Basant Shenouda

Business Development Executive

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland5 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded a successful employee resource group at LinkedIn.
  • Achieved 63+ million views on career content across platforms.
  • Recognized as one of the most powerful women on LinkedIn globally.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B SaaS professional with a strong focus on community engagement and digital marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Account ManagementDigital MarketingCommunity BuildingLeadershipProject ManagementClient RelationsCustomer SuccessSales SupportCareer CoachingMentorshipAdvocacyEducation PolicyProgram DevelopmentCommunications StrategyMedia RelationsYouth EngagementTeam CollaborationBrand ManagementMarketing StrategyMarketingCustomer Engagement

Other Skills

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Sales ManagementEvent ManagementTechnical ConsultingWebinar ManagementResearchVideo EditingSocial MediaStrategySocial media managementSalesConsultative SellingMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordPowerPoint

About

⬆️ Follow me for motivational and career content! ⬆️ As featured on the BBC, Forbes, Fortune, Worth Magazine's Worthy 100 for 2023, Business Insider, and Egyptian Streets. 🌎 I am an account manager at Google, supporting businesses in the Middle-east and North Africa with their digital strategies. This is such a dream because of my passion for creating economic growth and opportunity in MENA. Previous experience as a MENA implementation consultant and on-boarding partner at LinkedIn for enterprise clients. Also co-founded and lead an employee resource group for MENA LinkedIn employees called 'Habibi'. 🔑 I help my community, through my LI and YouTube content, become less fearful and more resourceful towards their career and development, gaining 63+ million views. 🗣 I have held 50+ speaking engagements with 50k+ audience members surrounding personal branding, job hunting, networking, and employer branding. Past work with Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, the Trainee Committee of the European Commission (x2), Stanford University, YearUp, Vodafone, AIESEC, Washington Ireland Programme, and WomenTech Network. 📍 Please reach out to me at basantblast[at]gmail.com for conferences, university guest lectures, events, etc. 👑 I am passionate about my heritage, being of Coptic Egyptian origins. My dream is to become a figure for young Coptic youth and to bring in more representation of our community. Both my first and last name are Coptic. Basant means "double crown" and Shenouda means "son of God". Email: basantblast[at]gmail.com - basantblast.com

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Politics4her

Program Developer and Lead

Oct 2024May 2025 · 7 mos

  • Developed and pitched a capacity-building initiative aimed at enhancing refugee women's access to the labor market. The program is called Beyond Boarder and has delivered weekly, active support to 20+ refugee women through a workshop and mentorship series.
  • Produced and delivered 8+ workshop presentations on key career skills, including goal-setting, resume building, and personal branding through actionable tools.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams at Politics4Her to further scale this program to more regions impacted by conflict with the goal of supporting 100+ further refugee women this year.
  • Success: In a few months, one participant has already secured a study abroad opportunity out of 7000 appications! Most participants in the program have been accepted to jobs, degree programs, and fellowships or have been launched their own businesses!
Program DevelopmentMentorship

Google

New Business Account Manager

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Working in a pod to grow a portfolio of the Middle East's fastest growing companies:
  • Managing $XXM Google Ads annual revenue
  • Responsible for XX% YoY growth through campaign optimization by achieving maximum ROI for clients
  • Specialized in retail, technology & real estate verticals with a focus on user acquisition, engagement, and retention across web and mobile platforms.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Digital MarketingAccount ManagementSales Management

Unesco

SDG4 Youth Network Member

Oct 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Selected from 1,500 applications as a member of the SDG4Youth a global platform for students and youth education advocates to take action on SDG4 and engage in shaping global education policies within the High Level Steering Committee.
AdvocacyEducation Policy

Linkedin

4 roles

Implementation Consultant

Apr 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Promoted within a year from a junor implementation consultant to oversee the entirety of the MENA region as the primary implementation manager
  • Acted as a short-term, client-facing technical project manager for 100+ enterprise clients
Project ManagementClient RelationsTechnical Consulting

Middle-Eastern Employee Resource Group Co-Founder

Promoted

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Part of a team of 7 individuals at LinkedIn who kickstarted an employee resource group for the Middle Eastern Community called 'Habibi'. Upon my departure from LinkedIn in May 2024 after 2 years of the group's existence:
  • Led 50+ individuals globally in 10+ offices as part of the Habibi leadership team
  • Gained 500+ ERG members within the span of a year after our launch
  • Oversaw 50+ cultural and career events focused on the Middle Eastern community at LinkedIn globally
Community BuildingEvent ManagementLeadership

Associate Implementation Consultant

Mar 2022Apr 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Acted as a short-term, client-facing technical project manager while holding internal Customer Success Managers, Sales Account Directors, and external stakeholders accountable to timelines
  • Executed against existing project plans for 60+ global enterprise clients after conducting gap analysis on client education and product in order to cater to client needs
  • Utilized LinkedIn, client and data to derive insights and drive customer success through education, increased utilization and job applies by 500% for several clients
Project ManagementClient Relations

Customer Success Associate - Business Leadership Program

Jan 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • LinkedIn's Business Leadership Program is a graduate program focused on kickstarting a career in sales and consists of three core rotations across the Customer Success org, maintained 100% OKR attainment through the entire year:
  • Supported 500+ enterprise customers in Salesforce / Dynamics with their product questions through deep understanding of our hiring solutions, ensured a consistent quality response score of 4.6 / 5
  • Led an internal qualitative customer analysis to decrease churn rate and provide voice of customer feedback while working with 20+ internal stakeholders, the report influenced future company strategy
  • Collaborated internally on a quantitative customer analysis on product usage, bringing 15% time savings internally and scaled value for our team and program
Customer SuccessSales Support

Theirworld

2 roles

Communications Advisor

Feb 2023Oct 2023 · 8 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Selected to be a part of the Communications Advisory Panel for a large charity, Theirworld
  • The panel is worked to end the global education crisis and unleash the power of the next generation through the implementation of communication strategies for an international NGO
Communications StrategyMedia Relations

Global Youth Ambassador

Oct 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Advocacy for quality education and skills for the future: campaigning for the 4th Sustainable Development Goal of the UN 2030 Agenda
  • Monitoring and monthly reporting to the Network of Global Ambassadors on the current issues towards youth education
AdvocacyEducation Policy

egyptian ministry of emigration - وزارة الهجرة المصرية

Youth Council Officer

Feb 2023Jan 2024 · 11 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · Remote

  • Media Officer at Ministry of Emigration Dialogue Center for Egyptian Youth Abroad.
  • Responsible for all media related to Egyptian Youth Abroad.
Media RelationsYouth Engagement

Washington ireland program

Forum Fellow

Sep 2022Nov 2022 · 2 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • The WIP Forums is curated by the prestigious Washington Ireland Program. It is seeking to empower a new generation of change makers, by challenging them to join a team of diverse individuals from around the island of Ireland to create a new innovative idea to solve a difficult societal problem.
  • My team's societal topic is 'Redefining Irishness for the twenty-first century'
Project ManagementTeam Collaboration

Basant blast

Founder

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • “Free global access to career resources and guidance should be a basic human right.” #basantblast / basantblast.com
  • NGO that provides all-needed career education, development and advancement resources for free. We are also creating mentorship access, and translating already hard to find career resources towards global inclusivity.
  • Supported 250+ job seekers through individual coaching in a 7 month period with a 95% success rate of job seekers finding positions in 4 months time, covering the topics of resumes, interviews, and networking
  • Held 50+ webinars in Germany, China, the US, Nigeria, and many other countries worldwide to benefit 50,000 audience members
Career CoachingWebinar ManagementMentorship

Zalando marketing services

Account Management Intern

Aug 2019Feb 2020 · 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Supported on a portfolio of 30+ large enterprises through collaboration, effective communication, and adapting
  • Delivered sales results through relationship building with clients and 100+ stakeholders and data storytelling
  • Supported team and cross-selling through targeting client needs in creative campaign conceptualization, created revenue growth of 600% with largest account
MarketingCustomer Engagement

Intel corporation

Brand Marketing, Creative, and Events Intern

Sep 2017Feb 2018 · 5 mos · Munich Area, Germany

  • Became agency management lead on over 5+ campaigns in EMEA (e.g: Olympics, GDPR, and Optane campaign lead) where I acted as an short-term project manager to to ensure cross-functional internal collaboration and deadline attainment
  • Set up and lead the discussion in weekly forums that aligned 20+ teams across EMEA on campaign and brand management
  • Created disciplined communication in the department with an automated follow-up system.
  • Drove internal employee engagement as well as external brand experience programs while increasing efficiency by 35%
Account ManagementSales Support

Adobe

Student Representative and Consultant

Apr 2016Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bonn Area, Germany

  • Represented the Adobe brand as a student at my university by hosting 3 product training workshops to 40 audience members and answering 5-10 student queries per month
  • Promoted Creative Cloud products on social media, resulted in 10+ trial uses
  • Held 3 campaigns throughout my university through digital, physical, and guerilla marketing.
  • Part of an exclusive international panel of students that work monthly with Adobe to help shape the Adobe Students strategy and the way Adobe markets.
  • Speaking with Adobe Product Managers 2-3 times a year about upcoming apps and feature releases
Brand ManagementMarketing Strategy

Education

Harvard University

Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) — Management

Jun 2022May 2025

IU International University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Jan 2015Jan 2019

ISG Dammam

American High School Diploma

Jan 2012Jan 2015

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