Meet Our Team

Our Ambition Is To Make Our Clients Shine & Their Business Thrive

Our Philosophy

We love what we do and we are eager to show it. We treat our clients as our top priority with the ambition to make them shine and most importantly their business thrive. From the power of thought, creativity and practical implementation we create powerful brand experiences and narratives with a mission to become the leading, hybrid management consultancy, communication and creative service provider across the Middle East.

With expertise and knowledge in Real Estate, Hospitality, Retail, Industry and Finance, to mention just a few, our team delivers on every occasion.

Alex Andarakis

Alex Andarakis

Managing Director & Founder

Momentum, energy and reinvention define the approach to Alex’s professional life, and how he has visioned the proposition for Andarakis Advisory Services. Built on a foundation of senior leadership roles with Unilever, Aujan Coca Cola, Emaar Properties and Omniyat, Alex combines the rigor of a seasoned Chief Executive Officer with the creativity of a Marketing / Creative Director to ensure Andarakis delivers to ‘Inspire - Propel - Partner’ with clients and partners alike.


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Emre Pelin

Emre Pelin

Partner

Diversity, drive and depth have been the guiding principles in Emre’s approach to professional life.Having developed himself and career in multiple geographies, business sectors and senior roles, Emre builds on these foundation stones to consistently deliver coherency and detail across business needs; from strategy to engagement, branding to communication that are relevant, actionable and result oriented.


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Pia Mattsson Deloustal

Pia Mattsson Deloustal

Creative Director

Taking strategy and applying imagination to how it can be best amplified is at the core of what Pia brings to the firm on a daily basis. With her strong personal experiences of the world, having spent most of her life living and working abroad (Saudi Arabia, Sweden, France, Finland, Brazil, USA, UAE) and the insights she has gathered from her passion for people, places and environments have given her a visual window for cultural and social trends around the world. Creativity with purpose and meaning is critical, and the capability and passion to conceptualize, develop and deliver creative solutions, which focus on the ‘Right To Win’ for our clients and their brands is at the heart of Pia’s DNA. This added to her core skills indigital design, visual communication, luxury lifestyle, and branding provide the communication energy to bring strategy to life. Her continual learning obsession, which she drives through the team can be best showcased by her linguistic skills, where to date she speaks 7 languages and is busy trying to add, Arabic as the 8th language.

Sajid Shafique

Sajid Shafique

Creative Director

Sajid Shafique was born and raised in the UK and is a Design Communications graduate from the prestigious centre of excellence for design education "The Sheffield College" in Sheffield England, he brings 21years brand strategy and design experience from both London and Dubai markets. Sajid advises board level management and clients to understand the importance of branding and how branding plays a vital role in business on a day to day level, his hand’s on approach to strategic thinking process and in-depth understanding of design and technology help him shape brands into viable business assets. In his spare time Sajid likes to enjoy time with his family, keeping fit and supporting his favourite football team ‘Liverpool FC’.

Nelson Sequeira

Nelson Sequeira

Group Account Director

Having lived and worked within the Middle East for over 30 years, Nelson brings strong local insight, customer engagement and experience from both the agency and client side to the firm. His focus on the execution elements of strategy through in market implementation, market activation and market planning play an important role in our firm being able to deliver from ‘Concept to Execution’. The automotive industry is close to Nelson’s heart, with major roles as both client and agency leader for such high profile brands as Toyota, Lexus, VW, Audi, Skoda, Lamborghini, Maserati, Aston Martin, Nissan, Hyundai, and Mazda. He has also amassed an impressive portfolio of experience in the Retail, Fashion, and Fast Moving Consumer Goods industries. His major assignments for the firm have leveraged on his local market understanding and focused on the establishment of two new, Chinese based real estate companies within the United Arab Emirates, and a Canadian Education facility, which will soon be officially opened in Dubai.

Delphine Cazels

Delphine Cazels

Marketing Consultant

A brand strategist with international exposure and diverse marketing experience across industry sectors such as luxury goods, FMCG, real estate and retail in Europe, the US and the Middle East, Delphine combines strategic marketing with data-driven consumer insights and out of the box creativity. In her spare time, Delphine is an avid fan of the opera, books, and travels and likes to garden plants from all over the world and donate time to charities.

Malek Ghozlan

Malek Ghozlan

Art Director

With over 10 years of experience in Advertising & Branding. Malek is a highly talented and enthusiastic individual who continues to add tremendous value to Andarakis Advisory Services in his current position as an Art Director. Malek is always eager to learn and develop his professional skills and excels in graphic design, branding, Arabic typography and visual conceptualization. A proven ability of developing projects from conception through production to final delivery. Have also worked with multinational as well as local agencies in Dubai.

Tariq Msallam

Tariq Msallam

Senior Graphic & UX/UI Designer

Driven by an unparalleled desire to win, learn and create, Tariq has based his personality and approach to life on the platforms of art and creative thinking. When undertaking the creative development cycle, Tariq believes in a unique approach of delivery in a dual language (Arabic and English). Tariq is interested in software trends and passionate about always bringing solutions via technology.

Kristoffer Rodriguez

Kristoffer Rodriguez

Graphic Designer

Kris is a creative graphic designer holding a decade of experience in digital art, illustration, graphic, music, and animation. Kris is passionate about developing digital and printed Corporate Branding designs and as well as creating unique and astounding 2D and 3D compositions, artworks, and styles. Kris is interested in eccentric designs and through music he expresses his creativity and designs.

Victoria Blinova

Victoria Blinova

Business Consultant

Victoria is passionate about applying consumer insights into strategy work internationally. An avid world explorer, Victoria speaks four languages and has studied and worked lived in Russia, Cyprus, the United States, Australia, Spain, Argentina and the UAE. Interested in the GCC and the issue of business and leadership, Victoria has learned multiple dialects of Arabic and has conducted research on women in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

January Anne C. Besona

January Anne C. Besona

Admin Coordinator

January has been in Dubai for the last 5 years. She is a highly ambitious and self-motivated professional, who joined the company in February 2017. She continues to run the office with great efficiency. With a background in hospitality and aviation, January is in charge of day-to-day office planning, administration tasks as well as meeting and greeting of our clients by phone or in our office as well as supporting Alex and Emre writing correspondence, emailing and scheduling. In her spare time, January enjoys spending time with her friends, shopping and going out. January loves exploring new places and always looks forward to future travels.

 

 

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We are always looking for talented and creative individuals to join us. If you think your experience and skills can enhance our team, please fill in ALL of the fields in the form below and submit your CV.
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            Dubai, United Arab Emirates
+971 4 399 4166

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