Leadership Insights
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Joining Gulf Family Businesses: What Executives Should Know
08/07/2025
Mark Houghton
Managing Partner
mark.houghton@odgers.com
Locations
| Dubai | +971 4 362 1830 |
Languages
| English |
Mark Houghton is the Managing Partner of Odgers in the Middle East and specialises in Board level and Senior Executive Searches across the region.
He has completed assignments across many sectors but the greatest emphasis has been in Technology, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Industrial.
Before joining Odgers he ran the Executive Search practice for a leading international search and selection firm in the Middle East. Prior to that he was one of the founders of their Executive Search business in the UK and ran the TMT Practice. He started his career working for the Daily Telegraph in London. Mark holds a degree in Classics from the University of Wales Lampeter.
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