Nadeem Bakhsh

Nadeem Bakhsh

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Founder, Board Member & CEO
Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

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  • webookcom
    Founder, Board Member & CEO
    webookcom
    May 2021 - Current (5 years 2 months)
    As Chief Executive Officer of webook.com, your super app for fun, I'm building the most exciting Saudi technology company with global scale and reach, disrupting the industry of Entertainment, Tourism and Sports. webook.com is a next gen social engagement platform & network of apps connecting communities and businesses in the region. As the social booking platform for fun things to do, our mission is to empower people to create and discover experiences that bring them together to have fun, anytime, and anywhere.
  • A Bad Gaming Company
    Founder & Board Member
    A Bad Gaming Company
    Jan 2021 - Mar 2021 (3 months)
    Saudi Game Development Studio
  • Mobily
    Senior Vice President (EGM) Digital & Innovation
    Mobily
    Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 (1 year 4 months)
    Lead the strategy for new innovation and digital at Mobily to drive commercial strength, a company with over a billion monthly revenue. Within a period of 18 months creating the number 1 telco app experience in the region, through creating a digital department with agile, design thinking and usability engineering principles including a beautiful new digital presence and an omnichannel design language system. Lead the department that spearheads Digital Transformation across the company focused on improving the digital customer and employee experience, reduce costs in billions of SAR and increasing revenue through digital channels to billions. As head of department, reporting to the chiefs, responsibilities included setting up the vision,
  • Kafu Games
    Founder & Board Member
    Kafu Games
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year 3 months)
    The #1 leading gaming & esports community platform hub for gamers, teams and tournaments in the MENA & GCC region.
  • webookcom fun things to do
    Founder & Board Member
    webookcom fun things to do
    May 2018 - Apr 2021 (3 years)
  • Uxbert Labs
    Founder & Chairman
    Uxbert Labs
    May 2018 - Apr 2021 (3 years)
  • Mobily
    General Manager Digital Transformation (VP)
    Mobily
    May 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 8 months)
  • Saudi Esports Federation
    Board Member
    Saudi Esports Federation
    Nov 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 3 months)
  • Sawwagy
    Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
    Sawwagy
    Jul 2016 - Jul 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    An overnight viral sensation that won the “BEST Arab Startup” at the largest technology conference in the Middle East, Gitex Technology Week 2016. Sawwagy is proof that scientifically engineered experiences built through user centered design processes deliver award winning successes! Sawwagy is an app aimed at making life easier for families when it comes to managing the daily routine of the family driver. Since women can't drive in Saudi Arabia, we have one of the largest ratios of families with full time drives in the world. As a daily part of life almost everyone has had to deal with the headache of time wasted waiting for the driver to find you, spending 40 minutes on the phone giving directions or having them say they’re 5 minutes a
  • Uxbert Labs
    Director of Experience Transformation & Technology Innovation
    Uxbert Labs
    Jul 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 11 months)
    Leading Technology, Innovation, CX, UX, Usability & Ecommerce at UXBERT LABS In 3 years with 0 capital established it as one of the leading Digital Experience technology and research companies in the region, with a full suite of testing, optimization, transformation development and training services from ideation through to optimization, with revenues exceeding millions of dollars. Used all profits from consulting to release 6 products, grow the team and winning several awards for different projects, proving the success of the scientific engineering design thinking processes. Transformed digital experiences, business processes and strategized the training programs for 20+ elite corporates and startups such as: Accenture, Alinma Bank, E
  • Needa Services
    Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
    Needa Services
    Aug 2014 - Aug 2016 (2 years 1 month)
    Needa Instant Services Mobile App Platform uses the cutting edge design, usability and technology for enabling customers to order a wide range of quality services to your location within minutes. Along with the consumer app, we're designing innovative integrated solutions with beautiful experiences for businesses. www.needa.io - main consumer app for all services www.sawwagy.com - personal home car and driver safety, notification and tracker service www.karaz.co - industry focused app for ordering desserts
  • Uxbert Labs
    Senior UX, Usability & Ecommerce Consultant
    Uxbert Labs
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 2 months)
    Established Saudi Arabia's first User Experience, Usability and Ecommerce research, training, consulting, design and development company in Riyadh to create simple products that people love to use. It features the first Usability Lab in the Kingdom. The Uxbert Usability Lab is equipped with state of the art technologies like eye tracking research devices and industry leading usability research software to bring the Saudi ecommerce and online market and entrepreneurs a facility where they can focus on user research, evaluation and user testing of all their web and mobile applications and services across various devices and browsers. The team consists of certified usability and user experience professionals that spend their days creating
  • webookcom fun things to do
    Chief Technology Officer
    webookcom fun things to do
    Jan 2014 - May 2018 (4 years 5 months)
    webook.com is a Super App for Fun for digital disruption and engagement in the region. A 100% coded in Riyadh sports and activities community platform to help people easily find, book, organize, learn and compete in sports, entertainment and tourism activities. We are a startup with over 120 employees and growing.
  • Uxbert Labs
    UX, Usability & Product Management Consultant
    Uxbert Labs
    Sep 2012 - Jun 2014 (1 year 10 months)
    Specialize in Arab, GCC and MENA startup and corporate web, mobile and complex applications' UX, usability and product management. Focus on innovation, growth, engagement, conversion and product development strategies and executions.
  • SLB
    Senior UX & Usability Architect
    SLB
    Aug 2012 - Sep 2015 (3 years 2 months)
    Schlumberger has the world's second largest corporate intranet with roughly 130,000 employees. Intranet applications' UX and usability have a significant impact on key business decisions, strategy, communications, costs, employee performance, satisfaction and resources. As the Senior UX Architect I was tasked to identify and leverage UCD opportunities, establish and institutionalize a human centered design framework to address UX challenges to provide continuity, vision and consistency. I managed the UX and usability research, design and quality process for several key intranet applications coordinating with key stakeholders, vendors and remote team members (designers/developers) around the globe as well as providing UX training and co
  • Dubizzle
    User Experience (UX) & Quality Assurance (QA) Manager
    Dubizzle
    Apr 2010 - Jun 2012 (2 years 3 months)
    User experience design and quality assurance manager. Established a UX and QA department to oversee strategy, processes and expansion of dubizzle from Dubai English to 850K users at 20M pageviews/month to 35 cities in 14 MENA countries and 3 languages to 4M users at 150M pageviews/month. Re-engineered the product development lifecycle at dubizzle into a user centered process * Identified business and user needs to develop growth, engagement and retention strategies by analyzing key metrics * Initiated new and iterative projects to target user acquisition, activation, engagement, retention and resurrection while integrating a viral engine of growth within the user flows that fuels invitations and referrals. * Created product requireme
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    Co-founder
    SaudiUrbia
    Oct 2009 - Apr 2010 (7 months)
  • A
    Web & Usability Consultant
    A Little Light Ltd
    Jun 2008 - Dec 2008 (7 months)
  • Ipsos in the UK
    Telephone Interviewer
    Ipsos in the UK
    Jan 2008 - Jun 2008 (6 months)
  • L
    Project Manager
    Lifeline Charitable Trust
    Jun 2007 - Jun 2012 (5 years 1 month)
  • F
    IT & Web Consultant (Remote)
    Friends Medical Services Ltd
    Jan 2006 - May 2012 (6 years 5 months)
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    Web Developer & UX Designer
    British Kashmiri Medical Association
    Sep 2003 - Jun 2004 (10 months)
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  • Harvard Business School
    Private Equity and Venture Capital, Finance, General
    Harvard Business School
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 (1 year)
  • INSEAD
    Digital Leadership Program SDA, Executive Education
    INSEAD
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 (1 year)
  • University of Sunderland
    Master of Science (MSc) with Distinction, Electronic Technology for Business
    University of Sunderland
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2009 (2 years)
    • 2009: Graduated highest in class • Developed a strong understanding and interest in interface usability and user experience strategies • Researched and evaluated usability trends in popular websites (mainly ecommerce and social networking) and created a novel global fundraising prototype system
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    Postgraduate Diploma (PGD, E-Technology for Business
    Cavendish College
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 (2 years)
    • 2008: Graduated highest in class • Modules: Dynamic Web Engineering for eCommerce; Web Interaction Design; Information Systems Security Engineering; Database Systems Engineering; Etechnology for Information Management; Research, Ethical and Professional Issues
  • The University of Manchester
    Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honors, Bioinformatics (Biological & Computer Science)
    The University of Manchester
    Jan 2003 - Dec 2007 (5 years)
    • 2007: Graduated with Honors • 2003: MHE Scholarship worth £60,000 (For high academic performance in 2002) • Relevant IT Modules: Artificial Intelligence; Hypertext and World-Wide-Web; Programming; Bioinformatics Algorithms; Bioinformatics Mini-projects; Software Analysis & Design; Visual & Object Orientated Programming; Data Structures & Algorithms; Data Science & Mining; Databases; Database Technology; Data Handling Skills; Computer Practical Skills
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    Bachelor of Science (BSc, Medical Genetics
    Brunel University
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2003 (3 years)
    • 2003: Withdrew in 2nd year due to medical reasons • 2002: Passed Biomathematics and Biological Statistics highest in class
  • Kings College London
    Management Workshop
    Kings College London
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2000 (1 year)
    * Management workshop with emphasis on organizational skills * Acquired strong fundamental skills in organization, communication, motivation, teamwork, leadership and time management
  • University of Cambridge
    French Summer School
    University of Cambridge
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2000 (1 year)
    Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK
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    International Baccalaureate Diploma & American High School Diploma with Honors
    ACS Cobham
    Jan 1998 - Dec 2001 (4 years)
    * The American Community School, ACS - Boarding Division, Surrey, UK
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    SAIS-R
    SAISR
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    Speaker at MiSK Global Forum: Look Ahead: Youth and Vision 2030
    Misk Global Forum
    Nov 2017
    Honored to be representing Saudi entrepreneurs as head of UXBERT Labs taking stage right after Bill Gates in a panel discussion along with HE Minister Khalid Al Falih, Minister of Energy, Industry & Mineral Resources, DR. Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of NEOM, Sarah Al-Shawwaf of Albright Stonebridge Group and Tatiana Vorobevia moderated by Hadley Gamble of CNBC. Selected to represent UXBERT Labs, a Saudi Company, among international leaders like Her Majesty Queen Rania, Amazon, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, GE, Google, Harvard, IBM, LinkedIn, Manchester United, Microsoft, MIT, NEOM, Virgin Hyperloop One, Twitter and Skype.
  • Forbes
    Forbes #1 Saudi Startup to Watch 2017
    Forbes
    Oct 2017
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    Speaker at Alf Hewar Apps & Design by Alf Khair
    Alf Khair
    Feb 2017
  • G
    Best Arab Startup by Gitex
    Gitex
    Oct 2016
  • Mobily
    Speaker at Mobily Apps Hackathon
    Mobily
    Mar 2016
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    Speaker at Arabnet
    Arabnet
    Dec 2014
  • P
    Speaker at Ecommerce Talk Show: Prince Sultan University
    Prince Sultan University
    Dec 2014
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