Tell Us About Your Background. Born and raised in Malta, moved to Dubai in 2010 to join Sukar.com, a tech start up company which eventually was acquired by Souq.com. I hold a Diploma in e-commerce. At Souq.com, I grew the operations from the ground up and set up 3 generations of fulfilment centres in 5 […]
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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Alexandre Rigaud, CEO & Co-Founder Of Step
Tell Us More About Your Background? I am Alexandre Rigaud, the CEO and Co-Founder of STEP, the company behind FitWin. We operate worldwide and have enabled the launch of wellness white-label apps in over 10 countries across the GCC, Europe, and Africa. Innovation and entrepreneurship have always driven me to extend my potentials, which is […]
Company Spotlight: FasterCapital
Tell us about FasterCapital. What do you do? FasterCapital is an online incubator, accelerator, and service provider for start-ups and small businesses. What we do is we support entrepreneurial journeys throughout their different and various phases. We offer technical and software development solutions for first-time entrepreneurs and for start-ups that are looking for a technical […]
Book Review: Managing The Matrix By Dawn Metcalfe
At some point in your career, someone you saw as below you has been promoted and you sat thinking “How did he/she get promoted? I’m smarter and work harder.” Dawn Metcalfe, who is a seasoned and practiced trainer, facilitator and coach, offers the frank and honest truth that you don’t want to hear but need […]
Author Showcase: Joan Kingsley
Tell us your name and what you do Joan Kingsley, Consultant Clinical, Organizational Psychotherapist and author of The Fear-Free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform your Business Culture. Tell us about your background I am an Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and am on the Psychotherapist register at […]
A Day In The Life Of: Bijay Shah
BIJAY SHAH, National director of BNI – UAE, Qatar Kenya & Uganda. Tell Us About Your Background. I’m born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya and did my university education in the UK. I’m a Gujarati Indian by heritage. The UAE has been my home for the last 16 years and will continue to be as […]
Company Spotlight: Brian Mayne
Tell us more about your business and how it all started A little more than 20 years ago someone shared with me the simple secrets of success and how to set goals correctly and I have been teaching others ever since. In the last 20 years my Goal Mapping system has reached more than 3 […]
A Day in The Life Of: Saahil Mehta
Tell Us About Your Background. Being born & raised in Belgium with Indian descent and educated in the British school with students over 100 nationalities, I have been blessed with an international outlook. This was further developed in my adult years as I lived in five countries across three continents with my current residence being […]
Break Through Imposter Syndrome & Step Into Your Power
A study ‘How imposter syndrome and fears hinder women entrepreneurs’ business growth, published by Business Horizons, in Volume 62, Issue 5, 2019 sheds significant insights in to why this might be more prevalent for women entrepreneurs. The authors Kimberly Eddleston, Jamie Ladge and Keimei Sugiyama state “One reason why it’s easy for women entrepreneurs to […]
Company Spotlight: Instaval
Instaval is a Digital Investment Readiness Platform made to promote equity investments in startups and scaleups. Instaval satisfies the needs of startup founders regardless of budget or deal stage. We asked founder Akram El Youssi to tell us more. Tell us more about what you do? At Instaval, we promote equity investments in start-ups and […]