At geidea, we believe today’s start-ups are tomorrow's
leaders and we will help you get there.

Renier Lemmens

Group CEO

Renier has more than 20 years of experience as CEO and Chairman in leading financial services institutions and fintech.

Laurent Dhaeyer

Chief Growth & Strategy Officer

Laurent leads the newly licensed merchants business vertical, offering innovative payment and commerce solutions to SMEs in the region utilizing his over 20 years of experience in banking and payments.

Luis Tomassoni

Group Chief Marketing Officer

Luis leads geidea’s marketing and communications, he helps telling the story of geidea and it’s innovations. Luis has over 20 years of experience bringing great stories to life

Hady Zahreddean

Group Chief Financial Officer

Hady leads Finance & Legal overlooking both verticals; the Banking business and the newly licensed Merchant business.

Muayyad Adili

Group Chief R&D Officer

Muayyad leads the development of geidea’s POS solutions, and all regulatory scheme certifications, building innovative payment solutions and Value-Added Service to both banks and merchants, with his over 20 years of experience.

 Nabil Khan

Group Operations GM

Nabil leads the operations, overseeing customer service and support, utilizing his over 15 years of experience in this area.

Abdullah M. Alshowaier

Chief Business Officer

With over 17 years of experience across the kingdom Abdullah Alshowaier is the Chief Business Officer of Geidea. In his current role, Abdullah oversees the business development function of Geidea across Saudi Arabia. He is responsible for driving business growth through new strategic partnerships and securing new clients.

Jalal Munassir

Group VP Customer Experience Transformation

Jalal leads QA & QC at geidea across all functions, to ensure delivering the finest quality to our customers. Jalal has over 14 years of experience in managing operational quality.

Asmaa

Group Chief People Officer

Asmaas’ primary focus is supporting business strategy with HR solutions and shaping HR infrastructure through technology, compliance and people with a passion for start-ups experienced in several sectors spanning Fintech, Real Estate Development, Investments & Non-Profit.

Mirna Saadallah

Group Legal Counsel

Mirna is the Group Legal Counsel leading the legal department with her demonstrated track record and history of working in the financial services industry and broad corporate and business experience working on transactions in Middle East and across African countries.

Fahad Alasmari

Group CISO

Fahad leads cybersecurity in Geidea group, overseeing the CS program covering all Geidea payment solutions and infrastructure with a strong experience in the filed for over a decade.

Rohan Sahu

Group Chief Product Officer

Rohan Sahu is the Group CPO of Geidea. Collaborating with Geidea’s commercial and marketing leader Rohan is responsible for driving Geidea’s Product strategic and roadmap across the region, strengthening the product offerings across all our merchant segments.

Abbas Natto

Group CIO

Abbas is the group Chief Information Officer at Geidea, a leading fintech company in Saudi Arabia. He has over 20 years of experience in IT, software, communications and infrastructure programs across various industries.

Abdullah bin Faisal Alothman

Founder & Chairman

Abdullah mission is to entrepreneurialise Saudi Arabia by empowering businesses with the financial tools required he focuses on how to champion SMEs and entrepreneurs across the ME Abdullah is a serial entrepreneur, focused on creating visionary businesses. Founding geidea after graduation, Abdullah has deeply embedded his business philosophy into the organization.

“If you believe that you can create something extraordinary, the most difficult part is done.”

Karim Al Solh

Co-Chairman

Dr. Karim El Solh is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Capital. Under his leadership, Gulf Capital has been associated with some of the region’s most prominent private equity and mezzanine transactions and has won numerous awards including Best Private Equity Firm and Best Private Debt Firm in the Middle East, by Banker Middle East and Private Equity International.

Nick Ogden

Board Member

An internationally recognised entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in banking, payments and fintech . Nick is the founder and Chief Executive of RTGS.global, and ClearBank. Prior to ClearBank, Nick founded and led various other significant Fintech companies including WorldPay and BarclaySquare, a Joint venture with Barclays Bank which was the first bank endorsed e-commerce shopping mall in the world.

Marcus W. Mosen

Board member

Marcus is a non-executive board member, a seasoned advisor and investor, with more than 20 years experience in payments and fintech industry.

Nabil Sharif

Executive Director – Private Equity At Gulf Capital

Nabil has an extensive 10+ years background in investments. He sits on the board of a few investments in the tech & fintech space, as well as a member of several audit, IPO and other committees in the packaging, health tech and other areas.

Asaad Salhab

Senior Operating Partner / Managing Director at Gulf Capital

Asaad has 30+ years’ experience in senior and executive management levels across the Middle East, Africa and Europe with leading international companies, he also sets on 8 companies’ boards in the fintech industry, manufacturing and medical sector.

Asmaa

Group Chief People Officer

Asmaas’ primary focus is supporting business strategy with HR solutions and shaping HR infrastructure through technology, compliance and people with a passion for start-ups experienced in several sectors spanning Fintech, Real Estate Development, Investments & Non-Profit.