8 Media & Marketing figures on the Arabian Business Expat Power List

The Arabian Business has published its Expat Power List 2009, which includes 50 of the most influential expatriates in the Gulf.

Industries:
The top 50 expats came from 14 different industries, the number one industry was Banking & Finance with 10 figures, followed by Media & Marketing with 8, Transportation with 7, Real Estate 4, and Technology also 4, I was more from Real Estate, weird!

Energy came 6th with 3 figures, followed by Retail with 3, Construction & Industry 2, Financial Markets 2, Sport 2, Travel & Hospitality 2, and finally Culture & Society, Education, and Healthcare with one figure each.

Nationalities:
Brits dominated the list with 17 figures, at the second spot came the USA with 8 figures, at the third place came the Aussies with 6, India also contributed with 6 figures to the list.

The list continues with Ireland and France with 3 figures each, following is Germany with 2, and finally Switzerland, Pakistan, Canada, Brazil, and Belgium with one spot each.

Countries:
Majority of the list resides the United Arab Emirates, out of the top fifty, 33 expats live in the UAE, 7 in Bahrain, 5 in Qatar, 2 in Saudi Arabia, i in USA this person is VP at Google and our region is part of his area, 1 in Oman and 1 also in Kuwait.

So, the media and marketing gurus on the Arabian Business Expat Power List are:
2# Tony Burman: Managing Director of Al Jazeera Television, Canadian and lives in Qatar.
10# Martin Newland: Editor of The National newspaper, British and lives in the UAE.
13# Marc Antoine d’Halluin: President and CEO of Showtime Arabia, French and lives in the UAE.
18# Tim Riordan: Group TV Director of MBC Group, British and lives in the UAE.
25# Sunil John: CEO of Asda’a Burson-Marsteller Public Relations, Indian and lives in the UAE.
29# Ashish Joshi: Gulf Bureau Chief at Sky News, British and lives in the UAE.
41# Avishesha Bhojani: Chief Executive of Bates PanGulf, Indian and lives in the UAE.
49# Elias Ashkar: Saatchi & Saatchi CEO, American and lives in the UAE.

The top media and marketing figure lives in Qatar, the rest in the UAE, Al-Jazeera effect? Anyway, I would put Nelson Mattos the Google VP among the media and marketing figures, Google functions as a media rather than just a technology.

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