Fuze is a first-of-its-kind, regulated digital assets infrastructure platform in MENA. Driven by a solutions-based approach, Fuze helps financial services providers strategize, organize, and implement digital assets infrastructure to launch regulated, world-class products quickly and securely.Fuze offers a Digital-Assets-as-a-Service platform that enables banks and fintechs to integrate and embed regulated digital assets products in a B2B2C fashion, as well as an Over-The-Counter (OTC) service, supporting institutions, funds, and HNIs (high net-worth individuals) to interface and conduct larger trades of digital assets.In August 2023, Fuze announced a record-breaking seed funding of $14.1mn, the largest for a digital assets infrastructure startup in the region. The round was led by Further Ventures with participation from New York’s Liberty City Ventures. Fuze is headquartered in Abu Dhabi as part of the prestigious Hub71 ecosystem at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and has regional offices in Dubai and Istanbul. The team at Fuze supports the rapidly accelerating digital assets ecosystem, working collaboratively with regulators on a long-term view of the industry.

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-Joined as the first in-house recruiter to hire against ambitious growth targets and lead the talent team in the region-Managing the end-to-end hiring across commercial, technology, and support functions across MENAP and Mauritius-Interim assignment - led the commercial and technology hiring across the APAC region, covering Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and the Greater China

Led the efforts to scale the commercial, engineering & product teams in Dubai, Berlin and Pakistan across; Engineering: iOS, Android, Back End, Web, Machine Learning Analytics: Data Scientists, Data Analysts Product: Product Designers, Product Managers

Joined Careem as the first recruiter in Pakistan. I was responsible for all senior & executive hiring across MENA and Pakistan. Managed to attract some of the best talents and led efforts to grow Pakistan from 34-200+ across Commercial, Product & Engineering (IC - Leadership) and contributed to ~16% of global workforce, over 250+ hires in MENA and Pakistan

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