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Hala Sulaiman

Hala Sulaiman, is the Founder and Managing Director of Beyond

Borders Consultancy focused on providing strategic management and
communication consultancy. Hala Sulaiman has extensive expertise in
the Middle East market and has created and implemented holistic
marketing communications strategies, and used her extensive
knowledge and skills to engage with the various stakeholders in the
various public and private sector roles she has contributed to. Hala
Sulaiman’s experience mounts up to 25 years in the fields of Strategic
Management and Communication and has launched several start-ups in both the Public and
Private Sector.

In her capacity as an in-house consultant, she is currently the Director of the Executive office of
Bahrainouna (the National Plan to Promote the Spirit of Belonging to the Nation and Reinforce
the Values of Nationalism). She is also a Co-Founder of AlRawi Media WLL, an innovative and
award-winning audiobook application specialised in Arabic Books (@alrawibooks) and has
been appointed as a board member of Radio Bahrain’s Company, a wholly subsidiary of the
Kingdom of Bahrain’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (Mumtalakat).

She formerly served as the Director of Marketing and Communications in Tamkeen during which
she was responsible for Tamkeen’s positioning and clarifying the effective role it plays in
shaping the future of Bahrain’s labour market and enabling Bahrainis and the private sector.
During her tenure at Tamkeen, she was also seconded as part of the strategic team responsible
for setting the policies and frameworks for the media center at the National Dialogue held in
the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2011. It is worth noting that as part of her duties within Tamkeen,
she also lead the “Equal Opportunity Committee” that ensured that all programmes delivered
and activities executed are based on competency and fairness and not gender-based.

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