The Middle East’s

5. Hamad Al Marar

Company: EDGE Group
Designation: Managing Director & CEO
Residence: U.A.E.
Date of Establishment: 2019

Al Marar became CEO of EDGE Group in 2024, after joining the group since its inception in 2019. EDGE consists of more than 35 subsidiaries across five strategic business clusters: platforms and systems, missiles and weapons, space and cyber technologies, technologies and industrialisation, and homeland security. In November 2025, subsidiary KATIM partnered with Space42 to set up a sovereign satellite communications (SATCOM) manufacturing alliance for defence, government, and commercial use. Al Marar sits on the board of the UAE Space Agency, and is a board of trustees member at the Institute of Applied Technology in Abu Dhabi.