EWgreece Saudi Delegation

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Saudi Delegation Online Profiles Name LinkedIn Profile Twitter Omar Al-Madhi

http://www.linkedin.com/in/almadhi

@madisonpartners

Lateefa Al-Waalan

http://www.linkedin.com/in/lateefalwaalan

@lwallan

Maria Mahdaly

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamahdaly

@mariamahdaly

Abdullah Al-Munif

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/abdullah-almunif/2a/332/95a

@abdullahalmunif

Abdullah Al-Mutrif

http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/abdullah-i-almutrif/2/9/204

@almutrif

Osama Natto

http://www.linkedin.com/in/osamanatto

@osamanatto


The Saudi Arabian Delegation

Mr. Omar Al-Madhi (Delegation Leader) Founder, Madison Partners

Omar H. Al-Madhi is Assistant Deputy Governor for Research, Analysis & Councils at the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority | SAGIA. Omar is also an Advisor to HE the Minister of Labor and on the steering committee for several of the Ministry of Labor’s initiatives. Omar was elected as a Young Arab Leader in October, 2010. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow. As an Eisenhower Fellow, Omar was awarded the Ward Wheelock Distinguished Middle East Fellow honor. He is also the recipient of the 2007 MIT Sloan Martin Trust Fellowship & Achievement Award for Leadership and outstanding potential. Omar was also awarded the MILE PALM2 Young Executive Scholarship. Omar led the first Saudi Entrepreneurs delegation to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Summit in Nice, France (November 2011). He is a founding member and serves as the Chairman of the membership committee at Oqal, a non-profit organization aimed at linking capital with ideas and supporting the creation of a prosperous SME sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is a founding general secretariat member of the Saudi-Japanese Industrial Cooperation Joint Task Force. Omar is also engaged in the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition as an adviser and juror. Omar has been involved in the establishment of several entrepreneurial ventures. He is the founder and Managing Director of Madison Partners, a private advisory firm with a mission centered upon creating and maximizing value for clients in the Middle East. The firm occasionally undertakes equity positions and co-invests in early-stage business opportunities. He is also a founding investor in HoneyBee Tech Ventures, the developer of “Laimoon”.


Delegation of 5 Young Saudi Entrepreneurs (Short Bios) Ms. Lateefa AlWaalan Founder, Yatooq (www.yatooq.com)

Lateefa recently founded Yatooq as an innovative new startup focused on delivering the great taste of homebrew Arabic coffee to you wherever you may be. Lateefa is also actively involved in the development of women’s networks in Saudi and is a founding member of CellA+, a professional women’s network aimed at empowering women. Ms. Maria Mahdaly Co-Founder, Rumman Company (www.rummancompany.com)

Maria is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about the social aspect of the business by supporting the youth of the community. In 2009 Maria was named one of top 30 student entrepreneurs in the world at the Global Student Entrepreneur Award and continues to explore entrepreneurial ventures. Maria participated in many local and international conferences as a youth motivator and a role model, at the age of 21 Maria was appointed a board member and head of business development at Rumman Company and in one year period she raised the value of the company by 300%.


Mr. Abdullah Al-Munif Founder & CEO, AlMunif Holding (www.almunifholding.com)

Abdullah has been heralded as one of the leading young entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia and featured in several publications including pieces by Professor Dan Isenberg of Babson University. His primary businesses have been in the gastronomy sector and include Saudi renowned brands: Anoosh and Baby Burger. Mr. Abdullah Al-Mutrif Managing Partner, Protech (www.protech-me.com)

Abdullah is considered one of Saudi Arabia’s leading youth leaders through his involvement in the establishment of several national committees for young businessmen including the Eastern Province Young Businessmen Council. He is a former VP of National Young Businessmen Committee and an avid entrepreneur in the tech space with many brands currently under management. Abdullah is a winner of the Prince Salman Young Entrepreneur Award and was selected as a Member of the Saudi Delegation at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Summit at Nice, France.


Mr. Osama Natto Founder & CEO, Innovative Business Solutions (www.ibsolutions.com.sa)

Osama is a serial entrepreneur and currently leads a company aimed at becoming the most appreciated technology consultant in Saudi Arabia providing value-added technology services to rising businesses and expanding companies. He was selected as a member of the Saudi Delegation at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Summit at Nice, France.


Delegation of 5 Young Saudi Entrepreneurs (Full Bios) Mr. Abdullah Al-Munif Abdullah is a young Saudi but with an impressive track record of enterprise.

Predominantly in Food Retail Abdullah has created and established three food chains throughout the Kingdom which he directs as Chairman and CEO. These chains are now fully recognized brands being " Anoosh Chocolates " - 15 Branches (www.myanoosh.com ); " Pane Piatto " - coffee shops - 20 Branches ( www.panepiatto.com ); " Baby Burger " - 5 Branches. All three continue to expand with a further additional 28 outlets planned in 2012. In addition Abdullah has established a Distribution Company servicing the whole Kingdom essentially providing food stuff to Hotels and Supermarkets and also certain of the Wholesalers and the Kingdoms 80,000 Groceries. Although, primarily in the food retail business Abdullah has diversified - this includes Chairman of SouthWind Telecom the leading Distributor for the Operator "Zain" within the Kingdom.


Maria Mahdaly In October 2007, three entrepreneurial Saudi women packed up their determination and vision and left their jobs at a publishing house in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to launch a business of their own. Less than three years later, Rumman Company, an innovative Media Publishing House based in Jeddah has 21 employees, annual revenue between one to five million Sar ($266,000 - $1.3) and has achieved a standard five-year growth rate (2004-2008) of 596 percent. What began in the living room of Rumman CEO Enas Hashani’s house is now a thriving enterprise that owns, operates and manages socially responsible and youth-oriented ventures in media publishing and production. In addition it provides corporate and social event management and soon will launch the Grow a competition to nurture the ecosystem of the striving young entrepreneurs. Enas Hashani, who along with General Manager Maria Mahdaly and COO Bayan Esam Abuzinadah co-founded the company. The trio initially found an enthusiastic investor, moved into a small office and launched what are now their two main ventures - Fainak?, one of the first and most active on-and-offline youth media sites in Saudi Arabia, and Destination Jeddah – City Insight on the Go. These trademark products have grown to include Fainak Buzz, Fainak Newzine and Fainak Events, and each illustrate Rumman’s ability to successfully target and showcase a largely under-represented audience – Saudi youth. Due to Rumman’s large on-and-offline database of young subscribers, it has become a primary resource for companies eager to market their products to youthful audiences. General Manager of Rumman. Mahdaly was named one of the top 30 student entrepreneurs in the world by the U.S.-based Entrepreneurs’ Organization and has been invited to attend President Barack Obama’s April 2010 Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, D.C. Rumman’s other main product - Destination Jeddah: City Insight on the Go! is the most popular English-language monthly magazine distributed to more than 70,000 readers in Jeddah. In the past few years, Jeddah has opened tremendously to business investment and tourism, which is why Rumman Compant decided to create this Destination Jeddah. The aim was to educate people, even locals, about what Jeddah has to offer. On January 25 2010, Rumman Company placed first out of 31 companies on the Saudi Fast Growth 100 Start-Up list and received an award during a gala dinner at the Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh. The Saudi Fast Growth 100 is a national program to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in Saudi Arabia that ranks the fastest-growing emerging companies in the Kingdom.


Osama Natto Osama Natto was born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in 1977 with an Entrepreneurial spirit. By the age of 17 Osama already had several part-time jobs and several businesses including selling Jewelry, a small production studio and others. Before graduation from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals with Honors, Osama joined Procter & Gamble while still a student in 1999. Osama left the corporate world after 6 years due to the restrictions in innovation and budgets and went off to start several businesses regardless of doubts from his colleagues and some family members. Osama first business, Omnitec Al-Saudia, short lived but his second business, Innovative Business Solutions, was ranked twice in a row as one of the top 10 fastest growing start-up businesses in Saudi Arabia and once on the top 20 growing businesses in Saudi Arabia. Today Osama is a partner and Board Member in several businesses and he continues to work with his friends to setup new businesses with an average of one new business every 18 months. Osama’s latest venture, Innovative Business Solutions (IBS), is a Jeddah-based business founded in 2005 as an IT & Telecom Service Provider Support entity. It has evolved in the last three years to focus on Smart Environment Solutions. The services include technical design and project delivery management. IBS is a three-time winner on the Saudi Fast Growth List by SAGIA. IBS has a track record of six Smart Environment Projects with the key flagship project being the Headquarters Business Park the largest office building in Western Saudi Arabia. IBS vision is to become the number one Saudi company in the field of Smart Environment locally and recognized internationally. IBS’s Smart Environment Solutions is defined as equipping Real Estate entities with technological solutions to offer (A) Energy & cost saving deployment & operational models as well as (B) convenient, practical and/or luxurious means of interactions with the end user. Some refer to Smart Environment as Smart Buildings or Intelligent buildings, but such latter terms are currently limited to either traditional building management systems (BMS) or building automation systems (BAS). However, “true” Smart Environment extends to positively impact all different types of the building across varying occupants. Real Estate entities span across all different building types to be smart building, smart community or even Smart city. Types include, but not limited to, single villas or multiplex residential villas, residential apartment buildings, residential compounds, commercial office buildings, retail buildings, hospitals, universities, utilities buildings, etc. IBS services offering for the Smart Environment market are:

1- Smart Environment Technology Business Consulting 2- Smart Environment Definition & Design 3- Smart Environment Vendors Selection & Tendering 4- Smart Environment Project Delivery Management 5- Smart Environment Operation Management