A working life across 26 countries and 8 regional chapters — Dubai, the GCC, the subcontinent, South-East Asia, Greater Asia, Europe, North America, and the Holy Cities. Each chapter below is a region where I lived, worked, sourced or built.
Thirty years on the Gulf retail floor — from a first job in Dubai to VP Operations, building and running stores across the GCC.
Multi-brand fashion retail across the UAE & Oman — 10 stores opened, branded, merchandised and run end-to-end.
Catalogue & store album →Master franchise from China for the YOYOSO lifestyle brand in Saudi Arabia (KSA) — 15 retail stores, from the signing ceremony to full rollout.
Signing ceremony & photos →Store-opening photos & videos: store gallery · YOYOSO catalogue · Le Pearl marketing
The first flight. The first job. The first boss. Sana Fashions opened its door to a teenager from the subcontinent — and a working life of retail, family, and Gulf business all started there.
From there came the chain of decisions that shaped everything: family in Dubai, friends across the GCC, stores under management, brands launched, and the operator's eye for what works on a Gulf shop floor.
From a single store in Dubai to 60+ stores across the Gulf — Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE. Each market with its own rules, its own retail rhythm, its own way of making a customer feel at home. Spent the most working years here.
Where the supply chain begins. Surat textile mills, Tirupur knitting hubs, Karachi tailoring — this is the sourcing belt that fills GCC racks. Built relationships here over decades that still ship to the Gulf today.
From Bangkok to Bali, Hanoi to Manila. Garment factories, leather goods, footwear, accessories, fragrance bottling — the region taught me category breadth at price points the Gulf customer demands.
China for scale, Hong Kong for finance, Japan for excellence, Korea for cosmetics. The places where Gulf money learns to negotiate, audit, and import the right way.
Milan and Paris for fashion weeks, Frankfurt and Cologne for trade shows, London for finance and Istanbul for the bridge between continents. Where brand discipline gets sharpened.
Canada Startup Visa pathway. Toronto for tech, Vancouver for lifestyle. The next chapter for the family, with feasibility studies, advisory contracts and a Canadian Stackbirds entity in motion.
The chapter that grounds everything else. Umrah and Hajj. The pilgrimage that puts a working life in its proper place — tools for service, not trophies.
The same operator's eye, applied to AI agents, automation and brand sites for Gulf SMEs. See the ventures, or start a conversation.