Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

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

Power Lists > Indian Aces 2025: Meet the Gulf’s most powerful Indian business leaders The Indian business community remains an indispensable pillar of the United Arab Emirates’ economic architecture. These entrepreneurs, executives, and visionaries – many of whom are celebrated in our Indian Aces 2025 power list – have transformed industries across the Emirates.

2 weeks ago | arabianbusiness.com | Tala Michel Issa |Kate-Lynne Wolmarans

Tucked into a side corridor of Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue – a zone better known for contemporary art than culinary revelation – Natasha Sideris is doing what she always does before launching a new menu: tasting, tweaking, judging. In front of her sits a marble table scattered with ceramics, hand-thrown and unlabelled, as if she’d plucked them from a market in Athens or Marrakesh. This isn’t a boardroom. It’s a tasting lab, a theatre of decisions.

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.