FTI Consulting, Inc. announced the appointment of healthcare experts Oussama Nicolas and Tara Makarem as Senior Managing Directors in the firm?s Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment. Mr. Nicolas and Ms. Makarem will co-lead the firm?s new healthcare and life sciences offering, supporting clients across the public and private sectors in the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Mr. Nicolas has more than 25 years of healthcare consulting experience advising both public-and private-sector clients across a range of areas, including strategy, transformation, care model design, capacity planning and large-scale strategy execution.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, he held senior roles at several global strategy advisory firms, where he led complex, multi-country healthcare engagements across the Middle East. Ms. Makarem has more than 12 years of healthcare consulting experience, including strategy design, care pathway development, workforce and capacity planning, value creation and transformation management. She has led numerous complex programmes in population health management and care transformation initiatives driving change across accountable care organisations.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Makarem was a Partner at a global strategy consultancy, where she led strategy, transformation and implementation initiatives for public-sector clients. Before that, she worked at a global strategy and advisory firm.
