Who’s Who: Dr. Mohammad Al-Suliman, CEO of Najm for Insurance Services

Dr. Mohammad Al-Suliman
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Updated 28 July 2021
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Who’s Who: Dr. Mohammad Al-Suliman, CEO of Najm for Insurance Services

Dr. Mohammad Al-Suliman has been the CEO of Najm for Insurance Services since February 2019.

He specializes in transformation and change management for organizations revamping their strategy and business models. Additionally, Al-Suliman is an accredited expert in global project management and mergers and acquisitions.

Al-Suliman restructured Najm’s traditional revenue and pricing model to be sales-driven and correlated to the financial strength of the industry, ensuring alignment to the objectives of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, making its services fully automated and 95 percent online.

He has held leadership positions in various sectors, including in telecoms, banking and investment management.

Prior to joining Najm, he served as vice president of corporate development at Saudi Telecom Co., and before that, he was chief operating officer at the Saudi Kuwaiti Finance House, and vice president of Klever Marketing in the US.

His earlier experience encompassed many executive and leadership positions including vice president of the operations and support services division at Arabian Securities, director of business systems development at Jadwa Investment, and head of investment group systems at the Arab National Bank.

Al-Suliman obtained a doctorate in strategic management and information technology from Claremont Graduate University, California, in 2015.

He did a master’s degree in information systems and technology from Claremont in 2011, having received his bachelor’s degree in Management Information System from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia in 2001.

Al-Suliman was named as the best CEO in the insurance category for 2020 by International Business Magazine.

His hobbies include extreme sports like scuba diving, sky diving, cycling and aviation. He is a certified VFR pilot.


World’s largest Arabic opera opens in Riyadh

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World’s largest Arabic opera opens in Riyadh

  • The opera was produced by the Saudi Theater and Performing Arts Commission

RIYADH: “Zarqa Al-Yamama,” the world’s first and largest grand opera in Arabic, made its debut at the King Fahad Cultural Center in Riyadh, taking the audience on a lyrical journey through one of the best-known folkloric tales in the Arabian Peninsula.
The opera was produced by the Saudi Theater and Performing Arts Commission, and will run until May 4, telling the story of the central character’s attempts to warn her Jadis tribe of an imminent invasion.


Saudi chemistry duo add to KSA medal haul

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Saudi chemistry duo add to KSA medal haul

  • Team members were selected by Mawhiba

RIYADH: Two Saudi students have added to the Kingdom’s medal haul at the 2024 Mendeleev International Chemistry Olympiad being held in China from April 20-27.
Hassan Abdul Jalil Al-Khalifa, a third-grade secondary student from the Provincial Department of Education, Eastern Province, and fellow student Ali Salah Al-Moussa claimed bronze medals at the competition, lifting the Kingdom’s overall tally to three silver and 20 bronze.
More than 150 students from 27 countries are competing at the 58th session of the Olympiad.
Saudi Arabia is represented by a team of six students from several educational institutions.
Team members were selected by the King Abdulaziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity, also known as Mawhiba.
Students were chosen after attending a series of forums over the course of two years, and were trained by Mawhiba, in partnership with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.


Saudi deputy minister of interior heads delegation at first conference to combat drug trafficking

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Saudi deputy minister of interior heads delegation at first conference to combat drug trafficking

  • Kingdom’s participation in the conference was an extension of its efforts in the war on drugs

MAUTIRIUS: Dr. Nasser bin Abdul Aziz Al-Dawood, Saudi deputy minister of interior, headed the Kingdom’s delegation participating in the first conference to combat drug trafficking and substance abuse, held in Mauritius, which concluded on Thursday.
Al-Dawood said that the Kingdom’s participation in the conference was an extension of its efforts in the war on drugs, monitoring and diagnosing their effects and harms, and strengthening international cooperation procedures and information exchange to combat the activities of organized crime networks in general, and drug crime in particular.


Cultural Communication Center holds human communication diwaniya

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Cultural Communication Center holds human communication diwaniya

  • The diwaniya tackled three themes

SAKAKA: The King Abdulaziz Center for Cultural Communication in cooperation with Al-Jouf Youth Association, held the Cultural Communication Diwaniya “Basic Pillars for Human Communication in the Kingdom” in Sakaka on Thursday.
The diwaniya tackled three themes: the ethics of human communication; the dimensions of human communication according to Vision 2030; and human communication according to international law.
Abdulaziz bin Abdulwahad Al-Hamwan, the center’s supervisor in Al-Jouf, said the goals of diwaniya were to “enhance national and human communication, consolidate the values of national cohesion, and spread the culture of human communication skills among beneficiaries.”


Minister of Islamic affairs holds meeting to discuss this year’s Hajj season

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Minister of Islamic affairs holds meeting to discuss this year’s Hajj season

  • Focus on various volunteering opportunities

RIYADH: Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance Sheikh Abdullatif Al-Asheikh held a meeting in Jeddah on Thursday to discuss the ministry’s activities and projects during this year’s Hajj season.
The meeting was held in the presence of the ministry’s undersecretaries, the directors general of the ministry’s branch in the Makkah region, and the secretary-general for Islamic awareness in Hajj, Umrah and visitation, as well as several other officials.
The minister focused on the most prominent ongoing projects, and progress in the preparation of the ministry’s facilities and services, including the mosques at the holy sites, the central area in Makkah, and activities provided by the ministry.
He looked at the importance of volunteering opportunities during this year’s Hajj season, and following up on special projects at the mosques and holy sites that serve pilgrims during this year’s Hajj.