Celebrating the Best of Dubai

Ammar Al Malik is the Managing Director of Dubai Internet City and Dubai Outsource City, a role to which he was appointed in 2016, following a successful stint as Executive Director at the same organisations. Ammar has been instrumental in shaping the development of a community in which Fortune 500 businesses, innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups continue to thrive. His leadership and in-depth knowledge of the ICT sector have enabled companies at Dubai Internet City to continue to break new ground in developing technologies that support Dubai’s vision of transforming itself into one of the world’s smartest and innovative cities. With the convergence of ICT in business services, Ammar has helped nurture Dubai Outsource City to be equipped to respond to the evolving needs of global outsourcing firms. Ammar plays a crucial role in nurturing the next generation of home-grown enterprises led by forward-thinking and innovative tech entrepreneurs, primarily through the in5 innovation centre. He holds an MBA in Business from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, which is a leading private institution renowned for producing highly influential leaders.

Alyza oversees marketing, communications, quality, business excellence and CSR functions for the Group’s 27 businesses. She has helped transform how the Group communicates, contributing to a significant increase in corporate brand awareness and employee engagement. At ESAG, Alyza works with brands across the Group’s retail & lifestyle, consumer, industrial and trading verticals. She manages brand teams and provides strategic direction to develop customer-focused business strategies and creative campaign platforms for ESAG’s key principals to help drive growth and increase market share.

She has spoken on various panels and was awarded by Forbes Middle East as one of the region’s top 50 Marketing & Communications Executives in March 2020.

Derya leads the company’s Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and other platforms in more than 70 countries, serving communities and businesses to build a digital ecosystem that will expand the social and economic impact in the region. She has over 20 years’ experience in various industries including technology, management and is a passionate advocate of diversity, inclusion and women empowerment, especially for the youth.

Derya holds an MBA degree from Columbia and was shortlisted as one of the top ten 50 most powerful Female CEOs of Turkey. She is also in the Fortune Turkey’s ‘40 under 40’ list.

Sania Mirza is a path-breaking tennis athlete who almost single-handedly put Indian women’s tennis on the global map. She is the only woman to win any Grand Slam from the subcontinent and she was World No. 1 for over 90 weeks. She is also the only player to have broken into the top 30 of the WTA singles rankings. She became the first Indian sportswoman to feature on the cover of Time magazine. A three-time Olympian, the proud Dubai resident was ranked by the Women’s Tennis Association as India’s No.1 player. Sania has also fared incredibly well while representing India at multi-nation events, winning several medals (including gold) in both singles and doubles at the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and Afro-Asian Games. She has had the highest rank as a singles player male or female for more than 2 decades.

Sahar Khan is the dynamic Director of Marketing at Bayut & dubizzle who has spearheaded  highly successful campaigns in the region, including the popular commercial featuring Chris Hemsworth as the face of Bayut and the UAE’s first and most successful PropTech summit, B3DXB. An extremely driven and passionately creative marketer, Sahar has been recognised with several accolades including the Storyteller Award for Top Marketing and Communications Executives, by Forbes Middle East. A strong advocate of content marketing, Sahar has been successful in building a marketing powerhouse within Bayut and dubizzle that has launched a variety of successful editorial projects including the MyBayut blog, the dubizzle cars blog and a series of unique Area, School and Building Guides as well as other traditional OOH projects, to amplify the brand awareness for both Bayut and dubizzle.