Mohammad Sadiq Zaidi

Partnership Lead @ Verve Management UAE

About

Thanks for stopping by 👋 I’m an Event Specialist who lives for the rush of bringing ideas to life. From curating international sessions and managing global speakers to fine-tuning every logistic detail, I make complex events feel effortless and unforgettable. I’ve led everything from high-level executive workshops to large-scale conferences with 1,500+ attendees — ensuring every guest, partner, and vendor walks away impressed. I believe great events aren’t just managed; they’re engineered through precision, intuition, and seamless coordination. People who work with me often call me an operational wizard — the kind of person who can spot cracks in the system before they appear. I take chaos, structure it, and turn it into flow. When I’m not orchestrating events, you’ll probably find me testing new perfumes, geeking out over cars, strumming my guitar, or practicing martial arts — a mix that keeps my creativity sharp and my focus grounded. Thanks for visiting my corner of LinkedIn — always happy to connect, collaborate, or talk about how to make the next big event unforgettable. 🚀

Country

United Arab Emirates

City

Dubai

Industry

Events Services

Skill

Strategic Partnerships, Stakeholder Engagement, Sponsorship, Brand comunication, Event Coordination, Speaker Management, Collaborative Problem Solving, Negotiation, Teamwork, Executing Events, Site Operations, Events, Exhibitions, Conferences, Exhibition Management, Conference Organization, Conference Production, Event Production, Writing, Special Events Coordination

Experience

Partnership Lead

Verve Management UAE

2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

I lead partnerships and sponsorship acquisition across high-level regional summits. I also support go-to-market research initiatives and manage corporate communications strategies for the organization. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Event Location ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Indonesia Cloud & Digital Infrastructure Summit 2026 | Jakarta, Indonesia 4th Middle East ProcureTech & Supply Chain Summit 2026 | Dubai, UAE 5th Asia ProcureTech & Supply Chain Summit 2026 | Singapore HSE Week Qatar 2026 | Doha, Qatar Women Leaders Summit Africa 2026 | Casablanca, Morocco ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My scope includes B2B relationship management, strategic outreach, commercial negotiations, brand positioning, and driving sponsorship ROI for global clients.

Event Specialist

MCI Middle East

2023-2 - 2025-11 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Led logistics and coordination for overseas sessions and workshops, working closely with international speakers and aligning with overall event schedules. • Oversaw registration, managed delegate experience, and addressed on-site inquiries to ensure smooth event execution. • Coordinated pre-event setup, technical checks, and vendor alignment for seamless delivery. • Handled speaker management, live troubleshooting, and on-ground flow during events. • Conducted post-event tasks including feedback collection, vendor settlements, and reporting for future improvements.

On Site Coordinator

Kaizen Events L.L.C

2024-10 - 2025-6 · 9 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Handled check-in and badges for 200–1,500+ guests per event • Coordinated with 5–10 AV and venue teams to set up on time • Managed 15–30 speakers, keeping sessions on schedule • Solved multiple onsite issues quickly during each event • Worked with 10+ vendors and staff to keep things running smoothly