In 2017, he began hatching a business, teaming up with Musfique Ahmed, the digital and disruptive technology leader at EY, and Abdul Faizal, former chief executive of Dubai real estate agency ERE Homes, who sold his business to Gulf Sotheby’s International Realty in 2016.
All three put their own start-up money into the firm – they decline to reveal how much but say a “significant chunk of money” was needed to hire lawyers and others to navigate the DFSA’s regulatory and compliance procedures, and to contract an Italian technology….. Read more