As founder and executive chairman, Abdulsalam Haykal works with the board of directors and the executive leadership team to oversee and support the implementation of Majarra's vision to provide the best Arabic content on the internet. Abdulsalam continues a family business legacy that goes back to 1939.
He is a founder and board member of Transtek Systems, an enterprise software systems company with market-leading products for fixed assets, inventory, maintenance, and AML. He is also a founder and chairman of Lableb Labs is focused on Arabic-natural language processing (NLP) products including enterprise and in-site search, consumer search, and other tools in syntax, semantics, discourse, and speech.
Abdulsalam serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut, and on the UAE’s Arabic Language Advisory Council, chaired by the Minister of Culture. He was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and received the Arab Thought Foundation's Innovation Award.
Abdulsalam is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and SOAS, University of London.