Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Imperial College London

Building ByteDance/TikTok . Ex Facebook, Google, Booz&Co

MMA APAC

Member Board of Directors

Responsible for ByteDance and TikTok's business in ±100 countries across Asia (excl India and China), Oceania, CIS, Middle East & Africa, overseeing multiplier growth on $B book of business and leading a team of XXXX across 15 offices.

TikTok

Vice President, Global Business, Asia, Oceania & Africa

ByteDance

Iliad Partners

Chairman, Investment Committee

Member

General Manager for Business in East Europe, Middle East & Africa

Responsible for ByteDance and TikTok's business across East Europe, Middle East & Africa and Central Asia, overseeing multiplier growth on a $XXXm book of business and leading a team of XXX across 4 offices.

Digital Strategy SME on the advisory committee of the Doyof Al Rahman Program (DARP), one of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 Realization Programs whose mission is to comprehensively improve the Pilgrims' quality of experience, and to achieve the target of 30 million Pilgrims visiting annually by 2030

Doyof Al Rahman Program (DARP)

Advisory Board Member

Leading the business growth and partnerships across the Middle East and North Africa for the full Meta family of apps and services (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc.), managing a $xxxM book of business growing at strong double digits

Group Director, Middle East and North Africa

Leading Google's efforts to enable MENA's Small and Medium Businesses grow their business via Google's products and solutions

Google

MENA Head of Marketing, Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)

Co-founder, board member and founding CEO of GlamBox, the first & leading subscription-based beauty e-commerce in MENA. Grew business and team XX-fold, brokering partnership deals with 150+ brands. Raised multiple rounds of funding from regional institutional investors, acquired by Saudi-based investors in Nov 2017.

Nominated Most Promising Start-up by international publications (Forbes Middle East, Gulf Business), 2nd place at ArabNet Start-up Finals.

Personally nominated a Top 50 SME Executive.

Glambox Middle East

Cofounder and Board Member

Leading Google's business and consumer strategy across the Middle East and North Africa, including YouTube local launches, sponsorship deals with local entrepreneurship ecosystem players (Wamda, AstroLabs, MIT Enterprise Forum, The GrEEK Campus)

Head of Strategy & Operations, MENA

Led teams focused on Government Digitization Strategies and Investments, and Business Turnaround Strategies. 

Projects across the region include: $5bn National Digital Strategy, $1bn digital content cluster plan, $2bn technology park development, $400 million e-Government strategy, regional ITSP turnaround plan, fiscal management overhaul for a country's Finance Ministry

Author of two white papers: “Next Generation Technology Parks in the GCC” and “The Technology of Fiscal Reforms”

Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company)

Senior Associate (Engagement Manager)

- M&A: financial evaluation and combination analysis of a potential merger of two leading European baby care companies
- Corporate Finance: origination of a potential IPO of a Danish biotechnology company

Merrill Lynch

Associate

Focused on large post-merger implementations for global telecommunication and automotive companies. Extensive experience in program management, organizational change management, vendor evaluation and stakeholder management

Shant Oknayan