Saudi BarCamp

Jihad is the Founder, Owner, and Developer of Qaym the web application for rating restaurants and Coffee-Shops in Saudi Arabia.

Saleh Alzaid Founded and developed untiny‪.‬com, a web service to expand tiny URLs.

Untiny currently serves more than 50,000 requests daily and has expanded more than 8 million URLs so far. More than 300 articles have been written about Untiny in different languages and it was featured in known computer news websites like PC Mag, Los Angeles Times, LifeHacker, Kim Komando’s website, Adobe INSPIRE Online Publication, and MakeUseOf.

Saleh also acquired TwtBase‪.‬com, a database of Twitter applications. TwtBase considered as one of important resources on the Internet for new Twitter app reviews.

Bandar launched 10 iPhone Applications (iQuran, iPray, iSubha, iZakah, Callway, Faces, Groups, iPercent, TeeNiner, and 2Do).

2Do is considered the leading To-Do iPhone application. It's far a head from other famous competitors like Things, Omnifocus whom have been in the Tasks Management Market for years.

Eng. Mansour Ali Al-Harbi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Samama Technologies.

Before that, he worked in Saudi Aramco for 15 years and his last position with Saudi Aramco was the Mobile Solution Supervisor. Mansour is an entrepreneur and an inventor as well. In 2008, He was granted a patent from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His invention won the 4th position on Best innovation in the first-ever Saudi innovation exhibition which was held in Riyadh. One of his Business Plan was the 4th Best Business Plans on all over Middle East introduced in the Arabian Region during the 5th Investing in Technology Forum, held in Amman, Jordan. Also, He was rewarded by King Abdul Aziz and his Companions Foundation for the Gifted with 100,000 Saudi Riyals.

On April 2008, Mansour launched the first mobile applications (Widdee) which provide more than 150 services to end users.

Essam AlZamel is a web and technology serial entrepreneur. Essam has over 10 years experience in the web and Internet online services.

Essam is the founder of Remal IT, a leading web services/portals company which owns and operates one of the largest networks in the Arab world, reaching more than 4 million unique visitors per month. Kammelna is considered the most famous online Saudi game.

Fouad was the Founder & Owner of SmartInfo. His StartUp was acquired by a large Tech Corporation Dec 2009.

With the help of his team in SmartInfo, Fouad successfully created a number of solutions for the Saudi Market (CMS, BPM, DMS, EMS). Fouad also is the Co-Founder of Saudi BarCamp and known to be a leading advocate for the usage & utilization of Blogging & Social Networks within the Saudi youth society as medium for dialog and discussion of Saudi public affairs.

Fouad is currently working on building his second StartUp in the Technology field also.

Abdulrahman Tarabzouni

Abdulrahman is currently heading Google in Emerging Arabia and its expansion into new markets.

Prior to Google, Abdulrahman led different projects within Blueprint, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and held a seat on Microsoft's Board of the Future. He founded a number of ventures and his last startup, Syphir, won the MIT $50K Arab Entrepreneurship Competition in 2009.

He was named by Arabian Business as one of the most influential 30 young leaders in the Arab World on the annual “30 under 30: The Next Arab Generation Leaders” list. He received both a BSc of EECS with an Economics concentration and a Masters of Engineering from MIT and is the first recipient of the MIT ASO Science and Technology Achievement award.

Yasser is the Acting Assistant General Manager – Strategic Partnerships at the Centennial Fund.

The Centennial Fund is a Saudi Arabian charity established in July 2004 with a royal charter to help young Saudi men & women achieve financial independence by assisting them start their own commercially successful businesses.

Dr. Rasheed is Riyadh Techno-Valley Deputy Manager. He also teaches Information Technology classes at King Saud University.

In the past, Dr. Rasheed provided consultancy services to different Saudi Government Ministries and many large Saudi Corporations.

Yasser is the Team Leader - Wealth Management at Global Investment House.

He Engaged in Banking, Real estate and Hospitality industries:

SPV at Um AlQura Capital - Jeddah, KSA 2007. Held Senior managerial positions at NCB, Samba and ANB in Corporate Banking Group - Jeddah 1996 - 2006

Yasser completed his Master Degree in the field of Entrepreneurship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mohammed El-Kuwaiz is co-founder and Chief Compliance Officer of Derayah.

He has over ten years of experience in the areas of financial services, strategy, law, investment, corporate governance and compliance. Mohammed was formerly a consultant with McKinsey & Company. While at McKinsey,

Mohammed worked extensively with a number of leading financial services clients, including Greenfield, developing and mature companies, on formulating strategy, developing business plans, establishing organizational structures, instituting performance management systems, and supporting with project management and implementation.

Prior to McKinsey, Mohammed worked in investment banking and corporate finance with Samba Financial Group. Prior to that, he was a treasury dealer at Arab National Bank (ANB) in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed holds Bachelors of Administrative Sciences with Honors from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia in 1998 majoring in Law (Valedictorian). He also obtained an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business in 2003, specializing in finance and entrepreneurship.