Fahad Al-Sharekh Explained

Fahad Al-Sharekh
Native Name:Arabic: فهد الشارخ
Birth Place:Kuwait
Alma Mater:Northeastern University
Occupation:Venture capitalist, Business executive
Years Active:1996–present
Known For:Sakhr Software Company

Fahad Al - Sharekh is a Kuwaiti venture capitalistand technology based business executive who is the General Partner at JEDI Fund, a US Silicon Valley focused, early stage venture capital fund launched in July 2021.

He served on several boards including ATG, Saftec and AwalNet. Currently Director of the Board at CODED, the First Coding Academy in the GCC.[1] [2]

He has received several awards, including Family Business Awards 2021 from the Family Business Council.[3] AlSharekh also served as the Business Development Director of Al Alamiah Group, a professional IT firm in Kuwait, and is the founder and CEO of Ajeeb.com.[4] [5]

Early life and education

AlSharekh was born in Kuwait and is the eldest son of Kuwaiti businessman Mohammed AlSharekh. He attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. As part of his academic program, he trained in Investment Banking with various organizations including Wall Street's Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He also completed the Executive Program in Corporate Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His high school education was completed at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts.[6] [7]

Career

Before that he founded TechInvest in 2015 to provide an opportunity for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) investors to obtain exposure to private investment opportunities in the technology sector. Techinvest advised and structured several deals in early, growth and late stage VC totaling over $700m in money allocated. Techinvest has also supported and helped launch several VC Emerging Managers, and has equity in several of those VC management companies, "GP stake".[8] [9] [10]

Over 23 years experience in operations and global business development in Tech. As both an executive and a board director, AlSharekh executed strategies for startups, partnerships, and private and public offerings of holdings. Worked in 2005 as the Chief Executive Officer of Sakhr Software Company, Arabic language and speech technologies company.[11] [12] [13] Under AlSharekh, Sakhr received 3 USPTO patents for Sakhr’s proprietary technologies.[14] [15] [16] Worked on founding Saudi's 1st ISP AWalNet in 2003 which was acquired by STC in 2006.[9] Supervised the transformation of a 30 year old family IT business company and publicly listing ATG in 2006.

Since 2019 AlSharekh is the Vice Chairman of Kamco Invest – KSA since 2019.[17] [18] He also serves as the General Manager of Sharq Capital since 2011, a private holding company that operates through MENA and the US. Previously a Board Member and subsequently Chairman of Al Mal Investment Company. A publicly-traded Kuwaiti asset management company that was established in 1980.[19] [20] Worked as a consultant for the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KPIDA).[21]

AlSharekh worked on the advisory board of AIM Startup, an initiative of the UAE Ministry of Economy to connect promising startups with investors and business partners from other parts of the world— set in the heart of the UAE’s Annual Investment Meeting, the World’s Leading FDI Platform for Emerging Markets.[22] [23] [24]

Personal life

AlSharekh is the eldest son of Kuwaiti businessman Mohammed AlSharekh, who started Sakhr Software Company in 1982. He joined his father's company right after completing his higher education.[25] [26] [27]

Publishing

Recognition

With AlSharekh the CEO of the company, Sakhr software has won the following international awards:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Awalan. الشركات الكويتية التكنولوجيا الناشئة نفطٌ شبابيٌ جديد. 2022-01-31. Awalan. ar.
  2. Web site: Speaker Milken Institute. 2022-02-01. milkeninstitute.org. en.
  3. Web site: Winners of Family Business Awards 2021. 2022-02-01. FBC GULF Family Business Council A Fast growing community with a wide international reach.
  4. Web site: Limited. Elaph Publishing. 2002-02-07. فهد الشارخ يشرح برنامج صخر للترجمة. 2022-01-31. Elaph - إيلاف. ar.
  5. Web site: بموجب اتفاقية هي الاولى من نوعها* بوابة عجيب تبدأ ببث اخبار الـ »بي بي سي« عبر موقعها الالكتروني. 2022-01-31. جريدة الدستور الاردنية. ar.
  6. Web site: NMH Magazine 2011 Spring by Northfield Mount Hermon - Issuu. 2022-01-31. issuu.com. en.
  7. Web site: Fahad Al Sharekh - Education . https://web.archive.org/web/20110227080923/http://www.sakhr.com/managementTeam.aspx#fahad . 27 February 2011 . dead.
  8. News: Future of Kuwaiti economy under the microscope at London event.
  9. Web site: Changing the Game. 2022-01-31. The Business Year.
  10. Web site: 2021-07-29. How to get a digital cleanse in the cancel-culture age. 2022-01-31. WIRED Middle East. en-GB.
  11. Web site: فهد محمد الشارخ مدير تطوير الاعمال في شركة صخر المتخصصة ببرامج الكومبيوتر العربية. 2022-01-31. www.al-jazirah.com.
  12. Web site: The Role of the Private Sector in the Future of the Kuwaiti Economy. 2022-01-31. TBY Events.
  13. Web site: 2020-02-22. شركة "ضخر" العربية للبرمجيات ... حقيقة تم تحويلُها إلى حُلم. 2022-01-31. بالعربية. ar.
  14. Arabic handwriting recognition using feature matching. US. 7142715. 2006-11-28. Sakhr Software Company. Fahmy. Hesham Osman Mahmoud. Elrayan. Samah Mohamed.
  15. Method and system for theme-based word sense ambiguity reduction. US. 7184948. 2007-02-27. Sakhr Software Company. Chalabi. Achraf.
  16. Determining a compact model to transcribe the arabic language acoustically in a well defined basic phonetic study. US. 7107215. 2006-09-12. Sakhr Software Company. Ghali. Mikhail E..
  17. Web site: الاستثمار في الشركات الناشئة.. مكوّن للثروات. 2022-01-31. جريدة القبس.
  18. Web site: بروتوكولات الحجر الصحي أثّرت إيجابياً على قطاع التكنولوجيا. 2022-01-31. www.aljarida.com. 29 March 2021 .
  19. Web site: مجلس ادارة "المال للاستثمار" يعين فهد الشارخ رئيساً لمجلس الادارة. 2022-01-31. أرقام. ar.
  20. Web site: أخبار الشركات. 2022-01-31. www.aljarida.com. 10 October 2013 .
  21. Web site: KDIPA receives trade delegation from the United States of America. 11 February 2019 .
  22. Web site: Fahad AlSharekh. 2022-02-02. Gateway Gulf. en-US.
  23. Web site: SALT — Fahad Al Sharekh. 2022-02-02. SALT. en-US.
  24. Web site: Speaker Milken Institute. 2022-02-02. milkeninstitute.org. en.
  25. News: 2010-10-21. Arabic's intricasies prove a boon for Sakhr Software. Financial Times. 2022-01-31.
  26. News: عام / إبصار تدشن المرحلة الثالثة من حملة الأمير طلال لدعم وتأهيل المعاقين بصرياً في المملكة..
  27. News: صخر تضع اللمسات النهائية للبوابة التعليمية في سلطنة عمان.
  28. Web site: 2020-07-13. بالفيديو: فهد الشارخ يناقش مستقبل الشركات الناشئةفى المنطقة. 2022-02-01. أموال. en-US.
  29. Web site: Fahad AlSharekh. 2022-02-01. The Business Year.
  30. Web site: Team . Sakhr Internet . Sakhr Software - Press & Media . 2022-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110112080753/http://www.sakhr.com/awards.aspx . 12 January 2011 . dead.

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