Mingzulu is thrilled to announce Martin Ewart as the latest Pioneer in our mission to build a “Bridge from the UK to the Middle East.” This initiative is focused on empowering founder-led and enterprise businesses in the financial services and technology sectors to achieve transformative success across the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region. Martin joins an esteemed group of industry leaders dedicated to fostering innovation, collaboration, and sustainable growth within these dynamic sectors. As a seasoned professional, Martin Ewart is a results-driven executive with deep expertise in leading organisational transformations and delivering exceptional outcomes in complex and dynamic environments. With a proven track record of driving cultural change across multi-geographical regions, Martin has consistently scaled both small and large enterprises, achieving significant revenue growth even in challenging markets. As a seasoned leader in buy- and sell-side M&A, he brings strategic insight and operational rigor to every transaction. A trusted coach and mentor to senior executives, Martin is passionate about achieving measurable results while inspiring and empowering teams to thrive. A perfect fit for our UK based client base looking to scale into the GCC region, based in Edinburgh, UK.

We've seen an incredible amount of activity in the region in H2'24 across both Fintech & wider Technology sectors. Here at Mingzulu we've paused for a breath and found time to do a blog of just a snippet of whats been going on.

We're delighted at Mingzulu to continue building out our senior industry Pioneers Assembly with the recent addition of Mohammad Bezhad Saleemi, who brings a wealth of experience to our community of growth stage entrepreneurs, enterprise businesses & investors in the fields of finance and investment industries, plus a lot more - including being a great person to work with.

The Middle East region is seeing a wave of leading regional #banks as well wider sectors (e.g. Telco, Govt etc), make great strides to accelerate plans on their #innovation agenda by establishing (and in some cases scaling established efforts) #corporateventurecapital (#CVC) and #corporateventurebuilder (#CVB) vehicles to support their #innovation and #fintech partnership agendas.

Thats why Mingzulu went on a quest to find a rising star in the field of AI & Data Science as a service to support our community by bringing best practice expertise to the region. We are very happy to be work closely with Tashfin Shafique (CEO & C0-Founder) and the talented EmergeIQ team as they scale their operations into the Middle East region, based out of DIFC (Dubai, UAE).