Why three minor pieces?

In chess, the queen gets the headlines. But ask any player how games are actually won: it's the coordination of the so-called minor pieces — the bishop that sees across the board, the rook that holds the structure, the knight that finds the move nobody else can make.

That is our model of consulting. Not a star hire who leaves a deck behind, but pieces that work together on your side of the board: strategy that comes from having built the systems ourselves, infrastructure engineered to run for years, and execution that ships and then stays to operate what it shipped.

Bishop, Rook & Knight was founded by Arjun Sharma, whose eleven-year career spans AI, engineering, and finance: network engineering on one of the world's largest 4G rollouts at Ericsson, digital transformation across 500+ hospitals in six Asian markets, e-commerce strategy at LVMH's DFS Group in Hong Kong, and an MBA in Finance & Technology from CUHK Business School.

Most recently, as AI Manager at a DFSA-regulated investment firm in DIFC, he designed and delivered the firm's production on-premises AI platform end-to-end — hardware, inference, retrieval, evaluation — while building the deal flow, portfolio, and monitoring platforms the firm runs on daily, and producing equity research across metals & mining, semiconductors, and infrastructure.

He builds AI that ships inside regulated financial firms — and does the research it serves. That double fluency, in the technology and in the business it exists for, is the firm's edge.

Bishop, Rook & Knight is registered in IFZA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and works with clients across the UAE, the wider GCC, and the United States. Standard business hours are 9:00–18:00 Dubai time (GST), with out-of-hours and US-timezone coverage available on premium terms.

We take on a small number of clients and go deep: most engagements are long-term retainers where we design, build, and then operate.