I've spent most of my adult life moving for work — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman, Silicon Valley, Canada, Dubai, and finally back home to Oakville, where my wife Nadia and I call home. Every move taught me the same thing: places work when the people managing them actually listen.
We came to Canada in 2002 looking for somewhere to settle. Oakville is where that happened by 2004. It's a town with the rare combination of small-place warmth and big-place ambition — and that's worth protecting.
Outside of work, I'm a tinkerer. I like understanding how things work — business, politics, technology, engines, motorcycles, and tools. Most weekends mix time with Nadia and our puppy Kiwi, a motorcycle ride on a back road, or a home improvement project I probably underestimated. I read history, politics, business, and technology. I follow Canadian politics. I'm a terrible cook but a good eater.
I've spent my career in customer-facing roles — retail, marketing, and loyalty programs across IKEA and dozens of other brands. The job, simplified: figure out what people actually need to better their lives, then build the systems and the processes that deliver it right.
That same instinct is why I want to serve on Council. I've run for provincial office twice — in 2022 and 2025 — and learned that the work I most want to do happens at the level closest to home. This campaign is non-partisan.
I don't think Council is a stepping stone or a stage. It's a job — a quiet, careful job — that decides whether your kid's intersection has a crosswalk, or if our tax dollars are managed responsibly, or ensure that our park stays open this summer, and how to protect our community's infrastructure from being stretched past capacity. Small things that add up to whether a place feels like home — a safe home.
If elected, I'll bring three things to the table: a willingness to listen before deciding, transparency about why decisions are made (no secret votes or behind-closed-doors deals), and the time to actually do the work. That's it. No party agenda. Just one neighbour, working for the others.
Outside campaign hours, I advise businesses on customer centricity through alihosny.ca and coach a small number of professionals on career transitions, mostly through referrals.