At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Arab Emirates based CEO’ operating in the News space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Abdur-Rahman El-Sayed
Co-Founder & CEO of Nabd – Arabic News Aggregator
Mobile entrepreneur; founded Yabila! (Yabila.com), Nabd (NabdApp.com), Waveline Media (WavelineMedia.com), and Elektron Games (ElektronGames.com). Abdur-Rahman obtained his Masters Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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About Nabd – Arabic News Aggregator: Nabd is a personalized Arabic news aggregator, ranked as the #1 news app across the MENA region

Mohammed Al-Shaker
Founder & CEO of Arabia Weather
Mohammed Al-Shaker is Founder & CEO at Arabia Weather.
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About Arabia Weather: Arabia Weather features hourly-updated weather forecasts and alerts in United Arab Emirates.
Ahmet Kayhan
CEO & Founder of REIDIN.com
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About REIDIN.com, zingat.com: Emerging Markets Real Estate Information

Deepan Eswar
Founder & CEO of Wowlyst
Founder at Feedbaac.com, Executive Director at Kreata Global and KBC Marcom.
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About Wowlyst: Wowlyst is a 360 degree product information platform.

Omar Aloyoun
Founder and CEO of Brick2Click
Omar is the founder and is currently holding the position of Brick2Click.com Chief Executive Officer since May 2011. Omar has more than 12 years of IT, Telecom and Digital Marketing experience. He has worked before as an e-Business Products Marketing Manager in Evernet.com from 2006 till Mid 2011 and came through many online, mobile marketing, advertising and performance based marketing projects. Omar has worked before in the United Arab Emirates in du, Emaar Properties, Dubai Internet City Telecoms Department as a Supervisor Fiber Optics Telecoms TAC Engineer (Tier-3) in a Marconi Middle East project from 2004 and before as a (IT Supervisor) Systems Engineer in UAE Ministry of Defence. Omar is a member of the ACM (American Computer Machinery, American Marketing Association, Association of International Product Marketing Management (AIPMM), Toastmasters International Organization and Forbes.com Insights Panel. Omar wrote many articles and has a lot of publications.
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About Brick2Click: Brick2Click offers a range of digital marketing, m-commerce, and advertising services.

El Mehdi Benslim
CEO of Buzzkito
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About Buzzkito: Buzzkito aim to spread happiness and tolerance

Muhammad Ayaz Ali
CEO of Axelblog
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About : Axelblog is a news and information providing site for SEO, SEM, Blogging Platforms and Public Relation News

Ahmed Abd Al Qadir
Founder & CEO of Arabic IT News Portal
Founder & CEO at Arabic IT News Portal
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About Arabic IT News Portal: Arabic IT News Portal is the news source that is completely dedicated to offering the latest news and updates of information technology.