Curriculum vitae
Insights, Analytics and Growth Strategy professional with expertise in revenue channel growth, product and brand management, performance measurement, consumer research, P&L management, strategic project execution, and decision support for leadership on big bets.
Experience
Riot Games
Singapore, 2025 to 2026Insights, Analytics and Strategic Projects Manager, Publishing Operations APAC
- Built the P&L and unit economics framework for games and ran portfolio prioritisation across nine APAC markets, supporting trade-off and resourcing decisions for the APAC General Manager.
- Led a multi-quarter growth programme for VALORANT in Japan. Shaped the thesis, brought together publishing, esports and creator teams, and delivered a strategy playbook covering cultural fit, creator dynamics, growth models and a forecast of monthly active users.
- Built a Python-based scraper and Natural Language Processing sentiment analyser to close player intelligence gaps across APAC languages.
- Designed executive reporting infrastructure across APAC games on Tableau Cloud, turning ad hoc reporting into a repeatable operating mechanism.
- Led a strategic review of the Riot ONE esports event in Japan, designing new formats and a framework for cross-border expansion.
Mondelēz International
Pakistan and UAE, 2021 to 2023Manager, Shopper Insights, Retail Strategy and Analytics, MENA
- Deployed a $600K research budget to generate the analytics and insights behind decisions across Oreo, Cadbury and other brands.
- Applied conjoint pricing and media mix models to quantify the P&L and return impact of pricing and advertising decisions, then translated the outputs into channel activation through a shopper missions framework.
- Ran cross-functional sprints with product development, brand and sales teams to ship price, packaging and positioning changes driven by shopper insight.
Manager, Consumer Insights and Analytics, MENA
- Diagnosed the gum and candy category decline in Egypt and Morocco and launched repositioned variants in response.
- Refined pre-launch television and digital creative through consumer response testing with brand teams.
- Assessed brand positioning and messaging across the portfolio and set out how they should evolve.
McDonald's
Pakistan, 2018 to 2021Consumer and Business Insights Lead
- Built Power BI dashboards and OKR reporting across more than 70 outlets, putting daily decision data in operators' hands.
- Forecast item-level demand, helping the supply chain team cut average monthly wastage cost by 2%.
- Developed consolidated P&L analysis to improve the precision of financial planning and performance measurement.
- Identified menu mix as the drive-thru bottleneck and restructured assortments, cutting average service time by 40 seconds.
- Lifted gross profit margin by 2% through price changes driven by conjoint price elasticity analysis.
Pfizer
Pakistan, 2017 to 2018Country Lead, Business Analytics and Insights
- Identified high-potential therapeutic areas and reallocated 500 medical representatives, contributing to 2% year on year sales growth.
Nielsen
Pakistan and UAE, 2015 to 2017Senior Executive, Retail Marketing and Strategy
- Led retail execution, consumer and marketing strategy advisory for clients including PepsiCo, Frito-Lay and Red Bull.
- Drove the design, execution and advocacy of product improvement initiatives at Nielsen.
- Grew business unit revenue by 20% year on year by securing ad hoc and syndicated products including the Brand Health Tracker and Retail Audit.
Nova Founders Capital
Malaysia, 2013Entrepreneur in Residence (Intern), Digital Marketing and Operations
- Handled digital advertising, operations and corporate partnerships across several startups hosted at the venture incubator.
Education
INSEAD
2024MBA
LUMS
2011BSc Economics
Tools
Tableau · SQL · R · Python · BI · LLM augmented coding and agent development