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 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

CMO

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 CFO

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

General Manager – Operations

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

Stephan Schulze

Chief Product Officer

Stephan leads the network and systems department, supporting the underlying information technology infrastructure.  Stephan has over 15 years of experience in the technology and payment industry

Abdullah M. Alshowaier

Chief Business Officer

Jalal Munassir

VP Customer Experience

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.

Mokhtar Al Somali

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Mokhtar leads the cyber & information security in the Geidea group, overseeing all infrastructure security of all payment solutions, with a solid cybersecurity experience for over a decade.

Andy OSullivan

Group Chief Technology Officer

An expert in global regulations for the Payment and Banking industries/y with strong technical knowledge and an ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts at a commercial level. An exceptional track record in software design, business analysis, project management, and Process design.

Asmaa

CHRO

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.

Abdullah bin Faisal Alothman

Founder & Co-Chairman of the Board

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

Board member

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.