Karim Hyatt

Sustainability Suite helps organizations identify, track, and collect required information—from inside and outside the organization—and to create sustainability, compliance, regulatory, and risk management reports. It can also be used by stakeholders, including regulators and investors, as an efficient and transparent way to define requirements and collect and review statements from reporting institutions.

It is a secure-and-scalable platform to boost efficiency and accuracy in reporting and information management and ensure organizations can actively manage reputational and financial risk. It saves time and drives transparency and accountability within organizations and between organizations and their stakeholders.

At the time, asset trading was carried out by fax. Each trade cost around, and the number of human errors was high. Although automated trading was the norm for stocks, funds had no support in the market, and there were no specialized SWIFT messages to handle this sort of trading.

We built the system in C++. It first imported a consolidated trade file in the client's format and then processed it into an early form of AI. Next, it created an automated map template for future imports, completed all the trades, and finally returned the file in the client's preferred format.

The cost of development was $500,000 over six months. In the first six weeks of operation, it produced $25 million in new revenue, and the cost of trades went from $5 to $0.30.

This project involved a cross-organizational approach, and I was asked to look at a company that produced high-tech x-ray machines for vehicles (trucks, trains) and cargo (containers) and help restructure it.

The product development process was broken and needed reorganizing from the product management team through to engineering and R&D and software development.

We implemented an agile process that involved the whole product organization and dramatically improved quality.

The project management group was reviewed to consider challenging geographies and we built a cost model for all the sub-contractors so that margins were protected.

Financial reporting was reviewed to give an understanding of where the largest financial risks were for every project. The sales department was also restructured to make it proactive and have it able to move into new markets.

We also implemented a digital marketing strategy with a close view on return on investment (RoI) which improved visibility and sales in the private sector.

Sierra Atlantic delivered technical teams to gaming and other software product companies around the world. I was responsible for creating, hiring and building this business, first in Europe, then in the rest of the world.

This business was acquired by Hitachi Consulting in 2010.