Shant Oknayan is a Vice President of Global Business Solutions at ByteDance and its leading short-form video platform TikTok, with a mission to lead the organization’s business partnerships and operations across multiple regions.
With over two decades’ experience in leading businesses and teams – with expertise in digital and investment strategies for government and private entities – Shant has a proven track record of successfully growing digital platforms. Shant previously held executive positions at Facebook (now Meta) and Google across the Middle East and Africa, and is an alum of Booz&Company (now Strategy &) and Merrill Lynch.
Shant is actively involved in the advisory and start-up ecosystem, as the founding Chairman and CEO of GlamBox (a regional beauty ecommerce), as an advisor to Saudi 2030 Vision program, chairing the Investment Committee at Iliad Partners (a MENA VC firm) and as a board member of MMA in Asia-Pacific.
Shant holds double Masters degrees: a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters of Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London.