Experience

Thirty plus roles. One continuous run since 2013.

Filter by the kind of work. Every entry is a real engagement with a real contracting relationship behind it.

12+ Years ~5 Years Operations ~2 Years Production 2 Years Project Management 2 Years Event Management 140+ Country Delegations Team of 60 at Peak

Every role and project since 2013, most recent first

May – Jul 2026 · Doha, Qatar

Sneaker Con Doha

Alsayegh Worldwide

First Qatar edition, and the group's first multi-year IP delivery in that market. Production and operations delivery.

Feb – Apr 2026 · Al Ain

Al Ain Ramadan Event

Alsayegh Worldwide

Large-scale public Ramadan programme. Production delivery across a multi-week run.

Feb – Mar 2026 · Dubai

DIEZ Annual Gala & CBD Annual Gala

via M&M Group Events

500+ guests, 12+ vendors, VIP and government protocol across two gala deliveries.

2026 · Dubai Silicon Oasis

MIT DesignX / DSO DDX

Global entrepreneurship programme

End-to-end delivery of the programme's Dubai edition.

Nov 2025 – Feb 2026 · Al Ain

Al Ain Flower Festival

Alsayegh Worldwide

Large-scale public festival production. Structures, landscaping, staging and site build.

2025 · Dubai World Trade Centre

Gulfood Manufacturing

DWTC · Executive Meeting Manager

Executive meeting programme for the manufacturing edition.

2023 – 2025 · Dubai, Marrakech, Berlin

GITEX Global, Africa, Europe & Expand North Star

DWTC, via Vibes Events, and KAOUN International direct

Seven programme deliveries. Government delegation meetings and VIP key accounts, delegations from 140+ countries. Contracted three different ways across the same group: DWTC directly, DWTC through Vibes Events, and KAOUN International, DWTC's sister company and the organiser behind GITEX. Includes the first ever GITEX Europe edition in 2025. 98% meeting conversion held as the benchmark across programmes, and +400% government meetings at GITEX Africa in my first year on it. Both are my own programme figures rather than published organiser statistics, and I can show the counts.

2025 · Meydan & all Dubai airports

Dubai World Cup

VVIP Transport & Operations Supervisor

Team of 60 chauffeurs across every Dubai airport, moving VVIP guests for the world's richest race day.

2025 · Dubai World Trade Centre

Gulfood · Elite Buyers Program

DWTC

Managed the Elite Buyers Program at the world's largest annual food and beverage event.

Nov 2025 · Dubai

National Day, multi-site

DAFZA, DIEZ and CommerCity

Simultaneous delivery across three sites.

2024 · Dubai World Trade Centre

GISEC

Stage Manager

Stage management for the Gulf's largest cybersecurity event.

2023 · Expo City Dubai

COP28

Operations, multi-role

Operations across multiple roles at the UN climate conference.

Nov 2024 – Jan 2025 · Dubai

Philip Morris International

Key Account Coordinator · via Anshab Events

Top retail partners across Dubai on the PMI brand programme — Marlboro, Chesterfield and Parliament. Daily key-account visits, training partners on the proprietary digital platform, and clearing technical issues with the back office.

Dec 2024 · Abu Dhabi

Afterlife Abu Dhabi

ARGA · Zone Operations Manager, Lead

18 traffic specialists and 2 zone managers under supervision.

Dubai & Ras Al Khaimah

Dubai Ride & RAK Half Marathon

Dubai Police and RTA · HSE

Health and safety on mass-participation public events.

UAE

QC & CX audits

ENOC, Emarat, ADNOC, DIFC

Quality control and customer experience auditing across national energy and finance estates. Plus key account work with PMI.

Dec 2022 – Nov 2023

Data Scientist, freelance

Kaggle Expert

Six published notebooks including breast cancer detection at 98% and churn prediction at 86%. Virtual experience programmes with BA, KPMG, Red Bull and Tata.

2020 – 2021 · Pakistan

Burrak Express

Co-founder & General Manager

Delivery start-up. Owned the P&L.

2013 – 2017 · Dubai

Early career

GITEX Shopper, Dubai Air Show, Etisalat

Promoter work for Nikon, Hisense and Shimono at GITEX Shopper. VVIP hospitality at the Dubai Air Show. Sales team leader at Etisalat. Where the floor sense came from.

Project management · two years

Some of it was operations. Some of it was a project.

Running a floor and delivering a project are different jobs. These were scoped, budgeted, procured, scheduled and closed — a start date, a fixed opening date, a handover, and somebody's name on whether it landed. That name was mine.

Three nested project contracts, back to back

November 2025 to July 2026, for an established UAE experiential events group operating across the GCC: the Al Ain Flower Festival, the Al Ain Ramadan event, and Sneaker Con Doha. Three separate scopes, three separate closes, no gap between them.

Three sites, one day

UAE National Day 2025 delivered simultaneously across DAFZA, DIEZ and Dubai CommerCity, including the MOU signing ceremony. Parallel projects with a shared immovable date.

MIT DesignX · DSO DDX

2026, end to end. Staging, AV, logistics and programme flow for a global entrepreneurship programme at Dubai Silicon Oasis, from scope through to closure.

DIEZ & CBD annual galas

2026, via M&M Group Events. 500+ guests, 12+ vendors, VIP and government protocol, contracted and paid as project management rather than shift work.

Alongside these, twelve years of the discipline that makes them possible: procurement and vendor management, budget and cost control, risk and HSE compliance under NEBOSH, and cross-functional teams up to sixty people.

Where the work has run

Four countries, and delegations from a hundred and forty more.

Home base is Dubai. Everything below is somewhere I have actually delivered, not somewhere the company has an office.

United Arab Emirates

Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Al Ain

GITEX Global and Expand North Star, COP28 at Expo City, the Dubai World Cup at Meydan, Gulfood and Gulfood Manufacturing, GISEC, the Al Ain Flower Festival, National Day across three free zones, the Dubai Ride and Dubai Run, and the Dubai Airshow.

Qatar

Doha · 2026

Sneaker Con Doha, the first Qatar edition of the show and the contracting group's first multi-year IP delivery in that market. Production and operations.

Morocco

Marrakech · 2024 and 2025

GITEX Africa, two consecutive editions. The 2025 edition was contracted directly with KAOUN International, GITEX's own organising entity, rather than through an intermediary.

Germany

Berlin · 2025

GITEX Europe. The first European edition of the show, delivered on the government delegations and VIP key accounts side.

The delegation programmes themselves reached further than the travel did: government delegations from 140+ countries across the GITEX portfolio, April 2023 to December 2025. Available across the UAE, the wider GCC and worldwide.

Full record

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