1,000+
Advisory mandates
Assignments spanning strategy, investment, development, transactions and commercial decision support.
Experience
Built in advisory. Tested in execution.
A career across professional services, major transactions, development, corporate leadership and entrepreneurship — with more than two decades of Middle East experience.
Operating perspective
Advice is more valuable when it understands the consequences of delivery.
Career chapters
Experience from both sides of the table
Each chapter contributes a different lens: analytical discipline, transaction judgment, asset experience, organisational leadership and founder accountability.
- Hospitality operations
Learning the business from the operating floor
Early experience in international hospitality established a practical understanding of service operations, customers, asset performance and the detail required to deliver consistently.
- Professional advisory
KPMG and Arthur Andersen
Advisory work built the analytical and commercial foundations for complex assignments across real estate, hospitality, investment and corporate strategy in the Middle East.
- Business building
RSP Group to JLL
Co-founded and developed a regional professional-services business to approximately 45 professionals and US$20 million in revenue before its acquisition by JLL.
- Development leadership
Responsibility for major assets
Held senior responsibility for more than AED1 billion of hospitality, residential, commercial and leisure development, connecting investment intent to design, delivery and operating outcomes.
- Founder and CEO
Building technology-enabled operating companies
Built businesses employing hundreds of people and serving hundreds of thousands of customers, with direct responsibility for strategy, capital, technology, commercial performance and execution.
- Strategic advisory
Independent counsel for consequential decisions
Brings the accumulated perspective of adviser, transaction practitioner, development executive, operator and founder to a selective portfolio of board, CEO and strategic mandates.
Selected evidence
Scale, complexity and accountability
US$1bn+
Transaction experience
Investment transactions, M&A, capital raising and strategic assignments across the Middle East.
AED1bn+
Development responsibility
Hospitality, residential, commercial and leisure assets from strategic intent through delivery.
45 people
Regional advisory platform
A professional-services business grown to approximately US$20 million in revenue before acquisition by JLL.
250+ people
Operating-company scale
Founder and CEO responsibility across technology, operations, customers and commercial performance.
400,000+
Customers served
Experience building a technology-enabled consumer platform at meaningful operating scale.
“The best strategic advice needs to survive contact with operational reality.”
What that means for clients
A wider field of view
The value is not a long résumé. It is the ability to connect decisions that are too often treated separately.
Strategy and capital
Understanding how a strategic choice changes investment requirements, risk and optionality.
Board and management
Translating governance-level intent into executive decisions without confusing accountability.
Assets and operations
Connecting investment cases and development choices to the reality of operating performance.
Transactions and integration
Keeping the strategic purpose visible before, during and after a deal.
Technology and business models
Assessing where technology materially changes customer economics or organisational capability.
GCC context and international standards
Working with local market realities while retaining a broad international perspective.
Confidential conversation
A consequential decision ahead?
I work on a limited number of advisory relationships and strategic assignments at any one time.