Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Dubai & London · Hybrid

• What decisions will shape your future? Are you driving the conversation or simply following what others dictate?
• As the Author and Podcast Host for Voices of the Future, my mission is to break down barriers in thinking, question outdated models, and ignite discussions that matter. I focus on the issues that demand urgent attention: the influence of artificial intelligence on human values, the survival of ethical leadership in profit-driven systems, and how progress can benefit everyone—not just a select few.
• What I Do:
• Create Purposeful Content
• ➡️ I craft episodes that directly address critical global challenges. Each topic connects emerging trends like technology’s impact or shifts in power to real-life implications, urging listeners to think critically about their decisions.
• Facilitate Essential Conversations
• ➡️My interviews focus on meaningful dialogue. Guests include leaders from technology, culture, and policy. These discussions dig deep into real problems and solutions, offering clarity and actionable insights.
• Challenge Norms
• ➡️Progress demands action, not complacency. Through the podcast, I ask tough questions about whether current systems can meet future demands or if they are fundamentally flawed. I highlight what must change to ensure sustainable advancement.
• Inspire Action
• ➡️Every episode closes with a clear focus on what steps listeners can take. Awareness is only the start; the focus is on achieving results that matter in industries and communities.
• Why It Matters:
• The pace of global transformation leaves no room for hesitation. Technology, leadership, and cultural changes demand preparation and clarity. Voices of the Future is a platform for practical thought and action, helping leaders stay relevant and impactful.
• Are you building the future you want, or are you letting others define it for you? The decisions you make today set the stage for what comes next.

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Turkey, MEA Region · Hybrid

• Special Advisor to the board assisting on issues related to transformation into the future for corporations, especially related to the future of work, talent, and jobs. Also as a regular keynote speaker on their behalf in strategic environments. Finally assisting CEOx1Day initiative and being a bridge between the youth and the CEO's and mentoring and supporting them, especially with a flavour of the transformative and exponential future and how it impacts them.

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Dubai, UAE & London, UK

• Xponential is a future readiness, foresight & transformation platform and ecosystem, established as a future brand under MAD Group. We bridge the present to the future and have won several awards. We serve C-level teams & boards to see the future for their companies and provide mindset shift, tools & methodologies to deliver exponential transformation. We are preparing leaders for the future, in large corporations & SME's. Xponential Talks in our media platform where we are engaging the best thought leaders across industries and building content and channels. We have diagnostic tools, XRAY, a DEI program for accomplished women, Youth advisory boards and several unique initiatives. Our Xponential Learning academy was also recently launched.

Jul 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 8 mos · Dubai

• MAD Talks is a digital content and media platform. It is a platform and channel focused on delivering business success and content through digital channels particularly video, audio, events and learning.
• MAD is about "Making A Difference". It is a unique ecosystem and integrating point for youth, entrepreneurs and innovators with corporations, experts, brands, government, investors & associations.
• We bring together the current and future leaders in one place and let the sparks fly!
• MAD Talks is about genuine business storytelling. We create and curate content through radio, pod-casting, video blogs, events, competitions, and crowd concepts. Then it is distributed through various digital channels. This is an environment where you can speak and have voice, inspire and be inspired, be mentored by thought leaders and enjoy the amazing new concepts that will be there for you.
• The “MAD Talks” brand is the “the go to” place to identify the coolest speakers, businesses and trends in the innovation and entrepreneurial space. The speakers will be recognisable on the internet globally (like TED).

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · London/Dubai

• 100% MAD is the brand for a not for profit, self-sustaining social enterprise, with representatives and partners globally, built to ignite a global philanthropic youth movement and environment driven by the world’s 3 billion millennials.
• 100% MAD ( also stands for "Make A Difference" as a tagline ) empowers people to make a difference in the world, one action, one micro-donation at a time. We will ultimately facilitate registered charities only to raise $1 billion, $1 at a time, using disruptive business models, innovation and entrepreneurship for social change and to deploy contributions directly to unique charitable projects. We are starting with global mental literacy (Butterfly Project), finding a balance between obesity and starvation (Weightless Project), water projects and others. Learn more at www.100-mad.com
• Mobile Aid Development ( MAD) UK Ltd is the holding company for 100% MAD and helps to build the enterprise with its representatives and partners.

Mar 2010 – Sep 2015 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Middle East

• Business development, sales & sponsorships for the regional market for Bloomberg TV and Multimedia. Developed special projects for sponsorship and global broadcast, most notable were Faith in Finance, a 6 part series on Islamic Finance ( http://www.bloomberg.com/video/faith-in-finance ), AD Securities and Emaar Group.

Mar 2007 – Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Middle East

• Launched the Times & Sunday Times of London in the Middle East in May 2007 which has become the leading international publication in the region. The circulation was taken upto 18,000 in the Gulf region, which was the highest re-print circulation in the world for both The Times and Sunday Times.. The project was even at break-even 18 months after starting in 2009, going against the trend of everything online and predictions of a dying newspaper industry.
• SAB Holdings, the licensee, where i was Group CEO, has diversified interests in Technology, Media and Telecoms, logistics, retails and venture capital

Apr 2003 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Dubai

• This is the "Holding Company" I set up. It is in breakthrough strategic business development & consulting for international & regional companies.
• Recently specialist project consultant (Bloomberg TV & Multimedia) and Senior International Advisor, Talenthouse Inc, which describes itself as "The world's creative department".
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• Other present & past projects include;
• Strategic marketing projects (Talenthouse, du Telecom, ADIB, Adlibrium, SPI Publishing),
• Venture Capital & Company Development (Talenthouse Inc, Intel Capital, Bizxchange, Adlibrium, ),
• New broadcast media concepts & supporting programmes ( Dubai Eye 103.8 ), ENBD Global Business Icon Series, Global Citizen Forum, HBS Summit, 100% MAD World,
• i2i Group Inc was established to develop the mobile services industry in 2003, evolved into a digital/mobile marketing agency. i2i developed many innovative & forward looking projects with P&G, American Express, Pepsi, Carrefour, Kelloggs, Levis to name a few clients

Oct 1986 – Dec 1998 · 12 yrs 2 mos · London, Istanbul, Dubai

• Tariq was Regional Director, Dow Jones Markets EMEA, based in London/Dubai until 1998. I started in Dubai and ended managing 25 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe region. Started and developed several emerging market countries into multi-million dollar businesses from scratch for DJ Markets.
• I won the EMEA region top sales and revenue production competition for 8 years in a row in different capacities and different regions. I helped launched WSJ in local languages (inserts) in Turkey, Greece and South Africa. We developed the Gulf Economic Forum in Bahrain with WSJ and made it the premier event in the region.
• I was amongst the pioneers to introduce integrated risk management platform connected with our data, communication & transaction management platforms and digital platforms in the late 90's which helped to change the game and exponentially grow the business. This work in the emerging markets took me to London for a central EMEA role.
• Completed the Advanced General Management Program (Executive MBA equivalent) at Harvard Business School in May 1998 while working at and sponsored by Dow Jones Markets.