EP61 - WS Chief Media & Operations Officer - Maz Tannir

Published: March 15, 2022, 8 a.m.

b'Think managing media a country with two national languages is complicated? Try handling media and marketing in India\\u2014a country with over 1.3 billion people, a number of languages & dialects, and a variety of cultural nuances that need to be accounted for.\\n\\nBut that\\u2019s only one of the many pieces that make up the life and career of today\\u2019s guest, Maz Tannir.\\n\\nBorn in Lebanon, Maz\\u2019s father moved his family to Oman in order to escape the war happening at home. \\n\\nAfter high school, Maz moved to Cyprus to study business at Cyprus College. But while most students enter workforce after graduation, Maz relocated to England to study acting. \\n\\nMaz eventually returned to Oman, taking a role at OHI\\u2014an agency now part of the DDB network. From there opportunities to work both agency and client side took him Dubai, Morocco, and India\\u2014to name a few.\\n\\nMaz Tannir stops by to chat about his early life in Lebanon and Oman, studying theatre in the UK, the differences between agency life in Dubai and Oman, emigrating with his family to Canada, and the importance of giving back to the media industry. \\n\\nwww.mediapeople.ca\\nwww.instagram.com/vicgenova/'