Nayef Al-Athel is Group Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Saudi Tadawul Group, the Riyadh holding company behind the Saudi Exchange. Before that he ran listings at the Saudi Exchange.
Tadawul Group was founded in 2021 and has 478 staff. It owns the Saudi Exchange, clearing house Muqassa, depository Edaa and Wamid. Al-Athel’s brief covers sales, data analytics, product development and partnerships.
The group says it wants foreign investment. Whether his sales push has brought it is not public. He is studying for an executive MBA at HEC Paris, due to end in June 2026.
