Stage 3 Consulting

The team

The people who pitch the work
are the people who run it.

Stage 3 is a bench of specialists, each leading the discipline they have spent a career in. Nothing is handed down to a junior team once the contract is signed, and the person who challenges your brief on the first call is the person accountable for the answer.

Why the firm is built this way

On this page

  1. 01 Omer Khan Founder & Chief Problem Solver
  2. 02 Zeeshan Ahmed Head of Quant
  3. 03 Naseem Butt Head of Data Analytics
  4. 04 Yasar Hayat Head of Data Acquisition
  5. 05 Farhan Khan Head of Quality Assurance

Profiles

Omer Khan, Founder & Chief Problem Solver
01

Omer Khan

Founder & Chief Problem Solver

With 15+ years in research and insights, Omer is a race strategist — analyzing data, anticipating challenges, and fine-tuning strategies for peak business performance. Having navigated both client and agency circuits, he thrives on challenging the status quo and accelerating businesses past the competition.

In practice that means managing qualitative and quantitative assignments end to end: designing research proposals and questionnaires, coordinating field and data-processing teams across all key cities of Pakistan, moderating focus groups, conducting in-depth interviews, running ethnographic and diary exercises, performing descriptive analysis, and preparing the final deliverables and client presentations.

Expertise

  • Project management
  • Research design
  • Qualitative moderation
  • Client strategy

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Zeeshan Ahmed, Head of Quant
02

Zeeshan Ahmed

Head of Quant

Zeeshan is the data maestro of the team, a true race engineer when it comes to numbers. Whether it's BHTs, CLTs, or Segmentations, he navigates complex datasets with precision, uncovering insights and trends that others miss. His sharp analytical skills and strategic mindset ensure businesses stay ahead of the curve.

Expertise

  • Brand health tracking
  • CLTs
  • Segmentation
  • Quantitative design

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Market Research & Consumer Insights

Naseem Butt, Head of Data Analytics
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Naseem Butt

Head of Data Analytics

A research industry veteran, Naseem has been in the driver's seat for 30 years — starting at Aftab and mastering statistical analysis at Nielsen. His precision in data analysis and testing sets him apart, delivering insights few can match in the industry.

That includes 20+ years in data processing, input, validation and data control — the unglamorous work that decides whether everything downstream of it can be trusted.

Expertise

  • Statistical analysis
  • Data processing
  • Validation & control
  • Significance testing

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Data Analytics & Decision Intelligence

Yasar Hayat, Head of Data Acquisition
04

Yasar Hayat

Head of Data Acquisition

Yasar is as energetic as a cheetah. He is the go-to guy who can get the fieldwork done in the least amount of time possible.

Across 20 years in field research he has run a nationwide network of interviewers and recruiters, covering in-home, street, store and exit and on-site interviews, hall tests and CLTs, product placements and tracking studies — for qualitative, quantitative, consumer and business-to-business work. His responsibility is that the most appropriate and experienced people are selected for each project, and that potential issues reach the project manager immediately.

Expertise

  • Quantitative fieldwork
  • Qualitative recruitment
  • CLTs & hall tests
  • Nationwide field network

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Fieldwork & Data Acquisition

Farhan Khan, Head of Quality Assurance
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Farhan Khan

Head of Quality Assurance

When data acquisition is as fast as lightning, there are bound to be quality issues. Farhan Khan is the expert back checker and ensures data collected is accurate and reliable.

The protocols behind that: back-checking on quantitative work, editing 100% of completed interviews, verifying recruited respondents against the approved screener, and keeping progress reports current for project managers.

Expertise

  • Back-checking
  • Interview validation
  • Respondent verification
  • QC protocols

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Quality Assurance

See what this bench delivers

The bench

Every discipline is led by someone with 15 to 30 years in it.

Research and insights, quantitative design, statistical analysis, fieldwork and quality assurance are each held by a specialist rather than spread thin across a general team. That is what makes it possible to challenge the assumption a brief was built on before any budget is committed to it.

  • Research & insights
  • Quantitative design
  • Statistical analysis
  • Fieldwork & data acquisition
  • Quality assurance

Fieldwork runs through a nationwide interviewer and recruiter network covering all key cities of Pakistan. Everything it produces is back-checked, with 100% of completed interviews edited and every qualitative recruit verified against the approved screener.

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Tell us the decision in front of you. The first conversation is with the specialist whose discipline it sits in.