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Abdulaziz Abanmi is an experienced technology and payments executive with a demonstrated history of working in the financial industry. Abdulaziz has a master degree in Software Engineering and  a 17 years of experience in the IT and banking industry where he has worked previously in SAMA (Saudi...

Mustafa Zubair Ahmed is the Chief Technology Officer of Lock&Stock - The largest and fastest growing millennial application in the Middle East.Mustafa is an advocate for technology as an enabler to support the underlying mission of providing a world class user experience to every project he...

Muzzammil Ahussain is the Executive Vice President of Seera Group’s Consumer Travel Business Unit, spearheading the growth and development of Almosafer, Saudi Arabia’s digital-based omni-channel travel brand, and tajawal, one of the UAE’s top OTAs. An internationally-recognised management...

Ammar Akhtar is an entrepreneur based in UAE since 2007 and has formed several successful initiatives since then mostly inclined towards mobility and technology. He is the Founder and CEO of Finalrentals.com which is the largest car rental marketplace place in the UAE. Won the best digital...

Layal is a global native digital leader currently working with Modanisa as MENA Regional Director, responsible for the strategic direction, vision, growth and trading of Modanisa in the region.   With more than 15 years of Retail and ecommerce experience working with blue chip companies, Layal is ...

Mohamed Al Assaf’s key roles are in driving and managing the overall operations of corporate development and overseeing the progress of different initiatives through the transformation office. He is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction for the company’s corporate strategy...

Athbi is the Joint Managing Partner and one of the Co-Founders of Justclean. Prior to establishing the business, Athbi worked in the banking sector where he gained invaluable knowledge in the field of human resources. Athbi was born and raised in Kuwait until his late teens when he moved to the...

Husam Al Mahmoud is the Director of Payment Systems & Companies Control “PSCC” at Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority “SAMA”. PSCC regulates, licenses, supervises and oversees payment companies, which includes payment systems and payment service providers, in the Kingdom. Husam is SAMA’s...

Nejoud has worked for 10-years at JPMorgan Chase Bank in the corporate investment banking space she has vast experience in building client relationships and portfolios across finance, industry, and the public sector, managing corporate sales portfolio for Large Corporates in Saudi Arabia , Played...

Abdullah Al Othman is a Saudi entrepreneur & visionary working to advance the economic and social well-being of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is committed to the pursuit of innovation, social responsibility and societal ideals. Mr. Al Othman has an MBA from Al Faisal University in Riyadh...

Majed M. Al Tahan is an award-winning entrepreneur and e-commerce leader in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a great passion to impact the apps market. Majed recognized that e-commerce was the missing element in the Saudi retail landscape and he grabbed the opportunity to begin his journey to...

Ms. Nora Albakr is one of the young leaderships in the financial services sector with more than 12 years of experience in this field. During her career, Ms. Albakr has managed different leading roles in the area of Cash Management and Payments in three Local banks in Saudi Arabia before she moved...

Mr. Al-Bakri is managing the Global Transaction Banking at Riyad Bank in addition of his role as the Chairman Of  The Board For SANID Co. He joined Riyad Bank in 2015 carrying up with him more than 18 years of experience in the Banking Industry working in different banks; Ehab succeeded in...

Abdulaziz is a banker with over 16 years of experience in banking technology and Payments. He is successful transformation and strategic-thinking  leader with a proven track record, credited with bringing a significant increase (Approx.140%) in usage of payments and reduction of cash usage on a...

Ziyad is the vice president of Business at Saudi Payments, where he is responsible for Business Development & Operation, Sales & Relationship Management, and Marketing. His department is considered to be the engine behind Saudi Payments commitment in creating and fostering long-term...

Shihab Alhammadi is the Director of the Sharjah Media City Free Zone Authority (Shams), an Innovation Executive with an enthusiasm for change through technology. He has led key developments across the UAE media sector and has greatly influenced the founding and growth of the Sharjah Media...

Working to develop SME eCommerce ecosystem in Saudi, enable Saudi SMEs to leverage eCommerce and increase eCommerce participation in GDP.Active in the field of women empowerment and economic development.Married, mother of four Studied Computer Science - majoring in computer applications in King...

Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri is the Advisor of the Arab Economic Unity council, and Chairman of the Arab Federation for Digital Economy in the Arab League. He is also a senior government official in the UAE government.He is considered as of the world's leading thinkers and influencers in the field of...

Alaa AlMashhadi has over 15 years of banking experience maintaining a strong and up to date synthesis of the industry through working in different fields of corporate and retail banking. Alaa holds in depth knowledge in credit information, institutional banking, transactional banking, cash...

Mohammed Almutlaq is the Director of Financial Sector Development at SAMA. With 13+ years experience in different functions within the Central Bank in Banking policies, G20 advisory and in developing national payment system strategies. Mohammed earned an MBA and MSF from Boston College, and a...

Khalid Al-Nufaie is the CHRO in Geidea. In this role, he leads the group’s HR function and the execution of Geidea’s Talent Management strategy and digital upskilling initiatives. Al-Nufaie comes with a diverse experience of over 15 years, which covers all aspects of HR . The diverse experience...

Ali Alomran is a recognized technology and banking executive with over 25 years of progressive achievements in banking, investment, and financial technology. He heads technology services for Arab National Bank and its subsidiaries. Ali is regular speaker and advisor in regional finance and...

Digital & FinTech Entrepreneur, Senior experienced executive with extensive International exposure in Leading Global Multinational organizations.- Member of Global Blockchain Council- Mentor at Oasis500

Hammad is a union of technology development with creative thinking. His expert digital leadership and dynamic out of the box thinking has helped him grow his organizations from start-ups to successful businesses. Professionally, Hammad works as Vice General Manager of Bargo Ventures, A venture...

Hussain was brought up in the United Arab Emirates, having studied at Dubai Scholars Private School. He joined the University of Wollongong in Dubai to pursue a degree in Marketing. While in university, he took up a course in Digital Marketing and that is when an interest for design and Social...

Leading HSBC’s innovation agenda across Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, Pam is a collaborator across the bank to link emerging technology with business strategy. She oversees the Dubai Innovation Lab, aimed at transforming the bank’s products and processes through strategic...

Before moving to JoPACC in June 2018 to serve as CEO, Maha had been working at the Central Bank of Jordan for 30 years, where she was most recently the Executive Manager of the Payment Systems, Domestic Banking Operations and Financial Inclusion Department for 7 years. Maha holds a Master’s degree...

Based in UAE for the last 10 years, Kartik Bhatt is an  Omni Channel Business Leader (CEO & COO) with 18+ years hands on experience in Ecommerce Startups, Marketplaces,  ,Brick N Mortar Retail Operations, Category & Merchandise Management. and Consumer Marketing across GCC, South...

Abdulla Bin Damithan has been with DP World since 2001. He was appointed as Chief Commercial Officer for DP World – UAE Region in 2017. Abdulla is responsible for all revenue generation activities, products and services offered across the portfolio including Ports & Terminals, Parks & Zones ...

  Claudio has over 20 years of extensive management and business experience in international markets and payment systems. A committed executive, with strong multidisciplinary skills, recognised internationally by the major players in payment system infrastructure strategy. Claudio is a subject...

Currently heading the Smart Mobility Division under the Al Naboodah Commercial Group. Born, bred and further working in the UAE, I have almost 12 years of work experience in the GCC region. Over the last couple of years, I have been primarily working as a Product Manager, focused towards...

In his role at Lulu Group International, Piyush Kumar Chowhan is responsible for Digital strategy and execution of technology for all its global businesses across 12 countries which include Retail, Hypermarket, and Shopping Malls. He has over 20+ years of experience in driving businesses change...

Innovative, agile and multi-award winning banking leader with over 25 years' international financial services experience with leading blue-chip institutions across three continents in progressive leadership roles, both executive and NED, in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, general...

Mike has been a banker his entire career and still wakes up excited each day to do banking ‘stuff’.  A serial builder of banks, Mike has built 3.5 banks to date and has another one or two on the way!  A Barclays veteran of 12+ years, followed by 8 years at ADCB in the UAE and a failed attempt to...

Mark Rennie Davis is the Chief Advisor and Founder of Advistic Consulting, a Dubai-based firm focused on providing payments strategy and advisory services to banks, governments and Fintechs in the Middle-East.   His key areas of expertise are digital payments, open banking, fintech...

Bart Denolf is currently the CEO Franchise for the Sacoor Brothers group. Since he   joined the company in 2015 he has been actively increasing the presence in new markets.  Prior to joining the Sacoor Brothers group  he pursued a successful career at Pepe jeans group ( Pepe jeans, Hackett) from...

Assumed current position of Vice President of Jollychic in 2018.Prior to that, had 25 years of experience on strategy, stakeholder engagement, crisis management, and communications in various positions as diplomat, consultant and senior executive at big corporations.  A native Chinese, an Arabic...

Tim manages a range of assets in the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio including super-regional iconic destinations in the UAE, Qatar and North Africa, totaling over 80m annual visitors, 1,400+ retailers with additional assets in the development pipeline. In his current role, Tim’s passion and expertise...

Seham is the General Manager of Digital & Connected Cars at Renault Middle East. With over 15 Years of experience, her areas of expertise include Digital Innovation, DCX Transformation, Business Analytics, Connected Cars & New Mobility. She is currently leading the Launch of connected car...

Henrik is the Director of Strategy at Vaimo, working with global manufacturers, retailers and brands on digital transformation and eCommerce strategies. Being a hands-on practitioner, Henrik has established digital organisations and executed several omnichannel customer experience programmes.

Vivek spearheads the Open Banking & API led strategic initiatives, at Federal Bank. He is responsible for the overall API Product Management, Partner evaluation, Market Expansion, and setting up of Operational & Governance framework. Federal Bank is a leader in Digital Banking and Open...

Presently a specialist in Food and Beverage Supply Chain Management and Procurement, Kunal heads the Global Supply Chain for Bateel Group (based out of Dubai) that has operations in over 10 countries from US to Middle East to South East Asia. He has been instrumental in opening and managing over...

Padmini Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of rise, a fintech platform which democratizes access to essential financial services for millions of migrants globally. Prior to starting rise, she was an award-winning Banker from California and World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow and Managed her...

Hakimi Abderrazek is the Sales Manager of Business Systems Solutions for Epson Middle East Based in Dubai since 2006, Hakimi has worked within multiple industries ranging from Audio Visual to Printing technologies helping organizations expand locally and regionally Today, backed up by a...

CURRENT POSITIONS: • FOUNDER AND CEO • Marketing and Retail Consultant Zaidoon Investment Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia • Co-Founder The Marketing Consultancy Association, Riadh, Saudi Arabia PREVIOUS POSITIONS: • CEO • Sales and Marketing Director • Business Development Manager, Water Heater Plant ...

Rob Hayes is an experienced business developer with an in depth knowledge of the Retail and eCommerce industry. He has many years of experience working for retailers such as Marshall Field's, Lands' End and JCPenney. Rob's goal is to help businesses grow sales, reduce costs and improve...

As Industry Strategy Director in Automotive, Axel G. Heyenga is driving and leading the global Automotive and EMEA Retail Strategy & GTM at Adobe, helping Automotive & Retail Customers, Partners and our Field to excel in their work. Working with all of the best Brands in Automotive and...

Mark is a 21-year veteran of agency and consultancies, having worked at WPP in London, Edge in Sydney and now PwC and Traffic in Dubai. Traffic’s front-office tech division is 100-strong and holds Gold partnership status with Microsoft and Platinum with Sitecore. Its clients include Dubai...

Funsho is chartered accountant and certified IT service manager. He is a Fintech enthusiast with special focus on digital lending, payments, and artificial intelligence. Funsho has extensive practical, management and consulting experience in various aspects of his profession and is an excellent...

Ece is the regional sales manager for AppsFlyer's Middle East and Turkey markets. She's been in the mobile industry for 10 years with a wide range of experience in mobile marketing, mobile content and ad networks.

Successful serial entrepreneur Christina Ioannidis is turning her hand to connecting diversity, skills and networking via the use of an innovative suite of social networking tools. Christina is an organisational and individual development consultant, with a background in telecoms, IT and FMCG who...

Martin is Managing Director in Egypt and working together with clients across Africa and the GCC since more than 12 years, focusing on commercial excellence programs and monetization strategies. Martin is an expert in developing alternative revenue streams, such as Monetizing API’s, creating...

J.K. Khalil is a Senior Vice President at Mastercard and looks after the Saudi Arabia & Bahrain cluster. He has over 17 years of banking, strategy consulting and technology experience, in roles across multinational banks, top tier consulting firms and tech start-ups. His experience spans roles...

Leena Khalil is the co-founder of Mumzworld, responsible for the developmental strategy and growth of the business in the GCC. Leena felt compelled to join Mona Ataya, the CEO of Mumzworld, in establishing a comprehensive bilingual online shopping and information portal dedicated to everything...

As the Regional Head of ME for Backbase, Saqib Khan advises banks on how to make their digital ambitions a reality. Often they have many challenges, like existing legacy systems and silo-ed architectures. He helps them by designing digital transformation programs which are...

Mr. Arif Khan leads the strategic planning for digital transformation at NPCI. His role is growing NPCI’s new products portfolio basis customer needs and industry trends. Mr. Khan is responsible for driving innovation, analytics and technology. A post graduate in Business Management from XLRI –...

Brett King is an International Bestselling Author, a world- renowned futurist and media personality. President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented. He has spoken in over 50 countries, given keynotes for TEDx, Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, The Economist, IBM's World of...

The Chief Executive Officer of Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, has an innovative mindset that has established the organization as a disruptive, dynamic international hospitality group dedicated to the management of mixed-use developments in key global destinations. Her journey in the...

Vladimir Komlev is one of the top experts in the field of payment technologies and innovation, payment infrastructure and payment systems. With most of his professional career devoted to payment industry, in 2014, from its first days of existence, he took a position of CEO and Chairman of the...

Britta Kotthaus-Krahmer is Principal Director at Accenture’s Financial Services/ Banking Transformation and Platform Services with over 25 years of experience in Transaction Banking, domestic and international payments with a key focus on clearing and settlement design and implementation...

Since taking on the role in 2013, Debbie has turned Novo Cinemas into the household entertainment brand it is today, offering more than just a venue to watch movies, but an immersive state-of-the-art destination for a variety of entertainment options through strategic partnerships and organic...

Experienced eCommerce & Food-tech business leader with over 9 years experience in scaling Zomato across 7 countries and 15 cities. Specialized in strategy, sales, operations & digital marketing. Winner of the Founder’s award 2019.

Vimal is the Chief Executive of Retail and Business Banking; Digital and Customer Experience (RBB, Digital &CX) for Absa Regional Operations, at Absa Group Limited overseeing RBB franchises across nine markets: Zambia, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Mauritius and the...

Brian Lee, Sales Director of Geek Plus Robotics.  Brian has over 18 years experience in Operations management, solution design and business development roles in Contract logistics.  He is currently in charge of sales and solution for customer in Asia Pacific region, and have extensive exposure to...

Andy has been working in digital marketing for over 19 years across the whole of the customer funnel, (awareness through to advocacy), a results driven and commercially focused senior-level digital executive with extensive senior management experience. He has consistently evolved emerging digital...

A graduate from HEC Paris School of Management, Maurice has 8+ years of experience in tech and digital. He was part of the founding team of South East Asia’s largest e-commerce platform, Lazada (Rocket Internet) back in 2012 acquired by Alibaba for $4B in 2018.He later held a business development...

Paul Melotto brings to Alraedah Finance a track record of more than 18+ years of financial industry success locally and internationally. He most recently was the Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Gulf Finance & Founding member of the Management team of one of the most successful Home Finance...

Sabine is a bilingual English-French Digital Financial Inclusion advocate with 5 years United Nations development agency journey and 17-years private sector business development experience in remittances, digital payments and mobile money across Africa, the United States and Canada. Sabine started...

Naveed is a Partner and the Financial Services Technology Leader in PwC Middle East. He is currently focused on growing the Digital Banking Technology Consulting and System Integration business for PwC in the Middle East. His focus has delivered award winning work for Banks and Partners in MEA with ...

Paul Misener is Amazon.com’s Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and Communications. An Amazon VP for over 20 years, Paul remains passionate about Amazon’s history, culture, and methods of sustained, customer-obsessed innovation, especially in the context of Amazon’s Leadership...

Eng. Firas Moazzen E-Commerce Manager for ASQ Group (Abdul Samad Al Qurashi Co.) managing all the E-Commerce and digital transformation in the group since 2014 with long experience in retails online and offline business. Managing 5 deferent online stores for the group, He established and developed...

Sopnendu Mohanty is responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation. Mohanty has spent over 20 years in various leadership roles globally in technology, finance and innovation. He has co-authored several patented works in...

As Founder and CEO, Craig is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and managing the day-to-day operations of Beehive. Before founding Beehive, Craig was a Founder & COO of Butterfly Software, a UK based data analytics and migration software company, acquired by IBM in...

Originally from Mauritius, Ambareen Musa started her first online business, an online property portal for international students in Australia, at the age of 21. Her professional resume includes diverse roles at GE’s financial arm, GE Money in London, working as a consultant at Bain & Company...

Eihab Nassier, MBA of Leadership Entrepreneurship 12 in Business Academia/ Founder of Saee. Eihab is motivated by creating social impact and creating Jobs for Saudis while achieving business success. Specialized in e-commerce logistics, Eihab led his latest startup Saee cross 2 successful...

Serial entrepreneur Ian Ohan is the Founder and CEO of Dubai-headquartered KRUSH Brands - a full-service, multi-kitchen, brand development, operating and franchising company. Cool brands that you love, bound together by technology, convenient and reliable, better for you, from a company that...

Andre leads Engineering, Technical Operations & Security in the Geidea group overlooking both online and offline payment solutions drawing on 30 years of it and payment experience.

Drew Propson is the Head of Technology and Innovation in Financial Services at the World Economic Forum. Her current work includes initiatives on the acceleration of AI and emerging technologies in financial services, opportunities at the intersection of financial services and new mobility, and the ...

Junaid has over 16 years of industrial experience and is technology leader for innovation, development and technical operations of internet-scale software systems, products and platforms.    He specializes in defining technology strategy, distributed system architecture design and...

Egyptian – Born in 1982. Holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from American University in Cairo, Masters in Business Administration from Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands and completing Scaling Ventures Program from Harvard Business School, USA. Mr Ahmed Ragab also selected...

Abdulkader Rahmani is a visionary leader, authority and pioneer in the world of Ecommerce in MiddleEast and North America, During his career he served in leading positions for companies like HP, Epson, ICC and Zai, that fueled him with strong experience in retail, IT, sales & marketing. After...

Firas Samko is an experienced E-commerce leader in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa regions, across FMCG, Consumer Electronics, and Technology industries. His focus is on leading digital transformation, building and scaling end-to-end e-commerce infrastructure as well as business development.

I´m degreed in Marketing and Business. I was born in Argentina and I´d been working for global companies like Quaker Oats (Gatorade and Cereals), Kodak and Sealed Air   During the last 6 years, I´d been dedicated to sorting out eCommerce problems connected with packaging

Richa Shah is the Founder of Liberitee Limited (www.liberitee.com) – East Africa’s first solely online clothing label. Liberitee now delivers throughout Africa with a keen focus on social impact. Within its first month of launching the brand Liberitee raised enough funds to send seven girls to...

Abhinandan Shah is the director and head of Artificial Intelligence and Ventures at Barclays Execution (BX) India. Abhi holds a computer engineering degree from Pune University and an executive MBA from Cass Business School, London. In a career spanning over 15 years, Abhi has conceived, built and...

Mr. Naif Sheshah, General Manager of Planning and Development and acting General Manager of Postal and Logistics Services at the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), has a wealth of corporate strategy experience and a reputation for developing and implementing complex...

Dr. Yassine is the Chief Executive Officer of Zara and all Inditex brands at Fawaz Alhokair Group.Dr. Sibari is responsible of the areas of Saudi Arabia, Central Asia and the Caucasus region for Zara, Massimo Dutti, Zara Home, Bershka, Stradivarius, Pull & Bear, Lefties, Oysho and...

Andreas is responsible for GIB’s digital value propositions, practices and organization as well as the innovation agenda across the Group, ensuring that GIB maximizes the opportunities that digital presents. He has responsibility for transforming the digital landscape across the Bank, including...

Mirna Sleiman is the founder and CEO of Fintech Galaxy, a global financial technology crowdsourcing platform. As a former award-winning Financial Journalist and the Head of Public Sector at a multinational company, she has guided many Banks and Governments on various Digital Transformation...

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Spent the last 13 years in e-commerce, working in product, monetization, marketing, etc, for Google, Dubizzle/OLX, Virgin Mobile, Chalhoub and now Namshi, as Chief Product Officer. Some highlights: Helped build, launch and grow Virgin Mobile in the...

Kevin has been designing and architecting payment systems for the past 15 years covering cards acquiring, switching, issuing systems and also domestic batch clearing, RTGS and Cross Border systems.  More recently he has been instrumental in the industry design and delivery of the Australian Instant ...

Kartik has led large and complex businesses in the payments and lending space. He currently leads the payments business at Mashreq bank – where he and his team are at the heart of a digital transformation in this business. His previous  assignment was to lead the global product function for credit...

Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in...

I am an International Marketing & Communication, Business Development expert with 20 years’ experience defining brand strategy and executing marketing plans to realize commercial objectives.I developed marketing and sales strategies in Europe, Gulf and West Africa for...

Dr. Bernd van Linder built his career at ABN AMRO in the Netherlands before moving to the GCC region where he was General Manager Treasury of Saudi Hollandi Bank before becoming CEO of the same bank in 2009. He has a wealth of experience in retail, commercial and corporate banking and an excellent...

Sonia is Senior Advisor in McKinsey's Dubai office. She is a transformational business and technology leader in transactional and consumer banking, with 25 years of experience across Europe, Asia and USA with passion, high energy and commitment levels, who managed change, innovated and...

JuE Wong, CEO and Executive Board Member of Olaplex has a robust track record of propelling emerging brands to the mainstream while globalizing established brands in the USA and internationally, working with such brands as Cargill Inc., PepsiCo, Dial Corp., Murad Inc., NV Perricone MD Ltd., ZO...

Pēteris Zilgalvis is the Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain in the Digital Single Market Directorate in DG CONNECT and is the Co-Chair of the European Commission FinTech Task Force. He was the Visiting EU Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford for 2013-14, where...