Manayer M. AlSharekh

She builds the structure that lets ambition scale.

AI · Arabic AI · Strategy · Entrepreneurship · Tourism
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How she thinks

A lens you haven't tried.

Before anything is built, she takes in everything and looks at it through every angle until she finds the view no one in the room had considered: the one that shows where the plan will break, and where it could go instead. Then she designs the structure around that, so it is built once, for scale.

People come to her for an answer. They come back for the lens.
When an organisation has to work better

Organisations that existed before her, and worked better after.

  • Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. Restructured, with new HR, IT and communications departments and corporate policies; she prepared the new strategy presented to the Amir of Kuwait.
  • National Technology Enterprises Company, the Kuwait Investment Authority's technology subsidiary. She established its Group Strategy Development Office and turned strategy into five-year objectives and KPIs, with every subsidiary aligned behind them.

Earlier, she originated and structured regional investments at Gulf Investment Corporation, owned by the six GCC states. Vice Chairman of Sharq Capital Holding since 2014.

Entrepreneurship, practised and researched

Since 2009, she has started things.

  • An art enterprise that turned more than SAR 1.2 million in profit in its first three years.
  • A travel company, built with a partner from 2015 into one of the first licensed cultural tourism operators in Saudi Arabia: 400+ journeys across eight regions and dedicated guest units for government clients.
  • A group around it: heritage hospitality that secured the first private investment in AlUla, and property management, taken to audited accounts and institutional due diligence.
  • And now she studies it: PhD candidate in AI and Entrepreneurship at ESCP Business School.
How she uses AI

She uses AI the way others use a team.

She is not a developer. Since December 2022 she has designed, built and run the AI system her companies operate on, and with it she has shipped software, produced board papers and investor documents, written research and run a company: work that would otherwise take a team.

She teaches executives and their teams to do the same, with people accountable for what it produces.

Dec 2022Running her companies on AI before enterprise adoption went mainstream.
Arabic AI

A pioneer of Arabic computing, rebuilt as an Arabic AI company.

As CEO of Sakhr Software she leads the transition: Arabic language engines benchmarked against open and frontier models, priorities reset on the evidence, governance over proprietary data, and four linguist teams under her direction. Board-level strategy, with hands-on oversight of R&D, linguistics and operations.

1982The year Sakhr was founded, as a pioneer of Arabic computing.
Work with her

Bring her the thing you are building.

  • Advisory, consulting and mentoring on putting AI to work, and teaching executives and their teams to leverage it
  • Building AI capability, including Arabic AI
  • Taking founder-led or family-owned companies to institutional standards

She works with international companies, government initiatives and entities, and startups, whether government-backed or not.

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+966 55 497 2155 · manayer@gmail.com
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/manayer
CEO, Sakhr Software · Vice Chairman, Sharq Capital Holding · PhD candidate, ESCP