Jeddah

Khalid AlKhudair

CEO & Founder, Glowork

Mentors

Khalid’s current role is the Founder and CEO of Glowork a women empowerment

organization that has created thousands of jobs for women. This led Glowork to be

awarded the Best innovation globally for job creation by the UN, ILO & World Bank. He

is a proud Ashoka Fellow, & a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum. In March

2014 Khalid was elected to become a Young Global Leader at the World Economic

Forum for his work in social entrepreneurship. Previously he held the role of COOMarkets

at KPMG in Saudi, Kuwait and Jordan which helped him secure an expertise

insight into all the key aspects of strategic and successful marketing and operations.

Khalid managed to lead the firms he worked with to over 30 key awards which were

aligned to the firm’s overall corporate goals and strategy .in 2013 Khalid led Glowork to

an investment of over 16M USD to expand its current operations into different verticals.

He is also an Endeavor Entrepreneur.

Khalid is an active writer & contributor international publications such as the Huffington

Post, as well as publishing a book entitled “Communicating effectively in the work

place”. All this led him to being awarded the Excellence in Entrepreneurship award at

the Global Thinkers Forum, The Best Head of Marketing in the Middle East, Saint

Mary’s University Young Alumni of the year, selected as a Amends Fellow at Stanford

University, Ranked #3 in the 30 under 30 Gulf Business Magazine powerlist & ranked in

the top 500 most powerful Arabs by Arabian Business Magazine. Khalid also sits on a number of Advisory boards throughout the Globe such as the CMO Council Advisory

Board, the Country Officer for Women Campaign International, Steering committee

member at the Ministry of Labor in Saudi Arabia, Steering committee member for talent

mobility at the World Economic Forum, Advisory Member at Saudi Broadcasting, a

judge at the Hult Prize, Employment Committee Member at the Riyadh Chamber of

Commerce, Board Member at DAF Consulting Firm, & a mentor at the Founders

Institute at Silicon Valley.