Chief Strategy Officer
Confidential
Total years of experience :34 years, 1 Months
Head of Strategy Development & Delivery
• Overall city strategy development
• Building & operating Strategy Development & Delivery Office
• Rationalizing, integrating and supervising 400+ projects on city level with over $300 Bn value
• Building a full economic model to drive the city development and monitoring
• Establishing and managing city financial framework
Tanmiyat Global is a five (5) Billion Dirhams real estate development company that was established in the United Arab Emirates managing the development in a number of elite projects in Dubai (business bay, DIFC and Living Legends). It includes a number of companies in the real estate development, sales and brokerage and facility management and services.
In the capacity of a full time CEO, I managed the turnaround and restructuring of a group of companies in the real estate development sector in Dubai. The group was struggling due to bad market conditions, long term management challenges and financial difficulties. Serious delay in projects handover and funding are few obstacles among many.
The mixed use developments included two commercial towers, twelve residential towers, five hundred villas, golf course, international school, a mall, a hotel, a nursery, retail areas and boulevard, major infrastructure in terms of power, roads, facilities and sewer treatment.
I took over the role of the CEO in addition to a turn around and re-structuring lead. It included:
• Internal business re-structuring track of the company and projects from a business modeling and structure
• Legal and consolidation track
• Financial track
• Operations and management track
Over the course of the year, we managed to achieve:
• Significant progress of construction and handover
• Product development and re-structuring in addition to sales increase
• Professional and solid internal structure in terms of organizations, processes, data room, documentation, financial and systems
• Legal resolution of a significant number of cases
• Debt re-structuring, funding and structured financing for the projects
• Management and board of directors reporting systems and dashboards
impaQta is a boutique advisory house that focuses on serving elite clients in terms of business, management and consulting domains.
• In few years, I developed impaQta from a 500k USD of revenue and 3 consultants company into a 20 Million USD firm with 60+ consultants and 3 offices around the region and from business planning and general consulting into building economic cities.
• We are currently building businesses around the region in hundreds of millions of dollars helping our clients achieve their investment objectives on mega scale
• We have significant footprint in real estate development, healthcare, economic development and education
• I was the lead of the development and deal making team of an economic city in Northern region of Saudi Arabia. The project value was 12 Billion USD and will generate 30, 000 new jobs
• I led the bidding team responsible for building the winning bid for (fiber optics country backbone, landline operator, and a mobile operator) the team was over a hundred people in three separate bids and included multinational partners and operators.
• In a capacity of an interim CEO, I managed the transformation of an industrial and trading family owned conglomerate. The change program was targeted to turnaround the group from losses into profit in addition to implementing overall change from a standard family business into a structured corporate. My responsibility was to build all project teams, manage their work, manage different consulting teams, re-structure financial debts with banks in addition to daily CEO and BOD duties. The transformation program led to bringing the group from 3% in losses into 7% in profit in less than 18 months, increase of 35% in revenue (120 Million to 170 Million).
θ Market development, penetration and positioning
θ Business Development for key government and private accounts
θ Cross-industry and cross offerings responsibility
θ Delivery and operations management
θ P&L responsibility and ownership
θ Practice development and growth
θ High level program management
θ Managed many programs/projects and initiatives within the firm
θ Client relationship management and business development activities for key accounts in different industries
θ Integration management
θ Process innovation
θ Customer Relationship Management
θ Supply Chain
θ Member of the Communication and High Tech Market Unit.
θ Developed and monitored resources/products market unit business plans (key role in execution)
θ Developed tools and methods for project management, implementation and improvement
θ Led a number of training workshops, seminars and courses
θ Established a Program Management Office Standards (multiple projects management) in addition to managing a major launching and training activities
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