Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

5 days ago | arabianbusiness.com | Abdul Rawuf |Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

There’s something disarming about Yogesh Mehta. For a man who built a $2 billion juggernaut from the dust, he makes you feel like he’s just glad you showed up for lunch. “I’m in the twilight zone,” he smiles. “That’s the best part of the clock. 9 PM to midnight. Whatever I want, I will do. Whoever I want to make happy, I will.”That’s not the usual talk of a Gulf tycoon. But then again, Yogesh Mehta was never predictable – and never tried to be. He began working at 16.

2 weeks ago | arabianbusiness.com | Abdul Rawuf |Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

If 2021 was the year crypto broke into the mainstream, 2025 may be the year it anchors itself in policy. And few places illustrate that shift better than the UAE. Once dismissed as a speculative space, the crypto ecosystem in Dubai is now being shaped by regulation, driven by adoption, and articulated by global brand builders like Frederica Tompkins Michell. Michell, who joined Binance as Director of Global Brand Marketing in early 2024, isn’t your typical crypto campaigner.

2 weeks ago | arabianbusiness.com | Abdul Rawuf |Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

Justin Grooms, President of BOLT, didn’t land in Dubai with a pitch deck and playbook. He came to listen. After six years leading the company – North America’s leading identity layer and payments aggregator – he’s learned that the future of checkout won’t be built in a lab. It has to be shaped by how people live, pay, and trust in each market. And right now, he believes some of the most interesting progress is happening in Dubai. “I’ve been at BOLT for a little over six years now,” he says.

2 weeks ago | arabianbusiness.com | Abdul Rawuf |Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

When Alex Ferrer Kristjansson joined Euroleague Basketball two decades ago, the league was an underdog with ambition. “Back then we were a group of young people just learning and putting a lot of effort in trying to build something,” he says. “It was a new thing. It was an innovative sports property, and we had a lot of ambition.

2 weeks ago | arabianbusiness.com | Abdul Rawuf |Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

Mahmoud Abuebeid didn’t come from fintech. He wasn’t coding in his teens, or raising seed rounds in his twenties. He was in construction – until 2020, when the world stopped, and he started again. “I had a lot of time to explore another opportunities in terms of improving my knowledge.