Before leading Lazard’s UAE financial advisory business, Hussain Al Tajir worked on the financing behind familiar parts of Dubai. His career traces the connections between a city’s daily life and its capital markets.

After four decades at work, Brad Simpson returned to formal study. His career at Marsh offers a useful view of a profession that keeps having to learn again.
He helped build Hub71, then became its CEO. The former investment professional’s work in Abu Dhabi turns on a very human question: what makes ambitious people build better businesses together?
An ice-cream order arrived as a tomato. Sanad Yaghi’s response became a retail software company, then a bet on AI checkout.