Built inside capital
The work starts with how LPs, partners, founders, regulators, and journalists read a firm—not an agency template.
About Narrative One
Communications counsel shaped inside the institutions it now advises.
Narrative One was founded in Dubai to give MENA’s investment firms and technology founders senior counsel, hands-on execution, and an operating system built for the way capital moves.
TAREK FOUAD · FOUNDER AND CEO
17 years across investing, operations, and communications.
Tarek has led communications inside an alternative investment firm, worked in Mubadala’s venture capital team, and built ecosystem programmes across Techstars, Gotham’s defence accelerator, Plug and Play, and Hub71.
At Shorooq, he built communications across venture capital, private credit, private equity, managed mandates, portfolio milestones, partner thought leadership, and LP-facing moments.
Forbes Middle East recognised his communications leadership in 2026. Narrative One turns that institutional experience into a focused advisory model for firms across MENA.
Recognition
Most Influential CMO 2026
Named among the most influential CMOs in the region.
Best In House Comms Team 2025
Named Best In-House Comms Team by the Public Relations and Communications Association — MENA.
The practice
Senior from strategy through execution.
English and Arabic
Both languages are developed natively and reviewed against the same facts, message system, and editorial standard.
Measured weekly
Strategy remains live through Narrative Alpha, where monitoring and market intelligence feed the next week’s plan.
Deliberately focused
The partner-led model keeps context with the person advising the firm instead of handing it down through layers.
Start with the narrative
Before your next close, raise, or announcement.
Thirty minutes with Tarek. We review how your firm reads today and give you three specific fixes, whether or not we work together.
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