Hind Seddiqi, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
While her day-to-day role involves marketing and strategy for the family business, which has its roots as a watch retailer and recently diversified into retail, it is as the woman behind Dubai Watch Week that she has made an industry-transforming impact.
Launched only in 2015, the event has succeeded in drawing the leading talents of watchmaking to converge in the Middle East for the unique non-commercially driven networking event.
Her idea for Dubai Watch Week came about after positive feedback from clients who had the opportunity to visit watch factories in Switzerland.
In order to bring the slightly secretive world of fine watchmaking alive to those in the region, it was decided to instead invite its watchmakers and leaders to Dubai.
Traditionally a male-dominated industry, Seddiqi’s alternative vision for a platform that focuses on sharing stories, connecting a community and exchanging knowledge is nothing short of ground-breaking and has fast become one of the watchmaking world’s most anticipated events.
At the most recent event, one of the panel discussions looked at whether women need to express their power differently to men – a superficially non-horological discussion topic, but one that asked tough questions about male-dominated industries.
