Name Saad Barrak Role Investor | Occupation Businessman, Engineer Organizations founded ILA Website www.saadalbarrak.com | |
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Born 5 September 1955 (age 68) ( 1955-09-05 ) Farwaniyah, Kuwait Books Passion for Adventure: Turning Zain Into a Telecom Giant | ||
Interview with dr saad al barrak part 1 4 arab business review
Saad Al Barrak is a Kuwaiti businessman and investor. He is best known for his role as the CEO of Zain Group.
Contents
- Interview with dr saad al barrak part 1 4 arab business review
- Interview with dr saad al barrak part 2 4 arab business review
- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- References
Interview with dr saad al barrak part 2 4 arab business review
Early life
Saad Al Barrak was born in the Farwaniyah District of Kuwait, the seventh of eleven brothers and five sisters, the son of Hamad Al Barrak, a book keeper, for one of the prominent business men in Kuwait. Musallam Al-Barrak, ex MP, is a nephew of Saad Al Barrak (son of his brother, Mohammed Al-Barrak, also an MP, in the first Kuwaiti parliament of 1963)
Career
Al Barrak started his career with a short stint at Kuwait Prefab Industries, during a short break in between his Bachelors and master's degrees. After completion of his master's degree, he taught at the Kuwait Institute of Applied Technology as a part of the conditions of the government scholarship that he was given. Upon being persuaded by an old friend, he joined ITS as a project engineer. Within a year, he was put in charge of Project teams and sent on training courses to the UK and US. By the end of 1985 he was appointed as Systems Development Manager and in (months after that was promoted to Assistant Director General for Sales and Systems support. In 1987, he was appointed CEO of ITS, barely 4 years after he had joined them as a Project Engineer. Al Barrak, resigned as CEO in 2001 and continued as managing director until 2002. Mobile Telecommunications Co. (MTC) had just been divested by the government and been taken over by the Al Kharafi Group, and Al Barrak became managing director of MTC which later re-branded as Zain Group in 2002 until he resigned in February 2010. He started ILA, an advisory firm in December 2010.
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