Saudi ArabiaFounder
Tom Foley
Founder, CrossBridge Partners
"This is the biggest mispriced market I have seen in 20 years. I do not say that lightly."
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- Saudi Arabia
Founder
Mohamad Al Ilani
Founder, The Line for Engineering and Contracting
"Transforming ideas into well-executed realities."
Saudi ArabiaFounder
Mohammed Babiker
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
Shirene Yaseen
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
Nora Almohizai
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.
Founder
Jeremy Rogers
Co-CEO, Pharmadyne
"When manufacturing follows people, strategy must arrive before the factory."
QatarFounder
Sufiyan Sidat
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
Elizma Al Dbini
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.
QatarFounder
Adriano Guimarães
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
Ali Elkhouly
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.
Founder
Tristan Fogt
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
Talha Faiz
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
Lindsey Elliott
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
Yasmeen S. Alfaraj
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
Nicholas Bourdon
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
Shiv Rao Challa
Founder, 3R ZeroWaste
"Sports taught me early that you either win or you learn."
Founder
Katherine Sizov
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
Alia Hussain Lootah
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
Dr. Thumbay Moideen
Founder and President, Thumbay Group
"I want my legacy to be about enabling dreams."
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