Osama Ashri speaks at TCL's Oxford retreat of 2018

Osama Ashri is the Founder of Saudi Entrepreneurial Ecosystem speaks at TCL's Oxford retreat of 2018.

The Importance of Building an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Osama Ashri stresses the importance of building an entrepreneurship ecosystem in order to realize Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 SMEs-related goals. This video caption is part of Osama's speech during the inauguration event of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor of Saudi Arabia 2017-18. Read more on entrepreneurship ecosystem: https://seelab.sa.com/public/uploads/pledge/SEE_Campaign_Report3.pdf

Khalid Walid Alkhudair

Social entrepreneur, writer, founder and CEO of (Glowork),a women empowerment organization that provides thousand jobs for women. Glowork won the best innovation award to create job opportunities globally by World Bank, United Nation and (ILO) International Labor Organization. Khadair is an Honorary Fellow for Oshka and a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum. In March 2014, Khalid was elected to become a “young Global leader” in the World Economic Forum due to his work in social enterprises

He held the role of Chief Operating Officer at (KPMG) in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan the thing that helped him gaining experiences in all aspects of strategic and successful marketing and operations .He was able to lead all the firms that he has worked with to more than 30 awards which goes with firm's overall corporate goals and strategy. Through him, Glowork has invested more than 16 million dollars to extend its current operations in different sectors

Khalid participated in a number of advisory councils all over the world such as the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) advisory council, the Country Officer for Women Campaign International, Steering committee member at the Ministry of Labor in Saudi Arabia, Steering committee member for talent mobility at the World Economic Forum, Advisory Member at Saudi Broadcasting, a judge at the Hult Prize, Employment Committee Member at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce, Board Member at DAF Consulting Firm, & a mentor at the Founders Institute at Silicon Valley. In October 2015, Khalid became a judge on the MBC show Al Israr.