Mohamed Amine Belarbi

Entrepreneur, Author, World Economic Forum Global Shaper and Arabian Business "Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015", Mohamed is a serial entrepreneur who ventured in the fields of media, E-commerce and cybersecurity. He founded his first venture in freshman year of university, StudInov marketing strategies, a branding and design student group catering to companies in and out of the UAE. The following year, he went into media and publishing with the launch of millennial publication Gulf Elite (35,000 monthly readers), covering entrepreneurship and business stories, successful profiles, lifestyle and motivational content. The success of Gulf Elite as an English publication led him to establish a sister publication in Arabic called Business Arabi (25,000 monthly readers) catering to Arabic speakers in the Mena region.

Besides, Mohamed’s successes as an entrepreneur include inventions (engineering pending patent in the solar industry), consultancy engagements with various companies and government organisations, as well as being a recipient of the Siemens Middle East award and the Technopreneur award among others. These early successes only pushed him to work harder and share his enthusiasm with others through his talks in Tedx and at high schools, universities and entrepreneurship camps in Morocco as well as his book "PANGEA: Siete jóvenes que están transformando el mundo".

Mohamed is also well known among international student circles on Facebook thanks to his founding of “Opportunities for Students” group, a Facebook group with 49,500 international student member where daily opportunities (internships, competitions, conferences, scholarships) are shared for the benefit of the student population. Mohamed’s work directly impacts over 120,000 youth across the globe.

Currently, Mohamed is focusing on cybersecurity and ensuring a safer cyberspace for GCC based companies through his startup VUL9 Security Solutions, as well as consulting on technology and innovation for UAE based companies and organizations.