Ronaldo Mouchawar

Syria and the UAE, e-commerce. Mouchawar, born in Aleppo, founded Souq.com in Dubai in 2005 when few Arab shoppers trusted online payment. Cash on delivery, its own couriers and Arabic-language service made it the region's largest online shop, and Amazon bought it in 2017 as its entry into the Gulf. It showed that a regional internet company could be built to a scale global buyers wanted.