Zul Javaid was appointed as CEO of UAE Trade Connect in the year 2020. He has been a part of Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telco and digital group spanning over a decade in various senior leadership roles.

Prior to this, Zul has been CEO and CFO in various telecommunication and IT businesses and has lived in five countries. His wealth of experiences in Middle East, Africa and Asia have shaped his views on how digitization can enable economies to leapfrog over the normal evolutionary cycle. Thus bringing rapid benefits to actors throughout the valuation and in the population in general.