مستشار مشاريع اجتماعية - مرشد ومطوّر أعمال حاصل على شهادة قيادة القطاع الاجتماعي من جامعة Philanthropy، ماجستير إدارة أعمال من جامعة الأعمال والتكنولوجيا، مؤسس “جزيل” منصة للتطوع المهاري و الإبداعي، مطوّر عدة شركات ومشاريع ومبادرات اجتماعية.
Qualified senior management professional with over 17 years of experience in working in different educational systems around the world including USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Japan. Proficient in research, program analysis, problem- solving and entrepreneurship as well as working across diverse organizations in Europe, North America, South Asia and the Middle East. A best-selling author, an educational and entrepreneurship consultant, women leadership coach, and an international public speaker;
- PhD in Innovation Diffusion, MSc in Business Excellence.
- 500 Startups #500BAM alumnus.
- Founder of Mntrni, a mentoring platform connecting entrepreneurs with quality mentors.
- Author of the successful Ideas Discovery in Startups Book (+45000 downloads). Recently signed an agreement of Saudi Aramco to distribute 1m copies.
- Instructor of online courses (over 8800 students) on entrepreneurship & ideas generation.
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.
Thamer Shaker, a management professional with more than 20 years of experience, leading strategic plans in change management and talent identification. He is an organization development and business expert aiming to maximize the impact and accomplish challenging goals in different areas. Additionally, he worked in several fields including initiating, planning and leading programs to build and implement a significant organization learning development module followed by an accurate execution plan. In Jan 2014, he established his Managment consultancy firm #MysanConsulting, which is specialized in developing strategy, corporate governance, and change management
Thamer Shaker is a writer and a speaker through his newspaper column and an author of eight best-selling books. He was able to build a superior reputation in human capital and social development. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Business - Situational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, United Statesيمتلك خبرة مهنية تزيد عن 20 سنة في مجال الإدارة وتطوير المنشئات والخطط والأهداف الاستراتيجية وتطوير الموارد البشرية بالقطاعين الحكومي والخاص، في مجالات متعددة، كما قاد عدة فرق لتنفيذ برامج تطويرية متعددة من خلال آلية التغيير الإداري. يمتلك ثامر خبرة مميزة في مجال الثقافة والاعلام تتجاوز الخمسة عشر عاماً، قدّم فيها سبعة كتب، والتي تعتبر من أكثر الكتب مبيعاً، كما شارك في الكثير من المناسبات، بالإضافة إلى كونه متحدثاً في العديد من المنتديات والمؤتمرات المحلية والإقليمية، بالإضافة إلى مساهماته المميزة في إنتاج وتقديم الصالون الثقافي الأول في منطقة مكة المكرمة، وبعض البرامج الثقافية المختلفة والتي استهدفت شريحة الشباب وكان لها قبول كبير. يحمل ثامر شهادة البكالوريوس في علوم الحاسوب، وشهادة الماجستير في إدارة الأعمال، تخصص "قيادة موقفية"، من جامعة نوفا، الولايات المتحدة، كما أنه عضو بالأكاديمية الأمريكية للإدارة المالية، وعضو بالمؤسسة الأمريكية للاستشارات الإدارية – IMC
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.
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.
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.
