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- Saad Al-Barrak is a Kuwaiti businessman, entrepreneur, and investor. Al-Barrak's career started as an engineer at International Turnkey Solutions where he was promoted to CEO after a five year tenure. Shifting ITS from a local player to a regional powerhouse. Al-Barrak is best known for his role as CEO of Zain Group where he turned Zain (formerly known as MTC) from a local telecom company with 500,000 users to an empire with 72 million users. Al-Barrak's leadership and expertise in change management was the element to Zain's success. Saad Al-Barrak was born in the Farwaniyah District of Kuwait in the year 1955, the seventh of eleven brothers and five sisters, the son of Hamad Al-Barrak, treasurer to Helal Al-Mutairi, one of the most prominent pearl traders in the region. Al-Barrak studied at the Mubarakiyah school where he excelled in secondary school. Concurrently Al-Barrak was a gymnastics player at Kazma club. After successfully finishing high school, Al-Barrak was granted a scholarship to continue his education in The United States of America. Al-Barrak took an ESL course at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and went to Ohio University afterward to study electrical engineering. Al-Barrak was a politically active student during his time at Ohio. (en)
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- Businessman, Engineer (en)
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- www.saadalbarrak.com (en)
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- Saad Al-Barrak is a Kuwaiti businessman, entrepreneur, and investor. Al-Barrak's career started as an engineer at International Turnkey Solutions where he was promoted to CEO after a five year tenure. Shifting ITS from a local player to a regional powerhouse. Al-Barrak is best known for his role as CEO of Zain Group where he turned Zain (formerly known as MTC) from a local telecom company with 500,000 users to an empire with 72 million users. Al-Barrak's leadership and expertise in change management was the element to Zain's success. (en)
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