Where the East
meets strategy.

Where tradition meets modernity.

Korkis Consulting Group. An advisory firm rooted in the Middle East, fluent in the language of international business.

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What we do

Three distinct mandates. One firm that understands the region deeply enough to make them all possible.

Entering the Middle East

For international companies ready to expand into the Gulf and the broader MENA region, we provide the strategic roadmap, the relationships, and the cultural fluency to ensure your entry is built to last.

Market entry strategy. Partner identification. Regulatory navigation. Stakeholder engagement.

Taking the Middle East global

For regional businesses ready to step onto the international stage, we build the strategic architecture that makes that leap credible, structuring your proposition and your path forward for audiences who may not yet know your name.

Internationalisation strategy. Brand positioning. Cross-border advisory. Market development.

Management support

For organisations in transition, whether scaling, restructuring, or navigating complexity, we provide experienced senior advisory at the operational level. Strategy that stays in the room until it works.

Interim leadership advisory. Operational efficiency. Strategic communications. Change management.

Who we are

Counsel shaped by operating experience.

Rashad Korkis, Founder and Managing Partner
Rashad Korkis Founder and Managing Partner

Korkis Consulting Group is led by its founder, Rashad Korkis, whose career has been spent running businesses inside this region rather than advising on it from a distance.

He began at Nestlé's global headquarters in Switzerland and went on to senior commercial and general management roles with Philip Morris International across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and the wider Middle East. As chief executive of the PepsiCo bottler in northern Iraq, he led the business to record profitability and set it on a course of continuous growth, winning PepsiCo's fastest growing company award in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

He has been a partner in private equity and corporate advisory, has founded companies of his own, and serves on the board of a regional charitable foundation. Swiss by nationality and educated in Switzerland, fluent in Arabic, English and French, he has lived and worked on four continents. That multicultural grounding is what lets him move between a European boardroom and a Gulf majlis without losing anything in translation, and it underpins relationships across the Gulf and the Levant that cannot be bought or hurried.

Market entry. Turnarounds. Commercial leadership. Governance. Partnerships that last.

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Mesopotamia Mesopotamia

The Modern Gulf

Cities built on
ambition without limit.

The Gulf is no longer a destination. It is a centre of gravity. Sovereign wealth, visionary infrastructure, and a generation of decision-makers who think in decades, not quarters.

We have operated inside this transformation from its earliest chapters. We know its pace, its protocols, and its people.

What looks like a new world is an older one returning to form. This region traded across three continents long before it built towers, and it is reclaiming that position with far greater reach. Its future is being written at speed, in a language thousands of years old. We read both.

Ancient Foundations

Civilisations that
taught the world
to trade.

Before the skylines, there were the spice routes. Before the boardrooms, there were the caravanserais. The Middle East has always understood how to move value across borders.

We carry that understanding, not as heritage, but as method. Relationships built on trust. Counsel given with patience. Strategy delivered with cultural precision.

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Beirut, Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon
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Damascus, Syria Damascus, Syria

We read the past.
We speak the future.
We deliver in the present.

International strategy means nothing without local fluency. We translate ambitions into outcomes. Strategy that the Middle East respects. Results that change the conversation in every boardroom.

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