مهندس صناعي خريج مدينة بتسبرغ- أمريكا. جهه العمل الحالية الهيئة السعودية للمهندسين. مهتم في الريادة والمسؤولية الاجتماعية. مؤسس لعدد من المنظمات الغير ربحية. المدير التنفيذي ل MVRMEDIA، مؤسس ونائب رئيس Saudi Elite Group مجموعة النخبة، وعضو المجلس الاستشاري لمشروع سلام لأعداد القيادات الشابة بمركز الملك عبدالعزيز للحوار الوطني. حاصل على جائزة Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges.
A full professor in computer science with over 50 publications and 20 years of combined professional practical leadership and consulting experiences.Currently an advisor to the Governor of Small and Medium Enterprises Authority, an editorial board member of Big Data and Cloud Innovation, and board member of Riyadah Entrepreneurship program and women employment executivecommittee. Specialized in e-commerce, data science and AI.
Ms. Al Besher conceived of FinTech Saudi while following an impressive career path has led her to such roles as leader of a Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) program to develop Saudi expertise in information security, Human Resources and Administration Director of SADAD Payment Systems and, finally, member of the FinTech Committee at SAMA.
She has shepherded FinTech Saudi from initial conception to full reality, managing the approvals process, designing the event with a well-defined and focused scope of activity and building a team to bring the event to full fruition.
Ms. Al Besher holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, a Master’s Degree in Management from The Catholic University of America and she was a participant in the Executive Program in Management & Leadership at London Business School.
مختص في بناء وتطوير بيئة ريادة الأعمال. مستشار للشركات الناشئة والمتخصص في ريادة الأعمال مع خبرة واسعة في الإدارة المالية. لقد قدم مروان خدمات التدريب لمجموعة متنوعة من الشركات المتوسطة والصغيرة في مجالات متعددة، مثل صناعة وابتكارات التقنية، وتقنية المعلومات ومنصات وتطبيقات الأجهزة الذكية.
قام بتطوير وتشغيل عدة مبادرات خلال فترة عمله في شركة قطوف الريادة حيث قام بإدارة مسرعة الأعمال فلات 6 لابز كما تولى مسؤولية تطوير الأعمال في الشركة. خلال الفترة الأخيرة قام بتأسيس وتفعيل دور الشبكة العالمية لريادة الأعمال في المملكة العربية السعودية وبالنعاون مع الهيئة العامة للمنشآت الصغيرة والمتوسطة.
هدفه الرئيسي تدريب الكيانات للتغلب على التحديات ومساعدتها في تحقيق أهدافها، لقد قام بالمشاركة في مشاريع استشارية متعددة، حيث انه ساهم في العديد من عمليات الاندماج وعمليات الاستحواذ وقد قام أيضا بصياغة العديد من مشاريع البنية التحتية الحكومية مع وزارة العمل السعودية. وعلاوة على ذلك، قام بالتدقيق في البيانات المالية لعدة شركات سعودية وكذلك عالمية في مختلف الصناعات.
Mazin Al Zaidi is part of the investment attraction and development team at the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), specializing in digital technologies & industries. Key focus of his work is the continuous attraction of direct foreign investments in the Digital sector and the development digital ecosystem in Saudi.
Before joining SAGIA Mazin spent 8 years in the startup tech and innovation ecosystem of London. He launched his own business in 2012 during his postgraduate study at the University of Warwick in the UK. He started his business in the university's library where he used to conduct most of his work. Since then his business has transformed more than once, and today that business has been crafted into Innorrupt.
A background in technology, business and engineering, Mazin helps established organisations to make growth through strategic innovation, new business models and corporate entrepreneurship. He supports digital business transformation through the adoption and deployment of digital technologies and disruptive business models to improve organisational performance. Mazin combines security thinking analysis with innovation processes to enable organisations to avoid creative destruction. Mazin has managed different projects in London, Tokyo and San Francisco.
Mazin is a Ph.D. researcher at the Cyber Security Center in the International Digital Lab (IDL) at the University of Warwick. Mazin’s current research in cyber security focuses on the protection of intellectual assets within an agile dynamic business environment (e.g. incubators, accelerators & innovation labs).
In 2016, Mazin was a guest lecturer at the University of Warwick on the subject of corporate innovation. He has been invited to speak at numerous conferences and events on innovation and entrepreneurship, including the Arab Innovation Network Annual Conference in UAE and the Entrepreneurial Knowledge Symposium at Souq Okaz in Saudi Arabia.
A career that has spanned many links up,down, and across the hi-tech food chain. I equally enjoy both the business and technical aspects of the work I do but the thing I enjoy most is unleashing the potential of people around me and seeing their success multiply. Specialties: VC, E-gov services, Corporate Strategy, Embedded and real-time software, DSP software, GSM, Networking, RTOS, and the Mobile Communications Market in general
