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Profiles of the people running companies across the GCC, written by our editors. One issue a month.
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Saudi ArabiaExecutive
Corporate Access Relationship Officer, Saudi Tadawul Group
From running student events at a Riyadh university to staging the listing ceremonies of the Saudi exchange, the invisible work behind a flawless morning.
United Arab EmiratesExecutive
Head of Finance & Insurance, The Elite Cars
Twenty-one years in the UAE car business, from selling spare parts across a counter to running the finance desk of a luxury showroom.
Saudi ArabiaExecutive
Customer Experience and Integration Senior Head, Saudi Tadawul Group
From a bank s first contact center to the customer-experience backbone of the Saudi exchange, the quiet infrastructure of getting it right.
Saudi ArabiaExecutive
Showroom Manager, Audi, SAMACO
"Our role has evolved from simply selling a car to becoming trusted advisors."
Saudi ArabiaExecutive
Assistant QA Manager and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, Sierra Life Food Industries
From a lab bench in Jordan to Assistant QA Manager at Sierra Life Food Industries, by way of every job that keeps food safe.
Saudi ArabiaOperator
Captain Waiter, Hilton Makkah
From a commis chef s station in Islamabad to Captain Waiter at Hilton in Makkah. Six years, every rung earned.
Operator
Contact center banking professional, Housing Bank
A finance graduate on the front line of customer service at Housing Bank, in an industry racing to automate it away.
Operator
Marketing Coordinator and Analyst, DADA GROUP
From selling appliances one customer at a time to deciding how a whole brand meets the market at DADA GROUP.
Operator
Quality Control Specialist, AlBandar Group
Two years out of the University of Jordan, he has built a map of every place a food system can fail, and the certifications to fix them.
Saudi ArabiaFounder
Founder, CrossBridge Partners
"This is the biggest mispriced market I have seen in 20 years. I do not say that lightly."
Founder
Founder, The Line for Engineering and Contracting
"Transforming ideas into well-executed realities."
Saudi ArabiaExecutive
Director General, Government Education and Catering Sector, Milaf Global Food Company (PIF)
A hypermarket sales rep in 2004; today he oversees school canteens across 30,000 schools and more than SAR 30 billion in annual investments.
United Arab EmiratesExecutive
Chief Executive Officer, Altery
The DFSA-authorised chief executive of Altery, after a decade in cross-border payments and a spell running Amazon s souq.com in the region.
Saudi ArabiaFounder
Founder and CEO, Sticker Pro
Seven years running inventory for one of the region s biggest retailers, then a company of his own that counts stock for retailers, factories, and hospitals across Saudi Arabia.
QatarFounder
Founder, Arabic Mate
The founder of Arabic Mate, a Doha EdTech startup that pays displaced and underemployed Arabic teachers to tutor learners around the world.
Saudi ArabiaFounder
Physicist and founder, Gulf Space Alliance
A Saudi physicist ranked among the Top 100 Women in Aerospace and Aviation, who mentored 150 students through building their own CubeSats.
United Arab EmiratesInvestor
Family Office Director of Strategy, Family office, Dubai
"The greatest families don't just transfer wealth, they transfer narrative."
Saudi ArabiaExecutive
Vice President, Middle East, Türkiye, Africa and Pakistan, Zoom Communications
Zoom s vice president for the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, and Pakistan, who brought a $75 million data center to Saudi Arabia and founded CyberX on the side.
Founder
Co-CEO, Pharmadyne
"When manufacturing follows people, strategy must arrive before the factory."
QatarFounder
Founder, SIDXT and SIDXTudio
A computer science teacher who left the classroom in 2024 to build SIDXT, a Doha creator brand and agency with more than 500 million organic impressions.
United Arab EmiratesFounder
Founder, Sahrah Consultancy
Nearly two decades across South Africa, the UAE, and cruise lines, then a consultancy of her own that pairs HR strategy with corporate wellness.
Investor
Founder, investor, and advisor, Binkplus
An entrepreneur who founded his first company at 17, now an investor and advisor to blockchain and real-world-asset ventures, and founder of the Binkplus incubator.
United Arab EmiratesExecutive
Relationship Manager, Privilege Clients Group, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Fifteen years inside Abu Dhabi s banks, six of them in credit administration, now managing privilege clients at FAB, with a children s activities platform on the side.
Executive
Director, Operational Excellence, YCP Renoir
Three decades of operational excellence work across 36 countries, now leading YCP Renoir s projects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman.
QatarExecutive
Director and Strategic Advisor, Sadad Payment Solutions
Forty years from GE and Xerox factory floors to Qatar s payments sector, where he helped put Ooredoo s point-of-sale system in merchants hands, plus a table tennis league he founded in…
QatarFounder
Managing Partner and Founder, ASG Sports Consultancy & Projects
Crisis management for eleven Volkswagen brands, risk at Zurich and Diageo, ceremonies at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and now a sports consultancy of his own in Doha.
QatarFounder
Founder and CEO, White Ravens Cybersecurity
A cybersecurity student in Doha who runs his own training firm, leads the GDG cybersecurity chapter at AASTMT, and wants to end up at INTERPOL s bureau in Qatar.
United Arab EmiratesExecutive
Group Senior Treasury Manager, Ittihad International Investment
The treasury manager behind Ittihad International Investment s 2025 rating upgrades and its global US-dollar sukuk, after twelve years inside Abu Dhabi s banks.
United Arab EmiratesExecutive
CEO and Managing Director, Alfarah Rehabilitation Center
From a 15,000-ton-a-month rebar factory to a diversified group to a rehabilitation center he took from concept to opening in Abu Dhabi.
Founder
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Sensory Robotics
A Penn-trained mechatronics engineer who has run the technical side of Sensory Robotics in Berlin since 2018, with a US patent and research on bin picking to his name.
Founder
Co-founder, Candid Intelligence
A mechanical engineer turned AI researcher whose startup, Candid Intelligence, compresses months of pre-construction planning into hours, backed by $6.5 million in seed funding.
Founder
Founder and CEO, Nexterity, Inc.
The first TCU engineer at ExxonMobil s Baton Rouge site, now founder of Nexterity, whose robots unbolt pipeline flanges so people don t have to.
Founder
Founder and CEO, NextSet Materials
An MIT chemist whose additive lets thermoset plastics be taken apart at the end of their life, now commercialising it through NextSet Materials.
Founder
Co-Founder, Reef Arches
A Babson-trained analyst who spun Reef Arches out of a Florida contractor to install sand-based honeycomb structures that stop coastal erosion and grow reefs.
Founder
Founder, 3R ZeroWaste
"Sports taught me early that you either win or you learn."
Founder
Founder and CEO, Strella Biotechnology
A Penn molecular biologist whose biosensors and AI predict when fruit will ripen, saving more than 40 million pounds of it from the bin.
United Arab EmiratesFounder
Artist, educator, and founder, Medaf Studio
"Art became my language, and a way to capture moments and reflect on the evolving patterns of our city."
United Arab EmiratesFounder
Founder and President, Thumbay Group
"I want my legacy to be about enabling dreams."
United Arab EmiratesInvestor
Investor and Chairman, Muras Bank
"My personal mission is to make trading securities between, say, Kyrgyzstan and the UAE as seamless as ordering food online."
Executive
Director of Growth, invygo
invygo s Director of Growth on why drivers across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are subscribing to cars instead of buying them.
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