HATCH leadership at work in the Dubai office
Managing Director

Muna Farid

Muna has spent her career on the inside of the institutions HATCH now advises. She was on the founding execution team of the Dubai International Financial Centre, led the joint venture that created Nasdaq Dubai, and has served as General Counsel and Head of Compliance for three global consumer businesses.

She mentors at the Dubai Future Accelerator, supervising pilot projects between government entities and technology start-ups, and is an active angel investor and member of Bangladesh Angels.

Multisector leadership

  • Senior executive experience across financial services, FMCG, technology, and healthcare
  • Advised enterprises on legal and corporate affairs across the United States, EMEA, and Asia
  • Board management as company secretary

Strategic advisory

  • Go-to-market strategy, product innovation, partnerships, and market entry
  • Distributor management and market entry across geographies and sectors
  • Free zone development and FDI attraction adviser in three international zones
  • Digital transformation, AI roadmaps, AI ethics frameworks and training
  • Smart cities, internet of things, and mobility

Legal and regulatory

  • Corporate law career in New York and Hong Kong, specialising in cross-border mergers and acquisitions
  • General Counsel and Head of Compliance at Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, and Johnson & Johnson
  • End-to-end capital markets licensing, listing, product design, and execution
  • Corporate governance policy development
  • Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships