Abdulrahman A. Alolayan is the CEO of Dammam Biotech Valley.
He is also the CEO of Taibah Valley, an emerging tech hub for blockchain, AI and IoT that he founded in 2018.
He sits on several boards and committees, including Riyadh Techno Valley and the Princess Nourah University Investment Committee. He has been a board member at the Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University since August 2021 and on the advisory board at Wethaq Capital Markets since November 2020.
He is also a senior consultant at the Saudi Business Center and has led several initiatives to boost industries in Saudi Arabia. His investment and business experience is a combination of theory and practice.
He served as executive assistant VP for Business and Innovation and Investment Endowment Director at Taibah University from March 2017 to December 2020.
He held the position of consultant at the Ministry of Tourism from April 2018 to December 2019. He worked on two major projects: the King Salman Science Oasis, a live museum that presents scientific experiments in an engaging way for youth, and the Noble Qur’an Oasis.
Fascinated by the evolution of business, innovation, and investment, he has ventured into various fields to achieve positive changes on businesses and people’s lives, where he aims to bring meaning through facilitation and simplification. He is passionate about investment innovation, watching documentaries and engaging in intellectual conversations. He has collaborated with governmental organizations, such as the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture, to develop national e-commerce platforms for a wide variety of crops and products.
Alolayan holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration and is a faculty member at King Saud University, College of Business Administration. His research interests include investment, entrepreneurship and strategic management. He has presented several papers at different conferences such as USASBE, EAM, and ICSB.
Who’s Who: Abdulrahman A. Alolayan, CEO of Dammam Biotech Valley
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Who’s Who: Abdulrahman A. Alolayan, CEO of Dammam Biotech Valley
Saudi kitchen to provide 24,000 daily meals to Palestinians in Gaza
- The kitchen plans to produce 3,600,000 meals to Palestinians in central Gaza and to enable the employment of 40 local workers
- Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, the general supervisor of KSrelief, said that 90 percent of Gaza’s population is below the poverty line, lacking access to food, water, and medicine
RIYADH: King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, also known as KSrelief, established a central kitchen in the Gaza Strip to support the Palestinian people as part of Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian efforts.
The Saudi kitchen has begun providing 24,000 daily hot meals since the start of Ramadan last week for Palestinians in the central Gaza towns of Deir Al-Balah and Al-Qarara.
The initiative is part of the Saudi Popular Campaign for the Relief of the Palestinian People in the Gaza Strip, in cooperation with the Saudi Center for Culture and Heritage.
At the end of the initiative period, the kitchen will have produced and distributed 3,600,000 meals to Palestinians in central Gaza and enabled the employment of 40 local workers, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, the general supervisor of KSrelief, told SPA that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is “one of the largest crises in the history of humanity.”
He highlighted that Palestinians are facing displacement and urgent humanitarian needs, with 90 percent of Gaza’s population below the poverty line, lacking access to food, water, medicine, and necessities for children and infants.
Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries to launch an air bridge, as well as sea and land convoys, sending aid to Gaza via over 80 planes and dozens of vessels, through the Jordanian and Egyptian crossings.
Dr. Al-Rabeeah noted that KSrelief used airdrops to deliver aid to Gaza after October 2023, when other means were not possible, the SPA added.
He said the Saudi kitchen will serve over 36,000 families and described it as “the largest central kitchen available for a group of displaced people.”
