Dynamic duos: Ayaan Mohamud and Helena Barroso Zarco
Impact.com’s marketing director APAC Ayaan Mohamud and customer success director APAC Helena Barroso Zarco discuss their instant connection that began with rooftop drinks in Sydney.
In this new column, Mumbrella will each month ask two members of the same organisation that share a professional and personal affiliation, to share with readers the importance of workplace relationships in an increasingly work-from-home world.
Ayaan Mohamud: I met Helena at rooftop drinks in Martin Place in September 2019. She’d only been in Australia for two months and had worked in London with a good friend of mine. She brought Helena along for our routine Friday night drinks and we haven’t stopped talking since. My first impressions were that she was charismatic, funny, smart and easy to talk to.
I can’t put my finger on why we instantly gelled. Perhaps because we’re both immigrants (I’m German and Helena is Spanish), perhaps because we both lived in London for a long time, perhaps because we have so many common interests like travel, live music, dancing and exercise – all I know is that it just worked as a friendship from day one.
