Sector credentials
Gulf and International Expansion
European executive with operating presence in the Gulf: DIFC board leadership, entity-building, institutional engagement and delivery across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
DIFC
Board chairmanship since April 2024
2
Gulf markets with delivery: the UAE and Saudi Arabia
15
Employees on payroll at peak
Direct evidence.
- Chairman of the board of the group’s DIFC-incorporated joint venture in Dubai, within the DFSA’s oversight context and English common-law corporate practice, since April 2024, backed by an institutional investor, CBI International Bank (Dubai).
- Saudi Arabia. Paid, on-site delivery with a Gulf national energy company; market development with a sovereign wealth fund, a national artificial intelligence authority and national telecommunications and giga-project organisations.
- United Arab Emirates. Active institutional relationships in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, a live delivery programme with Arada Developments, and entity-building through the DIFC.
- Delivered MENA hardware and software transactions including EUR 1.19M individually, with a 15-person international team (approximately 40 including the extended delivery network) across the Netherlands and UAE.
- Qatar. Market development with a national digital transformation programme.
Best suited mandates.
- Managing Director or General Manager of a Gulf entity for a European technology or industrial business.
- CEO or COO leading a Europe-to-Gulf expansion.
- Board, NED or advisory roles on cross-border governance and market entry.
Selected relationships and delivery.
- Entry activity in Oman, and consulate-linked business networks across the region.
Scope
Established delivery and entity-building are proven; wider relationship activity is market development, not a completed revenue book.
Board-level leadership, proven in institutional markets.