As Chief Executive Officer, Board Member and Advisor with a solid track record, Raed Al Nuaimi represents a case for success in the U.A.E. Exuberance, passion and veracious appetite for success have been Raed’s main drivers in this success story. Within a short time, Raed was already a name known and trusted by Corporate Leaders and even heads of state. Raed led teams to attract Foreign Direct Investments to the U.A.E and supervised the conclusion of such deals in the interest of the Country.
Raed started his career in the UAE Navy. Apart from the discipline that the Navy instils in all its officers, Raed had an obvious eye for analytics. Raed quickly became an expert and got first rank at Morse Code Interpretation among the NATO countries. He also got the first prize in the GCC Morse Code.
He took these attributes with him as he entered the corporate world.
Within his career, Raed led 10,000+ professionals from different disciplines including but not limited to creative, design management, project management, special projects, contracts and procurement, financial, operations, sales and marketing, hospitality, retail, infrastructure development, and corporate governance and internal audit to name a few.
Raed was a member of the founding team at Dubai Islamic Insurance and Re-insurance and he also participated in the floating shares in Dubai Financial Market. Back then, Dubai Islamic Insurance & Re-insurance was the highest performing script on DFM with 5 branches and a workforce of 700+ employees.
Prior to joining Engineer’s Office, Raed held senior management roles with Tatweer, Dubailand, and Dubai Properties Group. His decade-long experience with the three industry majors helped him gain extensive market intelligence on the global theme park industry.
During his time at the Engineer’s Office, Raed quickly gained the trust of the CEO which then extended out to the clients of the EO i.e. the Dubai Royal Family.
Soon Raed found himself at the helm of the region’s only themed entertainment destination, Dubai Parks & Resorts.
Raed is an indelible part of the very essence of the entertainment industry in Dubai.
Delivery of DPR, one of the largest projects Dubai and the entire region has seen, on time and on budget led to Raed’s appointment as CEO of North 25, a joint venture between Dubai’s largest companies, Meraas Holding and Dubai Holding. North25 was tasked with consolidating the project management expertise of both groups and commercializing the same to be one of the biggest players in the Development Management space in the region.
Further success led to Raed taking on the position of Group CEO of Dubai Properties, one the largest, if not the largest, real estate developers in Dubai. Managing the massive portfolio of approximately AED 5.8 billion at a time when the economies of the world were turning delicate was going to be a challenge and it is that challenge that encouraged Raed to take on the role.
Raed was appointed as Executive Advisor and Acting CEO of Shamal Group during the period from April 2019 to Nov 2019. He was responsible to manage investments worth billions and working on special projects across the group.
Given the trust and success that he earned at EO, Raed was escalated to Chief Leisure & Entertainment Officer at Meraas, a leading conglomerate in Dubai. In this position, Raed didn’t just set up what would be the biggest leisure and entertainment offering in the Middle East but he pioneered the start of the entertainment industry in the U.A.E. Business acumen was not just his only attribute, his ability to align with creative minds and create stories resulted in the creation of world-class entertainment offering. Attractions such as Hub Zero, Mattel Playtown, and Living Planet were the result of this creativity and imagination.