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TL;DR: I bring 15+ years of digital innovation, consultancy, startups and strategic thinking experience to help your startup thrive.

Are you looking to:

→ IDEATE: Zero in on innovative ideas that could disrupt the landscape?
→ BUILD: Build and validate concepts, FAST, using iterative design?
→ GROW: Fully launch and scale using end-to-end go-to-market planning?
→ RAISE: Nail upcoming rounds with a killer fundraising strategy and prep?

Let's chat.

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ABOUT ME:

→ Advisor: Helped 20+ ventures launch, iterate, scale, fundraise, and unlock growth using innovation
→ Founder: Zero to 970k MAUs in 2 years (100% organic)
→ Google: Portfolios of $50M-$100M ARR, focused on bizdev, digital consulting and partnerships
→ Strategist: 100+ strategy and GTM workshops with the biggest global brands
→ Innovation: Stanford d.school bootcamp, IDEO.U, AJ&S, Design Sprint Master, and more.

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Majd Alaily

Ethos Partners Consulting

Supporting early stage ventures & startups with their Go-To-Market, Business Development & Operations.

How?
- Building Robust Partnerships, Market Exploration and validation, Defining a Successful Value Proposition to ensure Product Market Fit. 
- A profitable Business: Revenue Growth, Multi-channel Marketing, Growth Hacking, LeadGen. 
- Streamlined Operations: Process Optimisation, Customer Success.

Projects: biloba.com, Wawashi.fr, Houserz.co, WorldCorporateSummit.com, eumlet.com, FVTURA

Chief Executive Officer

EMerald Geomodelling

EMerald Geomodelling brings innovative solutions to traditional engineering in geophysics & geotechnics. How? A 3D model powered by Ai helps reducing geological risk, provides a seamless overview of ground conditions early in infrastructure projects. 
My mission:
- Business: Scale the business of EMerald, revenue growth, offering solutions & services globally
- Digital Transformation: Product Development & launch of the SaaS offering
- UX/UI: understand user pain points & needs, build UI mockups and define the features & monetisation strategies of the SaaS offer. evaluation of user requirements, optimisation for improved usability, usefulness, and visual design. Collaboration with product, engineering, and management teams. 


- Strategic Partnerships: WSP, Mott McDonald, AECOM, Atkins, Jacobs, ARUP, PPPs...
- Marketing: Lead Gen, Content, Traffic, growth hacking...
Projects: HS2, NEOM, CERN FCC, Indian Himalayan tunnel...

Head of Business Development & Partnerships I Digital Transformation

Hazaa.co

Hazaa: 
SaaS B2B PropTech solution powered by data, helping real estate investors & professionals with curated, customised insights. Our vision is to simplify the process of buying & managing real estate assets for our users. How? We collect and organise datasets: trends, benchmark, RoI, granularity of metrics by category, RRE, CRE...
Hazaa shortlisted by the German VC "Cherry Ventures" for a pitch competition.

Houserz:
- Short-term AirBnb property management platform 
- Real Estate Brokerage & Consultancy group focused on supporting international buyers looking to diversify their portfolio of property assets, increase their RoI.
With strong partnerships with developers in UAE & Europe, Houserz offers a unique suite of services to international buyers.

PropTech Ventures Founder

Google

Focus on supporting start-ups and large corporations accelerate their growth and scale their business globally. 
Google's International Growth Team provides strategic insights and solutions to help businesses grow successfully while maximising the RoI of their marketing spend & operations.

• Go-to-Market: Strategy & Planning, Revenue Growth, Market Insight, online Marketing campaigns.
• SEM, User Acquisition, Performance & Branding, UX/UI, Campaign Optimisation 
• Logistics, Payments, Localisation, Customer Care & Experience
• C-level workshops
• Portfolio: >100M€ / year

• Evangelising top Media Agencies on International Growth Strategies
• Launch of the French "Scale-up" Program designed for french unicorns (Pure Players: ManoMano, Drivy, BlaBlacar...) to accelerate their international expansion and scale their business globally. Results: +100% YoY Export growth
• Product Management: Google Market Finder

EMEA Lead Digital Marketing & International Growth Strategy

DAMAC Properties

Sales Director

The Washington Diplomat / ASAP Worldwide

Global Communications Agency & Media group producing investment reports & advertorials.
Print Media Advertising • TV Broadcast • Digital Marketing • Strategic Partnership

Regional Director: 
New Business Development & Public Relations with Governments
Partnerships and Sponsorship agreements with governmental bodies and C-levels.
Journalism: Interview, editorial research, content writing.

Projects conducted:
- UAE: Dubai 2020 World Expo
- KAZAKHSTAN: Production of a country video documentary and focus on investment, tourism and regional promotion of Kazakhstan. Meetings with top officials and top decision makers.
- BAHAMAS: Fortune Magazine
- MAURITANIA: China Daily

Regional Director: Partnerships & Business Development

Africa investor

• Leading Operations & Business in the MENA region: Sales, Partnerships.
• Institutional Lobbying with governments & top officials,, central banks, stock exchange.
• Participation in regional events with partners Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, NYSE/Euronext.

Regional Director MENA

AFA Press 

Production of image building country profiles and investment promotion reports worldwide.
•Establishing on-site business units in countries, adapting company operations to local environments.
•Management of teams working in country for periods of up to 8 months.  
•Journalism: editorial research, interviews with key personalities, content drafting.
•PR &  lobbying with governments, officials, blue chip multinationals.
•Revenue: generated over 1 000 000 $ in annual sales. 

Projects:
PUERTO RICO : Conde Nast Traveler
PAKISTAN:  Foreign Affairs 
LIBYA - Wall Street Journal
SOUTH AFRICA - The Telegraph
KYRGYZSTAN - USA Today
INDONESIA - USA Today

Global Director & Journalist Reporter

Genesys

Sales Business Development Consultant

Junior Product Marketing Manager

Tech Lover, Digital Enthusiast, Industry Agnostic, Positive Impact, focus on the 0 to 1 take-off journey of innovative ventures. 

I love to embark on exciting challenges to help organisations grow at scale and succeed in their International Development journey. 
From building Strategic Partnerships, develop go-to-market strategies, define a revenue model that is scaleable & repeatable, focus on Product Design & Development, connect with VCs & fundraise, I work in fast paced environments where multitasking, curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit are valued.

Currently supporting the growth of startups and Web3 projects in Dubai and building go-to-market strategies in the Middle East region. I am building links between startup founders & investors / partners.

Focus on Go-to-Market, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Revenue Growth, Strategic Partnerships, Product Design & Management.

Ex-Google: supporting global clients in their international digital transformation & 10x Growth strategy.

I value: high Impact, Flexibility, Disruptive Approach, Agile & Entrepreneurial Strategies, Ethical & Sustainable Projects, Integrity, networking and nurturing relationships.

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