Zahida grew up in Algiers, where she went to a French school, had French school degree and studied arts to become a teacher in an Algerian public school. Once in France, she spent many years working in the Luxury Industry, four stars hotels, cosmetics, and finally the yachting industry.

Zahida has 10 years of experience in the industry and worked for different yachting companies as an assistant in different department such as brokerage, marketing and also crew & training.

Zahida joined Hill Robinson in February 2018.