Dubai, United Arab Emirates
As a strategic and result-driven people leader with over 25 years of business and management experience across multiple markets and industries, I have a proven track record of delivering operational strength in complex growth or turnaround situations. A persuasive communication style and deep commercial acumen enable me to drive operational efficiency and subsequently shareholder value leveraging both my past failures and successes. Having spent 19+ years in the GCC, I possess an in-depth understanding of Middle Eastern & African markets and I am skilled in nurturing corporate growth through managing M&A, corporate investments, or greenfield developments within the TMT, Telecoms, Fintech, E-Commerce, and Retail sectors. I'm equipped with a broad digital & technical know-how and I thrive in crisis management situations, where applying innovation, organizational and financial dexterity are key to implementing positive change. In addition to a few senior roles with corporate giants, I am the founder of a digital agency in 2001, a management consulting firm in 2013, a Fintech startup currently in build mode, and the co-founder of a Corporate Venture Builder in 2018, I understand user experience design, product-market fit rational, business modeling, and all the drivers of value creation. Whether leading or advising start-ups or turning around mature businesses, I always pursue ROI performance to fulfill the KPIs of either the P/L or the valuation games. I love to lead by example and as a consensus-builder, I manage and motivate technical, administrative, or creative teams across multiple cultures, languages, and functions with ease and confidence. Overall, I'm passionate about driving growth, creating value, and achieving operational excellence in all my endeavors. C suites, board members or clients alike can think of me as an agent of change for managing complex Digital Transformation projects or driving with confidence their innovation and investment agenda. Specialties: Change Management & Transformation / Product Design & Information Architecture / Fintech / Telecoms / e-Commerce / P&L and Performance Improvement / Deal Structuring & Negotiation / Venture Capital & Investment Management / Venture Building
Because every business today, is a digital business, KinetiKx is a niche management consulting firm working with clients to manage and implement their complex Digital Transformation agendas. Fueled by many years of experience in all sectors of the digital spectrum, animated by a network of exceptional field experts, predisposed for the intelligent leveraging of technology innovations, but mostly inspired by the passion for delivering rewarding user experiences, KinetiKx adopts a 360 degree, methodical approach, to guide its clients in securing the key elements of what it takes to become a digitally competent organization in today’s data and AI driven social-web economy. KinetiKx is the new breed of Business Transformation Agency designed to bring value and innovation to both the investment and corporate sector whilst eagerly focusing on social responsibility, human progress and wellbeing agendas. Through our niche Venture Studio and our Corporate Innovation practice we develop, fix or accelerate businesses that make sense to our environment and our communities and they don’t have to be only rooted in digital or technology.
Tasked with the mandate to restructure, transform, and accelerate this wonderful Fintech Startup with regional and MENA expansion ambition. Flexxpay offers organisations a suite of simple yet essential solutions that elevate the Employer/Employee relationship to trigger significant cost savings and higher levels of loyalty, retention and productivity amongst the workforce. We integrate into any HR & Payroll solutions to provide medium and large Enterprise with a vendor-funded Salary Advance Service, On-Spot commission payout system, Plug & Play Employee Loyalty Programs, Rapid Bank Account Opening, and much more. Flexxpay's mission is to become the partner of choice for all things related to how an Employer provides financial well-being to its human capital.
Positioned as the technology and digital innovation arm of the Inteltec Group, I lead the 600+ employee company which has established itself in the past 6 years as a leader in Fintech, Telecom, and Retail/Distribution Management sectors in UAE & KSA. As a service provider to the Telecoms industry and a venture builder with MEA focus, iPay incubates and accelerates the development and the go-to-market of startups, partnerships and JVs that sit on the intersections of financial technology, digital commerce, and telecoms innovation.
In charge of due diligence and project execution of the Digital and VAS Technology deal flow for the companies under the Group.
Gulftec is a high-performance technology innovation-led sales organization essentially focused on serving the telecoms industry in KSA. As a channel partner of telecom operators, we deliver connectivity and telecommunications solutions to our SME and Enterprise clients throughout the Kingdom also adding enterprise-related IT & Marketing value-added services to our portfolio.