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…
A Day In The Life Of: Ibrahim Abudyak
Tell Us More About Your Background When I moved to the UAE in 2010, I didn’t have an initial major breakthrough in my career. I started working in the automotive industry and slowly but surely worked my way up the ladder. I started out as a Service Advisor but then moved to a corporate job…