Denise Yamine
General Manager
Denise is a communications expert with more than 16 years of experience in the Middle East, specialising in integrated communications, strategic operations and client relations. She has a track record of transforming agency operations and client servicing models, helping organisations move from traditional, siloed structures to integrated approaches that bring together strategy, creative, PR, social media, digital, production and technology. Her work has won awards from the Middle East PR Association (MEPRA), PRWeek Global, CIPR, the Lisbon International Advertising Festival and the Stevie Awards Middle East.
She is a trainer at Al Jazeera Media Institute, an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University in Qatar and a member of MEPRA's Strategy Board. Fluent in Arabic, English and French, she holds a master's degree in Media and Communication from the Lebanese University in Beirut. Before moving to Qatar in 2012, she worked as a journalist with the Lebanese Arabic dailies Assafir and Albalad, including field investigations and reporting.
At Grey Doha she became Director of Operations, driving operational excellence and keeping teams aligned with business and creative goals. She then launched Pin&Notch, part of the Grey Doha group. As General Manager, she leads the agency's business growth and operations in Qatar, with affiliations in the UAE, KSA and Beirut.
