Ahmed's CV
Profile summary
Strategic Managing Director with 21 years shaping language solutions, operations management, and business development outcomes. Known for P&L management, stakeholder management, and cross-functional B2B operations across GCC and international markets. Committed to steering enterprise growth through operational excellence and strategic execution.
Career highlights
Business Growth and Revenue Management: Achieved $1M in revenue with a 40% margin within 2 years as a cofounder while navigating COVID-19 disruptions at WORDS Language Solutions.
Media Production and Contract Delivery: Managed a high-stakes media production contract for SBS Australia for 3 consecutive years, delivering 25 minutes of daily broadcast content and generating $350K in revenue.
Revenue Expansion and Operations: Directed cross-functional B2B operations at EAST Localize, successfully acquiring new enterprise clients and driving a 25% growth in revenue by aligning vendor capacity.
Regional Market Entry and Expansion: Led greenfield market entry and helped establish the Kuala Lumpur headquarters for SEAtongue, driving expansion across 9 Southeast Asian countries.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs daily operations across media, marketing, IT, and health care sectors, integrating AI-powered translation and generative content workflows. Steers business development, sales pipeline, forecasting, and key account management while supervising vendor relations and contract compliance.
- Shaped the boutique language service agency as cofounder, generating one million dollars in revenue with a forty percent margin over two years.
- Executed a media production contract for the Australian Government spanning three consecutive years to deliver daily Arabic broadcast content.
- Directed the delivery of twenty-five minutes of daily broadcast content under strict deadlines, securing three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in revenue.
- Managed data supply and validation of digital lexicography and linguistic datasets for building core linguistic rules and code.
Shaped client technology strategies and directed cross-functional data initiatives, partnering with AI engineers, linguists, and lexicographers to oversee data annotation and validation frameworks.
- Consulted and trained Language Service Providers on business development and project management.
- Advised businesses on technology integration and industry processes.
- Delivered translation and digital content services for clients in media, AI, and technology.
Steered cross-functional B2B operations by managing Business Development and Vendor Management teams while directing a strategic management initiative to merge departments into a unified business relations framework.
- Acquired new enterprise clients across the US, Europe, and Japan while driving upselling with existing accounts.
- Achieved a 25% growth in revenue by aligning vendor capacity with B2B sales pipelines, effectively eliminating delivery bottlenecks.
Guided the operations team to maintain KPIs, quality standards, and delivery service level agreements while partnering with leadership and sales on technical scoping and quoting.
- Integrated revenue targets into operations and coached project managers to identify expansion opportunities with existing clients.
- Standardized project management workflows to accelerate delivery cycles and support sales and account management teams.
- Received Project Manager of the Year in 2013 as the highest-achieving project manager within the Engineering and Publishing Unit.
- Secured the Best Technical Solution award in 2014 for best localization workflow within the Technical R&D Unit.
- Built and managed the regional languages supply chain by recruiting staff and negotiating contracts across target markets.
- Partnered with sales and marketing units to prepare technical resources and pricing strategies for new B2B tenders.
- Managed full recruitment cycles and selection processes for freelance, part-time, and contract-based talent.
- Participated as a member of the region's first Vendor and Talent Acquisition department.
- Collaborated with technical support teams to formulate commercial proposals, service packages, and financial plans for enterprise clients.
- Managed direct sales execution for satellite communication solutions within high-value industrial sectors.
- Executed data visualization within the Military Operations Unit.
- Completed draftsmanship and topography tasks.
- Shaped organizational direction and governance frameworks as part of the founding leadership team.
- Defined communication initiatives to support professional networking and industry development goals.
- Delivered cultural strategy analysis to mitigate market entry risks and ensure compliance with user expectations.
- Advised product teams on Arabic RTL UI/UX adaptation, identifying friction points.
- Fine-tuned generative artificial intelligence models for the MENA market, ensuring outputs remain culturally safe and accurate.
- Built instruction-based datasets and wrote domain-specific prompts to test reasoning capabilities and reduce model hallucinations.
Education
Digital Transformation
- Expected 2026
Ancient European Civilization & Linguistics
- 2003