• Manage Qorus (previously Efma) activities in the region including events, conferences and bank member recruitment and relationship management with central banks, bank associations and other stakeholders• Mandate includes, member satisfaction, business development, topline responsibility and industry outreach • Territory includes GCC, Egypt , Lebanon, Jordan, and South and West Asia and English speaking African countries• Designed, built, managed and ran retail banking conferences in the region (e.g., UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan and Bangladesh)• Built and managed the team for outreach, research and event management

• Established research practice across 14 markets of the region (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco). • My research was the best source of third party knowledge, benchmarks, data and insights on cards, retail payments and consumer finance in the industry across the region with unrivaled depth and details. • Clients included global cards schemes, global banks, major regional banks, service providers.• Cultivated close relationships with head of cards and consumer finance across all the major banks in various markets in Middle East• Built Middle East specific data models for the credit cards business to project bank level and market wide profitability and revenue data pools across the region.• Created and implemented a data collection and computation methodology for Middle East to estimate key metrics related to retail payments, cards and consumer credit data.• Devised a data authentication model to validate the information provided by the third party sources • Built competitive landscape studies and data sets related to consumer finance business, credit cards, debit cards and merchant acquiring business

* Wrote articles, features and news reports on the current issues in financial services industry* Conducted research and authored reports on the strategic issues in Asian financial services industry