James Douglas Middle East (JDME), part of EMA Partners India, a recently listed global executive search network present in 45+ countries, has appointed Faiz Nomani as Regional Director. He will lead the firm’s growth and client partnerships across the GCC and wider MENA region.
JDME specializes in professional search and leadership advisory, with a sharp focus on Senior leadership, and specialist mandates across sectors such as banking and financial services, technology, industrials and logistics, real estate, consumer markets, and family offices. The firm is also spearheading Emiratization mandates and expanding into new practice areas aligned with evolving client demands.
Faiz brings nearly two decades of experience in building high-performing teams, scaling talent solutions, and delivering strategic mandates across the GCC and Asia. He has held leadership roles at TASC Outsourcing, Sharpsell.ai, Xpheno, Kelly Services & Ma Foi Randstad, where he played a pivotal role in enterprise workforce solutions and practice development.
His appointment reflects EMA Partners India’s broader vision of developing a fully integrated global talent ecosystem that brings together executive search through EMA, leadership hiring and professional search through JDME, and AI-powered RPO and contingent workforce solutions through James Douglas Global. Faiz’s client-first mindset, market insight, and leadership experience position him to accelerate JDME’s impact across the region.