I build the brand and everything that runs it.

Twenty-five years transforming brands, and the communications, teams and infrastructure around them, across Qatar and the GCC.

25+

Years leading brand & communications across MENA

5+

Large scale Institutional brand transformations

400+

Integrated marketing communications campaigns & conferences

100+

Cross-functional teams scaled and led

Capabilities

The brand is the start. I build everything that runs it.

  • Building and repositioning institutional brands: identity, architecture, narrative, and the governance that keeps them coherent. I have led institutional and regional brand launches and transformations at complex organizations including Coldwell Banker Lebanon, Commercial Bank of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Community College of Qatar, and currently Qatar Stock Exchange.

  • Lasting communications value comes from the operating model: governance, standards, capability. Not one-off activity. I have built integrated communications functions from the ground up, scaling and leading a 40+ person team, with the brand frameworks, policies, content strategies, execution plans and governance.

  • Establishing market presence and public narrative for new institutions: a global real estate brand franchising into the Middle East, a national think tank, an innovation center, the first UN youth forum, a graduate research university, a bank going regional, and the first Middle East presence on edX. Alongside the institutional partnerships I helped launch and position at HBKU, including tie-ins with NASA and Northwestern Law.

  • More than 400 integrated campaigns across 25 years: brand and product launches, real estate projects, recruitment and enrollment, sponsorship activation, national moments, digital and content, internal engagement, and a continuous pipeline of banking propositions across retail, Islamic, private and corporate banking.

  • A global stage compresses years of reputation into a few hours, in front of an audience that does not forgive a misstep. I have run the communications for more than 50 large-scale conferences and summits, including flagship lectures by the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly, the first youth forum in the history of the UN Crime Congresses, and representation at the Soufan Center's Global Security Forum, the Doha Forum, the Web Summit,the Paris Peace Forum and the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The higher the stage, the less room for error, and the more the preparation has to be invisible.

  • An institution does not speak in the abstract. It speaks through its leaders, its media coverage, and the channels it owns, and when those three say different things, the institution sounds like it does not know itself. I handle leadership communications for senior management across local and global engagements, proactive media relations securing coverage across local, regional and international press, and the institutional platforms, websites, newsrooms and publications through which an institution carries its own voice. One voice, whether it comes from a podium, a journalist, or the home page.

  • International sponsorships turned into brand value: Commercial Bank of Qatar's five-year exclusive partnership with Manchester United, including Qatar's first football-affiliated co-branded cards, title sponsorship of the Qatar Masters, MotoGP, and the partnership with Katara Cultural Village.

  • Crisis protocols, spokesperson strategy and message continuity through critical periods: the 2017 Gulf blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the US-Iran confrontation. Today this capability also runs as advisory, including a central-bank engagement on communications capability delivered in partnership with EY.

Engagements

Some of the brands I’ve enjoyed working with throughout my career:

Visa logo
UNODC Logo
Commercial Bank of Qatar Logo
HBKU logo
EY logo with a black geometric shape above the letters EY
Qatar Foundation Logo
Northwestern School of Law logo
Community College of Qatar Logo
Kuwait International Airport logo
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be hosted in the US, Mexico and Canada. - Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Image: The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be hosted in the US, Mexico and Canada. - Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Insight

Mega Sports Events Brand Governance

Explore how a robust model of brand governance is vital for mega-events to secure sponsor value, manage global perception, and build an enduring, positive legacy for host nations and cities.

Working for over 20 years across Qatar and the Gulf, I’ve seen extraordinary growth, new markets, bold ambitions, exponential momentum. But with that pace comes another pattern: short cycles, ad-hoc decisions, and brands that lose clarity over time. Not from lack of effort, but from lack of structure.

I’m focused on bringing that structure back; connecting strategy, people, and delivery into one coherent system that builds impact and sustains it.