Hello, I’m

Jad Zoghaib

I’m a strategy and analytics professional based in Barcelona, with four years of management consulting across the Middle East and North Africa in growth strategy, market entry, operational improvement and investment analysis.

I’m currently finishing an MSc in Business Analytics at ESADE, where I’ve built data and AI products end to end, from process-intelligence consoles to LLM pipelines. I’ve worked across energy, industrials, TMT, healthcare, fintech, entertainment and consumer sectors.

Jad Zoghaib
0Years consulting
0Systems built
0Sectors
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Selected work

Twenty systems across ten sectors. Each one starts from a decision an operator is accountable for and ends at something they can run. Featured is the short list; switch to All for the full set, or filter by sector. A green badge opens instantly; an amber one sleeps on a free tier, so the first click wakes it (up to a minute).

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Experience

Growth strategy, market entry, operational improvement and investment analysis, mostly in the Gulf and the Levant. Click any role to open it.

180 Degrees Consulting Barcelona

2025 – 2026
Analytics Team Lead
Barcelona, Spain · concurrent with the MSc
Pro bonoESGLLM pipelines
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  • Designed and delivered a supplier-risk platform for a client: an LLM scoring pipeline over global news API ingestion, shipped as a REST API they could integrate directly.
  • Rebuilt the Value Balancing Alliance's VBA-based ESG value-factor calculator: validated KPIs against source and input data, and restructured output aggregation so the tool was actually usable by the teams meant to adopt it.
  • Led the analytics team across engagements, covering scoping, delivery and handover.

Alamiya Filmed Entertainment

Mar 2024 – May 2025
Strategy Associate
Dubai, UAE
EntertainmentInvestment analysisProcess miningAutomation
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$15M operations budget modeled · $5–60M production investments evaluated
  • Led data-driven strategy for a UAE entertainment group, combining market analysis, financial modeling and BI dashboards behind multi-million-dollar content and investment decisions.
  • Built scenario-based ROI and synergy models for production budgets in the $5–60M range, turning green-light calls into comparable cases.
  • Ran a $15M operations budget through integrated Excel/VBA simulation models, stress-testing capital allocation across productions and partnerships.
  • Co-designed the data infrastructure with in-house data scientists and assembled it into Qlik frameworks feeding box-office prediction models for Saudi and the wider MENA market.
  • Mapped the filmmaking lifecycle end to end (ideation to post-release) as a process-mining initiative documenting owners, handoffs and bottlenecks, then moved the organization onto Wrike for standardized workflow.
  • Automated data ingestion, process tagging and investment-pipeline tracking with n8n workflows, cutting manual reporting and making project status visible.

Euromena Consulting

Mar 2022 – Mar 2024
Consultant
Beirut, Lebanon
TMTEnergyM&AMarket entry
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SAR 650M in capital optimization delivered · 20+ M&A targets screened
  • TMT: Led an OpEx audit and reorganization across a 400-person division at a major Saudi telecom operator, restructuring labor, IT and network service contracts to deliver SAR 650 million in capital optimization within the Technology division.
  • TMT: Ran ecosystem mapping, stakeholder analysis and competitive landscape assessment for a leading big-tech client to shape a metaverse market-entry strategy for MENA.
  • Energy: Developed the go-to-market strategy for a top-tier French energy company, sizing cogeneration demand and identifying growth pockets across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.
  • Facilities Management: Ran due diligence on a GCC M&A transaction, covering financial analysis and risk evaluation across 20+ targets in FM, EPC, MEP and district cooling.

PFC-International

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022
Business Analyst
Beirut, Lebanon
ManufacturingHealthcareFeasibilityDCF
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5+ industrial ventures ($5–15M each) taken from idea to investable case
  • Manufacturing: Led feasibility studies for 5+ Qatar-based industrial ventures in the $5–15M range (PVC panels, precast cement, lubricants), running a 3-person team through market, technical and financial due diligence.
  • Built DCF models across multiple scenarios (NPV, IRR and payback) as the basis for go/no-go recommendations.
  • Healthcare: Led the feasibility study for a hospital in Doha, Qatar, providing the financial and operational case that secured funding.
  • Healthcare: Designed the governance framework and operating structure for a mental-health facility in Lebanon, covering process optimization and regulatory compliance against patient-safety standards.

Lebanese Ministry of Economy & Trade

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020
Research Analyst
Beirut, Lebanon
Public sectorPolicyEconomics
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  • Conducted policy research on fiscal and monetary measures and private-sector dynamics, benchmarking global recovery models against the Lebanese context.
  • Assessed feasibility and political risk for a proposed special economic zone in Tripoli.
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Capabilities

Two toolkits. Deployment work needs both: the engineering to build the system, and the commercial fluency to know which decision it has to serve.

Languages & data

  • Python
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • R
  • SQL
  • DuckDB
  • MongoDB
  • TypeScript

Machine learning

  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • Recommender systems
  • Feature engineering
  • Model evaluation

Generative AI

  • LLM application design
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
  • LangGraph
  • Multi-agent workflows
  • Token-cost optimization
  • Evaluation & guardrails

Cloud & MLOps

  • AWS SageMaker
  • S3 · Lambda · EC2
  • ECS / Fargate
  • Docker
  • FastAPI
  • Streamlit
  • REST API design

Automation & process

  • n8n orchestration
  • Process mining
  • Workflow design
  • Human-in-the-loop gates
  • Data pipelines
  • API integration

Visualization & BI

  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Qlik
  • Plotly
  • React
  • Recharts
  • Dashboard design

Strategy & finance

  • DCF · NPV · IRR
  • Financial modeling
  • Market entry
  • Due diligence
  • Feasibility studies
  • Scenario analysis
  • Excel / VBA

Delivery

  • Agile
  • Product management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Client delivery
  • Team leadership
  • Git
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Education

Economics first, then analytics, with the projects that came out of each.

ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University

Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
MSc in Business Analytics
Barcelona, Spain · Grade 9.1 / 10
CapstoneThesisIIM Bangalore
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  • Capstone: Banc Sabadell. An offline simulation pitting XGBoost credit-scoring models against LLM-based decisioning across six experimental approaches (RAG prompting, prompt engineering, blended unstructured-data injection, and multi-LLM benchmarking with token-cost optimization), evaluated on AUC/F1, stability and explainability trade-offs under regulatory constraint. Code ↗
  • MSc thesis. A platform that finds clinical genetic test interpretations that have gone stale, integrating AlphaFold, AlphaMissense, ClinVar, Ensembl VEP and Open Targets into a time-versioned Python/DuckDB architecture that reconstructs historical evidence on demand. Covered end-to-end implementation planning, commercialization and a seven-year financial model. Live console ↗
  • Study tour: IIM Bangalore. The Science of Data-Driven Decision Making.
  • Coursework. Cloud Computing · Artificial Intelligence · Python · R · Digital Product Management · Fintech · Prototyping with Data and AI · Data Science in Finance · Recommender Systems · Agile Methodologies

Lebanese American University

Aug 2016 – Dec 2019
BSc in Economics
Beirut, Lebanon · Grade 3.4 / 4
EconometricsOperations research
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  • Coursework. Operations Research · Stochastic Models · Econometrics · Monetary Theory · International Economics · Economics of Organizations & Management · Economic Development · Political Economy · Calculus & Differential Equations
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About

Four years on the advisory side (feasibility studies, OpEx audits, market entry, due diligence) across the Gulf and the Levant. The engagements ended the same way each time: a recommendation, a model handed over, and a client left to implement it with whatever tooling they already had. The analysis was rarely the constraint. The distance between the analysis and the operation was.

The MSc at ESADE was the move to close that distance. I build the systems now: process-intelligence consoles, triage pipelines, scoring engines with human review gates. The consulting years are what make them usable, because I already know what the operator asks on the second screen.

Every system in the work section starts from a decision somebody is accountable for: which variant to re-review, which supplier to escalate, which batch failed and why, which engineer to staff. The model is never the deliverable. The decision is.

Based in
Barcelona, Spain · Spanish work permit
Nationalities
Venezuelan & Lebanese
Languages
ArabicNative
EnglishFluent
FrenchFluent
SpanishAdvanced
Sectors worked
Energy · Industrials · TMT · Healthcare · Fintech · Entertainment · Consumer · Public sector
Athletics
Rugby · capped for Lebanon · international tournaments