Umara A.

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About Umara A.

Umara Ardra (Ara) is a passionate data driven Indonesian professional business executive, former management consultant and investor. Umara’s wide range of business industry interests includes sports, f&b, retail, technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, music, entertainment, power, energy & telco. Umara have worked directly with and mentored by prominent business executives such as Glenn Sugita, Vico Lomar, Didit Ratam, Victor Fungkong, Claudia Lauw, Rosita Sinaga, Bowo Suhardjo & Steve Aditya Umara holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from The University of Indonesia in International Monetary Economics as well as a study abroad certificate in Quantitative Economics from The University of Leicester. He is also a former Macro Economics lecturer in the Economics Faculty of The University of Indonesia. After 7+ years of focusing his professional career in the professional services industry as a business and management consultant in Accenture, Euromonitor International and Deloitte, having served various multinational and local clients within the healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical devices, FMCG, industrials, telco and power industry. His last position held was as Deloitte Indonesia’s Clients & Industry Leader, where he was responsible to manage Deloitte Indonesia's firmwide revenue planning and business strategy which includes a KPI to ensure Deloitte Indonesia's sales reaches the revenue target given by Deloitte Global. In January 2022, Umara was appointed as the Group CFO of Fore Coffee Group and in September 2024, Umara is appointed as the Interim Group CFO of Persib. Umara is also active in numerous organizations, such as CFO Club Indonesia, ILUNI FEB UI, APACMed, KADIN, HIPMI, ILUNI UI & Deutscher Lehrer Kolleg as he was awarded a full scholarship for a Summer program in 2010 by Goethe Institut. A passionate sportsman at heart, Umara was the club captain of Chelsea FC’s Indonesia Youth Football Club and have represented the club for tournaments in the APAC region.