Ibrahim Neyaz

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer of the National Technology Development Program (NTDP) since June 2022. He leads the programme that supports the Kingdom's technology entrepreneurship ecosystem through grants to startups, support for the salaries of Saudi technical staff, and coverage of the salaries of founders working full time on their companies. Under his management the programme has attracted more than 150 international technology companies to the Saudi market, which closed investment rounds exceeding 400 million riyals and created more than two thousand new jobs. The programme's contribution to the Saudi economy has passed 11 billion riyals, while companies it supported have raised investment beyond 4.8 billion riyals, half of it attributed to that support. The programme aims to make the Kingdom a leading global technology hub by 2030.