Business startup and growth specialist in retail and technology

Extensive start-up, growth expansion, turnaround re-engineering, and business management experience in the United States, Europe and the Middle-East.

• Senior-level management executive with 16 years international experience, deep Middle-East market knowledge and extensive hands-on experience in retail roll outs, leadership, marketing, distribution, and human resources in the United Kingdom, United States, Ireland and Middle-East.

• Motivated honours graduate achiever with proven and consistent track record of successful business startups, and growth/turnaround re-engineering of multinational corporations, including leading Fortune 500 firms in diverse markets of electronics, luxury, lifestyle products, and telecommunications in United Arab Emirates.

• Effective change-agent with hands-on experience in proactive management, marketing, and developing nationwide sales and distribution networks in Europe and Middle-East; set up, developed, and managed a global multi-channel Apple sales and service business, opened flagship retail stores for Apple and managed relationship of 22 mobile networks across Europe.

• Exceptional communicator; fluent in English with in depth understanding of multiple cultures. • Skilled team leader who has recruited, trained, led, and has developed teams of over 1000.

• Overall responsibility for business plans in excess of 200m USD.