About International Development Company LLC (IDC)

Faysal is Managing Director of IDC and IDC Group CEO. He oversees the group’s business operations and drives strategic company growth, as well as overseeing the financial performance, business ventures and investments of the company. Faysal is also a member of the Board of Directors, keeping the rest of the Board informed about group activities, and directing the execution of the board’s strategic decisions.

Faysal's career spans 43 years and it began and grew in the U.A.E. He first started working as a Site and then Project Engineer in the Construction industry. He then took on a five-year role as a Project Manager with a major contracting firm before co-founding his own contracting company, Fast Engineering, as well as a building materials company, Rimal Engineering Products (REP). He was General Manager at REP for a few years before joining IDC in 1988. IDC already existed as an Oil & Gas supply company majoring in Project Development. Faysal worked alongside his partner Sulaiman Naim to grow it; IDC grew more than fortyfold since and has become a major regional player in the Oil & Gas industry.

Since then, Faysal has grown his portfolio of personal ventures and has established businesses in Food Processing, Property Development, Hospitality, FMCG, F&B and Retail. His industriousness and entrepreneurship has been an inspiration to many within the Group. Faysal has played a huge role in providing motivation and guidance to other leaders and managers in the Group and beyond.

Faysal is a proud graduate of the American University of Beirut with a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering; class of 1979.

Thamir runs IDC's sales and alliances, with a focus on maintaining strong relationships with principals and clients, developing the business by growing IDC’s partner and client base, as well as negotiating and agreeing contracts. He is also involved in determining annual budgets and driving the team to achieve them.

Thamir joined the company in 2006 as Sales Engineer and went on to become the Projects Development Manager in 2009, Business Development Manager in 2013 and the Oil & Gas Division Manager in 2017 before acquiring his current role as GM in 2021. His proficiency in staying attuned to the dynamic Energy sector has enabled him to drive huge progress within the business.

Thamir graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Reef is responsible for expanding IDC Group’s scope of work and uncovering opportunities for new types of business and new partnerships within the Energy sector (with a focus on Clean Energy) and beyond.

Reef started her career in London, working in Product Strategy at a boutique consulting firm. She then entered the Financial Services sector, focussing her strategies and efforts on Financial products, specifically FinTech (Financial Technology) products. She began with overseeing the build of NatWest Group’s neobank, and ensuring its risks were in line with the Groups long-term strategy and risk appetite. After its launch, Reef then moved to a money transfer FinTech scale-up to run their Product Operations before moving to the UAE and to IDC Group at the end of 2021.

Reef holds a Master's degree in Industrial Design from Central Saint Martins University, London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut.