Khaled Shalha

Khaled Shalha is an award-winning General Manager and Marketing & Communications leader with over 20 years of experience building business units and brands, scaling businesses, and driving commercial growth across the GCC.

He currently leads Kalima360, the Marketing Communications Consultancy Agency of Bottomline Consultancy, a full-service integrated marketing operation across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Lebanon.

Before Kalima360, Khaled spent a decade as Chief Marketing Officer of King Abdullah Port, Saudi Arabia's first fully private commercial port and a JV between EMAAR and the Public Investment Fund. There, he engineered $2.7M in strategic partnership savings, played a pivotal role in driving double-digit growth, and positioned the port among the world's top 2 shipping liner networks. He also led the port's crisis management through COVID-19, achieving 90% KPI attainment with zero operational disruption.

His agency career includes nearly a decade at Ogilvy Saudi Arabia, where he won 7 of 9 competitive pitches and grew portfolio revenues by 120% in 18 months, managing blue-chip brands including Bupa Arabia, Indomie, Sunbulah Frozen Foods and SNB, among many others.

Khaled operates fluently at board level, with deep expertise in P&L ownership, integrated business leadership, MarTech adoption, and business strategy. He holds a BSc in Business Administration from the Lebanese American University and has completed training with Ogilvy London, as well as executive programs in Dubai, Johannesburg and Manama.