45. Ian Ohan - GCC Area Developer / Owner, N_K_D Pizza
Bite-sized facts:
Restaurants under remit: 5
Size of team: 220
Number of years in the middle east: 15
Nationality: Canadian
After years of tired pizza brands available to the masses, Ian Ohan saw a gap in the market and started the local franchise of the US brand Naked Pizza as N_K_D Pizza — rebranded for Middle East sentiments — in January 2011. Since then he’s never looked back.
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Using social media like Twitter and Facebook to engage with the socially active adults in the region, the brand’s motorbikes can be seen zipping all over the city.
In the last 12 months, he has worked with his 220 staff to grow and develop the brand. In addition, Ohan toiled on the development of an NKD Pizza product that is now on board Emirates Airlines.
Ohan’s career in hospitality started with a hospitality degree during which he worked with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts for four years.
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