UAE · Middle East
The Gulf is one of the global aviation, luxury and family-conglomerate hubs. Past direct work includes campaigns on the UAE's national flag carrier and the Doha-based five-star international airline via a Switzerland-headquartered global loyalty redemption SaaS — including loyalty-programme integration and member engagement. The Gulf brand operating culture is internalised.
The brief
Gulf brands are wealthy and under-positioned.
Many family-owned and government-linked Gulf brands have category-leading product or service depth and chronically under-developed brand and corporate-comms architecture. The model worked when growth came from market access; it doesn't work now that the EU, the US and APAC are direct competitors. The fix is operating-system work — not louder advertising.
How I help
Campaign-level work on the UAE's national flag carrier and the Doha-based five-star international airline via a Switzerland-headquartered global loyalty redemption SaaS — including loyalty-programme integration, points-based commerce platforms, and member-engagement programmes across multiple geographies.
Direct work on a Geneva-based haute-horlogerie maison known for skeleton tourbillons via the same Switzerland-based loyalty platform — luxury watch brand integrated into a points-based commerce platform serving high-net-worth members of European and Gulf airline loyalty schemes. Luxury operating discipline internalised.
Family-owned UAE and Saudi conglomerates face a generational ownership and brand-architecture transition. The corporate-comms work for that is delicate — and it's the operating territory I've practised across multiple sectors.
GST (UTC+4) and IST (UTC+5:30) overlap almost the full working day. Monthly on-site visits to Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha standard for retainer clients.
How it works
Two-week audit, calibrated for Gulf operating culture.
90-day operating plan.
Weekly review at GST. Monthly board reporting.
In-house lead takes over.
Pipeline visibility
Pipeline tracking, multi-currency quoting, mobile-first.
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No — Pune, India. GST overlaps almost full working day. Monthly Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Doha visits for retainer clients.
Direct campaign-level work on the UAE's national flag carrier and the Doha-based five-star international airline via a Switzerland-based loyalty platform; plus luxury and FMCG work serving Gulf high-net-worth audiences.
English universal. Arabic-language collateral via a Dubai-based vetted copywriter network.
AED or USD. Net-30.
Within two weeks of signed engagement letter.
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From Helsinki to Hanoi, Geneva to São Paulo — engagements run async-first with on-site visits where they matter. Drop a line and I'll respond within one working day.
18+ years across global B2B and D2C. Six working languages. Async-by-default operating cadence calibrated for distributed teams. India hours overlap with Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the Americas — meaning live-hours coverage of every major target market.
Past engagements span the EU, the UK, the USA, the UAE, Latin America, and Southeast Asia — through agency, in-house and consulting roles.