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Dubai, Ae

Dubai, Ae

Part of the PwC dedicated ventures practice to help formalize an approach to venture building with priority clients; enabled through partnering with regional and global scaleup innovation companies.Working alongside existing account teams to identify disruptive market opportunities and then lead sourcing market-leading B2B scaleups that could power the launch of new ventures for clients. Cultivating a network of trusted relationships across regional and global venture capital & accelerators to originate market leading scaleups, as well as leveraging the global PwC global network to build Middle East credibility in the global markets. I manage an ecosystem of stakeholders across a range of informal, knowledge and commercial strategic partnerships. Responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the new practice; looking at target market, building the messaging around the unique value proposition and channels to market. Taking our early use cases in financial services and fintech partnerships to work towards industrialising the practice across different lines of service. Primary driver behind brand building content and marketing PR activities, re-augmenting PwC services to a new audience and community to build trust with the ecosystem, helping PwC bridge the gap into a new market. The role is primarily commercial, working in partnership with existing PwC sector teams to identify and qualify disruptive market opportunities for the Middle East market. This role supports all economic sectors weighted to financial services (FS) and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) and climate tech net zero and ESG enabling technologies Regular speaker at events and conferences which you can find more information on here Co-authored a number of PwC viewpoints and white papers on fintech and climate tech in the Middle East

Dubai, Ae

Voluntary. A group of passionate women and men who have come together in inspire a new generation into early stage investing. We aim to engage, educate and activate women to become investment angels in early stage businesses. Our mission is to identify and inspire 2,022 female angel investors for MENA by the end of 2022 to help diversify the early stage investment landscape.Are you a woman who is an active or aspiring angel looking to to start their investing journey? Be an angel here: https://2022femaleangels.networkAre you a Guy in angel investing that wants to see the landscape change? Can you share your angel experience to help activate new educated women angels? Contact us: 2022femaleangels@gmail.com#angelsdodeals #angelsmakenoise #angelsinvest Subscribe to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/h1A52b

Timperley, Greater Manchester, Gb

Voluntary non-executive board role at Trafford Leisure CIC, delivering leisure services across Trafford LEP supporting digital transformation across the fitness services. 350 Staff, £7m turnover organisation with a mission to help more people be more active more often. To be the #1 active local authority in the UK

Launched a new privately funded tech incubator brand for UK tech businesses. Responsible for the development of multiple business management programmes across mentoring, finance, investment as well as development of brand, marketing & communications strategy. This included development of strategic business & stakeholder relationships, management of commercial spend as well as securing grant fund incomes and revenues.Key decision maker driving business performance driving the direction of the business. Core responsibilities; • Leadership, in a start-up environment building out an outsource model for delivery alongside growing a new internal team for operations and marketing.• Experienced bid writer & bid project management – securing 5 figure public sector grants for service delivery.• Strategy – annual strategy focused on growth & new funding streams.• Brand awareness – building strategic campaigns including social media and publicity campaigns, including podcast with 10K+ downloads.• Effective community builder- 900 startups supported over 4 years, 2000+ event attendees. Established the largest mentor programme for tech business in the North West with 250 business leaders trained & supported.• Budget Management – management of commercial spend.• Public Relations: press releases, crisis comms & management.• Partnerships & Sponsorship - Building strategic partnerships with government, commercial innovation & enterprise partners, as well as venture capital, private equity & investment partners.• Events: design & production of tech event conferences, roundtables & sponsorship.• Business transformation - working alongside founders, investors & stakeholders to deliver commercial growth. Transforming the funding model in 4 years from bring privately funded, to largely self-funded.• Board Director Business Contribution – leading the board of directors contributing to strategic business development.• Corporate Social Responsibility - diversity & inclusion

Host of 'FastForward' podcast; a weekly business entrepreneur show. Available on all major podcast platforms https://link.chtbl.com/FastFwdTM 10K+ downloads.FastForward answers the questions that keep entrepreneurs awake at night. The podcast features interviews with experts covering everything a start up founder would need to know about starting a business including; branding, marketing, mentoring, funding and investment, recruitment and everything in between.Packed with tips and advice FastForward gives everything someone might need turn their business ideas into reality.Regular contributor of written articles, blogs, commentary to tech trade publications.I regular host events for other business organisations and companies, including regional and national business conferences.Often responsible for sourcing guests and panel members, writing interview scripts, hosting the event as interviewer, digital marketing pre, during and post event. Event & PR portfolio here : https://bit.ly/39tzCYT

Architect of computer engineering training course project for those that identify as women and transgender people of disadvantaged areas of Greater Manchester. 12 week & 16 week digital training programmes in Linux, cyber security, computer networking wrapped with holistic personal & professional skills development to up-skill residents in disadvantaged areas of the city region.Built strategic partnerships with CompTIA, Red Hat, Pearson and LPIC (Linux Professional Institute) & other stakeholders to identify & deliver globally recognised certifications. Worked closely with local government bodies; providing reporting and Covid mitigations during lockdown to ensure continuity.Hands on L&D experience designing and delivering professional and personal development content.

Manchester, North West England, Gb

UKFast is the UK's leading internet hosting and colocation provider, with multiple wholly owned data centres based in Manchester with revenues of £50m+. I was consulted by the senior UKFast executive board to ensure effective structures are put in place to attract & retain talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. Through benchmarking other private equity owned organisations, I delivered a detailed insight into the value of diverse business cultures & the impact on organisational performance and innovation. For resources and help with diversity and inclusion we have collated our learnings on Wakelet.com please check out https://bit.ly/2GPGHUc

I co-founded a start-up digital concierge business based in Belfast Northern Ireland, a personal support & destination company. I gained a multitude of experience from brand & concept development, business strategy, website design, ecommerce platform, supply and fulfilment chain development. Ongoing development of business processes and delivery, budgeting, supplier negotiation, legal and finances as well as driving commercial performance through media, marketing campaigns and people strategies measured against ROI. Management of P&L.

Luxembourg City, Lu

Regus are part of a collective of global and regional workspace, serviced office and business centre brands that form the IWG network. Significant commercial, financial & leadership experience gained through managing and operating two business centres collectively measuring 60,000 square foot commercial office space. I developed strong budget management skills with ongoing management of commercial spend, income and internal with annual revenues £1.5 million turnover. I transformed loss-making business centres into some of the UK division's top customer service and EBITDA performing centres. I achieved this by building, motivating and growing customer service and facilities teams to deliver top quality customer service. Re-invigorating sales & retention through prospecting, networking and presentation to new opportunities. My role later expanded to include leading on regional training across UK of new and existing members of sales and service teams. Enhancing my own wealth of sales and marketing knowledge.

Luxembourg City, Lu

UK field-based strategic sales & key account role delivering global workspace services covering North of England & Scotland territories on behalf of Regus. Travelling extensively weekly. Proven track record in prospecting, presenting, negotiating & growing corporate account clients across Regus 850 business centres worldwide; circa £1million account spend annually. Co-ordinating with international colleagues at business centres across APAC, EMEA and Americas for delivery of high level service levels. Developing existing & potential key accounts to increase global locations, revenue, market share. I learned the skill of developing high level networks and relationships with key stakeholders in FTSE 250 and large corporate companies.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Telesales based role - contacting companies in the UK to sell Yell’s portfolio of online and print advertising products. Conducting business conversations over the phone only. Aim was to build rapport quickly to gain an understanding of each client needs to create opportunities to sell products. Information gained is used to create need, present and sell the best Yell products. Working within a highly targeted environment and tight deadlines, the role requires high levels of organisation and self-management.

Belfast, Down, Gb

Launched a new recruitment branch in Portadown. Developing new business clients in Co Down, Armagh & Tyrone. Predominantly cold calling & face-to-face business development of industrial & commercial placements. The role included fulfilment of job placements through advertising, screening & interviewing candidates. Once the office was established we managed a portfolio of 500-600 placements per week, I then undertook the recruitment & management of in-house staff.

Belfast, Down, Gb

Temporary & permanent recruitment sales in a B2B environment across Northern Ireland. The role included telesales & face-to-face meetings to establish new business relationships with clients to secure placements for the agency. Included management of 150 – 200 placements a week on a combination of short & long term industrial or commercial placements through a CRM system. This role involved high levels of contact with clients & candidates as well as quick & effective response to clients needs.

Chartered Manager Award

Pgdip, Journalism

Ba Hons Sport & Leisure 2:1, Pgdip Journalism Studies

A Level Politics, English & History

Mini Masters Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General