LAYLA KARDAN debuts her EP with a soulful and sultry voice expressing undertones of Jazz and Soul music infused with Middle Eastern and poetic movements. The singer and songwriter won Emirates Woman Artist of the Year 2017. Already in the Dubai music scene, she has performed at Emirates Jazz Festival, Dubai International Film Festival, Art…
Laure Parise is an art & design advocate with entrepreneurial mindset. In 2015, she co-founded Antidote Art & Design, an online platform based in Dubai that represents both emerging and mid-career talented artists and designers from around the world, with a special focus on the Middle East and South East Asia. She believes that art…
Omaira studied Psychology and Criminal Studies at the University of California San Francisco, graduating with a double major. She then went on to complete her Masters in New York where she studied Criminology and Criminal Justice. Returning back to the UAE she worked in various government entities in their risk and fraud areas and also…
Sheikh Hussein A. Al-Banawi is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Industrial Group, a market leader in packaging, specialty chemicals and food flavors in the Broader Middle East, Africa, and Indian Subcontinent. He is an inspirational leader dedicated to helping the next generation of enterprise leaders in the Arab World. He is Founder…
Alisha Moopen is currently the Executive Director & CEO of Aster and Medcare Hospitals & Clinics in GCC. Having joined the company as a Director in 2013, she is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and development of the company, and notably spearheading the expansion of the group into new markets. Today, Aster DM Healthcare…
Roxanne Davies is the Managing Partner of a global investment holding company, which manages direct investments and operational businesses for four global family offices. A family office veteran of near 30 years, she has managed operational businesses and multi-asset investment portfolios around the world, including the US, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Switzerland. Roxanne held…
Aster DM Healthcare Limited is one of the largest private healthcare service providers operating in multiple GCC states and is an emerging healthcare player in India. With an inherent emphasis on clinical excellence the Company is one of the few entities in the world with a strong presence across primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary healthcare…
Rozan is internationally renowned for shifting paradigms and moving markets through a strategic belief in the cultural and stylistic embrace of ‘self’. At 21, she was the youngest appointed editor in British Publishing and a Young Global Leader by the age of 28. Her focus remains on solving world problems through a unique combination of entrepreneurial, philanthropic…
Rotana, named BBC’s 100 Most Powerful Women, is an artist and songwriter born and raised in Saudi Arabia. She moved to Los Angeles four years ago to pursue music after quitting her job at Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company in the world. Rotana describes these past four years as a “delayed adolescence” of sorts,…
