Nadeem Shakoor
AI Governance & ESG Advisor · Author · Entrepreneur — thirty years in risk, compliance and sustainability, three technology ventures built and exited, and a parallel practice writing political and historical fiction.
Nadeem Shakoor is an accomplished leader in risk management, regulatory compliance, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practice, with a career spanning more than three decades across the UK, EMEA, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He is recognised as a leading authority on AI governance, EHS, sustainability, and ESG matters, and has been instrumental in establishing and scaling these practices within technology and consulting firms working for some of the world's largest energy, financial services, and industrial organisations.
His distinctive strength is the ability to commercialise emerging governance and compliance technologies — including AI — and convert regulatory and stakeholder pressure into measurable competitive advantage. He has led large-scale ESG transformations and integrated risk-management frameworks for multinational organisations, combining strategic vision with the operational discipline to embed change that lasts.
Three ventures built. Three exits. One consistent discipline: turning the requirement to prove trustworthiness into a commercial asset, not just a cost of doing business.
Where the Depth Actually Sits
AI & ESG Governance
Governance architecture, model lineage, audit trails, and regulatory alignment across converging AI and ESG obligations.
Environmental & Climate Compliance
Environmental compliance, climate change and decarbonisation strategy, and supply-chain sustainability, including Scope 3.
Health, Safety & Social Responsibility
Health and safety management and community engagement, built from a decade leading Wipro's global EHS Risk practice.
Integrated Operational Risk
Enterprise risk frameworks that withstand audit, regulatory review, and enterprise procurement due-diligence.
ESG & Sustainability Technology
AI-enabled compliance platforms benchmarking organisations against GRI, CDP, TCFD, and SASB (IFRS) standards.
Enterprise Digital Transformation
SAP-integrated and enterprise-platform delivery, leading teams of up to 60 people across three time zones.
Built, Scaled, and — Three Times — Exited
A rare combination for a governance leader: the technical and commercial credibility to build, scale, and exit technology businesses, alongside the advisory depth to guide large institutions through transformation.
ESG Disclose
Co-founder, COO & Commercial Director. An AI-enabled ESG compliance platform benchmarking funds, banks, and corporates against GRI, CDP, TCFD, and SASB (IFRS) standards, with partnerships across financial institutions and consulting firms in Southeast Asia.
Audit XPRT
Built an AI-enabled compliance and financial audit automation platform to $5.7M revenue and a $10M pipeline, with transformational contracts including Barclays, EY, and KPMG. Acquired by Ideagen plc, an HG Capital portfolio company, in October 2021.
Eduworks
Commercial Director. AI-powered machine learning and competency assurance platform, built with an R&D team in Seattle. Consistently exceeded £2M in annual incremental revenue with clients including the UK Ministry of Defence, Deloitte, British Airways, BT, and Investors in People.
Wipro EHS & Risk
Built Wipro's EHS Risk practice from inception to $13M in revenue within three years, including a Global Incident Management Platform delivered for BP.
Senoi BPO Services
Head of Client Management. Scaled outsourced sales, partnering, and ERP support solutions, winning and managing contracts with Royal Mint, Masterfoods, Royal Mail, GSK, Land Securities Trillium, Shell, and Kuwait Oil.
Education & Languages
BTech Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
Management & International Marketing
PDip, Glasgow Caledonian University
English, Urdu, Hindi
English (native), Urdu/Hindi (proficient).
Seven Global Regions
UK, EMEA, Middle East, and Southeast Asia — delivery experience across the US & Canada, EU, West Asia, South Asia, SE Asia, Australia, and Southern Africa.
What I Speak About
Nadeem regularly participates in industry roundtables and has organised executive events attracting over 100 C-suite leaders from listed companies across Southeast Asia, co-sponsored by Google and Novem ESG. Recurring topics include:
From BPO to AI: three decades of digital business model evolution
Three exits, multiple lessons: building and scaling enterprise technology platforms
The future of ESG technology and how AI is transforming sustainability compliance
Digital transformation in financial services: navigating regulatory complexity with technology
Building strategic alliances in the enterprise technology ecosystem
The entrepreneur's journey: pattern recognition across multiple successful ventures
Also an Author
Nadeem Shakoor is a British Pakistani author whose fiction moves between the Chishti Sufi tradition of the subcontinent, the political history of Pakistan and colonial Punjab, and the tradecraft of the espionage novel — five series, seventeen-plus novels and novellas, exploring what a record survives and what it costs to keep it.