Cultural Advisor & Interpreter & Translator
Apollo Strategies, Inc
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
• Interpreted in over 500 conferences and seminars over 10 years.
• Provided cultural advisory and linguistic support for the United States Department of Defense for over 10 years (Departments: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Cost Guard; and Commands: Central Command, Special Operations Command, Cyber Command, and Africa Command).
• Worked on the regional security level with Ministers of Defnese and Chiefs of Staff from USA, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Jordan, UK and Egypt.
• Provided linguistic interpretation for United Nations Agencies and Programs including, but not limited to, FAO, ILO, IMF, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNDP, IF C, IDA, WHO, WTO, IOM, UNHCR, OPCW, UNCTAD, UNCITRAL, UN FPA, UNHRC, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNRWA, UNSDG, UN Women, and WFP.
• Establishing 3 defense industries companies and appointing CEO's and the C suite for all of them, including building corporate strategy and international partnerships.
• Assisted in market analysis, factory establishment, and product launch for two bottled water companies (Ival and Oska).
• Directly supported the establishment and launch of our logistics company AJEX, facility management company Dussman-Ajlan, E-Wallet company Tiqmo, and medical company Ajlan & Bros Medical.
• Assisted in establishing and building the holding group subsidiaries in artificial intelligence, technology, blockchain and advanced technology sectors, in addition to defining best practices, and state of art projects to attract to KSA, with a focus on transfer of technology in all joint ventures.
• Assisted in establishment of agriculture joint ventures, analyzing markets, and defining best international partners.
• Assisted in establishing a mining subsidiary for the holding group and obtaining one of the largest mining contracts in KSA.
• Handling legal affairs for the whole group companies and coordinating with legal counsellors and the internal legal team.
• Preparing BOD meetings with international partners in USA, UK, France, China, Malaysia, Italy, Turkey, Austria, UAE, Oman, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, South Africa, and Egypt.
• Supervised the space sector strategy, and assisted in preparing technical presentations to educate BOD on the sector and support them in decision making for this new sector.
• Preparing participation in exhibits and conferences, and building group's booths and stands in international and local shows.
• Conducting comprehensive competitors’ analysis internally and through outsource private investigators.
• Managing our team of senior advisors and lobbyists in the United States of America.
• Coordinated business relationships with international outsource advisors from USA, UK, France, China, and other countries.
• Holding cultural advisory meetings for all of our international subsidiaries CEOs and their teams to align them with Vision 2030 and with our corporate strategy, and preparing their meetings with the BOD.
• Coordinating and managing joint ventures establishment with Chinese partners through 4 different offices in China.
• Coordinated defining Chinese suppliers for the governmental tenders in health, garments and fabric sectors.
• Coordinate and supervise education of the BOD and the family members, including masters’ degrees and training courses
• Following up on corporate and personal lawsuits in local and international courts with our internal and external legal counsellors and reporting progression back to BOD on a regular basis.
• Managing the business affairs for the Chairman of Saudi Chinese Business Council.
• Conducted preliminary interviews for more than 50 CEOs prior to their interview by the board.
• Coordinating business trips with the travel team and preparing security escort, lodging, ground transportation, and flights (private jets and charter) for BOD.
• Arranging media interviews, and preparing scripts (answers and questions) for the interviews for the BOD.
• Writing and editing official news articles for media releases and publications.
• Preparing and printing catalogues for different products category, mainly defense.
• Preparing promotional and marketing videos for the group’s products and the group’s storyline and history.
• Provided simultaneous and consecutive interpretation for the BOD meetings.
• Translated all the written materials and document for BOD and supervised the translation team.
Established an events management company and provided simultaneous interpretation and translation services through our contracts
International Study Programme
Theoretical and practical Administration of hotels, in addition to all sections of management
Translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretation theories and implementing them...