The zany Shadi “Mad Shadz” Tohme is a social media specialist and content creator who has over 2 million followers across his various accounts. He can also claim to have had over 200 million views through always creating engaging content. He has collaborated with many well-known brands on events and on digital campaigns, including Tefal, Macdonalds, Pringles, Kinder and Dell. His aim is to help businesses enhance their social media presence through his company, Mad Shadz Media.

A Dubai resident from Syria, Mad Shadz grew up in Abu Dhabi and attended American University in Beirut, where he graduated with an Economics degree. Prior to his explosive influence on social media, he worked for Microsoft, Canon and Hewlett Packard. But it was when he posted a funny three-minute video of himself on Facebook performing a multitude of accents that he became an overnight sensation. Despite doing impressions for as long as he can remember, he never gave any serious thought to becoming an actor or comedian.

You can connect with Mad Shadz through his own website, madshadz.com, or via his Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts. He boasts that his passion is to make the world a happier place, and he is certainly giving it his all by being a prolific poster of comic stints on TikTok, his account of which boasts some 1.6 million followers and 22.4 million likes. They don’t call him Mad for nothing!