Certified practitioners whose careers span Canada, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Pakistan and Nepal, across oil and gas, petrochemicals, fertilizer, power and infrastructure.
Practitioners who work where the risk is.
Procyon is a South Asian advisory practice delivering specialist process safety, environmental and social risk, governance and development-finance advisory to industrial and infrastructure clients across South Asia, the GCC and Africa.
Our mission
Built to close the practitioner gap in South Asian advisory.
Procyon exists to fill a specific gap in the region’s advisory market: the need for specialists who have managed real industrial risk themselves. Too much advice is delivered by analysts who bring frameworks but little time in the field. Our practice is built on practitioners who have run process safety programmes at live petrochemical facilities, led HAZOP studies under production pressure and delivered E&S assessments for development-bank lenders.
Our advisory spans process safety management, occupational health and safety, environmental and social impact, sustainability reporting, risk intelligence and institutional governance. Every piece of work is anchored in the standards your development bank, regulator and investors already require.
From our base in Pakistan, and with a strong track record across the GCC and Africa, we support industrial operators, infrastructure sponsors and development-finance clients who need advice that is technically rigorous, regionally grounded and immediately defensible.
Every deliverable is aligned with the frameworks your lenders, regulators and investors already apply: the IFC Performance Standards, World Bank EHS Guidelines, ISO 45001 and the GRI Standards.
Our principals have supported MDB-financed programmes across South Asia, from E&S monitoring frameworks and OHS advisory to PMU capacity building and governance strengthening.
Leadership team
The specialists who lead every engagement.
Our leadership combines industrial risk specialists, environmental and social advisors and governance practitioners, with delivery experience across South Asia, the GCC, Africa and international markets.
Nadeem Ahmad, CSP®
Principal · Process Safety & Risk ManagementA chemical engineer and Certified Safety Professional with 35 years in oil and gas, petrochemicals and manufacturing across Canada, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan. Nadeem has led the implementation of DuPont’s 22-element process safety framework, facilitated PHA and HAZOP studies for highly hazardous facilities, and delivered safety culture and ESG improvement programmes for multinational operators.
Selected experience- DuPont 22-element PSM implementation at QAFAC, Qatar
- HAZOP and PHA facilitation for hazardous process plants
- ESG and emissions-reduction initiatives across industrial operations
- Safety culture and behaviour-based safety programme leadership
Kashif Rasheed, CCPSC®, CIT
Principal · Process Safety & E&S Risk · Lead TrainerMore than two decades across fertilizer, oil and gas, power, petrochemicals and infrastructure. Kashif’s work spans process safety programme development, HSE systems, industrial hygiene, incident investigation, sustainability analytics and technical training, for major clients in Pakistan, the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and South Africa. He also brings direct environmental and social risk experience from World Bank-supported assignments.
Selected experience- PSM baselining and implementation support for FFBL
- Process safety assessments across TAKREER assets, Abu Dhabi
- Sustainability data platform and reporting protocols for GPCA
- PHA and process safety training for major industrial clients
- E&S, OHS and community health and safety advisory on development-financed infrastructure
Milan Karki
Principal · Governance & Economic GrowthA development specialist with extensive experience in governance, infrastructure delivery, employment systems and institutional strengthening across Nepal and South Asia. Milan has supported large World Bank-funded programmes, led complex delivery across municipalities, and built digital monitoring, supervision and recruitment systems for public-sector implementation. He leads Procyon’s development-finance, governance and public-systems advisory.
Selected experience- World Bank-linked infrastructure and employment programmes
- Municipal and governance systems strengthening
- Monitoring and supervision system design
- Digital systems for public-sector programme delivery
How we work
Four principles behind every engagement.
Practitioners on site
Every engagement is led by a certified practitioner with real operating experience, not a junior analyst with a framework and no time in the field.
No proprietary lock-in
We work to the IFC Performance Standards, World Bank EHS Guidelines, ISO 45001 and the GRI Standards: the frameworks your lenders, regulators and investors already require.
Built in the region
Our knowledge of South Asian and GCC markets comes from years of in-country delivery. We understand the regulatory, cultural and operational context, rather than applying it from abroad.
Written to be defended
Deliverables are designed to stand up in front of your board, lenders and regulators. We write for the audience that matters, not for the filing cabinet.
Regional presence
Delivering across South Asia, with a strong record in the GCC.
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Where we work
South Asia and the Gulf
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Home base
Pakistan
Islamabad · Lahore · Karachi
Fertilizer, refining, power, textiles and ports. Most of our principals' process safety and E&S delivery has been here.
Principal in country
Nepal
Kathmandu
World Bank-funded infrastructure, employment and municipal programmes, led by our governance principal.
Project basis
Bangladesh
Dhaka
Supply-chain audits for garment and textile exporters, and E&S support on MDB-financed infrastructure.
Project basis
Sri Lanka
Colombo
Ports, power and lender-financed infrastructure.
Prior delivery
GCC
Dubai · Doha · Riyadh · Muscat
PSM implementation at a Qatari methanol producer, the GPCA sustainability platform and peer reviews across GCC operators.
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The name
Procyon rises before the Dog Star.
Procyon is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor. Its Greek name means “before the dog”: it clears the horizon shortly before Sirius, and for centuries sky-watchers read it as an early sign of what was coming.
That is the role we play for our clients. We find the degraded barrier, the overdue action and the missing evidence early, before they become an incident, a failed audit or a stalled loan.
Get in touch
Ready to benchmark your facility or discuss a project?
Our principals are available for a no-obligation conversation about your safety, sustainability or risk intelligence needs, scoped to your sector and project stage.