Tell us about yourself and your background My name is Mari Moisio, born and raised in Tampere, Finland, and my path into business, sustainability and leadership has never been a straight but through different routes and experiences. I am a person who believes that a sustainable future is created through actions, cooperation and bold decisions. […]
Category: FEATURES
Female Founder Spotlight: Kiran Faruqi
Tell us about yourself and your background I’m a Chartered Accountant by training, and a business builder and operator by experience. I enjoy bringing structure to complexity, spotting patterns in messy data, and using that insight to help businesses grow to their full potential. I’ve been involved in building companies from early stages through to […]
Female Founder Spotlight: Khevna Jilla, Familierge
Tell us about yourself and your background My career began in marketing, where I spent over 15 years working across a range of industries including retail, F&B, and luxury. After receiving my undergraduate degree from The University of Manchester, I joined a marketing graduate scheme at a global telecoms retailer. Over the years, I built […]
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Kathryn Jones, Founder of KJ Serums
Tell us about yourself and your background Hi! I’m Kathryn Jones and I’m the founder of my own eponymous skincare brand – Kathryn Jones Hand Blended Serums…or just ‘KJ Serums’ for short. I’m a mum and a grandmother originally from Wales in the United Kingdom and came to the UAE in 2013 to be with […]
Founder Spotlight: Karim Al Ansari, PerceptionX
Tell us about yourself and your background. For most of my career, the core of my work has been product: understanding problems deeply and turning them into software or services people actually use. I started on the data and content side, but really grew up as a Product Manager and then Head of Product, working […]
Company Spotlight: Blake Hughes, InfraHub Compute
Tell us about InfraHub Compute InfraHub Compute was created to address one of the biggest challenges in the AI economy today and that is access to scalable, enterprise-grade compute infrastructure. Demand for AI workloads is accelerating far faster than supply, and that imbalance is only growing. Our focus is on helping to build and scale […]
Coaching Spotlight: Hajra Jaafar
Tell us about yourself and your background I am Hajra Jaafar an ICF certified life and transitional coach with Master’s in NLP, a women’s empowerment advocate, and corporate wellbeing facilitator. My professional journey spans banking, education, leadership roles, and entrepreneurship—each chapter teaching me something powerful about identity, resilience, and reinvention.Life transitions—whether personal, professional, or emotional—have […]
Company Spotlight: Elvijs Plugis, Sigulp
Tell us about Sigulp Sigulp is a strategic growth partner that accelerates businesses, brands, products, and founders across competitive and international markets. We deliver integrated strategy and execution across market entry, market share growth, branding, marketing, revenue systems, business development, PR and media, events, and high-level productions. Sigulp was created to address a gap left […]
Navigating the Future of Marketing: An Exclusive Interview with Ali Raheem Turki
Bizpreneur ME explores the strategy and the regional consultancy landscape with Ali Raheem Turki, the visionary behind the rising marketing powerhouse, Ejteyaz. Ali, thank you for joining us. To start, could you tell our readers the story behind the name “Ejteyaz”? What was the specific gap in the market you aimed to fill when you […]
Green Is the New Luxury: How Conscious Consumption Is Reshaping Fashion Brands
Luxury has always been built on story. Provenance, craftsmanship and exclusivity have long justified premium pricing and brand loyalty. Yet for decades, another story sat just beneath the surface, one of environmental cost, invisible labour, and opaque supply chains. That silence is no longer sustainable. Conscious consumption is now reshaping how luxury is defined and […]










