Nathalie Roos, former CEO of Lipton Teas and Infusions and senior L’Oréal executive, is a transformational business leader with 35+ years of global experience in consumer goods, food and beauty. She champions sustainable growth, brand reinvention, and inclusive leadership across industries.

Khaled is a pragmatic business leader with a 30-year career in marketing, branding, public affairs and communications in Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa region.

He is currently the CEO and Founding Partner of Tough Love Advisors.

His career started in advertising and continued into international sales, marketing and branding in FMCG (B2C) and the food packaging industry (B2B), in companies such as The Coca-Cola Company and Tetra Pak.

Khaled is an internationally recognised keynote speaker and author (This Tickles Me and Made With Tough Love).

He is the Chairman and Board Member of The Marketing Society, UAE. He is also an active investor in technology, beverages, advisory, hospitality, sports marketing and banking.

Khaled has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University, Canada and has completed several executive leadership programmes at Ashridge in the UK, IMD in Switzerland and at Harvard Business School in the USA.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Khaled is a Canadian citizen who has lived in 15 countries and travelled to over 55 other countries. Since 2002 he calls Dubai home.

Hamza Jawaid is the co-founder of Bazaar Technologies, Pakistan’s leading e-commerce and financial services platform with operations across 10+ cities. Since launching in 2020, Bazaar has built a digital ecosystem that empowers consumers and businesses to access everyday low pricing across 30+ product categories with next day delivery and seamless payment solutions—all through a simple mobile app.

Under Hamza’s leadership, Bazaar has become one of Pakistan’s most well-funded startups, raising $100 million in funding to-date. The company continues to expand across e-commerce and digital payments, acquiring Keenu in 2025 to become Pakistan’s first integrated e-commerce and payments platform.

The company has also gained global recognition. In 2022, Bazaar became part of the yearly curriculum at Harvard Business School as a case study and was selected as the first startup from Pakistan to join the Endeavor global community.

Before founding Bazaar, Hamza studied at London School of Economics, then pursued consulting at McKinsey and Company in the Middle East, advising global companies on growth and digital transformation, particularly in retail and tech.