Established in 2002, Ventures Middle East (VME) is an international management consulting company providing strategic business advisory services across the GCC and the wider MENA region.
Since inception, our multinational executive leadership team empowers clients with access to an established business network, market insights and the competitive edge necessary for success. We cover all sectors and industries and provide unparalleled customized analysis and superior strategic insights.
To be internationally recognized by our clients as their partner of choice for our insightful, adaptive and impactful business advisory practices and digital services.
We strive to become reliable partners for our clients through:
Multinational executive leadership team empowering clients to achieve competitive edge and business excellence
Since inception in 2002 in the UAE, Ventures Middle East has established itself as company providing strategic services both locally and internationally
We cover all sectors and industries and provide unparalleled customized analysis and superior strategic insights
At Ventures Middle East, we take pride in celebrating our team’s success. We are an expanding organziation with more than 15 years experience working with local and international clients. We are driven by the desire to empower business and are committed to offering actionable solutions.
CEO
Partner & Director Ventures Onsite
Marketing & Communications Manager
Research Director – Market Research
Head of Finance
Director – Sales Lead Management
Head of Sales – Ventures ONSITE
Ventures ONSITE – Lead Developer
Research Manager
Senior Consulting Manager
Ahmad Kabra is a co-founder of Ventures Middle East and has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008.
Over the past 23 years, he has directed projects in various sectors with specialization on industrial & capital projects across the value chain. He has provided advice to several large, local and multinational companies in areas of investments, growth development, competitive improvement, restructuring, and strategy. Ahmad Kabra is an Advisor to the board of Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and has accompanied several UAE delegations in trade events locally and internationally.
Ahmad Kabra attended his education in the United States and holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University and a MBA from The International University of Missouri. Throughout his career, Ahmad Kabra attended several courses from world known institutes such as Harvard University and British Standards Institute.
Mibu John has been heading Ventures ONSITE for more than 20 years and is actively monitoring the construction activities across various industries – energy, buildings and infrastructure sectors in the Middle East and North African region. Ventures ONSITE is the market leader in Project Tracking services in the region and Knowledge Partner / Research or Intelligence Partner for almost all the major construction related events.
Mibu John has contributed as an expert speaker for major industry and private member events providing insight into industry movements and trends. Mr. John has written many construction related reports and also is involved in supplying construction related articles and statistics to the press and media. Mr. John has also consulted many large local and multinational companies in the construction industry in investments, growth development, competitive, customer and market strategies.
Bassel is a consumer and customer insights specialist with experience from the largest research companies in the world, and with an extensive history in the loyalty and marketing departments of those organization, across both private and public corporations in the middle east. Bassel have led the direct management of different type of projects across public and private sectors related to Brand Perception, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty studies, Mystery Shopping, Car Clinics, Product Testing, Advertising Test… Bassel have also worked across special assignments in KSA, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Syria and Lebanon
Waqar, a finance professional with over 20 years of experience, has been heading Ventures Middle East’s Support Department for five years. He has been trained with one of the major accountancy firms, PwC, for four years before starting his career. His experience is well spread over various finance related functions, i.e., financial accounting, financial reporting, internal & external auditing, to name a few. He has worked in various multi-national and multi-cultural environments for different governments to philanthropy organizations to corporate sector.
Alex has been in the Construction and Energy industry and performing Business Development close to 10 years, her expertise is in marketing solutions and creating the solution for each and every one of my clients. She is the Head of Sales at Ventures ONSITE and is responsible for creating avenues for her team to sale more, training and developing sales and leading them to success! telecom, geo-marketing, and FMCG.
A full stack developer with nearly 15 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web as well as mobile applications, Benedict has been instrumental in leading Ventures ONSITE development team since 2010. He possesses diverse experience of creating multiple highly scalable applications using different tech stacks. A continuous learner, he is skillful at plotting the future development road map of Venture ONSITE in coordination with the vision of the management team as well as implementation of the same.
His responsibilities also include developing solutions for clients, maintaining codebase by fixing bugs as well as conducting end-to-end testing.