Ahmad Al Sari- Managing & Executive Partner

Fahad Almubarak, Ph. D.- Executive Partner

Abdulaziz Jazzar is a Managing and an Executive partner and co-founder of Malaz Group.  He is also the Chairman of The CompuMe company (one of the largest retail Computer stores in the Arab World). From 2002 to 2004, he was the Managing Director of Saudi Research and Publishing Co (SRPC), the largest publishing house in the Middle East.  From 1993 to 2002 he was the President/CEO of International Systems Engineering Ltd (ISE) a company formed in partnership with The Boeing Company to develop and maintain strategic software.

His Public assignments include Board Membership of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce & Industry (2000 -2004), Saudi Advanced Industries Co. (a publicly traded investment company), and the Centennial Fund (a Saudi version of Prince of Wales Trust). He is also the chairman of the organizing committee for Riyadh Economic Forum, and of Riyadh Chamber's Communication and IT committee.

Abdulaziz serves as a member on the Board of Directors of 2Connect (a wireless broad band start up in Bahrain), of CIT (an IT services company headquartered in Cairo with offices in Canada, and USA), and of EJADA (an integration company with offices in Saudi, Jordan, Cairo, and Dubai).

In 1993 he retired from the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) as a full Colonel. 

He graduated from Essex University in England with a Bachelors Degree in Computer & Communications Engineering.  He received his Masters Degree in System Engineering from KFUPM University in Dhahran.  In 1988 he received his Doctorate Degree in Computer Science from USC in California.

He is married and has four children.  His interests and hobbies are Skiing, Sailing, Swimming and painting.

Ahmad is a Managing and an executive partner and co-founder of Malaz Group. He is a well-known personality in the field of information technology in the Middle East where his career spans over thirty years. In 1980, Ahmad co-founded the Al-Khaleej/Al-Falak Group, which he helped  grow into one of the leading IT enterprises in the Arabian Gulf Region while serving as President of Al-Khaleej Computers & Electronics Systems from 1980 until 2000.

Ahmad is a Board member of several companies including Al Falak Electronic Equipment & Supplies Company, Al-Khaleej Training & Education Company and Medical Care & Sciences Company.  He is the Chairman of the Board of Malaz Technology & Communication Company and Al-Wadi Medical Investments Co. in Yemen.  He has served on the board of Banque Saudi Fransi and currently chairs the Audit Committee.

Ahmad holds a B. Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (IEEE), the Association of Computer Machinery, the Information Technology Committee of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce & Industries and a member of the Organizing Committee of the Riyadh Economic Forum.  He is a member of the board of the Gulf Venture Capital Association and chairs it first annual conference scheduled for November 15, 2005.

Fahad is an Executive Partner and a co-founder of Malaz Group.  He has over 17 years of work experience in various executive positions. From 1992 to 1999, Fahad was the General Manager of Rana Investment Company (Rana), one of the premier investment firms in Saudi Arabia. At Rana, Fahad launched and managed several private equity and alternative funds, while achieving the target returns in almost all these initiatives. He has also worked extensively on various regional projects in the Middle East. Fahad was one of the key members of the committee responsible for the corporatization of Saudi Telecom, the giant telecom monopoly in Saudi Arabia.

Fahad earlier served for 8 years on Shoura Council – a government appointed member consultative council. In addition, he was appointed a member of the Saudi Arabian team that negotiated with international oil and gas companies seeking concessions to invest in Saudi Arabia. He is currently a board member of Mobily (mobile phone operator in Saudi Arabia), Carrefour (Saudi Arabia), National Industrialization Company. He is also an Advisor to the ministry of Post, Telegraph & Telephone.

Fahad holds a Ph. D. in Business Administration from the University of Houston, Texas. He also holds M.S. in Industrial Management, Accounting & Taxation.