Ammar Al Malik

Managing director, Dubai Internet City (in5)

Beginning his career as a strategic planning officer at the Dubai eGovernment Department, he was appointed as the managing director of Tecom’s Dubai Outsource City and Dubai Internet City in 2016. The latter of the two includes in5, a business incubation platform and membership programme that facilitates business activities across design, technology and media industries. Al Malik’s ability to navigate a crisis – as he successfully did in 2009 with Dubai Outsource City – was brought back into sharp focus last year with in5, when its members raised over Dhs65m in direct investments in H1 2020, with 41 companies joining the platform during the same period.