Shaping the Middle East’s workplaces

Company: Nabbesh Country: Lebanon/United Arab Emirates Industry: Recruitment Founder: Loulou Khazen Baz and Rima al-Sheikh Established in: 2012 Number of employees: 5 Capital raised: Won $272,000 after being crowned first winner of UAE-based show “The Entrepreneur”   Loulou Khazen Baz does not lack confidence. Most people, having made it to the final 10 from over 2,000 applicants for a televised talent show, would feel understandably nervous. Baz’s primary emotion was confidence. “By the time we were in the top 10 I thought we should win it,” she says. And so she did. Lebanese national Baz, who grew up in Broumana but left at 17 first to study in Australia and then to work in the UAE, was in November crowned “The Entrepreneur” during the first series of the UAE-based TV-show of the same name. The prize was 1 million dirhams ($272,000) plus another $272,000 worth of services, all of which