Saad Al Barrak

Saad Al-Barrak is a Kuwaiti businessman, entrepreneur, and investor. He is currently the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for Economic & Investment Affairs. Al-Barrak's career started as an engineer at International Turnkey Solutions where he was promoted to CEO after a five year tenure. Al-Barrak grew ITS through his novel method of management which turned the organization from a local player to a regional IT powerhouse. Al-Barrak is best known for his role as CEO of Zain Group where he turned Zain (formerly known as MTC) from a local telecom company with 500,000 users to a global network with 72 million users. Al-Barrak's leadership and expertise in change management was the element to Zain's success. The methodology of management that Al-Barrak brought in was the catalyst to making Zain Group into one of the largest telecom companies geographically.