Hussein M. Dajani

Chief Marketing and Customer Centricity Officer

Hussein M. Dajani

Chief Marketing and Customer Centricity Officer

During his 24+years career, Hussein has been able to demonstrate astute leadership, career growth, corporate success, strategic thinking as well as building a personal brand – all of which were achieved by working for great companies & with great talents.

Over the past few years, Hussein has worked with the likes of WPP & Publicis overseeing some of their largest regional clients & was fortunate enough to be recognized as a high potential leader by WPP being awarded the renowned ‘WPP Young High Potential Leaders' Award, as well as receiving regional awards from the likes of Gulf Marketing Review, which identified him as one of the 40 top marketing professionals in the region, being voted by the Huffington Post as among the 10 people changing the marcomm landscape in the MENA region, voted as being among the top 200 CX leaders globally to watch in 2021 & 2022, BTX Top Executive Award 2021, BIZZNXT AWARDS 2022, CX Professional of the year 2022, CX Hall of Fame 2023, & lately top 50 Global CX Influencers to follow in 2024.

Hussein also sits on the Advisory Board of CMO Council Middle East.

Since working on the agency side, Hussein has transitioned to client side & worked with some fantastic brands, that are crossing the digital & experience divide, in senior leadership roles.

Hussein's core expertise lies in the Digital Marketing & Tech space, evolving over the years from a pure player marketeer. Starting his career with some of the worlds' greatest communication companies, prior to joining Deloitte Digital as a Partner & CMO for the Advertising, Marketing, Content, CX, & Commerce market offering & Head of ACNE ME (a Deloitte Digital business), Hussein was the GM for Digital & CX Transformation with Nissan Motor Co. for Africa, Middle East, India, Turkey, & Oceania overseeing some of the most dramatic customer transformations the company has had to go through in recent times. His contribution to the organization was recognized by senior leadership & lead him to winning the AMIEO Chairperson Nissan Way Award in July 2021.

At present, Hussein is the Group CMO of Petromin Corporation spearheading the marketing efforts of the organization & its 8 business verticals in KSA & India.

  • Education
    • Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania