Qais Al Khonji

Qais, was listed among the top 10 Gulf Business Entrepreneurs, by Times of Oman in 2017.

In 2015, he was chosen as Business Worldwide Magazine's 'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' for Oman.

In 2013, Qais established a successful enhanced oil recovery business called Genesis Projects and Investments LLC – EOR Lab Services and he is currently running it.

In the year 2012, Qais established his second company – Genesis International – providing IT solutions, in addition to trying to implement the so-called (Smart City), which should facilitate electronic payment of bills for water and electricity within a certain population range. The company is now seeking to try to apply this system in the Omani capital Muscat and some parts of India.

In 2010, Qais decided to begin his own business, Qais United, which was a simple trading company that bought goods from China and sold them to individuals.

Also, Al-Khonji is a board member of Oman Fisheries since 2006, a board member of Oman National Engineering & Investment CO. since 2009, a board member of Sharakah which specifically encourages and supports the development of entrepreneurs and SMEs in the Oman since 2011. Qais is also a board member of Muscat National Holding since 2013.

Qais Al-Khonji graduated from Atlantic College in Wales in 1998, obtaining an International Baccalaureate diploma. Following his graduation, he moved to Leicester, England that same year and finished his bachelor's degree in business information systems in De Montfort University.