“The Target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.”
Dependable, passionate and motivated. Wael Abdulkader is a leading company structuring consultant and the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Dubzplay, a company that is revolutionizing the gaming industry in the MENA region while raising the flag for local talent.
Born in the United States in Virginia, Abdulkader moved to Dubai at the age of 1 where he has resided for most of his life bar a two-year stint in Montreal, Canada. Armed with a BA in Business Administration from the American University in Dubai, Abdulkader was persuaded by his father to follow in his footsteps and join the insurance industry, a path he followed for only 3 years. From here, Abdulkader joined the company formation industry with Sentinel, marking a pivotal chapter in his career where he launched over 40 UAE companies and aided them in their early phase operational workflow.
In November 2015, Abdulkader joined fellow Co-Founder and CEO of Dubzplay, Mohannad Khallouf to start Dubzplay, a moment he sites as his proudest to date.
“I have always had a real passion for gaming and technology. What motivates me can be broken down into two parts. Firstly, the motivation of presenting something homegrown to the people of this region that they can be proud of and secondly, to break free from the day-to-day repetitiveness of a nine to five job. Dubzplay is my greatest accomplishment; we have turned this project from a bunch of scribbles on a tissue paper during a casual meeting at a cafe into reality,” Abdulkader said.
Today, Abdulkader supports CEO Khallouf in managing the Dubzplay workflow in addition to holding all HR and legal-related responsibilities. Abdulkader sees his contribution to the world as an opportunity to show people and places in their best light. “If people look at my work and appreciate at least a tiny grain of it then I have succeeded,” he says.
Together with Khallouf, Abdulkader is revolutionizing the mobile gaming and application industry in the MENA region through the development and introduction of celebrity-focused games and applications that are strategically planned from a consumer market perspective. Dubzplay acquires a roster of celebrities on exclusive mobile application contracts and builds an ecosystem around those personalities from which high-quality games and lifestyle/fashion applications are launched. Today, Dubzplay currently holds exclusive contracts with some of the biggest celebrity names in the region and is currently expanding its roster of celebrities in addition to planning future applications.