The founder
Fahad Al-Hamami
Founder & Chief Executive. More than twelve years of building, rescuing and running companies across the Gulf and the wider region — now put to work for every UK company crossing into it.
The experience behind the engine
Fahad is a technology entrepreneur who has spent his career where GCCBridge lives: at the intersection of regulation, culture and commercial reality in the Gulf.
He is the founder and chief executive of Airest AI, a deep-tech company admitted to Qatar Science & Technology Park under Qatar Foundation — where he took an AI classification system from concept to working product, built to international compliance standards and validated with government stakeholders in the region. Before that he founded Immulti.com, a global freelance platform that passed 100,000 registered users within two months of launch.
His operating years run deeper than technology: more than a decade of hands-on leadership across advertising, hospitality and events businesses in the region — turnarounds, franchise operations under international quality regimes, and consulting for firms whose budgets could not afford mistakes. He has sat on the operator's side of licensing, banking, hiring and negotiation in the markets GCCBridge covers.
He is a recipient of Qatar's ten-year Jusour Golden Entrepreneur Visa, awarded to a selected pool of global founders for breakthrough technical capability. He works in Arabic and English — the corridor's two working languages.
Why GCCBridge
“I have watched strong companies stumble on rules that were entirely knowable — and I have watched the cost of knowing keep smaller firms standing at the shore. The UK–GCC agreement is the opening of a generation. I am building GCCBridge so that any UK company, whatever its size, can cross with the same quality of groundwork the largest players buy — and so that more of them arrive successfully.”
Talk to us early
The founding cohort is being assembled now — and its members shape what gets built first.