Sharakah concludes ‘Ruwad Sharakah’

MUSCAT: Sharakah concluded its second edition of ‘ Ruwad Sharakah’ event at Crowne Plaza Muscat Hotel on May 17. Neil Petch, chairman of Virtugroup was the guest speaker.

The event was presided by Hani M. Al Zubair, chairman of the Board of Directors of Sharakah and attended by Sharakah’s board members, staff and more than 50 entrepreneurs’ beneficiaries of Sharakah.

Commenting on this, Mohamed Al Lawati, Marketing Specialist at Sharakah said, “We believe that creating a platform for our supported SMEs or how we would prefer to call them “Ruwad Sharakah” to meet and discuss their businesses is of high importance. It’s a great networking and learning platform where business owners can share expertise, exchange information and possibly execute business deals.”

Neil Petch shared his excitement of seeing so many Omani small business owners and appreciated the advancement Oman has witnessed in the past 5 years in the SME ecosystem. He also commented that the whole region has seen a positive move in SME development and pointed out the opportunities SMEs would have with growing need for technological solutions.

Amongst the entrepreneurs who attended the event is the founder and owner of New Rusayl Heights, Huda Al Saadi who commented, “We have been with Sharakah since the early operations of our company which has witnessed a major growth over the past 3 years. We appreciate the opportunity Sharakah has given us to network with other SMEs. This has been a great event and we encourage Sharakah to do more of this.”