Congratulations to the 2016 Award Winners


Micro-Enterprise of the Year


Ahmed Abdulhameed Alawadhi

Doctori Online Services

Doctori Online Services is Bahrain’s first licensed telemedicine platform that allows patients from Bahrain and all over the globe to connect with Doctors. Doctori started as a platform for therapy counseling by video and intends to expand to include all medical fields.

Start-Up of the Year


Rashed AlAraifi, Ahmed AlMannai, Abdulla Binhindi

Shepherd Design Studio Co WLL

Shepherd Studio is a multi-disciplinary design practice, aiming to provide creative schemes ranging from architectural, spatial, digital, and product based outcomes. Stephered Studio has won the 1st Place Best Pavilion in the Bahrain International Garden Show 2019 and the 2nd Place in the Bahrain Annual Fine Arts Exhibition 2019. Shephered Studio has also been nominated for the Royal Academy Dorfman Award for The Future of Architecture, UK.

SME of the Year


Nahla Almahmood

LalaBella Events

LalaBella Events and Flowers specializes in creating memorable event experiences in it’s one-stop-shop, as well as being a trend setter for bespoke floral arrangements, seasonal gift items, giveaways and high quality chocolates savories that serves corporates and individuals. LalaBella Events and Flowers has received the Woman Achiever Award in 2016 and the Entrepreneur Seal Award in 2019.

Enterprise of the Year with International Footprint


Nezar Al Saie

Kalaam Telecom Bahrain B.S.C

Launched in 2005, Kalaam Telecom is the first alternative licensed telecommunications provider established in Bahrain. Today, Kalaam is a leading ICT managed solutions provider for business across the GCC region and international markets. Kalaam Telecom has won the Fastest Growing Telecom Award in 2018 & 2019, the International Finance Award, the Best Telecom Solution Provider 2019.

Sustainability in Business Award


Mohamed Abdulaal

All Food for Food Stuff

All Food for Food Stuff is an importer, trader and distributor of food items. All Food had previously won the SME of the Year Award in the 3rd edition of the Bahrain Award for Entrepreneurship. In 2019, All Food has also won the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Excellence Award under the GCC Companies category.

Female Entrepreneur of the Year


Latifa Mohammed Al-Khalifa

Clever Play

Clever Play is a female-led EDTech startup that specializes in educating, equipping and inspiring the next generations with relevant in-demand STEAM and digital skills for future jobs. Clever Play has won several awards including the National Winner- Entrepreneurship World Cup- (Global Entrepreneurship Congress) and Start Up of the Year Finalist- (GESS, Dubai).

Global Enterprise of the Year


Roaya Saleh

VillaMamas

VillaMamas is about presenting the best of the Gulf in an accessible and relaxed atmosphere. Head Chef/Founder, Roaya Saleh, has always had a passion for home-cooked food, perfecting dishes passed down through the generations. Her menus are inspired by her heritage and travels. Roaya celebrates the legacy of the many maternal figures who shared their kitchen wisdom with her to create food that is soothing and nourishing. Roaya works closely in Bahrain and the Gulf with small farmers and producers who grow specifically for her. These collaborations with suppliers dictate her menus and are part of the restaurant’s ethos.

Launched in 2012 as the first full-service Bahraini restaurant, Roaya’s food has attracted visitors across the GCC to dine at VillaMamas. Becoming an award-winning restaurant that has generated a huge following & fan base, receiving over 15k guests monthly.

VillaMamas is expanding with the newly launched VM1856 Food truck serving Bahraini street food, Mama Gourmet concept dining where VM mabooch/pickles/products from our very own bottling plant
will be on display and the soon to open London branch in Oct 2017.

VillaMamas as a company supports local throughout the business from the food, to the people who produce and serve it to the people who build and create the beautiful spaces. Considered a culinary school for staff with the high level of training and experience offered, VM is soon to be offering an intern program for Bahraini Youth.

Lifetime Achievement Award


Farouk Al Moayyed

Almoayyed & Sons

Chairman of Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons, a diversified group of companies active across a broad variety of industries; also founder of Almoayyed International in 1979, which today is active in several GCC markets; expansion into high-tech sectors by taking major distributorships in the technology sector and reliance on trusted managers to develop and expand the business under his supervision; board member/Chairman of several leading companies in Bahrain.

SME of the Year


Mohammed Abdulaal

All Food for Food Stuff

ALL FOOD FOR FOOD STUFF is a reputable Bahraini Company that was established by Mr. Mohamed Abdulaal, an ambitious and a visionary Bahraini entrepreneur that managed to build All Food as a success story.

The Company’s operations include importing, exporting and trading fresh fruits, vegetables, frozen goods, dairy products and many more.

Providing platters from around the world, the products are imported from various countries to meet the seasonality supply and insures best quality & availability. The focus is always directed towards the clients through offering the highest quality and striving for their satisfaction.

Supporting Women Power in a male-dominated industry & believing in Bahraini potential, All Food works hard and excels at bringing the right talents and resources to go beyond the needs and expectations to serve the Bahraini market.

Despite the competitive market and the well-established rivals, All Food has extraordinarily managed to acquire a sustainable market-share to become a successful Bahraini story.

Micro-Enterprise of the Year


Aysha Mohammed Abdulmalik

Aisha Jewels

Aisha Jewels Company is a Bahraini jewelry design company founded by Ms. Aysha Abdulmalek. A young Bahraini talent, Ms. Abdulmalek started her brand in 2014 in Bahrain at age of 17 while still attending secondary-school. Since then, the Company has grown to be a GCC-wide provider of custom made, high-end jewelry pieces crafted to the Company’s high standards by top goldsmiths in Bahrain and Milan.

Born as a result of participating in Tamkeen’s Mashro3i competition in 2013-14, and equipped with savings of BD1,500 as working capital, Aisha Jewels embarked on a systematic and focused approach to carve a place for itself in the fiercely competitive high end jewelry market.

While attempting to manage the ever growing challenges of a startup together with a demanding university life is a formidable task, the Company still managed be the youngest startup to showcase its designs as a standalone designer in internationally recognised venues in Bahrain and Dubai.

Aisha Jewels is proud to be an innovator in its field – design as well as sales and management strategies. It has been awarded the Most Distinguished Business in Bahrain as part of the GCC’s first youth entrepreneurs council held in Bahrain in 2016.

Female Entrepreneur of the Year


Dr. Rana Al Ammadi

Dr. Rana’s Aesthetic Health Center

Dr. Rana’s Aesthetic Health Center has been established in 2014 by Dr. Rana Alammadi, and set out itself to be the first fully integrated aesthetic health center focused on providing scientifically evidence based and positive outcome aesthetic treatments with minimal or no downtime.

The Center provides all aesthetic procedures from Botox®, Fillers, Peels, Mesotherapy, PRP, Laser Hair Removal, Acne Treatment, Skin Rejuvenation, Body Contouring and Advanced Anti-aging Treatment. It is the only clinic in Bahrain with a specialized unit for hair solutions such as PRP and Mesotherapy, DHI hair transplant, and BioFibre to treat Alopecia baldness, for both men and women.

Its core ethos emphasize the commitment to continuous improvement by providing the latest technologies and treatments, employing experienced and highly trained staff, and ethical practice by only using scientifically evidence based procedures and high quality treatments and equipment which are CE/FDA approved.

Dr Rana’s Aesthetic Health Center is socially responsible through Bahrainization and active engagement with the community.

Dr. Rana Alammadi is a well established medical consultant with 25 year experience in Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Aesthetic Medicine.

Start-Up of the Year


Faisal Khalifeh

Solar One Co. W.L.L.

Solar One is Bahrain’s first solar panel manufacturing facility. The factory’s automated production line has an annual capacity of 15 MegaWatts, or 60,000 panels; enough to power over 1,000 Bahraini homes. Solar One is Bahraini-borne and run and holds its products to the highest international quality standards.

Solar One’s vision is to lead the way in the renewable energy industry in Bahrain by providing free, clean energy for everyone. The company has the facilities to produce panels of any size, shape, or power output, and the products can be installed anywhere from homes and offices, to warehouses, farms and campsites.

Solar One boasts a Bahraini workforce and continues to grow with equal opportunities to men and women.

Solar One offers people a solution to rising energy prices, and the tools to fight climate change. Most importantly, the company’s vision is in line with Bahrain’s overall climate goals.

Enterprise of the Year with International Footprint


Bader Murad

Bader Models

Bader Models was founded in 1998 as a producer of custom-made aircraft models for the international market. Since its formation, it has become recognized amongst the elite of aerial model makers in the world.  In 2000, new lines were added to the production of model making to also include yacht models and architectural models. 
Over the past five years, the company has maintained a steady growth of 20% annually which allowed the implementation of the company’s long term strategy of expanding further by using the retained capital and cash flows from operations to fund their organic growth and strategic plans.
By mid 2017, the company will announce its biggest and strongest venture yet – the opening of an aviation themed coffee shop in several locations around the world starting in Bahrain.  The coffee shop will take the guest on a journey into the history of aviation since the early days.  Over 500 of the finest aircraft models ever produced by Bader Models will be displayed throughout the café.  
Bader Models is often called the ‘Rolls-Royce of models’ and is considered the leader in the business and the only company that produces such a large array of miniature models under one roof.

Sustainable Business Award


Rashed Bin Khalifa Ali Rashed Al Khalifa

Peninsula Dairy Farms W.L.L

Peninsula Farms project emerged, as a response to investing in local agriculture, food security whilst ensuring high nutritional content in a local context and at a competitive price. Sustainable farming in a local context meant the need to dedicate land to develop agriculture as well as dairy farming. Land was brought together, as well as techniques to implement this new project. Best practice methods and techniques were adopted from relevant international success stories ranging from desalination, sterilization techniques and more.

The first phase of the Peninsula Farm success story began with the harvest of fruit, which was carefully grown and selected. Following this harvest was the first agricultural production for items such as lettuce, tomatoes and peppers. These products hit the local market and exceeded consumer expectations and demands. The second phase embarked on the production of goat milk. Peninsula Farm responded to the market need of a high nutrition packed product such as goat milk. Rich in benefit and taste the goat milk innovated to include locally produced cheese as well as soap.

Achieving food security and providing local goods of import quality is the direction of Peninsula Farms. Innovation, research and market needs all play a key role in the success and planning stages of future projects. Today, Peninsula Farms has grown a great deal from their humble beginning four years ago. Peninsula Farms is proud to provide locally produced products, that are competitively priced and of the highest quality and nutritional value.

Micro-Enterprise of the Year


Alia Almoayed

Alia Almoayed Nutrition Consultancy

Alia Almoayed is a Nutritional Therapist running a busy nutrition consultancy in the Kingdom of Bahrain, offering nutrition advice to the Middle East community and beyond. With a background in public relations and marketing, Alia qualified in Nutrition after a personal illness made her reassess her health and search for natural solutions. She now writes health articles for various publications, runs TV and radio programmes on health and nutrition, holds lectures and seminars on the subject, and leads life-changing health trips called Alia Retreats. Alia is the author of I Want Healthy Kids, The Dream Body Eating Plan, and I Want a Healthy Pregnancy; she is also co-author of 101 Ways To Improve Your Health. Alia is the founder and host of the Award-winning Arabic TV show ‘Shrayha Alia.’ She also runs the seal of well-being in her Alia Approved family of products. For more information, visit http://www.AliaAlmoayed.com.

Start-up of the Year


Khalifa Al Mannai

Mannai Technological Facilitations W.L.L.

Founded on the basis of true passion, entrepreneurial spirit and excellence in service, Mannai Technological Facilitations W.L.L. was initiated in 2014.

Initially a specialist venture in IT Medical Services, the company rapidly expanded into sectors such as projects and consultancy which put Mannai on the map for further development and innovative expansion.

Today, Mannai strives to be one of the best service providers in the fields of health, training, solutions, and consultancy. Through their own platforms, Mannai has become one of the pioneers in the health facilitation sectors, providing customers with a cutting edge and innovative, yet a simple and a convenient way of managing health solutions worldwide, we call “The Phoenix Portal”.

The vision is to provide and create excellence through tailor made services, always putting our client’s need above all. In essence it is about establishing a border-less and flexible service which is able to bring experts, professionals and the common man together.

SME of the Year


Dr. Lamya Mahmood

Dr. Lamya Specialist Dental Center

Dr .Lamya’s Laser Specialist Dental Center, is the first laser specialist dental center in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the GCC. It provides ultimate excellence in dental services including the latest laser technologies, and cosmetic/smile makeover with digital smile design studio, orthodontics, surgery, pediatric dentistry, implantology with all specialties under one roof. Our goal is to implement the latest dental technology and pain-free treatment experience with our professional team in state of the art amenities.

Our founder Dr. Lamya is the first female in the Gulf who has successfully completed her Master’s Degree in Laser Dentistry from Aachen University, Germany. She successfully expanded the brand Dr. Lamya’s from a simple practice to a specialised center, that is well known within the community for ultimate excellence in high quality dental services, in addition to her other local and international businesses. The center has won two awards, 1) The Young Entrepreneur Award, and 2) The Young Business Award.

Enterprise of the Year with International Footprint


Mohamed Rafea

Midal Cables Ltd.

Midal Cables is an aluminium rod, wire and conductor manufacturer, originally conceived and established in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 1977 as a downstream project for adding value to the aluminium metal produced by ALBA smelter.

Midal has grown from its very modest beginning, when it processed about 12000 MT of aluminium annually, to its present position as a globally recognised aluminium and alloy rod, wire and conductor manufacturer processing about 300,000 MT of aluminium annually from its various plants in Bahrain. Midal expanded its presence and its global footprint by establishing manufacturing facilities in Australia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia & Mozambique with a combined processing capacity of over 150,000 MT annually.

Midal has earned international recognition for the quality of its products and its customer oriented business approach. The products of Midal meet various international standards and are supplied to almost every corner of the globe.

Midal takes its corporate social responsibility very seriously and contributes its part in developing human capital by facilitating training and skills development amongst the local populace in each of the locations where it has established its factories.

Sustainable Business Award


Hala Almoayyed

Almoayyed Contracting Group

Almoayyed Contracting Group (ACG) is one of the leading construction companies in Bahrain with a core competence in building construction, civil infrastructure, interior fit-outs and landscaping with more than 16 companies under its umbrella. ACG is one of the leading companies that has successfully undertaken projects and facilitated in the overall growth and development in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It has done this by offering international know-how to a local market. ACG believes in training its employees to offer turnkey solutions to its customers through a dedicated team of engineers and technicians. ACG prides itself by utilising the latest industry standards and innovations to ensure successful completion of its projects. ACG has received numerous awards and commendations for Health & Safety and Training. ACG puts a continuous effort towards its crucial role in society by believing in a strong corporate responsibility program and forging strong relationships with its business partners and the community at large.

Female Enterpreneur of the Year


Dr. Sara Al Reefy

London Breast Care Center

The London Breast Care Centre in Bahrain is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary medical centre, offering a full spectrum of breast care services, from screening and diagnosis to treatment, counseling and follow up care. The Center provides innovative, integrated, high quality and cost-effective breast care services to women in a caring and compassionate manner. This involves demonstrable and audited excellence of the three essential components – medical staffing, diagnostic equipment and support services. Our vision is to improve breast awareness and provide women with quick, reliable and accurate diagnosis in one day.

With such unparalleled levels of dedicated staff and superior technology, the London Breast Care Centre, Bahrain, strives to contribute to the future of improved breast care services for breast cancer.

Lifetime Achievement Award


Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali

AMA Group

Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali is one of the pioneering Bahraini entrepreneurs who have made significant contributions to the national economy and achieved unparalleled breakthroughs in the construction, contracting and real estate sectors in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He was born in the year 1930, founded Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali company before reaching the age of 19, and further developed the business as a group of companies with diversified interests in real estate construction, manufacture and supply of equipment, and related fields such as mechanical engineering and manufacture of construction materials, either operating in Bahrain or as subsidiaries outside the Kingdom.

For over 60 years, Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali has been responsible for the establishment of various infrastructure projects and major developments in Bahrain’s government and private sectors, including Salmaniya Medical Complex, Khalifa bin Salman Port, Bahrain International Airport, various water desalination and power generation plants, and the construction of custom-designed housing units.

The company has also been responsible for the development of BAPCO production facilities and the opening of a fifth production line at ALBA, including provisions and facilities upgrade for the new bus transport network system in Bahrain.

He is also recognized for his commitment to various social welfare and charitable organisations, and helped provide university scholarships to numerous deserving Bahraini students. He was conferred the Knight of the Order of Merit of France by former French President Jacques Chirac.

Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali is acknowledged for his important contribution to the development of trade relations between Bahrain and France, and for the launch of several French companies in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He holds several distinguished positions including Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jafari Waqf (religious endowments), Member of the Shura Council, Board Member of the Bahrain Islamic Bank and Takaful Company, and Honourary President of Al Aali Charity Fund.