Houssam El Zein

Organizations hire me when their communications has to catch up with their ambition.

(How I can help)
  1. Set up, or rebuild, your marketing communications function and team.

  2. Scale your brand locally and regionally.

  3. Align marketing communications with your transformation program.

  4. Put a narrative and content engine behind the leadership agenda.

  5. Run your agencies, instead of being run by them.

  6. Deliver global conferences, summits and national campaigns.

  7. Govern the brand so it holds after launch.

(Who)
Houssam El Zein

Houssam El Zein

Twenty-eight years leading marketing, brand and communications inside banks, universities, capital markets and government across the GCC. That is the experience you are hiring.

(How I work)
  1. Permanent leadership of the marketing, brand and communications function.

  2. An interim or transformation mandate: build, restructure or lead the function for a defined period.

  3. Strategic advisory to leadership or an existing team on specific priorities.

(Reach out)

I read every message myself and reply within one working day.

(Sound familiar?)

Nobody calls it a brand problem. They call it one of these.

(Delivery)

We are mid-transformation and communications is the last to know.

(Governance)

We have a communications team. We don't have a communications function.

(Strategy)

There is a new national mandate and we have to align to it.

(Governance)

We need to optimize the budget and scale the output. At the same time.

(Strategy)

We are ready to go regional. The brand isn't.

(Governance)

The strategy is in a deck from two years ago. Nobody has opened it since.

(Delivery)

We launched the campaign. Nothing changed.

(Work with me)

The call costs you thirty minutes. Not having it costs you a year.