Dr. Mussaad Al-Razouki

Dr. Razouki has over 10 years of experience in social entrepreneurship with a focus on healthcare, education and e-commerce, shifting from an excellence in clinical practice and research to the management and financing of healthcare and education systems. A graduate of Columbia Business School, Dr. Razouki is the first ever Arab national to receive an MBA with a focus on Healthcare Management and Finance. An Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon by training, Dr. Razouki has completed clinical rotations at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University Medical Center, Harlem Hospital, Cleveland University Hospital of Case Western Reserve University and Mass General Hospital of Harvard University.

In 2007, Dr. Razouki joined the world’s largest and oldest strategic consulting firms, Booz Allen Hamilton, which at the time was operating in over 100 countries across six continents with four billion dollars in revenue. Dr Razouki concurrently founded Ebtikarat Education Corporation in Jeddah with three other Columbia Business School alumni with the intention of enhancing the level of education in the Arab world. Ebtikarat has since developed three separate platforms including an Admission Consulting Services, a Test Preparation Service and a Professional Enhancement Service. One of the Ebtikarat brands, MBAArabia has the distinction of hosting the first ever GMAT preparatory course (and first mixed gender course) in Saudi. Ebtikarat’s most recent venture, iQodorat.com, is the firms first foray into the local test prep market and provides proprietary high quality courses to high school students.

In 2011, Dr. Razouki and his partners completed the purchase of a Kuwait based healthcare development company, which was rebranded as Kleos Healthcare. Today, Kleos is widely recognized as a regional thought leader on Middle East healthcare, with a variety of projects in its pipeline ranging from developing a Medical Takaful Insurance company to working on a 750 million USD government PPP. He is its Chief Executive.

In 2012, Dr. Razouki Co-Founded Dubai based Glambox.me, one of the region’s leading e-commerce platforms that has just completed a 1.4mn USD Series A funding round with notable MENA VC firms including STC Ventures, MBC Ventures and R&R ventures. Dr. Razouki is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Gulf Technology Company, an ambitious Kuwait based and MENA focused internet holding company.

In 2013, Dr. Razouki Co-Founded