Neda Aldaihani

Brilliant Lab (BL) is a startup accelerator services whose main aim is to identify seed and early stage growth tech startup that worth investment in Kuwait and the GCC countries. Brilliant lab helped more than 300 startups to shape their business model, traction and getting noticed by local and international investment community by our global acceleration program. Our global program acceleration model has an association with Mind the bridge foundation in San Francisco, IE Venture Lab at IE business school - Madrid - Spain, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Berkeley University of California in purpose to help talented GCC individuals develop themselves and their Startups by providing them with the correct business educational tools, qualified mentors and cutting edge international Venture Capitals, where they can achieve new experiences that will help in the acceleration of their growth.

Responsible to develop Zain Great Idea, a tech startup accelerator program that bridged 60 local startup from Kuwait to silicon valley

Helping KFH captial management to setup the investment the deal flow strategy for thier tech investment fund KISP Ventures, 30 millones dollars capital early stage capital to be invested MENA startups

Being as a focal point between the following parties Company -Kuwait Oil Company-(KOC) PR and Information Department. Contractor – Alnazaer publishing and media Production Company Apr 2009 – Present Executive summary: Talented and highly efficient Contract Manager for( KOC) with extensive experience in managin contracts for major projects, Has particular interest in Business Development Management (BDM) to create added value and opportunities. Responsibilities: Create, design, Production and delivering all Kuwait Oil Company yearly Media production and standard publication needs Identify Media procurement opportunities and ensuring these opportunities are evaluated and progressed. Managing and Monitoring the performance of 25 (both technical and admin contract team member. Managing invoices from generation to payment. Ensuring that Kuwait Oil Company strategic media campaign contributing to the strategic image and business development of the company. . Making sure that all procurement and contracting activities are carried out in accordance with legislation & company policy. Supporting senior managers of Kuwait Oil Company in the development of risk and policy documentation related to the contracts. Conducting investigations into any technical changes or contractual disputes. Define, maintain and improve the bid process of the Company. Monitoring contract budgets & forecast leading complex contractual negotiations between both parties Promoting equality of opportunity and diversity for all employees. Making and supervise all mandatory amendments to contractual documents. Regularly monitoring the performance of contracted services to ensure services are effective

I pride myself on being in charge and also part of the team to build the first phase of a cost plus construction project of the American University of the Middle East (AUM) a private university owned by Arab educational enterprises company one of Human Soft holding company subsidiary in cooperation with Al- Ahlia Contracting Group well recognized Construction Company in Kuwait. Responsibilities: Possessing excellent management, organizational and analytical qualities. managing all activities related to contracts procurement and logistics (commercial review of contracts & proposals, price negotiation and awarding purchase orders time line delivery )  supervise all the administration process of Contracting and subcontracting with supervising negotiating variation requests, claims negotiation, expediting, logistics and warehousing Estimating procurement and contract expenditure, management of procurement documentation and logistics, ware-housing and inventory Management, implementing and promoting HSE standards within the department

executed a government tender to hire 1,000 Kuwaiti graduates in all private sector companies in Kuwait with Project budgets of over 1 million Kuwaiti Dinars.  Recorded all the prospective graduating students from leading institutions in Kuwait, such as Kuwait University -PAAET, to create a pool of Kuwaiti job seeker candidates; in 2 years achieved 14,000 profiles  Assisted the Careers Business Development Department by filtering the most qualified candidates and provided them with tips on how to conduct a successful interview