New Zealand’s
most respected construction lawyers. For further information on how
our Abu
Dhabi office can support
you, please click here
to contact our offshore team, or call Clayton
Kimpton or Rodney
Craig, our New Zealand-based United
Arab Emirates
liaison partners.
Quentin specialises in all aspects
of strategic sourcing - particularly outsourcing, procurement and
supply-chain management issues. His focus is on linking these
processes into the overall strategy for the organisation. This
ensures that the models and structures are optimised to deliver
efficient, effective and transparent results, and actually do deliver
the business benefits or gains expected.
His expertise includes establishing
procurement structures and models for varying global organisations
– regularly advising in the United Arab Emirates,
Australia,
Hong Kong,
India,
UK
and New Zealand.
Quentin has a great deal of
international technology experience, having previously worked as in-house
counsel for IBM and in the UK (as a senior technology lawyer working
predominantly with EDS and Accenture), as well as working on many
global strategic initiatives for clients while in Australia, and
several offshore projects. He is currently the strategic
advisor to several large corporations in respect of large scale or
complex IT projects, procurement models and is heavily involved in
the telco sector.
He has been involved in some of the
largest and most complex technology projects - including ITO and BPO
outsourcing, multi-vendor sourcing, systems integration,
multi-national offshore software development and creating strategic
sourcing models.
He is co-author of the book ‘Mallesons on outsourcing’ and a regular
commentator and presenter, including on topics relating to
multi-sourcing governance and creation of alternative community-based
sourcing models.
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