Amanah's partner in Kuwait.
He opens Kuwait for Amanah, and the reason institutions there take the meeting is the house behind him rather than the pitch in front of them.
He leads GOC Energy Group, a Kuwaiti family business launched in 1947 and now in the hands of its second and third generations, grown from a domestic operation to an international one. He has been its chief executive and chairman for two decades.
Nearly eighty years of unbroken family ownership is an unusual credential to bring to a technology partnership. In the Gulf it is the one that travels furthest.
The Board and Partners