2019 SPEAKERS

FMCG expert in Commercial leadership across the GCC with Distributor, channel and lead customer management, having track record of diverse assignments across markets and categories with P&G, Kraft, Mondelez and J&J.

Visionary, Award-wining Chief Marketing Officer with 18+ years of international marketing communications experience for 15 different industries and won 2 international marketing awards from USA and Asia. Headed various Marcom senior roles for companies / brands of repute in MENA region such as...

Raj Achan is a strategic and commercially astute senior executive with more than 25 years  of experience in the healthcare, education and construction industries. He is currently the Chief Marketing Officer for Accolade Engineering Consultancy. Raj is accountable for leading the strategic...

Residence: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesBirthplace: Beirut, LebanonEducation:American University of BeirutB.A. Business Administration,1994Date Joined P&G: June 1994Year Position Held:2018 Managing director, AP (Arabian Peninsula)2011 Country Manager, Poland2008 Market Strategy & Planning...

The journey that led to the birth & concept behind INSTAGLAM.I grew up with a passion and great sense of appreciation for beauty and glamour. I was also lucky enough to be surrounded by women who inspired me on a daily bases. My mother, a makeup artist and hair stylist, had an influence on me...

Current Marketing Manager of Sony Music Entertainment ME with 7 Years of experience and expertise in Online Marketing and Growth Management, he is also the Founder and CEO of Producersources.com a marketplace of Digital Downloads for Music Producers.

During the last 14 years, I worked on many projects with different development tools, for different industries. But the last 9 years was a game changer for me since I cracked the Salesforce World.For many years I used to be a consultant and then a solution architect helping big names in MENA region ...

Speaker has closely worked with disruptive players in retail & ecommerce and has seen the impact of digital transformation in how brands communicate, engage and transact with customers. Currently heading Ecommerce at Danube, and was part of leadership at Pepperfry.com and its success story in...

Mustafa is a customer experience driven Product Designer who is passionate about transforming business through effective use of Technology and Innovation.

Ammar is the brain behind the online booking systems for Budget, Thrifty, Dollar and many other companies. After working for years for many big car rental companies the company has launched UAE’s flagship car rental comparison and booking portal known as Finalrentals.com that won the award for...

Athbi is the Joint Managing Partner and one of the Co-Founders of Just Clean.Prior to establishing the business, Athbi worked in the banking sector where he gained invaluable knowledge in the field of human resources.Athbi was born and raised in Kuwait until his late teens when he moved to the...

Manar Alkassar is the Founder & CEO of Helpling Middle East, a Rocket Internet company.  Helpling launched in early 2015 and is the world's leading platform to book cleaning & household services. The innovative service enables people to book professional cleaners within 60...

Nader Amiri is the Founder & CEO of el Grocer, a grocery delivery marketplace platform. In just over 12 years in the FMCG industry with Unilever, Kraft Foods/Mondelez, and Coca-Cola, Nader has asserted himself as a passionate innovator. With a strong multidisciplinary experience in brand...

Furqan’s expertise in shopping centre investment, underwriting, and operational finance is well-known across the region. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the shopping centre industry, most specifically in investment management and value creation.In previous management positions with...

Anusha is Group Marketing Manager - Digital at Motivate Media Group, one of the region's most established publishers. Motivate's interests include magazines and websites, books and events among many other channels. Anusha is responsible for digital marketing, marketing automation and...

Senior Marketing Executive with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Middle East. Henri specialise in the financial services industry but have had exposure to many other industries such as Real Estate, Media and Tourism.He has directed, developed and implemented key initiatives across the...

Vishal leads creative strategy for Snapchat's clients across MENA. He works with progressive CMOs from leading brands and Creative Leaders from the top agencies, who want to deliver campaigns that have a real impact, and who understand the need for both effectiveness and efficiency. Given the...

Creative strategist with ability to roll out innovative marketing, communications, promotional campaigns to capture and retain a respectable market share in a fiercely competitive market scenario. Demonstrated professional superiority in designing communications to generate heightened awareness and ...

Ziyad Bangara is the Chief Marketing Officer at an up and coming start-up in Dubai Called Fixerman.Born and raised in the bustling city of Dubai, he understood the life of business and commerce at an early age.At the age of 18, he moved to Australia to pursue a degree in Communication Design to...

As a Senior Client Solutions Manager at LinkedIn, leading the Technology vertical, Rana work with customers and agencies to help define ways to achieve marketing and business objectives, covering content and product best practices, as well as audience recommendations and insights.Prior to...

Yosser Ben Mena is Shipa Delivery’s Chief Marketing Officer.Since 2015, Yosser has led Shipa Delivery’s sales & marketing team. Yosser built the marketing and sales strategy and defined the way Shipa Delivery approaches the business and individual customers. Yosser is responsible for linking...

Harvey spent over a decade learning about data. All kinds of data from all kinds of places. Specifically. He learnt how to convert data from numbers and patterns into actions, stories and opportunities. In the past few years he has focused on how to apply this knowledge to augment hiring...

 As the head of marketing and communications at Cigna Insurance Middle East, Lianne Braganza-D’Sylva is responsible for reinforcing Cigna’s customer-centric approach through the development and execution of strategic brand marketing, targeted segmentation programs, digital initiatives and...

Jesper Broberg is the VP Business Development for Sitecore MEA. Jesper has spent the last 10 years of his career with Sitecore, driving growth and expansion in both Europe and Asia, and the last four years he has been based in Dubai, driving the Sitecore expansion across Middle East &...

Katharine Budd is the cofounder & CEO of NOW Money. Low-income workers in the Gulf struggle to access traditional banking services. NOW Money is a free app-based alternative they can be paid into, as well as pay bills and make low-cost overseas transfers to loved ones at home.  Corporate...

Vineet Budki, CEO & Co-founder of Guiddoo, a leading Travel Technology player in the In-Destination Space, was founded in 2014 to provide travellers high quality In-Destination Tour Guiding experience along with the option to choose the best tours, activities and tickets during their...

Gibran is a veteran of the UAE real estate sector. He has over 20 years of International experience in sales and marketing and has worked at senior management levels with various reputable real estate developers

Mats Carrgard is the Senior Vice President Business Performance for Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa (VMMEA), where he is leading the company’s journey to become fully data-driven and data-centric. This includes strategy and implementation of a variety of initiatives covering Data...

Alper Celen is the founder of ENHANCE DIGITAL, a holding company specializing in online vertical marketplaces that improve lifestyles in the Middle East and Africa. ENHANCE wholly owns JOIGIFTS.com, the leading online gifting platform in Saudi and UAE and is shareholder in MEDIGO.com, global leader ...

Laura Chaibi, Head of Market Intelligence & Syndicate Digital Data, MBCWith over 20 years of digital media experience across marketing, research, media measurement and advertising effectiveness, Laura has helped numerous companies build up their digital capabilities and business transformation...

Faiyaz Chand started out as a marketing executive at Dubizzle and worked his way up to Regional Marketing Manager across his career.  His developed his skills by working with companies like Zawya a Thomson Reuters company and Saxo Bank where he increased revenue and lowered the marketing cost of...

Cezca’s experience spans 8 years in the digital advertising field and she managed both regional and international brands across 12 different industries. She handled the digital strategy for brands like Sony Middle East, Bose, Philips Middle East, Majid Al Futtaim Retail, Baskin...

Nasrullah Chaudhry is a passionate and charismatic entrepreneur who began his career in Dubai at Carrington Fox. His self-drive and excellent people skills led Carrington Fox management to hand-pick him to be part of the team charged with the responsibility of setting up shop in Dubai. From a young ...

Mai Cheblak joined Emirates NBD in October 2008 and currently is Head of Media and Social for the group.   With over 15 years of experience in the media and marketing industry, her passion for excellence has supported Emirates NBD’s media and social media aspirations to be recognized by the...

Omar is the founder and CEO of englease.com the region's most affordable english learnimg solution of it's kind. Omar is a corporate veteran and growing social media personality with a deep understanding of building networks power  having his platform of over 1million followers across the...

Hussein has over 18 years of solid Marketing Communication experience in the space leading and building integrated marketing practices and customer experience journeys within multinational agencies (JWT, Leo Burnett, and TBWA\), clients (Saudi Telecom Co., Vodafone, Nokia, Visa, and HSBC) and...

Chris DalyCIM Chief Executive OfficerChris was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) – the world’s leading professional body for marketing - in March 2016 following a number of successful senior roles. In this position, Chris has implemented an effective...

Bartosz Demczuk  - is a head of Global Consulting for CRM & Loyalty Solution at Comarch. With over 10 years’ experience in loyalty program he made a journey together with customer across all market industries from loyalty 1.0 up to the latest trends around SoLoMo, precision...

Bart Denolf is currently the CEO Franchise for the Sacoor Brothers group. Since he   joined the company in 2015 he has been actively increasing the presence in new markets.  Prior to joining the Sacoor Brothers group  he pursued a successful career at Pepe jeans group ( Pepe jeans, Hackett) from...

Tanaz is the Founder & CEO of insydo, a search-centric city guide that provides people with curated recommendations and has gained a following of over 500,000+ unique visitors per month since its launch in January 2016. In September 2017, Tanaz launched her second venture, Brand Ripplr, a...

With over 16 years’ experience in professional services marketing, business development and client service for three of the largest global accountancy & advisory firms, Mandip has led and developed diverse teams across advanced and emerging markets in Europe, Asia and more recently the Middle...

Pablo is a marketing leader with 15+ years of experience, mainly in digital and e-commerce. In his career he has covered several positions, working for companies with 10,000+ employees’ (such as eBay and Ogilvy), as well as in early-stage start-ups. Before moving to Dubai, he had lived and worked...

An accomplished global business and people leader with +22 years of experience with Unilever where she managed and grew multi-billion-dollar brand and business franchises, in a variety of marketing and business development roles spanning multiple categories (Home Care, Personal Care, Food &...

“Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”Im a forward-thinker, driven individual with equally strong creative & technical skills. Advertising, visual communication and design are a part of my playground. By Simplifying the complex through storytelling, I use creativity to solve...

Ahmed has over 10 years of solid experience in the internet and ecommerce marketing. Having grown a 100M dollar platform from scratch backed by Rocket Internet, headed up a team of 180 based in 24 countries and managed the biggest marketing budget in Africa; to lead one of Rocket Internet's...

As an international consumer goods executive, I joined P&G in 2000 working in various roles in Sales (Customer Business development). This allowed me to have a diversified experience in different channels, categories and markets such as baby care, fabric care, and feminine care.I finally led...

This guy hates cauliflower and using big words, he understands the user’s interest and problems, then he helps them solve it through the power of content. Allergic to artificial food coloring and being too formal.Trying to change the B2B communication by making it more of a H2H (human to human)...

Mike is the General Manager of Sony Music Entertainment Middle East based in Dubai, where he leads the company in a dynamic, fast growing region that spans a vast market comprising Egypt, Lebanon, the Gulf countries and Pakistan amongst others. The labels head office in Dubai drives creative...

Mona is an experienced brand manager with demonstrated history of working in the beauty industry within the Middle East and Africa. She believes in democratizing the beauty industry and modernizing traditional media.

With over twenty five years of experience in the Media and Content Creation industry, Alia Fawad joined ITP Media Group, the largest publishing house in the Middle East, in 2004. Over the last 14 year she has worked as a publisher for leading titles such as Harper’s...

Samantha is responsible for Guinness World Records’ global brand strategy, reputation and innovation, and she leads the company’s internal communications program.  She also heads GWR’s creative consultancy, The Records Lab which works with top agencies and brands all over the world to develop...

A Senior Management professional with a career spanning over 18 years across different industries. Habeeb has built sales teams and negotiated & managed deals across different continents & cultures with specific experience In the U.S, Canada, Asia & MENA region

With more than 10 years experience in Media and Marketing-starting as host on TV and Radio when I was 14 years old, ending as youngest Producer and Editor on Morning and Entertainment program on national TV in Macedonia, and my ambition and strong communication skills, creative and easy going...

Please see my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryoush-golfar-67201aa6/

Laurent Guitart has 21 +years of experiences in retail: wide experiences across all retail industry Hypermarket, central purchase and leading International franchise of Convenience store.Currently, Laurent is the CEO of Convenience Arabia, Circle K master franchise in UAE. After joining the team in ...

Ashutosh currently leads the Sales and Marketing at Cocoona Centre for Aesthetic Transformation. His experience spans across multiple industries with a total of 17 years in the field of Marketing & Communications. Over the last 13 years he has been based in Dubai and where he was the account...

Sevgi is Customer and Consumer Experience Director for Michelin. In this role, she defines and leads Customer Engagement Strategy in Africa, India and the Middle East in line with company’s global innovation strategy. Before joining Michelin, she worked in Mastercard leading marketing function to...

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Valuation, Corporate Finance, Private Equity, and Business Analysis. Strong business development professional with a MBA focused in Finance from University...

Malay is a startup growth specialist with over 11 years of diverse marketing experience ranging from the domains of Steel to EdTech. He has built businesses to scale working with top brands like Simplilearn and IEEE. He leads the Customer and Solution Marketing functions at CleverTap. He is also a...

An alumna of Kadir Has University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Hotel Management and Business Administration, the Turkish national boasts more than 16 years of experience in the luxury hospitality industry. Yeliz first launched her career in the hotel industry at the...

Matt Horobin is a digital brand engagement specialist working with Dubai Airports, the airport management company behind Dubai International, the world’s largest international airport. Matt is originally from a consultancy background and has worked with many of the world’s leading brands across...

Shafika Houcine is Head of Digital Experience at OSN and brings strong, data-driven journeys to the forefront of the company’s digitization objectives. Author of “MVNO strategies in Europe”, entrepreneur and journalist, she holds customers at the core of all campaigns and firmly believes in the...

Steve has spent over 25 years in marketing. His early career allowed him to gain experience in mainly American FMCG corporates including Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and Disney where he was UK Sales Director. Ultimately though he became frustrated with the rather slow pace of traditional marketing in large ...

Shafique R Ibrahim is the Head of Group IT, responsible for the overall IT Operations and spearheads digital transformation at Al Fardan Group, a renowned name in Gulf region active in the Forex, Global Remittance business, Financial Services, Jewels and precious stones and Real Estate...

A results-driven professional with more than 14 years experience in communications and marketing and e-commerce, Sayad Ibrahimli possesses a strong understanding of the industry. Having worked with the Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (now part of Accor Hotels) and the Waldorf Astoria...

 Khaled is the VP Communications for Europe, Central Asia, Middle East & Africa Region with over 16 years of service in Tetra Pak. He has more than 25 years’ experience, which started in advertising and then continued in international sales, marketing and branding in FMCG (B2C) and Food...

A perfectionist with a fondness for research and all things numerical. Her career has spanned over 13 years in Media, Marketing, Film Making, Events, IT and Journalism. After successfully running her own marketing venture, she decided to bow out of the usual grind and shift focus to genuinely make...

Karsten Jankowski is the General Manager, Marketing and Public Relations of INFINITI Middle East and oversees the overall strategic direction of marketing and communications within the company.In his role, Karsten Jankowski spearheads the marketing and PR operations for the INFINITI brand in the...

Melissa joined Novo Cinemas in January 2018 as the Sales and Marketing Director. She is responsible for the sales, marketing, PR and communications, and business development efforts of the company. In addition to strategic business development efforts, she directs media...

An entrepreneur and Co-founder of Living Kool since 2014, driven by a passion to constantly be connected with the audience, a consumer oriented business was the way to go. Living Kool started as a discounted activity website but within months moved into innovative products and daily need...

Abdulwahed leads EITC’s Brand & Communications team. In line with his position, he provides strategic direction for commercial, corporate and channel communications, communications planning and performance, brand development and corporate sustainability.Abdulwahed Juma has played an...

With over 9 years in Product management & 3 years in Loyalty, Rameez has been building complicating flows for customer journeys - tracking users down every rabbithole they find themselves in - and providing simple outs for moving the right metrics. With a strong understanding of...

Rowan is an Entrepreneur, Marketeer, Content creator and ultimate foodie. Throughout her career, she has worked on a wide range of brands from SugarMoo Desserts, Procter & Gamble, Cadbury, Western Union, Music Festivals, NGOs and many more. Nothing fuels her passion more than the home grown...

Saurabh is heading Data, Analytics and Business insights division at group level for Emaar as Digital director. He is responsible to formulate data and technology strategy to design customer centric digital disruption platforms and to drive Personalization, Omni-channel customer...

Almitra has over 10+ years of experience in marketing leadership across the globe. She has worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco and EMC and also startups such as  Twilio and Splunk. Currently, she is the CMO at CleverTap, a customer retention platform for consumer brands.Almitra has...

PartnerLeena Khalil is the co-founder of Mumzworld, responsible for the developmental strategy and growth of the business in the GCC. Leena felt compelled to join Mona Ataya, the CEO of Mumzworld, in establishing a comprehensive bilingual online shopping and information portal dedicated to...

Hasib Khan is a 29 year old entrepreneur with flair for creating and running successful businesses. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan and raised in Germany, Khan started his first business at the age of 16.Cars have always been a passion for Khan, and over the years he's developed a number of...

Rahul is an award-winning, agile and result-driven marketing professional with an MBA in marketing and over 15 years’ rich experience managing data driven digital growth and brand communication in Banking, Finance and Technology Verticals, with a proven track record of improving brand...

An applied Data Science leader providing technical consulting and leadership for analytical products, solutions, and projects for customers worldwide. I architect and manage the implementation of business applications using advanced analytics built on state-of-the-art predictive analytics...

Born in the small town of India & in middle class family, Rajesh Kumar has always been very passionate about getting into the nitty-gritty of the business since his school days and that’s why he decided to get in to the Business management studies and did MBA in Marketing & Finance. He...

James Michael Lafferty is The Chief Executive Officer of Fine Hygienic Holding, and has often been described as one of the most unique and diversified CEO’s in the world today. He is not only a successful CEO-- He is an Olympic Coach. An award-winning journalist. A college professor. A competitive...

Ferakh Lakhany, Co-Founder arabee, Business Development – a teacher, entrepreneur and mother of four with over twenty years' experience in the field of journalism, media and education consultancy. Ferakh has a First-Class degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, an MPhil from Cambridge...

Alessandro Lenzi is Founder and CEO of ExMarketPlace.com - He started working in the internet and advertising industry after completing. is Master Degree in Economics and Business Administration from University of Florence with the highest score 110/110 and after Research Thesis developed between...

With over 20 years of international experience across a range of multinational disciplines, including Hospitality, Financial Services, Mobility and Consumer Goods, Flavio’s career began with Unilever in Italy. Successive leadership role soon followed within Europcar and American Express, acquiring...

At Accenture, TJ is responsible is responsible for growing the end-to-end experience services business to transform the client’s businesses using data-driven, innovative and transparent solutions. With nearly two decades of industry experience spanning the U.S. and Middle East, TJ Lightwala...

Having been voted into the top 100 most influential people in Dubai, there’s no denying that Spencer Lodge has been making waves in the international financial services and sales industry for many decades. With over twenty-five years experience, he’s personally trained thousands of people during...

A gregarious, agile and inventive luxury retail executive with expertise & passion in developing teams. 25 years experience in store operations, Merchandising, Buying, Learning & Development and Digital.Knowledgeable in 5 category world of Beauty, Watches, Jewelry &...

Sales professional with more than 10 years of experience in managing teams and accounts in different industries, developing business opportunities with a consultative approach. Have extensive experience in leading sales cycles at CxO level towards high-value business propositions with a proven...

As the Head of Digital Marketing (EMEA) at Meltwater, Sarah Mai works with a result-driven, data focused approach to developing and executing digital marketing and lead generation programs across different platforms, countries, and cultures in the EMEA region. Sarah is passionate about shaping...

Hamad is a UAE resident and is the Chief Marketing Officer of STARZPLAY

Paul is the Co-founder and Managing Director at Maison Privee, a PropTech start-up which offers private residential properties as an alternative to traditional hotels. He is a former Chairman of Bus Eireann (the national public transport company of Ireland) and a former non executive Director of...

Arash is passionate about changing and challenging existing structures by finding new ways of building relationships.Todays landscape gives us the opportunity to influence one relationship at the time. By that he means that our trademark  at Changi Consulting ,as Salesforce Platinum partner is not...

Alex Malouf is a marketing communications executive who has spent the last fifteen years in the Middle East. Alex has lived across the region, in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. He holds the position of Corporate Communications Manager for the Arabian...

Ian has had the privilege of working in the Advertising, Media and Digital industry for 20+ years in a broad range of local and International roles across EMEA, including as Agency CEO.  More recently, Ian was responsible for Facebook and Instragam’s agency partnerships across MENA.  Total Ian is a ...

Dr. T. B. (Mac) McClelland, Jr., is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Luxury Marketing Council (Middle East), a professional organization whose 1100 brand members market products and services to high net worth individuals.  Mac is also the President and CEO of Center House Ltd., a...

Zoe joined SSH in early 2019 as Head of Marketing, leading all corporate marketing and brand communication across the MENA as well as African region. In addition to her strategic marketing efforts, Zoe directs media relations, branding, events as well as website development. She also oversees...

Nadine Mezher is the Co-founder and CMO of Sarwa, the first automated investment advisory platform in the region. Nadine co-founded Sarwa after years of consultancy in retail strategy and marketing with a track record of projects delivered for clients ranging from government entities such as the...

With more than 12 years experience in digital marketing, Farimah currently is leading the Travel Tourism, Retail and eCommerce verticals at Snapchat in MEA. She is working with top global eCommerce brands, airlines and tourism boards to create innovative, impactful digital marketing and advertising ...

Taneesha Mohandas is the Chief Commercial Officer at eyewa, the Middle East's leading eyewear e-commerce retailer.Taneesha holds an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and an undergraduate degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Toronto.

Andrea Mora is Business Development Director at ExMarketPlace, one of the Top50 Google Channel Partner EMEA. He is passionate of what he calls “transversals thinking” where each element in the digital landscape can be rethought into another one, just changing point of view. Thanks to this...

Iyad Mourtada, CFE, CIA, CMA, CCSA, CRMA, CPLP, CSX, M.A. is an international speaker, trainer and author with a diverse background in internal auditing, financial management and fraud examination. Over the last decade, Iyad had taught various unique auditing and financial courses to multinational...

VP - Digital marketing at Wego, the leading travel metasearch engine in MENA and SEA.

WAIT!  Take a breath.Good, you're now ready to read the bio.A storyteller that gets his inspiration from anything and everything. Nabeel brings static logos to life by giving them a personality that users would see and recognize, building their stories and making them relatable.His idea of an...

A competent professional with business & marketing acumen. Over 14 years of proven experience and expertise in Fintech, IT, Telecom, Ecommerce, Media & Advertising at MNCs and start-ups in both Client and Agency side across multiple geographies in Middle East, Africa, APAC &...

Patrick has over 6 years of experience working for leading online platforms. Patrick started his career working for Yahoo in Dubai and then moved onto LinkedIn where he now implements online strategies for his customers within the Automotive, Financial Services and Luxury verticals.

Mohamed is a growth expert, especially in regarding to digital marketing. He’s been with Careem for several years now and is helping the company to further grow.

Senior Director with over 20+ year experience in well-reputed international companies in UK and Middle East.Industry background within Hospitality and Media with a full and thorough understanding of digital marketing channels and practical experience across the full marketing mix.Developing and...

A lifetime learner, believer in goodness and an out of the box thinker, Falguni Patel is the ‘soul’ founder of Braisncape Games & Team Building Company.

Heading the Bruce Clay MENA and APAC offices, specialising in Search Marketing and Social Media. Bruce Clay work with many leading brands in the market, including Johnson and Johnson, Smart Dubai, McDonald's, LG and Lulu Group to name a few.

Bart is a Chief Data Officer and Regional Head of Analytics at HSBC Middle East. He has been in the region since 2012 having worked in a variety of management roles in the fields of Strategy & Change, Remediation Office and numerous data related projects till date. Prior to joining HSBC, Bart...

Naveed Pirzada is the Chief Strategy Officer at the upcoming 500-million-dollar retail technology mega venture, which is set to go live in 2020. The global concept will allow consumers to shop online with all the experience of being on-ground.Naveed is an avid ‘Technology for Business’ enthusiast...

A colombian story teller enabling people to create memories worldwide at the ENTERTAINER. 13 years marketing stuff and helping brands make a difference in 4 different countries. Specialty coffee roaster.A traveller, a dreamer, a social activist, a seeker of challenges and the perfect cup of coffee.

I am an ecommerce and digital marketing entrepreneur with over 14 years of industry experience. I come from a software development background with a indepth understanding of performance marketing. I have worked with several leading regional digital agencies and brands before venturing into...

Ziad has been in the field of media and advertising in the middle east for more than 14 years. He worked for both established names such as Maktoob.com, and Yahoo! as well as launched a startup called Nimbuzz. Today, Ziad heads the marketing solutions team at LinkedIn and leads a team that...

There are two kinds of people in this world. One who let destiny rule them and the other who rule their destiny. I strongly believe you make your own destiny with hard work and an empowered team, for their strength is mine. Over the years, I have amassed experience and expertise while holding many...

Alex is a hands-on tech entrepreneur, marketer, product manager all rolled into one with rich experience in building and launching innovative enterprise software products.Alex founded SalesboxAI – an AI for Sales and Marketing platform that is focused primarily on driving Sales Traction for...

Speaker Profile of Ravi Raman1st Jan, 2019Ravi Raman is a media industry professional, with over two decades of content strategy, digital transformation, revenue generation, brand marketing and team leadership experience. Currently he is the Associate Publisher of Wired Middle East, published by...

“Hassan Raza is a professional marketing strategist, digital consultant & entrepreneur at heart, who created and promoted top brands in the field of Automotive, Education, Banking, Fashion & IT. A leader who consistently takes the challenging projects, builds exceptional teams, and drives...

Heather (Bumgarner) Redling has over 15 years in the theme park industry, starting her career as an Animal Trainer with SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment®After four years in Animal Training, she moved to the Sales and Marketing department and worked in a variety of roles from International &...

Alita's career spans over 10 years in Advertising, Marketing and Brand Building and has  earned her chops along the way by working in the top global agencies. She is essentially an enthusiastic planner with a passion for the creative process. She firmly believe that ItsHerWay will open...

With more than 25 years of experience in Technology of which more than 12 years as a CIO/COO in Financial Services industry (Conventional and Islamic). Mohamed Roushdy had been working for major financial services, conglomerate, Management Consulting (Booz and Co & PWC) , Asset Management and...

Caroline is a marketing professional with deep experience across the travel, tourism, real estate and hospitality industries. She has worked for extended amounts of time in India, China and the UAE completing projects ranging from traditional communication and branding to digital...

Hashim Saeed is responsible for setting up the IT strategy and roadmap as well as managing the overall IT operations across the AZIZI Group. Hashim has joined AZIZI Developments in 2017 and has led the IT Service Transformation projects for AZIZI, moving them away from the traditional on-premise...

Arif Saiyad is the force behind Arif Saiyad & Associados Ventures (ASA Ventures)―a venture capital company which he founded in his native country, Portugal, in 2003. Currently headquartered in Dubai, Arif sits at the head of ASA Ventures which has over 30 portfolio B2B and B2C companies  under...

Jervis Saldanha - Business Development Manager for the past 3 years with ExMarketPlace and a combined 10 years in Global Online Advertising Industry. Has worked with Publishers and Advertisers in the US, EU & Asia and has helped publishers increase their revenues and also brands reach their...

Hatem Sallam is currently the Chief Growth Officer and Partner in Almentor.net, within this capacity Hatem is driving the growth strategy for this online platform that has more than 2.2 million visitors and 3 million visits during 2018 which was its first year of operation. Currently 300K learning...

Patrick Samaha is the Chief Commercial Officer or Sky News Arabia

Nadine “VP digital business” for Zee Entertainment MENA. Awarded "Digital Transformation Maestro” in December 2018. Have launched the top two OTT Arabic platforms, currently runs “Weyyak.com” and have managed “Shahid.net” earlier in her career. Known speaker and digital media subject matter...

Jorge Sanz is a highly-experienced leader in Data Management/Data Governance, Advanced Analytics (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning), Business Intelligence, Data Monetization and Big Data. He has a Master in Business Administration (MBA), a Statistics Degree and over 24 years of strong...

A long-time communication strategist for big-name corporations, Santosh started his career in the events industry and worked with some of the leading fortune 500 companies from Singapore to Sao Paulo. Prior to joining ZIRO he’s headed marketing departments for German engineering giants...

Mahmoud has extensive experience in building businesses- from start ups to global conglomerates.Having worked in FMCG, white goods, e-commerce and tech. industries across North America, Middle East and Africa; Mahmoud has developed marketing communications, brand growth plans, and go-to-market...

Serdar Senay is a marketing professional with 15 years of experience in both Consumer and Corporate businesses. His experience revolves around CRM / CVM, Customer Experience Management, Segment and Base Management as well as Customer Loyalty. He is currently working as Marketing Director, SME...

Aymane Sennoussi, Product and Growth enthusiast. Lives in the intersection of Product, Marketing and Data. Believes in value driven companies.

An avid user and consultant of Zoho since 2008, Ali fell in love with the platform when he built a CRM for his real estate company in Zoho Creator in a single afternoon.  A multidisciplinary business technologist and a published author, Ali contributes to the the steady growth of Zoho's diverse ...

Originally from Meerut, India, Mr. Dharmendra Sharma has extensive experience within Asia and UAE of over 13 years, working with various renowned brands and five star hotels in the field of Sales and Marketing.

Amrit is the founder and CEO of MusicMajlis, the Middle East’s Music Movement. Educated in the UAE and the UK, Amrit has played various management roles across his career in the Music and Audio Equipment Industry. His vision is to bring the Musicians and Audio Professionals of the Middle East...

A marketer in the FMCG industry for past 13 years working on various categories like Fabric Care, Baby Care, Fem Care, Hair Care and Male grooming during a 12 year career in Procter and Gamble Near East handling Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Syria where I also enjoyed broadening assignments in...

Matthew is the Director of Marketing at Cleartrip, the Middle East’s largest and fastest growing online travel agencies. Matthew has over a decade of experience in marketing and has worked with global and local brands in telecommunications, travel and hospitality, financial services, automotive and ...

A Sitecore MVP, George is responsible for Horizontal Integration across Middle East, India & Africa.George has been working as a Digital strategist and Managing Director for about 20 years. Delivering digital strategy for some of the largest brands and governments across 4 continents. Including ...

Cofounder of several companies, some might even call me an entrepreneur (as much as this term is over used these days).A classical music enthusiast who firmly believes that having the right team helps you produce a masterpiece like Chopin’s Nocturne op.9Currently, using my passion in marking and...

Deepika is cofounder of The Gaggler, an App turning a standard glossy magazine into a powerful shoppable platform. She has been instrumental in taking the new-to-the-region idea to fruition in less than a year and continues to lead the marketing and sales functions. Deepika is also part of the...

Shyam Sunder has over 25 years experience in building brands across categories and markets. His first 15 years was in advertising, having started his career at DDB in India building the businesses of several successful brands including Apple and Henkel. Shyam went on to become the Country Head of a ...

A result-oriented digital marketing professional with extensive experience on Travel/Tourism sector in the MENA region. Having worked with global international brands and award-winning digital media agencies, Safiuddin now leads the Digital Marketing efforts for Hyatt Hotels in Dubai.

Alex started his career at Tecbuy (formerly known as CompuME) in 2010. By 2013 he shifted as the Operations Manager of both LetsTango.com and Tecbuy. Where his duties were to oversee day to day operations and logistics of both companies, and gradually the IT Development and expansion of...

Andrew has been working, living and playing in the region for the last 20 years.  He is deeply passionate about  helping  individuals, brands and businesses grow on a daily basis. As one of the partners and MD at Nexa their unique team coupled with their geographical placement in the Middle...

As a Marketer, I know that a good brand revolves around a great story. I like to think of my own personal brand as a series of interconnected and interwoven tales, a sum of many parts.  Leveraging an early career foundation in consumer marketing and brand management, I’ve demonstrated a varied but...

Roland is passionate about working with customers and technology to increase business performance. Working with marketing leaders, influencers and agencies Roland leads the SAP Marketing Cloud business in the region with a singular focus of helping our customers get closer to their customers and...

Amit co-founded Nexa, a growth focused agency, in 2005 and has been the strategic driving force for the business during this time.With almost 2 decades of experience within Digital Marketing, Amit has seen first hand, the dynamic environment with which businesses now have to operate in order to...

As the Group Head of Human Resources at Choithrams, Kunal caters to needs of over 4000 employees in the Middle East Region.  His passion and focus has enabled a switch in his organizations culture from a hierarchical “command and control” environment, to one which enables “trusted teams” to take...

Joachim has 20 years of international experience in the telecommunication industry, covering management, business and technical aspects in communication networks.He joined Nokia in Finland in 2000 as a Customer Trainer for Messaging Platforms and has then held several sales and marketing management ...

Christo van Wyk is currently the Regional Director India & Middle East for Meltwater, a Global Media Intelligence Company in the SaaS industry. Christo has 10 years experience in building and scaling business across the Emerging Markets - India, Middle East & Africa.Applying an...

Rami Zahran is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the Saudi German Hospital Group in KSA. He is responsible for the company’s Marketing, Communications and Events activities in the Saudi Arabia and supports the company’s investor relations function.Rami has over a decade of high-profile marketing ...

A Marketing expert with over twenty years’ experience offering proven track record in developing and executing marketing programs. With the ability and skill set to provide creative, innovative, enthusiastic and forward-thinking leadership in a team environment. Focused on achieving...