Speaker Details
Hadi Al Alawi
Chairman and Founder, Al Hayat Group
Hadi Al Alawi is the Chairman and Founder of Al Hayat Group which was launched in the early 1990s as a holding company to oversee the diversified interests held whether under sole ownership, joint ventures or equity stakes of varying sizes. Mr Al Alawi is an experienced businessman with extensive regional and international networks who has successfully propelled various start-up ventures into industry leaders with record-breaking growth and expansion within highly competitive markets.
He is also the Managing Director of Al Alawi Group of Companies founded in the early 1930s by his late father. Today the group has emerged as one of the most diversified and highly regarded business houses in the Gulf region and beyond. Mr Al Alawi has been responsible for the strategic direction and the driving force behind the development of his familys business. He is widely recognised for the role he has played in expanding the group's portfolio towards a more diversified and globalised model. His group of companies is well diversified and active in the fields of advertising, marketing public relationships, IT and telecom, construction, general contracting, electrical and mechanical divisions, manufacturing, printing, property development, real estate and investment, travel, and fashion.
Mr Al Alawi is also the Executive Vice Chairman of NEXGEN Travel Distribution, a Board member of Innovative Film City, a member (Past President) of the Manama Rotary Club, Vice Chairman of Manama Charity Fund, and a Board member and a shareholder of various companies worldwide. He holds an MBA from Manchester University.
