Abdulsalam Haykal is CEO of Haykal Group, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Haykal Group invests in various sectors and includes the following operating companies:
- Transtek Systems: enterprise software in assets lifecycle management, inventory, and maintenance.
- Majarra: publisher of the Majarra app, which offers high quality Arabic content including the Arabic editions of Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Fortune, among others.
- Manhom: the main source on professionals and companies in the Middle East.
Lableb: Arabic-language NLP and AI-based products.
Haykal serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut. He is a member of the UAE government's Arabic Language Advisory Council, and of the Advisory Board of the Institute on AI and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. He was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and received the Arab Thought Foundation's Innovation Award. Haykal is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and SOAS, University of London.