Outliers Builders Summit

Malek Almoosa is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Almoosa Health Group, a leading healthcare provider in Saudi Arabia.

He also serves as a Board Member of the Health Holding Company, where he is part of the Governance Committee, and as a Trustee of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, chairing its Audit Committee. In addition, he is a Board Member of Planetree International in the United States.

Dr. Almoosa has held several leadership roles, including Board Member of Riyadh’s Second Health Cluster and the Alahsa Local Government Council, Vice Chairman of the National Private Hospitals Committee, and Vice Chairman of Alfateh Sports Club for eight years.

He earned a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK), as well as a Master’s and Bachelor’s in healthcare administration, He has further enriched his leadership expertise through executive education programs at Harvard Business School , Stanford, and INSEAD, and Wharton .

Bridget is a Partner at ExBorder Partners, a global investment firm focused on international growth stage investments, with a priority focus on the MENA and APAC regions.

Prior to ExBorder, she was a Principal at two US family offices, where she invested across both public and private markets worldwide. She began her career on Wall Street in UBS’s Equity Research division.

James is the CIO of ExBorder Partners, a global investment firm focused on international growth stage investments, with a priority focus on the MENA and APAC regions.

Prior to ExBorder, he spent 15 years with a prominent NY-based family leading public and private investments in international markets.

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Mikey Muhanna is the Founder & Executive Director of afikra | عفكرة (afikra.com) a global movement to reframe the narrative about the Arab World through community events, academy courses, podcasts, and its magazine Daftar.

Starting from a rooftop in Brooklyn in 2014, Muhanna has grown afikra into a global education and media platform with a world-class reputation for creativity and impact and a community of 200,000 people across 30 chapters globally with a robust content library with hundreds of talks and millions of views.

Muhanna also serves as an advisor and trustee for institutions across the Middle East on topics related to cultural production, education, and innovation. Previously, he spent over a decade working at firms like Morgan Stanley and PwC in New York City and leading the MENA-based actuarial consulting firm Muhanna Group.

He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a graduate of Duke University (BS 2007) where he studied Economics and Jazz Piano. Muhanna also taught high-school Algebra in the New Orleans public school system as a Teach For America Corps member and launched the education nonprofit Positive Space NOLA.

George is a highly experienced communications and investor relations professional with a track record of advising some of the Middle East’s best-known companies and investment funds.

He has led mandates for 30+ transactions across IPOs and secondary offerings, regional and cross-border M&A, and debt capital markets throughout the GCC, as well as IR strategies for new and mature listed companies.

Formerly Managing Director at Teneo, George currently serves as an advisory board member for Aiiro, an AI-based investor engagement solution for listed companies. An active member of the Middle East IR Association, he regularly speaks at industry events.