Ali Al Muttawa is the Managing Director of Golden Jeed Trading LLC and group of SME’s at North Al Batinah regions (Sohar). He is leading different SME companies under hospitality and logistics sectors. He believes that SME’s play major role in Oman economy by providing employment opportunities and contributing to country GDP. Ali has graduated from Sultan Qaboos University in 2001 with a bachelor degree in Computer Science from College of Science. After receiving his education, Ali worked as SAP support for Al Amjad LLC supporting PDO in deploying SAP system at well engineering department.

In February 2002, Ali joined Halliburton Worldwide Limited LTD as a trainee “Oil Field Engineer”. Working with different nationalities and all over Oman’s Oil fields, he became operation leader in 5 years running PDO & Oxy operations. After two years, Ali been promoted as “Business Development Accounts Manager” with the responsibility of working on tenders, contracts and negotiating different related issues with major oil operators in Oman.

In November 2009, Ali left Halliburton and founded the first 100% Omani company providing “Gyro Services” serving Oil & Gas operators. The company “Gas Way LLC” won a 7 years contract with PDO and currently growing and expanding their scope to telecommunications and manufacturing sectors.

In July 2011 and due to family reasons, Ali moved back to his hometown “Sohar”. He joined a group of SME’s as a managing partner providing hospitality services. During his past six years, he managed to triple the group size in terms of manpower & income. He has also established few SME’s in logistics sector to diversify the group activities.