Khalid Kabeer is a fintech and financial-inclusion executive with more than two decades of leadership in microfinance and MSME lending across Pakistan, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. A Fellow Chartered Accountant who started in audit and textiles, he helped build Kashf Microfinance Bank as its first CFO, ran global operations and then led Vitas Group as CEO, steering it toward a data-centric, digital-first lending model and founding its early-stage fintech investment arm, Vitas Ventures. He is now Chief Product Officer at AdalFi, a Lahore-based credit-scoring and lending-technology company taking instant, pre-approved digital credit to scale.
Aumet is a Saudi-headquartered healthtech building an AI-first procurement operating system for pharmacies, hospitals and pharmaceutical suppliers across the Middle East. The platform connects more than 12,000 pharmacies with 1,000+ suppliers and processes roughly $1B in annual gross merchandise value.
Dr. Mohamed Mazen Batterjee is the Co-Founder, CCO, and investor behind Aumet, an AI-first procurement operating system reshaping pharmaceutical supply chains across the Middle East. A scion of one of Saudi Arabia's oldest pharma dynasties, he parlayed a DBA from IE Business School and 15+ years running Batterjee Pharmaceuticals into co-founding a platform that now connects 12,000+ pharmacies, 1,000+ suppliers, and has processed over $1 billion in GMV. Aumet closed a $12M Series A in May 2026, bringing total funding to $21.84M.
Shahed Jaber is the Co-Founder of Aumet Inc, MENA's largest B2B healthcare procurement marketplace. Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he previously founded UniOrders - a B2B healthcare marketplace acquired by Aumet in 2020. With a pharmacy background from the University of Jordan, Jaber has helped grow Aumet into an AI-first procurement platform serving 12,000+ pharmacies and 32 hospitals across the MENA region, processing over $1 billion in GMV and raising $21.84M in total funding.
Yahya Aqel is the co-founder and CEO of Aumet, MENA's largest B2B healthcare marketplace and AI-first procurement operating system. A biomedical engineer turned serial entrepreneur, he has founded five health tech startups across Silicon Valley, the Middle East, and Western Europe — two of which resulted in successful exits. Aumet, backed by Emkan Capital and others, has raised $21.84M to date and processes over $1 billion in gross merchandise volume annually, connecting 12,000+ pharmacies with 1,000+ pharmaceutical suppliers across Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
Asher Siddiqui is a General Partner at Sukna Ventures, a Riyadh-based early-stage venture fund backing software and data-infrastructure startups across MENA. He spent a decade running global M&A and corporate venture at Etisalat (around $15bn in deals), then joined 500 Startups as a partner and investment committee member before settling into the GP role at Sukna. He advises a constellation of funds from Palo Alto to Pakistan and splits time between the San Francisco Bay Area, Dubai, and Riyadh.
Manara is a Silicon Valley-backed edtech company training and placing software engineers, AI and cloud talent across the Middle East and North Africa. Through cohort-based learning, mentorship from senior engineers at companies like Google and Meta, and partnerships with AWS, Manara has trained over 300,000 learners and helped hundreds land jobs at global tech firms.
Khaled Nasr is a General Partner and Chief Operating Officer at InterWest Partners, a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm with over 40 years of history investing in healthcare and information technology. A Cambridge-educated mathematician turned Silicon Valley dealmaker, Nasr joined InterWest's IT team in 2005 and became COO in 2016, overseeing all financial, fundraising, investor relations, and administrative operations. Before InterWest, he spent 16 years in networking and telecom startups - including stints as CEO of FlowWise Networks and COO of Advanced Computer Communications - then made the jump to venture investing at Alta Partners. Born and raised in Lebanon, Nasr co-founded LebNet and is a charter member of TechWadi, bridging Silicon Valley capital with Arab and MENA entrepreneurs. In January 2026, he published 'Rule Arbitrage,' a book on evading regulatory, tax, and accounting rules.
Taoufik Jamali is a Moroccan-born serial entrepreneur and CEO of Journify, an AI-powered composable Customer Data Platform that pushes ad conversion match rates from ~42% to 70-90% through privacy-first, server-side data activation. With two successful startup exits under his belt - Netclub (sold to Match.com in 2007) and Unyk (acquired by Viadeo in 2009) - and stints as VP of Growth at Shopkick and VP of Product/PLG at Smartsheet, Jamali founded Journify in 2023 and grew it to $1M ARR within nine months, raised $4M in 2025, and doubled the company valuation in under six months as he targets the broken attribution problem plaguing e-commerce advertisers globally.
Iliana Montauk is the Co-Founder and CEO of Manara, a social-impact edtech platform that connects software engineers from the Middle East and North Africa with global tech jobs at companies like Google, Meta, and Amazon. A Harvard grad and Fulbright Fellow who speaks five languages, she built Gaza's first startup accelerator before co-founding Manara with Laila Abudahi in 2020. Backed by Y Combinator, Stripe, Reid Hoffman, and Paul Graham, Manara has trained engineers who achieve 86% job placement within five months, and in 2025 inked a $3.6M AWS partnership to upskill 2,500 engineers in cloud and AI — on a mission to reach 1 million learners by 2027.