Umar is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 18 years of corporate and financial accounting experience, focusing primarily on the real estate and hospitality industries.

He started his career at Deloitte in its Audit and Business Advisory division before joining Dun & Bradstreet as a Business Analyst.

He joined Quadrant from Oliver Walton Group, a real estate investment and management firm, where he was Head of Finance for over three and half years. Prior to this, he worked for Transomas and Westbourne Hyde Park Group, an international real estate group with a presence in the UK, US and India. He left the group in 2018 as a Group FC after a decade with them.

Umar is a member of ICAEW and ACCA.