A global proven footprint
Facelift Consulting helps growing businesses across the region build the governance, risk, compliance, and audit backbone that boards trust and regulators respect — led by partners with a combined 130+ years inside the banks and institutions you're being measured against.
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Combined years of partner experience in internal audit & banking
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Clients served across the region
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Integrated practices, one accountable team
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Sectors: banking, real estate, aviation, F&B, industrial
Trusted Across the Region
Where It Hurts
What We Do
We don't just diagnose and hand you a deck — we build the function, and run it with you for as long as you need us to.
A resilient audit function — built, run, or reinforced.
The structural backbone serious institutions run on.
See the threats before they become headlines.
Stay ahead of regulators, not behind them.
A full-spectrum diagnostic of where your business stands — and where it's leaking value.
A trusted second opinion for the room where the biggest decisions get made.
Why Facelift
Traditional firms diagnose challenges from a distance and leave you with a slide deck. We embed with your enterprise to architect, execute, and operate the solution.
We built Facelift to eliminate the structural friction of legacy advisory: bloated teams, junior-staff delegation, and endless theoretical reporting. We pair elite institutional rigor with the agility of a specialized partner, ensuring that when we recommend a fix, we have the capacity to build and run it.
We don't hand over a report and walk away. Our teams stay on the ground to implement internal controls, stand up governance frameworks, and operationalize the solution shoulder-to-shoulder with your leadership.
In legacy firms, you pitch to partners but your project is executed by junior staff. With Facelift, seasoned industry veterans lead every engagement directly, ensuring strategic depth from day one.
You receive the rigorous methodologies and standards of top-tier global institutions, delivered with the speed, flexibility, and cost-efficiency of a specialized firm — free from bureaucratic delays.
From initial diagnostic and risk assessment to regulatory alignment and long-term operational oversight, we serve as your continuous, accountable partner through every phase of growth.
How We Work
Where the real risk sits, not just the obvious one
Charters and controls built to run, not sit in a binder
Co-sourced or fully outsourced, for as long as you need us
Every one of our six practices — from a governance gap analysis to a fully outsourced audit function — moves through the same three phases, with the same accountable team from start to finish.
Corporate & Social Responsibility
We always seek to build a sustainable future of now, for the future of tomorrow. We see that acting with integrity and promoting collaboration, transparency, and trust with our clients and our employees is key to achieving ethically oriented practice, sound governance, and operational excellence.
Our Vision & Mission
To be a trusted partner of choice in providing a sustainable, outstanding level of business consultancy, advisory, and assurance services to our clients, while promoting the first choice for the best-in-class visionary talents who work for a purpose.
We believe there are always unveiled opportunities that have not yet been unleashed — our mission is to help organizations navigate the unseen opportunities.
What Guides Us
We hold ourselves accountable for our actions, and act with honesty, honor, and truthfulness.
We treat our employees and customers with trust and transparency, guiding every decision we make.
We ensure a consistent degree of reliance throughout our journey with our clients, as intended and required.
Our customers are the focal point of every decision we make, to deliver satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy.
Our team's diversified backgrounds and cultures let us offer different perspectives and solutions to our clients.
Leadership
Three founding partners and a non-executive board with a combined 130+ years of banking, audit, and governance leadership across the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Chairman, CEO & Managing Director
22+ years across five multinational banks — Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Ahli United Bank, and First Abu Dhabi Bank — plus KPMG as External Auditor. Former Regional Chief Audit Officer for MENA at FAB. IIA Global Ambassador.
Partner, Board Member & COO
20+ years across banking, governance, and investment advisory in Egypt and the GCC. Former Financial Controller for a 120+ company private investment office in Qatar, and CFO of Century 21 Qatar. Master's in Finance, University of Nottingham.
Non-Executive Board Member
40+ years leading internal audit and controls across the Middle East's banking sector, including Head of Internal Audit roles at BNP Paribas, United Bank, and Ahli United Bank. Fellow, Institute of Internal Auditors (USA).
Non-Executive Board Member
50+ years of banking and financial services leadership across Egypt, the Middle East, and Africa. Board member, Suez Canal Bank and Contact Holding; former Head of Treasury, National Bank of Egypt. Master's in Public Administration, Harvard University.
Client Voices
"We built these functions before we ever advised on them. That's the difference."
Nour Elbadawy — Chairman, CEO & Managing Director
We run a boutique practice by design, and we keep our client list as confidential as our engagements — so rather than publish quotes, we'll put you directly in touch with a reference client in your sector. Ask them what actually matters to you.
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Building 30 D, Ground Floor, Sama Towers, Ring Road, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
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