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Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi
Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi is a Qatari engineer and energy executive who has served as President and CEO of QatarEnergy since 2014 and as Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs since 2018.
Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding is a Turkish investment holding company founded in 1967 by the Sabancı family, coordinating businesses in banking, energy, and manufacturing, and listed on Borsa Istanbul.
Sabrina Dawood
Sabrina Dawood is a Pakistani businesswoman and philanthropist, Vice Chair of The Dawood Foundation, who led the TDF MagnifiScience Centre, Pakistan's first interactive science center, opened in 2021.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer is a Dubai business executive who has led the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) since its creation in 1992, as MD and CEO since 2004.
Said Khoury
Said Khoury, also known as Saeed Khoury (سعيد خوري), was a Palestinian-born civil engineer who co-founded Consolidated Contractors Company, the Middle East's largest contractor, in Beirut in 1952.
Saif Ahmed Al Ghurair
Saif Ahmed Al Ghurair (1924–2019) was an Emirati business tycoon who founded Al Ghurair Group, a Dubai conglomerate spanning manufacturing, real estate, and banking, in 1960.
Saif Group
Saif Group is a family-owned industrial and services conglomerate based in Islamabad, Pakistan, founded by Khan Faizullah Khan and operating across power generation, textiles, oil and gas, and healthcare.
Saifullah Khan
Saifullah Khan was the founding generation of the Saifullah family of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, whose early construction and power ventures grew into the Saif Group, an Islamabad-headquartered conglomerate.
Salem Ahmed Bin Mahfouz
Salem Ahmed Bin Mahfouz was a Saudi businessman of the Jeddah merchant family who came from Hadhramaut, founded the National Commercial Bank in 1953, and established SEDCO in 1976.
Samia Bouazza
Samia Bouazza is a Lebanese business executive who founded a marketing consultancy in Abu Dhabi in 2003, became Multiply Group, and leads 2PointZero Group, an Abu Dhabi-listed IHC subsidiary.
Samih Sawiris
Samih Sawiris, born in 1957, is an Egyptian businessman, the middle son of Orascom founder Onsi Sawiris, who founded Orascom Development Holding and built the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna.
Samina Hamied
Samina Hamied is an Indian business executive and third-generation member of the family that founded Cipla, its Executive Vice-Chairperson from 2016 to 2024, now founder of AYRA Ventures.
Sampson Lloyd
Sampson Lloyd (1699–1779) was a Birmingham Quaker iron manufacturer who, at age 65, co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in 1765, Birmingham's first bank and origin of Lloyds Banking Group.
Samson H. Chowdhury
Samson H. Chowdhury (স্যামসন এইচ চৌধুরী; 1925–2012) was a Bangladeshi entrepreneur who founded Square Pharmaceuticals in 1958 with three friends and built Square Group into one of Bangladesh's largest conglomerates, the country's leading drugmaker since 1985.
Samuel Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman (1889–1971) was a Canadian distiller and businessman who founded the Distillers Corporation in Montreal in 1924 and built the Seagram Company into the world's largest liquor distilling firm.
Sándor Csányi (Hungarian banker)
Sándor Csányi (Csányi Sándor) is a Hungarian banker who built OTP Bank, Hungary's largest lender, into a regional group over 33 years as chairman and chief executive.
Sandra Ortega
Sandra Ortega Mera, born 1968 in A Coruña, Spain, is a Spanish investor, daughter of Inditex founders Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera, who inherited a 5.053% Inditex stake via Rosp Corunna on her mother's 2013 death.
Sandro Buzzi
Alessandro "Sandro" Buzzi (1933–2023) was an Italian industrialist who led the family cement firm Fratelli Buzzi, and later Buzzi Unicem, growing it into a group of 39 cement plants in 11 countries.
Sappe
Sappe (เซ็ปเป้) is a Thai beverage company founded in 1988, best known for Mogu Mogu, a fruit juice drink with nata de coco, and for the Sappe Beauti Drink line.
Sappi
Sappi Limited is a South African pulp and paper group founded in 1936, headquartered in Johannesburg and listed on the JSE, selling dissolving wood pulp and papers in over 150 countries.
Sarath Ratanavadi
Sarath Ratanavadi (สารัชถ์ รัตนาวะดี) is a Thai energy and telecommunications executive, CEO of Gulf Development, which he founded in 2007 and took public in 2017.
Sathien Setthasit
Sathien Setthasit (สาธิต เสถียรสิทธิ์), formally Sathien Sathientham, is a Thai businessman who co-founded the Carabao energy drink in 2001 and serves as CEO of Carabao Group, listed in Bangkok in 2014.
Saud Bahwan Group
Saud Bahwan Group is a family-held Omani conglomerate headquartered in Muscat, best known as the Toyota and Lexus distributor for Oman, a license it secured in 1975.
Saud Salim Bahwan
Sheikh Saud Salim Bahwan was an Omani trader who founded the Saud Bahwan Group in Muscat in 1965 and built it into one of Oman's largest family businesses.
Saudi Oger
Saudi Oger was a Saudi construction company founded by Rafik Hariri in 1978, owned by his family, and shut down in 2017 with debts of about $10.89 billion.
Sawiris family
The Sawiris family (ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ) is a Coptic Egyptian business family from Sohag that built the Orascom conglomerate, founded by Onsi Sawiris in 1950 and led today by his three sons.
Schucry Kafie
Schucry Kafie is a Honduran businessman and philanthropist who founded the dairy company Lacthosa in 1988 and the energy generator Lufussa with his brothers in 1994.
SEDCO Holding
SEDCO Holding is a family-owned, Shariah-compliant diversified holding company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, founded in 1976 by Sheikh Salem Ahmed Bin Mahfouz, spanning asset management, real estate, hospitality, and healthcare.
Shawarmer
Shawarmer (Arabic: شاورمر) is a Saudi shawarma fast-food chain founded in Riyadh in 1999, owned by Innovative Foods Holding, with about 160 branches and two in Cairo.
Shayne Nelson
Shayne Nelson is an Australian banking executive who has served as Group CEO of Emirates NBD, a Dubai-based banking group, since 2013, after senior roles at Standard Chartered.