Adnan Sarwar, as Marketing Director, has worked for some of the biggest and best brands in the world, HULT University, Victoria and Albert Museum, Merrill Lynch, Scotiabank, Hudson's Bay Company, UBC, University Canada West, and UC Riverside. An entrepreneur across financial services and AI startups, he believes marketing in the Age of AI must be more human, and plans to use his global network to build the world's best brands.
Adnan Sarwar, as Marketing Director, has worked for some of the biggest and best brands in the world.
His background spans HULT University as a Teaching Assistant for all Marketing Professors; the Victoria and Albert Museum as a Marketing Executive; Merrill Lynch Bank in Investment Banking; Scotiabank as a Senior Personal Banker; and Hudson's Bay Company as Sales and Marketing Department Head.
In academia, Adnan has served as a Part-Time Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Full-Time Professor at University Canada West. He is also an Advisory Board Member for the University of California, Riverside's Design Thinking Program.
As an entrepreneur, he has led marketing for financial services and AI startups, combining global institutional experience with hands-on company-building.
In order to lead a Branding Agency specializing in Marketing, one has to prove their mettle in the hyper-competitive local and global economy, and in the Age of AI, marketing needs to be MORE HUMAN. Adnan plans to utilize his vast local and global networks to build the world's best brands, now and forever.
In depth
A closer look at Adnan Sarwar, BSc, MBA's role, working philosophy, experience, and contribution to evolve.
Adnan Sarwar, BSc, MBA works at evolve as a marketing director, a role that begins long before execution: shaping the brief, bringing specialist judgment into the room early, and protecting the quality of the idea all the way through delivery.
Adnan's practice brings together ai-native marketing strategy and adoption, global brand marketing and positioning, financial services and fintech go-to-market, and a broader set of connected capabilities. This range makes the work more integrated: strategic decisions inform execution, and execution continuously sharpens the strategy.
That perspective is grounded in work spanning marketing director, evolve; teaching assistant, hult university (marketing professors); marketing executive, victoria and albert museum. At evolve, that experience is applied collaboratively across strategy, creative, production, technology, and client service.
26,000+ LinkedIn followers as "The Business Monk". Faculty voice on AI, entrepreneurship, and future-of-work. Advisory board member for UC Riverside's Design Thinking Program. These are not isolated accomplishments; they shape how Adnan approaches the next brief, builds trust with collaborators, and raises the standard of the finished work.
