Hi there, welcome to my world Top 3% marketing talent worldwide · vetted by Toptal

Full-stackmarketingexpert.

  • Marketing Strategist
  • Content Copywriter
  • Graphic Designer & Video Editor
  • Performance Marketer
  • Website Designer & Builder
  • PR Expert
  • Offline Marketing Expert

I'm Nour, a marketer and growth expert working across MENA and the US. In my spare time I'm also an artist and a home cook.

Nour Essam smiling on a balcony with mountains behind her
Companies & organizations I've worked with
  • OneCommerce
  • DIKOCHI
  • Fotopia
  • Shemsi
  • Taager
  • Jawda
  • Flextock
  • bites
  • Plan International
  • Terre des Hommes
  • AIESEC
My company

We don't just do digital transformation, we make it make sense.

I co-founded OxtonGrid, a UAE-based digital transformation partner, and lead it as CMO. We help SMEs and mid-market businesses choose, implement and get real value from the right tools, with zero nonsense: no unnecessary software, no hidden costs and no overbuilt systems.

Visit oxtongrid.com
What we do
  • Digital transformation consultancyStrategy-led, practical and scalable
  • ERP implementationOdoo · Zoho
  • E-commerceShopify · WooCommerce
  • Customer support platformsZendesk · Freshworks · ZIWO

TOP 3% TALENT

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Recognition

Among the top 3% of marketing talent in the world

Toptal, the global network of elite freelance talent, accepts only the top 3% of the professionals who apply. I passed its rigorous screening of expertise, communication and real-world project work, and I'm now one of its vetted marketing experts.

Through Toptal I partner with companies across MENA and the US, including:

  • Deniz Moda IQPaid Ads & CRO Expert · 2026
  • Kairosa Design LLCWebsite and Social Media Manager · 2025 – 2026
  • Mishary Alyahya GroupMarketing Expert · 2025
  • Hope Flower Farm Winery LLCShopify Developer · 2024 – 2025
From spore to mushroom

How I grow brands

Mushrooms grow from an invisible network underground before they ever break the surface. Brands do too.

  1. 01 · Spore

    Strategy

    Every brand starts small. I dig into the market, the audience and the numbers to find the idea worth planting.

  2. 02 · Mycelium

    Foundations

    Before anything shows above ground, I build the network underneath: positioning, brand, website, content and the systems that connect them.

  3. 03 · Sprout

    Launch

    Then it breaks through. Campaigns, launches, partnerships and PR that get the brand seen in the right places.

  4. 04 · Mushroom

    Growth

    Finally it flourishes. I measure, optimise and scale what works, so growth keeps coming season after season.

Tap to change my colour · hold to make me grow

A small obsession

Why mushrooms?

If you've spotted little mushrooms growing all over this site, that's no accident. I'm a bit obsessed with them.

There's something magical about the way mushrooms grow. They don't wait for perfect conditions. They push up through the dark, in damp corners and on fallen wood, in places where almost nothing else can survive. They ask for very little care, and yet they grow into something beautiful and genuinely useful: they feed us, heal us and bring the forest floor back to life.

I relate to that. I don't need perfect conditions to grow either. Give me a difficult environment, a little room and some time, and I'll find a way to turn it into something beautiful and useful.

Let's plant something

Have a brand to grow?

Book a call, get in touch on whichever channel suits you, or hire me through Toptal.