Mr. Laith Al-Qasem is an established leader with over 25 years of business and development experience. Mr. Al-Qasem’s professional experience is broad, varied and multi-disciplinary integrating technology, innovation and economic development. The foundation of his experience and competence is based on an intimate practical knowledge in technology development, business development, venture capital financing, business incubation, acceleration and mentoring of start-ups.  As such, Mr. Al-Qasem has substantial capability in private sector and economic strategy development, objective setting, planning, coordination and execution.   His substantial hands on work with technology entrepreneurs and venture capital investment has led to excellent knowledge and experience with technology related private sector development, entrepreneurship development, managing start-up companies and dealing with entrepreneurs.