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Personal branding · Saudi Arabia · Egypt · GCC
We position founders, executives and experts where reputation is really built: in the room first, then online.
Our approach
We start on the ground and let online amplify it. Choose a stage.
We look at the rooms you walk into: boardrooms, conferences, investor meetings, introductions. We shape how you are presented and remembered there.
Once the story is clear, we put it on the record: press, interviews, profiles and credible mentions that a search or an investor will find.
LinkedIn, video and content that sound like you, not like an agency. Online follows the reputation you earn in the room, so it stays consistent and human.
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Every engagement starts under an NDA. We share what changed, never who it changed for.
We positioned the founders before they went to market. Investors and partners judge the founders first, and that fed into how the company was valued.
Senior managers respected inside the industry but invisible outside it. We made them the visible faces of the business, in the room and online, and the company’s results followed.
Sharp consultants whose work travelled only by introduction. They are now recognised public figures, with networks far wider than the ones they started with.
A physician whose expertise was known to few. We built her message around her values and made it visible, within the rules her profession sets.
A sustainability leader with no public profile. We started with what she stands for, then built her presence on the ground and online.
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Rise Personal is not a solo practice. Each client gets specialists working together, and the support of a group of companies that share owners, partners, teams and projects.
Archetype, story and message, built from who you are and where you want to be known.
Scripts, visuals and video in your voice, written for each platform and its rules.
The channels, rhythm and paid reach that put the right people in front of you.
Measurement, dashboards and digital products, with our technology sister company.
Our group
DRP9 TechApps, platforms and AI agents for founders and large organisations.
La7maAn online fresh-meat store in Egypt, with delivery and ritual-slaughter orders.
WAI-SA strategic partner for business and individual growth, with innovative, personalised solutions.
DRP9A creator marketplace for fashion and prints, with merch made on demand.
BnsightsInnovation, future foresight and government excellence consulting, with its own software.
Imolty.aiAn AI concierge for rental properties, live in Spain and Portugal.
Uniek AIAn AI product engine that helps startups go from idea to product.
Wijhat TravelSaudi Arabia tourism and travel: experiences, Umrah and Hajj packages, and business travel.Teams across the UAE, Egypt and Portugal. Apps and marketplaces, consulting, AI and brand, working as one.
Leadership
Founder of Rise Personal, leading the team and the group behind it. He has been doing this since he was a child, long before it had a name. Passion first, then the experts, then a process that has been tried many times and worked.
As a child, Sawaf already noticed what made a person stand out, and he helped people be seen for it. He did not know it was personal branding. It was simply what he loved doing.
Sawaf graduated from the sculpture department and worked as an interior engineer. His selling point was sculpture: the ability to imagine something and create it from nothing. Before he changed careers, he also made many statues and sculptures across Egypt.
Shaping something raw until people stop and look taught him a lasting lesson. The same eye for form and presence now goes into how people are seen.
He moved into marketing and business development. He worked with public-sector clients through Bnsights, and on large private-sector projects for high-end clients. He learned how companies win trust, how deals are made, and why people buy from people long before they buy from brands.
He never did it alone. He and his partners complete the puzzle together, each bringing what the others lack.
Then it became clear: what he had always done was personal branding. And it was impressive what it could do. Supporting people to unleash their potential changed their position and their income. He turned his passion into his work.
He learned from the experts, then tested what he learned with real clients, again and again. What began as passion and talent became a story and a process: frameworks that were tried many times, and they worked.
Where we work
Questions
Rise Personal is a personal branding agency that positions founders, executives and experts so the right people know and trust them. We start in the room, with speaking, introductions and a clear story, then put it on the record and online.
Yes. We work with leaders, founders and teams in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and across the GCC, and with clients in Europe. We work remotely from Dubai and do not operate an office in Saudi Arabia or Egypt.
It is a marketing approach built on people rather than logos or products, because people trust people. The most reliable brand a company has is the visible reputation of the people who lead it.
Yes. We sign an NDA before we hear the brief, and we never name a client, quote them or show their work without their written approval.
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