Partner

jad hajj

Partner - Strategy& (Formerly Booz & Co)

Middle East

Bio

Jad Hajj is a Partner with Strategy& and the leader of the firm’s Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Digital practice in the Middle East. He specializes in helping telecom operators and technology firms develop winning strategies and build distinctive capabilities. He has particular expertise in corporate strategy, B2B digitization, as well as innovation and business development. In addition to his client work, Jad has authored multiple firm reports including: - Partnering up: How telecom operators can expand their partner channel for IT/digital growth in B2B - Building the future of public-sector digital services: The invisible government - Turning bits into dollars: The potential of the data economy in the GCC - Telecom operators in the age of drones: Preparing for the new era - Coherent linkages: How to foster innovation-based economies in the Gulf Cooperation Council - Mission critical: How GCC telecom operators can enable public safety communications - Winning in the digitization space: Differentiating capabilities for MENA telecom operators His telecom experience began at Verizon in the U.S. where he worked for five years before joining the firm in 2005 as an Associate. In 2008 he took a 12-month sabbatical to work for a regional media and technology park as head of strategic planning. Jad re-joined the firm in 2010 as a Manager. He holds a B.S. in engineering from the American University of Beirut, a M.S. in engineering from the University of Texas, and an MBA from the London Business School. 

The global market is defined by its complexity and fluidity. To shape your future you need to make bold moves, but, of course, that takes time. And money. And people. That’s where we come in. Strategy& takes a bold and pragmatic approach to strategy. We help you see not only where you need to go, but also the choices you’ll need to make to get there, so you can forge a clear path from today’s potential to tomorrow’s promise. As the only at-scale strategy business that’s part of a global network with deep and broad capabilities expertise, we combine our strategic foresight with the experience of frontline teams across PwC to transform perspective into pragmatism, and ambition into action. The result is a strategy process powerful enough to capture possibilities that have yet to be imagined, while practical enough to ensure effective delivery. It’s the strategy that gets an organization through the changes of today and drives results that redefine tomorrow. It’s the strategy that turns vision into reality.