Experience

Fourteen years,
built in sequence.

From SEO executive in Karachi to growth director in Dubai. Each role built skills the next one used at bigger scale: SEO automation became programmatic platforms, ecommerce funnels became fintech cohort economics, agency discipline became group-level sales channels.

Career

Fourteen years, built in sequence.

Mar 2025 – Present · Dubai

Baraka

Director of Growth & Marketing

DFSA-regulated investing platform. CAC down more than 30%, funded accounts up 2.5×, an AI-run marketing operation and full budget ownership. Reports to the CEO.

Apr 2024 – Feb 2025 · Dubai

The Heart of Europe / IHG

Director, Destination Marketing

Off-plan luxury on the World Islands, including the voco Monaco Dubai hotel: HNWI programs, broker activation, events and telesales.

Oct 2022 – Mar 2024 · Dubai

DAMAC Group

Director, Digital

Digital share of group sales up from 6% to 14%; cost of sale down from 4.0% to 1.4%.

Sep 2021 – Sep 2022 · Dubai

Rain

Head of Growth

CBB-regulated crypto exchange. Growth across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Turkey; 100%+ organic growth; rain.bh → rain.com migration.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2021 · Dubai

Seera Group / Almosafer

Head of Growth

500,000+ page programmatic SEO platform; +110% traffic and +60% revenue in 2019 vs 2018; Saudi travel demand, SEM, ASO and app journeys.

2016 – 2017 · Karachi

Alibaba Group · Daraz

Head of Growth

Digital growth across Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal: paid media, CRM automation, in-app content and platform migrations.

2015 – 2016 · Karachi

The Brand Crew

Director, Paid Media & Analytics

Agency leadership across banking, FMCG, pharma and ecommerce: Bank Alfalah, Unilever Pakistan and the BeautifulYou content platform.

2012 – 2015 · Karachi

TradeKey

Associate Manager, SEO

500K+ daily organic visits; internal-linking automation across 1M+ pages; search-penalty recovery for an industry portal.

2011 – 2012 · Karachi

Salsoft Technologies · Kalsoft

SEO Team Lead · SEO Executive

Foundations: white-hat SEO practice and first team leadership.

Market experience

From the Gulf to
seventy-plus markets.

Customer acquisition across the Gulf, Egypt and Turkey. Real-estate buyer campaigns from Dubai into more than 70 markets, spanning the CIS region, Europe, Asia and Australia. Ecommerce growth across South Asia. The map shows the anchor markets; every one of them is work actually done.

The details

Every chapter has a case study.