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Management Team

Andrew Bailey

Andrew Bailey

Managing Director

Dr. Othman Al Khoori

Dr. Othman Al Khoori

Senior Partner, MENA

Navin Govind

Navin Govind

Managing Partner

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Message From Cresco Ventures

Leadership search and AI market entry, run by the same people, under the same name.

Cresco Talent Partners places the leaders who run the region's organisations. Cresco AI represents the world's leading AI, robotics and automation companies as they set up here. It's different work, but it comes from the same instinct: build the relationship first, and the results tend to follow.

Why Cresco

We didn't turn up for this moment. We were already here.

Long before "AI market entry" was a category anyone talked about, our people were already building relationships across government, semi-government and private sector leadership in this region. Those are the relationships that actually decide whether a search closes or a market entry happens. It's why organisations come to Cresco for both talent and technology, and why our reach now goes beyond the Gulf into Australia, where we've got two offices.

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Years of regional presence

We've been operating across the Gulf long enough to know how decisions actually get made here, not how the org chart says they get made.

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Government & semi-government access

Direct relationships with the decision-makers inside public and semi-public institutions. Not a cold introduction from a database.

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Private sector mandates

Major stakeholders across defence, finance, energy and technology trust us with their most sensitive searches.

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One firm, both disciplines

Same standard of relationship and follow-through, whether the mandate is a leadership search or an AI market entry.

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Beyond the Gulf

Two offices in Australia mean our reach goes well past the Middle East, for clients who are building across both regions.

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Chosen, not just hired

Organisations keep coming back to Cresco because the relationship outlasts the mandate. That's really the whole model.

Cresco Talent Partners

Talent
Partners

Executive search, leadership advisory, coaching and training. We place the leaders who run the region's organisations and stay close enough afterwards to help them keep growing.

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Cresco AI

Cresco
AI

The commercial arm for AI, robotics and automation companies operating in the region. We open the doors and close the deals a market presence actually depends on.

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Where We Operate

Sectors across the region

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Financial Services

Leadership for banks, asset managers and regulated institutions across the region.

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Fintech

Executive search for the payments, digital banking and lending platforms scaling here.

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Oil & Gas / Energy

Leadership benches for the traditional and transitional energy majors of the region.

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Professional Services

Partners and practice leaders for advisory, legal and consulting firms.

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Retail & Consumer

Commercial and operating leadership for regional and international retail brands.

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Hospitality & Real Estate

Leadership for the hotel groups, developers and destination projects reshaping the region.

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AI, Robotics & Automation

Commercial representation for AI companies who need a foothold in the region that actually works.

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Defence & Technology

Leadership search inside organisations where the margin for a wrong hire carries national consequence.

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Sport & Sports Technology

Building the leadership benches behind the region's fastest-growing sporting economies.

Cresco Ventures

Two Disciplines. Built For This Region.

Whether you're building a leadership team or expanding an AI company's footprint across the Gulf and Australia, Cresco Ventures is set up to get both done properly.

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Growth doesn't wait for the perfect brief.

Whether you're building a leadership team or growing your AI company's footprint across the region, the first conversation starts the same way. Tell us what you're trying to grow.

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