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Leadership

The people who stand behind BLDR.

A founding team that has built ventures, scaled enterprise technology across the Gulf and shipped platforms in fintech and SaaS.

Youssef Jalloul

Founder & CEO

20+ years building technology ventures, with multiple exits. Founder of BLDR. Has set up national digital programmes with ministries in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan. MBA (Distinction), Monash University.

Mazen Matar

Co-Founder and CRO

18+ years scaling cloud and enterprise technology, including at ZAINTECH and Oman Data Park. Leads revenue and the Gulf through Inova AI Gulf.

Ayman Jawhar

CTO

20+ years across fintech, SaaS, AI and platform businesses. Leads BLDR's product and the engineering team.

Who owns what

One accountable name for every part of the work.

When you sign with Inova, you know who answers for what.

01

Strategy and the product

Youssef Jalloul sets where BLDR goes next and leads our work with ministries and boards. He writes The AI Glittch, our newsletter on sovereign, governed AI.

02

Clients, revenue and the Gulf

Mazen Matar leads revenue, partners and our Gulf business through Inova AI Gulf in the DIFC, from the first briefing to the signed contract.

03

Engineering and delivery

Ayman Jawhar leads BLDR's product and the engineering team, and owns how every deployment is built, tested and handed over.

How we lead

We sell what we build. The people who brief your board are the people accountable for the platform, the deployment and the support that follows.

We build with AI and sign off as people. Engineers direct AI agents, a separate AI reviews every change, automated checks run, and a person approves every release.

We tell you when you don't need us. Some organisations aren't ready for agents yet. We'll say so, and tell you what to do first.

Talk to the company behind BLDR.

Briefings for boards, CIOs and procurement teams, in Sydney, Dubai and Riyadh.

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