مهتم بدعم وتطوير ريادة الأعمال
Highly accomplished professional with deep understanding in business and technology needs of leading organizations in the market from various industries.
Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinates the implementation of the approved course of action.
Innovative professional with proven ability utilizing social network and intelligent research skills to identify, pursue, and secure business reflecting growth and profitability of the practice.
Babson MBA in Marketing & and Entrepreneurship, certified entrepreneurship trainer from Babson, coach for leadership & teamwork. Mentored 30+ startups for Flat6Labs Accelerator. Currently working as a Marketing Lecturar at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) and the programs director for KAU Entrepreneurship Center.
Abdulaziz leads the finance department of one of the private colleges in Saudi Arabia. He's mainly responsible for ensuring the compliance of internal financial management policies and procedures, and conducts performance of reconciliation and accurate completion of the balance sheet. In addition, he manages the preparation of financial statements while giving advice on accounting system, budget, management information, cash flows and improvements of systems dealing with financial management and the payments pf staff and creditors. Abdulaziz is also well-versed in the recently announced VAT and has been advising SMEs on accounting related matter.
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Hesham K. Rowaihy
Partner – Pure Consulting Group
Hesham is a Partner at Pure Consulting Group, leading the management consulting practice. He is responsible for delivering transformation projects at client’s organizations that require strategy development, organizational effectiveness, and operational excellence.
Prior to Pure Consulting, Hesham was the Director of western region at Badir Business Incubation Program where he established and managed the first Technology business incubator and the first government-supported angel investors network (Sirb) in Jeddah. He coached and mentored entrepreneurs on strategy development and business modeling, and participated as a coach and judge in several local and regional start-up competitions.
Earlier, Hesham was a Manager at PwC Consulting, delivering several transformation projects with private and public sector clients. He worked closely with a Saudi Minister to formulate recommendations for organizing the labor market, tackling unemployment, supporting entrepreneurship, and developing SME sector in Saudi Arabia.
Hesham started his career in 2002 at Procter & Gamble as a support engineer intern and later joined Eimar Real Estate (SEDCO Subsidiary) as an Internal Consultant of property management, where he redefined departmental strategy and developed organizational & operational plans that led to improved performance.
Hesham holds a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), and a master degree in business administration (MBA) from Indiana State University, USA.
Amal Dokhan is the Director of The BABSON GLOBAL Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (BGCEL). She held a number of roles in BGCEL including the New Ventures Acceleration and Corporate Innovation program. Throughout her career Ms. Dokhan gained a diversified range of experience in management and marketing related roles particularly in education and consultancy. Prior to that she worked in the KAUST Seed Fund where she developed marketing and events, while also providing a range of services to startup clients. Amal has previously managed an educational organization; during that time she designed programs and started several innovative initiatives to be implemented by the educators to improve the mindsets in order to foster creativity in the work place and the educational tools. In parallel to this she started her own business, which organized sports events and offered commercial consultancy to large organizations.
Laoi Nassem is an entrepreneur, fashion designer, and business executive. He is well-known for founding "Lomar," which has become a pioneer in the Saudi men's apparel market. He's been locally, regionally and globally recognized for his inspiring entrepreneurial endeavor.
Emad Has a diversified experience in establishing and running Accelerators and Incubators in Saudi Arabia. He has established Badir-Jeddah business incubator, contributing in developing and managing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Studied and visited over 30 Business Incubators, Accelerators, Tech. Transfer Offices, Innovation Parks across the US, Canada, and United Kingdom, prior to developing and validating several business developments approaches in handling different stages of the venture to adapt and overcome the challenges in our local market. Successfully incubated and handled more than 80 techs. based startups with an average of 40% graduation rate per year impacted the local economy by creating more than 300 jobs.
Emad holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, McMaster University, Canada, in addition to TOT Certification in Business Incubation Management Training Program by InfoDev - World Bank Group. And lately, he was selected from the UN-ESCWA Technology Center as an expert Technical Committee Member.
Emad is also an entrepreneur who founded two startups in Canada and Saudi Arabia.
A multi-sector well-rounded business executive with thirty years of experience in the information technology sector mainly in Saudi Arabia and served in positions in the UAE & Europe. Leads by example and empowers the creation of trustworthy team relationships. Comfortably assumes the role of the agent of change within the organization, not just initiating change, but championing and delivering and institutionalizing change initiatives. Possessing a natural intuition in business development, able to solve seemingly intractable business problems while delivering workable solutions accustomed to thinking "out of the box" while creating sustainable solutions.
Exhibiting a proficiency at combining technical knowledge within a commercial business framework through integrating innovative technologies into practical enterprise solutions. As a strategist and consultant the experience ranges from providing technology and business leadership to enabling strategic alignment, enabling companies to scale information technology aligned with the business strategy. Possessing a natural ability to interact with many levels in the organization from board, to governmental regulators, prospects, clients, and peers as a trusted adviser.
Specialties: Venture Capital, Investment, Regulatory, Online Portals, Broadcast Media, Islamic Banking, eGovernment, eCommerce, Civil Aviation, Airport and Airline management
Dr. Samar Khan is an aspiring young Saudi woman who lives by the creed that one should strive to serve a higher purpose by going above and beyond the call of duty. Born in 1983, Dr. Samar received all of her schooling in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from King Abdul-Aziz University. After graduating, she decided to pursue her Master’s degree in Economics and Administration from Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. As she continued living in the UK, she discovered her passion for economics and administration, so she decided to pursue her PhD degree in Energy Security and Renewable Energy from business perspective at the same university. She authored an article with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies entitled “Energy efficiency: the first renewable’’, and published a journal paper in the Energy Research Journal titled: ‘’Investigating Consumer Awareness of Energy Efficiency in Saudi Arabia’’. She also wrote many articles in different newspapers in Saudi Arabia. As one of pioneering Saudi women in energy, she was featured in numerous Saudi newspapers and magazines, where she became a regular guest on Middle Eastern talk-shows. Currently, Dr. Samar is an assistant professor and Dean of College of Business at Effat University.
Ali has more than 9 years of idustry and consulting experience. He led a variety of strategy, operations and organizational projects, including: developing and executing for a market entry strategies, strategic opportunity portfolio prioritization, developing operations manuals, developing organizational processes, and developing organizational roles and responsibilities.
His professional experience includes:
• Planned and activated a key initiative of a semi government entity, in collaboration with key international stakeholders. This role included the supervision of an integrated social media campaign to support the initiative.
• Developed the investment kit for an SAR 600 Million riyal plant, which was addressed to the governor of the Public Investment Fund.
• Conducted operational diagnosis on a Facility Management company that led to an 11% improvement of the bottomline.
• Developed the operations manual, marketing strategy, and the initial business model, for an initiative of a newly established semi-government entity. The engagement included adapting a completely new service to the Saudi market using global benchmarks along with local market insights.
• Led an engagement to review the strategy of a Jeddah based branding firm. The strategic review included prioritizing the opportunities portfolio of the company with a focus on optimizing the learning curve of the company.
• Led a stream in an exploration organization to redefine the methodology to prioritize upstream exploration opportunities to ensure a target based approach for prioritization.
• Consulted with companies engaging in tight gas operations, gathered global tight gas raw data, and executed feasibility studies; resulted in Saudi Aramco's CEO, re-directing the tight gas strategy over the next ten years.
• Won 1st prize at a three month Arab Oil Exploration Workshop, Egypt sponsored by Saudi Aramco and Petroleum Development Oman.
