mahmoud safadi

I've been selling since I was 18. It started in luxury retail — Puma, then Factory 54, where I worked across Givenchy, Prada and Amiri. That's where I learned to read someone in the first thirty seconds and close without pushing. One customer there spent $12,000 and disappeared. Months later I remembered his wife was into Pilates, sent him a new women's collection, and he came back and spent another $5,000. That's how I think about sales — find the one thing that matters to the person and lead with that.

Alongside that I built my own production business from scratch. Six years, no brand, no agency, no referrals to start. I found every client myself through cold outreach, negotiated my own pricing, and delivered the work. Music production and sound engineering, trained at Abbey Road Institute in Paris. I released an album that reached over 75,000 streams.

I've lived and worked in Rome and Paris, and reached C1 Italian within a year of moving. I work in Arabic, English and Italian, which has let me build clients across three very different markets.

What I'm looking for now is a sales or business development role with structure behind it — a team, targets, and coaching. I've done six years without any of that and I know what I could do with it. I'm comfortable with cold outreach, remote work, and being measured on results rather than hours.

I use AI daily in my own work, from content and web building to trading analysis. I'm relocating to Finland shortly and available across European, US and Gulf hours.