BRG hires construction disputes expert Randa Wazani in Dubai office. 09 November 2026 Consultancy-me.com Global consulting firm BRG has strengthened its team in the Middle East with Randa Wazani, who joins as an associate director in the Construction & Real Estate practice. Based in Dubai, Wazani brings nearly twenty years of experience in construction and consultancy across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. She focuses on forensic and investigation services in the built environment, as well as project advisory services. She joins BRG from Kroll, where she spent five years working on delay and programming matters in arbitration and adjudication proceedings in the context of construction claims. She provided independent assessments of the causes of project delay, including reviews of delivery capability, governance, scope and procurement issues. Wazani also worked on independent advisory engagements. Earlier in her career, Wazani spent fourteen years in planning at Emirati contractor Arabtec and Lebanese-origin engineering group Dar, where her roles spanned tender planning, project execution and closeout. Her experience includes design-build and engineering, procurement and construction arrangements. She has worked across residential, hospitality and mixed-use developments, including high-rise towers, hospitals, museums, airports, retail and leisure developments, infrastructure and oil and gas projects. Commenting on her appointment, Wazani said: "I'm pleased to join BRG at this significant moment in the firm's growth. I have previously worked with several members of the BRG team and look forward to collaborating with new colleagues across the Middle East and globally." Headquartered in the US, BRG employs over 1,600 people globally across more than 40 offices. Its Middle East business is led from its Dubai office.

BRG has hired two managing directors and a director for its Financial Institution Advisory practice, expanding its Markets Compliance group in Washington, D.C. Conway Dodge and Michael Sullivan are the managing directors; Richard Patterson is the director. The group serves broker-dealers, investment advisers, swap dealers and other firms regulated mainly by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the National Futures Association. Dodge spent more than a decade in the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Sullivan was a partner at KPMG, and Patterson is a former FINRA investigator. Paul Noring, who leads the practice, said BRG will keep building the team with asset and wealth management experts.

BRG grows Financial Institution Advisory practice with banking transformation leader Berbel. Maurice Berbel brings over 30 years of experience advising financial institutions on consumer banking, operations improvement, technology modernization and large-scale transformation. BRG added Maurice Berbel to its Financial Institution Advisory (FIA) practice as a managing director in its operations and technology transformation team. A former Big Four banking practice leader, he brings over 30 years of experience advising financial institutions on consumer banking, operations improvement, technology modernization and large-scale transformation. His appointment continues BRG's expansion of its operations and technology transformation work for financial services clients. Berbel has extensive experience building and leading banking practices with teams across operations, technology, product, data, risk and compliance. He has served as consumer banking transformation leader and client-serving partner to large U.S. banks, credit card companies and mortgage institutions. He has advised chief operating, information and risk officers on transformation priorities and led programs to modernize platforms, redesign operation models and apply automation to improve productivity. "Maurice has spent his career focusing on the operations that banks depend on most, and he knows how to modernize them while maintaining control of risk and customer service," Tri MacDonald, president and CEO of BRG, said. "As financial institutions move from experimenting with AI to running on it, they need advisors who have done this work at scale. Maurice brings the right experience and knowledge of the operational realities where AI can create the most meaningful value for clients." Berbel will help clients modernize the core operations that matter most to their customers and regulators. He has experience applying artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation and other digital tools in complex banking environments and helping institutions move efficiently from experimentation to execution. Earlier in his career, Berbel was vice president at Bear Stearns, where he focused on mortgage transformation, and held roles at Andersen Consulting/Accenture and Mercer Management Consulting. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance and economics from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.