Wael Doukmak
Rillet, Inc.
Wael Doukmak is the founder and CEO of Rillet, Inc., a startup with an innovative approach to delivering safe and purposeful video content to young children while sustaining a healthy level of engagement between kids and their parents or caregivers. Taking the segment of one to a new level, Rillet understands that no two kids are the same and, at its core, serves as a platform that strives to make each kid’s online video experience relevant and germane to that kid’s development.
Wael also is the CEO of AHLAN, Inc., the company working on developing Arabic.com. AHLAN’s first venture is “The souq at Arabic.com”, which serves as an e-commerce platform that showcases products that are designed, manufactured or inspired by Arabs or in the Arab world to the rest of the world.
Previously, Wael was senior director of ICTE and Mega Projects at Ooredoo in Qatar where he started a new business unit responsible for leading the transformation of the telecom operator. Wael’s team at Ooredoo actively designed ICT solutions mapped to business objectives across all industry verticals including smart solutions for mega projects and smart cities.
Wael’s experience dates back to the mid-eighties when he wrote software programs for different market segments. In 1995, Wael launched an ISP operation in the USA and transformed it into a Managed Services Provider before moving, in 2007, to Saudi Arabia to lead the Managed Services practice at Cisco.
Wael believes that at the core of success of any business is its leadership’s dedication to enhancing the experience of its customers and emphasizing quality of service across all phases of the sales and delivery cycles.
Wael has served on many boards and has spoken in many events and participated in panel discussions on the topics of kids’ entertainment and education, Smart Services, entrepreneurship, digital transformation and ICT.
In 1999, Wael was nominated by the Athens Georgia Chamber of Commerce for the Small Business Person of the year award.
Wael received a B.Sc. in Pharmacy in 1985 and became a Ph.D. candidate in Pharmaceutics at the University of Georgia in 1992. He has Executive Education Certificates in Value Creation from HEC and in Strategy and Innovation from MIT.
