Haider Alabdulaal is a corporate planning and strategy consultant at the Ministry of Energy-Saudi Arabia, with a focus on policies and strategic decision support. Haidar started his career at Landmark Software before joining Saudi Aramco, where he assumed several positions in different key upstream departments within the Upstream Business Line. Later, he shifted to the public sector by joining the Ministry of Economy and Planning-Center for Strategic Development. Haider holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Engineering (Honor), from Colorado School of Mines and an M.S. from Texas A&M University. Furthermore, Haidar obtained executive education from Babson College in finance and earned his valedictorian MBA from MBSC where he scaled his family business and co-founded a legal service startup (Qantooni); a digital legal service that provides quick, affordable, innovative, and reliable legal solutions and services in Saudi Arabia.
Hanouf is the Entrepreneurs Selection and Growth Manager at Endeavor Saudi, where She identifies, helps selecting high-impact entrepreneurs and supports them to scale up their business. She has around 10 years of experience working in the Information Technology & Business Consulting with multinational flagship companies. Prior to joining Endeavor in 2016, Hanouf spent 2 years at Pearson Education in the United States where she was the Lead Quality Assurance Consultant for Pearson’s mega projects. She started her career at Oracle Saudi Arabia where she was the first Saudi female to join the technology consulting team. In 2009 she has been appointed as the Leader of Oracle Women Leadership program (OWL) and also has been responsible for coaching and mentoring new hires and junior staff. Hanouf received her MBA in Entrepreneurship from Suffolk University in Boston, USA. And her BSc of Computer Information Systems from Prince Sultan University in Riyadh.
Rakan is an Entrepreneurship Development expert, and activist in Saudi Arabia since 2006. He has experiences in business developing, coaching and consulting. He recently joined 500 Startups as Venture Partner to the 500 Falcons micro fund for MENA.
Prior to that, he was the founding Managing Director of the Saudi Affiliate of Endeavor, a global nonprofit that’s leading a High-Impact Entrepreneurship movement around the world. In 3 years, Endeavor Saudi Arabia grew today to more than US$ 100M in revenue from US$ 47M when selected, and thus created more than 467 new quality jobs to the Kingdom.
Since 2013, Rakan has been heading the Investment Committee at Oqal Angel Investors Group, which attracted more than 150 deals to the group’s investors, 15 of which received investments with a total of US$ 4M. He is a board member of a government fund and has been a judge in many entrepreneurship and startup competitions, like Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, ArabNet and Startup Weekends.
Rakan holds an M.B.A. majoring in Entrepreneurship, an HRM from the University of Queensland, Australia and a BS in Industrial Systems Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia.
Bader is the Managing Director of Endeavor Saudi Arabia, he is coming from diversified disciplines as he was heading the SME development and debt financing division at the Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center (WA’ED), where he worked directly with more than 200 startups companies in their business development stage, credit evaluation and approval while managing a portfolio exceeding USD 50 MM. He comes from a technical background that involved IT governance, database design, geophysical technologies. Besides his 10 years’ corporate experience, he had advised and invested in various local and international ventures in field such as motion pictures, streaming services, broadcasting technologies and SaaS. His voluntary contribution toward the local entrepreneurial eco system was vital where he has established a mentorship platform that is targeted to bring out corporations’ experts to help startups overcoming their business difficulties, also he put together the blue prints of an ICT university based incubator and acceleration program that was able to deliver successful ventures. Bader is holding a degree in Geophysics from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and MBA from London Business School.
