Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Management consultant with entrepreneurial drive, leadership experience and a positive team working ethos. Specialised in strategy and organisational transformations for private sector companies in Middle East and Europe, with a particular focus on real estate, financial, and TMT industries.
- Developed a real estate development strategy for a 2Mn sqm plot in a major GCC city - Built a 50-year integrated financial and business model for a large land asset, including HBU analysis, cluster phasing and partnership agreements - Led strategy transformation for GCC bank to grow fee income by 4x - Developed 2-year phased transition/exit plan for GCC telco wholesaler for 11 business functions and 206 business services
Full-time MBA studies at HEC Paris with a specialisation in Strategy. Elected President to lead a team of 30 MBAs and 150+ volunteers to implement first MBAT since 2019, post COVID-19. MBAT is Europe's largest gathering of MBAs with 1,500+ MBAs from 15+ business schools coming to HEC Paris for 3-days of competitions, networking, and other social activities. Responsible for overseeing and signing off on budget, full operational design, fundraising through ticket sales and sponsorships, team recruitment, mobile application development, and internal/external stakeholder management.
Advised a number of UK and international Boards and C-suite executive teams from a broad range of industries on performance measurement, organisational design, incentive design and implementation, reward strategy, and corporate governance. Achieved Senior Associate in 5 years vs. the 7-10 years outlined in Mercer’s career framework. Experience included reviews of management incentives to ensure alignment with business strategy, full support with remuneration reporting requirements and shareholder consultations, target-setting analyses for short-term and long-term incentives, and valuing share-based incentives for accounting purposes.
Performed operational due diligence on Insurance function. Tested compliance against Group’s standard procedures and code of conduct. Designed new process for assessing adherence with Group's culture and values. Raised £1,000+ for the Alzheimer’s Society as team leader of intern charity challenge. Organised gaming competition to raise funds, acquired prizes from local businesses, and drafted communications for newsletter.