Tell us about yourself and your background. My career started on Wall Street and evolved into managing my family’s shipping business for two decades. This taught me financial discipline, complex operations, and global logistics, shaping my approach to business with precision, accountability, and scalability. With an entrepreneurial instinct, I was drawn to innovation, leading me […]
How did you get started in business and tech entrepreneurship? I’ve always had an entrepreneurial drive. After being active in the aesthetic medicine field, my next idea was to launch an app that helped parents and children connect through social activities. With no prior technical background but a strong curiosity for innovation, I decided to […]
How did you get started in the hospitality industry? My journey in hospitality began with a deep interest in how service, operations, and guest experience interplay. Over 23 years ago, I joined a restaurant group in a technical/IT role (initially a front of house role during university). That first exposure—working behind the scenes, supporting restaurant […]
How does your Conscious Medical Aesthetics model support sustainable clinic growth? Conscious Medical Aesthetics is a philosophy. It is built on the belief that less is more and that the most powerful results are natural, timeless, and individual. We are not chasing trends, yet we remain very much on trend. In 2025 we see celebrities […]
Tell us about yourself and your background Growing up between continents taught me early that no two environments operate the same way — and neither do people. Every move, every new city, every new school required me to relearn how people communicate, what they value, and how group dynamics form. Over time, this became more […]
From the heart of Jeddah to the innovation corridors of Dubai, Mohammed Salem BaAli is emerging as one of the foremost cross-border investment leaders in the GCC. He has successfully bridged two rapidly growing economic hubs, building a new investment model that integrates real assets, digital infrastructure, and transformative technologies into one unified ecosystem. BaAli […]
Can you share your career journey and what brought you to lead Cotecna’s business across the Middle East? My journey has been shaped by curiosity and responsibility. I started early working for French Telecom providing long distance video conference solutions through Cisco Telepresence in Europe (2009- so it was a big thing then). Later, I […]
Tell us about yourself and how you got started in business I didn’t step into entrepreneurship in the Middle East, I began long before. My foundation was built in Europe, where I spent years working as a PA & PR manager in Formula 1 before launching my own company in luxury event planning. I curated […]
Imtiyaz Abdul Razak Kalsekar, 51, is a second-generation entrepreneur and the CEO and Owner of I’mRasasi Perfumes, one of the Middle East’s most established and respected fragrance houses founded in 1979 by his father, Mr. Abdul Razak Kalsekar. His leadership is rooted in the values he inherited from his father – honesty, consistency, and a […]
Tell us about how you became a business coach. I always dreamed of starting my own business. But for years, I found myself sitting on my sofa after work, wondering if I was destined to keep building someone else’s vision instead of my own. I craved freedom — the freedom to choose how I spent […]
