FOUNDERS & THEIR BIOGRAPHY
CHAIRMAN MESSAGE
Sapphire’s team of advisors come from the world’s class best of field advisers and have been involved in this line of business for decades.
They come with vast experiences and a solid understanding of the industry.
Jamal Ahmed Jawa
CO FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN & CEO
Jamal is a maritime enthusiast and works as VP for Starling Holding, a Family Office investing in various alternative asset classes globally.He has also worked at Banque Saudi Fransi in the Corporate Finance department. He has studied Business at Suffolk University in Boston.
Ziad Faisal Al-Hazmi
CO FOUNDER
Ziad is the CEO of Lufthansa Technik’s Middle East division. He also has personal investments in the Real Estate, Construction, Education sectors and in local and international startups.
Mohammed Ahmed Jawa
CO FOUNDER
Mohammed works at Starling Holding as VP of Finance. He has previously worked at Saudi Fransi Bank in the Treasury Department. He is a graduate in Business Studies from AIU-London (now part of Regent’s American College London).
Abdullah Zuhair Sindi
CO FOUNDER
Abdullah works as VP at NAJCO (Nesr Al-Jazira Contracting). He has previously worked in EY as a Senior Advisor in the performance improvement department. He holds a MBA degree concentrated in Strategic Change Management from Claremont graduate university, California, USA.
Advisors
Jean-Marie Recamier
Founded Charter Senior Sales Broker at Campers and Nicholson, a global leader and oldest leisure marine and yacht management company in the world.
Michael Breman
Michael is the Sales Director at Lurssen, one of the leading shipbuilders located in Germany known for building large sized super yachts.
Mohammed A. Jawa
Seasoned F&B enthusiast who loves food and owns multiple successful high end international restaurant concepts.
Saygin Yalcin
Saygin Yalcin is the Founder & CEO of SellAnyCar.com. He also founded Sukar.com and was Partner at Jabbar Internet Group and Souq.com, the largest eCommerce company in the Arab world.
