Jamil ShinawiCo Founder

United Arab Emirates - Dubai

Jamil promises to answer everyone’s messages on LinkedIn; how fast depends on how busy he is or if he fell
Into a rabbit hole 🕳 . But I will get to it, you writing to me gives me pleasure equally as it is for me to respond.

Jamil is the CEO and cofounder of the AHOY team that is building the next decacorn; a revolutionary startup known as AHOY. He also founded the 24SIX9, a startup lab challenging norms and aiming at real innovation and social uplifting. He is an international serial entrepreneur with an educational background in urban and regional planning engineering, he operates with a focus on leveraging GIS, sustainability, security, energy and economic development; he minored in Disaster mitigation using satellite remote sensing. Jamil graduated from the University of Dammam with honors where he lectured for a few years after completing his studies in addition to mentoring a bunch of startups, advising some family groups and businesses in oil and gas and petrochemicals.

A successful businessman with a true pioneer spirit, Jamil had his first startup in hardware when he was 16 and has had many successful exists where most of them are still profitable and operational; he invests the majority of his exists and has invested in startups as an Angel investor throughout the world.

Jamil is the most radical, different, and out-of-the-box innovator with a clear focus on long-term strategic development linked to demand and supply and technology development and commercialization while leading effective small and large teams. Jamil is a true change maker as his ultimate goal is to challenge the status quote, leverage unlimited opportunities with higher returns, and leave inspirational changes.
He has a set of strong interpersonal and professional skills needed to start-up any project and scale it. He enjoys a large professional network and is widely respected for his organizational skills.

Jamil is an instinctive leader that has been a keynote speaker in multiple occasions and has delivered multiple masterclasses in starting new ventures, investing, operations, navigating business uncertainty, innovative structuring, team building and sales. His leadership style advocates for a flat structure that boasts innovation and empowering everyone. Jamil has a very strong stance on social mobility and equality through innovation, technology and societal positive change.

Top 5 all time Favorite book authors:
Ivan Illich
Robin Sharma
Ibn Khaldoon
Richard Carlson
Robert Greene