Sabah Naqushbandi
VP Marketing, Shark Ninja, Former Managing Director, The Outnet
Sabah Naqushbandi is a business and marketing leader with more than 20 years' experience across luxury, fashion, beauty and media.
Most recently, she was Managing Director of THE OUTNET, where she led a comprehensive business transformation, repositioning the brand for the modern luxury consumer and returning it to double-digit growth and profitability. She developed the investment case, representing the business to prospective buyers and investors, ultimately leading to its successful sale as a standalone business.
Before that, Sabah spent over a decade as Global Marketing Director at MR PORTER, helping grow it from a start-up into one of the world's leading men's luxury platforms. Her work there included launching the men's mental health initiative Health In Mind, the Mr P. own-label brand, and Kingsman, the world's first shoppable film.
Earlier in her career, Sabah held senior global roles at EMI Music and Procter & Gamble. At EMI, she led the global rollout of a new approach to launching artists, designed to diversify revenue streams and improve success rates following the industry's digital disruption. At P&G Prestige, her work ranged from building celebrity fragrance businesses from scratch to integrating and scaling newly acquired beauty and grooming brands.
Sabah is a Fellow and Board Member of The Marketing Society, a Fellow of The Marketing Academy and a long-standing judge for The Marketing Society Awards. She is also a mother to two daughters, the role that has shaped her most.
