Rewell Society’s Executive Committee

Hazem Mulhim is currently Founder & CEO of Eastnets. His background is multilayered, established through a career spanning 35 years in international markets. After his graduation from Bulgaria with a Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering and Medical Electronics, Mulhim began his professional career working at Siemens in Kuwait in 1980, where he experienced firsthand how computing was starting to transform the health industry.
As the digital revolution was just starting worldwide in the early 1980s, he took a decision to get closer to the epicenter of innovation, moving to the US to work. There, he would accentuate his entrepreneurial vision and develop a deeper insight into the emerging technologies and markets. Later in 1984, he moved to Jordan to establish what now is, EastNets.
In 2007, EastNets acquired SIDE International, a leader in AML solutions based in Belgium. This expansion strategy worked and soon EastNets was serving a 750-strong client base.
Mulhim’s acute vision and industry insight would help EastNets secure multiple prestigious international awards and in one recent case achieving leadership in one global compliance industry vertical.
Mulhim had also continued his academic drive, earning a Certificate of Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the prestigious Institute of INSEAD, France, and an OWP from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 1994, Muntaser Dawwas graduated with a B.Sc. in Econ Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom. He later worked on his Certified Public Accountant US certificate, receiving it in 2000.

Early in his career, in 1996, Dawwas landed a job with the Jordan Group, Citibank Jordan, as Chief Financial Officer. He left Citibank in 2001 to join Standard Chartered Bank as Chief Financial Officer and a year later he was promoted to Retail Banking Jordan at the bank.

In 2005, he moved again, this time leaving Jordan to become the Regional Head of Retail Banking Group North Gulf and Levant at Standard Chartered Bank in Bahrain. Dawwas continued to work for Standard Chartered Bank, relocating to Singapore in 2007.

With the financial meltdown in full swing worldwide, Dawwas returned to Jordan in 2008 as Head of Retail Banking Group at the Arab Bank. His title position would later change to Deputy CEO, Retail Banking Group at the Arab Bank and he remained there until 2011.

In 2012 he was appointed Board Member at Al Quds Bank. Dawwas is also an active Board Member at the ‏‏Institute of Banking Studies and the Association of Banks in Jordan. Dawwas currently holds the position of CEO at INVESTBANK in Jordan.

As a young fresh graduate, Osama Al Hassan, a practicing corporate lawyer, had joined the law offices of Rewell Society's founder, the late Mohammed Ayyash Mulhim as a young man. It was there that he acquired the practical knowledge needed to practice law in Jordan. According to Al Hassan, Mulhim was a great role model and generous with his knwoledge, granting him a partnership in the law offices almost immediately. Al Hassan has worked on landmark projects, including the Charter of the Welfare Association (Taawon).

Editor at Al Ahali Newspaper (The Jordanian Hashd Party) and Representative at Jordan’s Agricultural Workers Association, Methqal Zenati graduated at the Military College of Baghdad. He later would become involved in activism supporting farmer rights in Jordan. He's a contributor to Jordanian media, writing editorials mainly focused on political and technical issues in agricultural. Today, his current work is mainly focused on developing programs for supporting Jordanian farmers in the Jordan Valley. He also manages his own farm in Wadi Al Rayyan.

Bashar Arafeh sees himself as a global citizen with a “holistic view of business and social economic influence”. His views of the world have been shaped through a career in mobile telephone operators in four continents. His career path has exposed him to multiple cultures and views, and he had had numerous encounters with world leaders, most dearly of which, he says, was Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

Through his three-decade career Arafeh witnessed the transformation of the telecom and IT industries in emerging and developed markets. This exposure rewarded him with unique entrepreneurial knowledge and skills that allowed him to transform small businesses into multinationals. In one of his stops, Arafeh became involved in the sale of Zain Africa to Bharti Airtel, a US$10.7B transaction and the largest mobile telecom acquisition in Africa’s history.

In 2009, he managed the expansion of Canadian Wind Mobile into West Canada. Arafeh had also been member on different telecom and IT corporate boards.

As a twenty-year veteran of gender relations Nisreen Alami brings real and invaluable to expertise to Rewell Society’s core mission. She has worked in Jordan to defend women’s rights, especially in development and humanitarian systems.

Her current job as Development Consultant in Jordan gives the Society an insider that can guide programs focused on women empowerment. Alami is a former UN Advisor who served as Senior Humanitarian Gender Advisor to the Humanitarian Country Team in Palestine with OCHA from 2013 to 2016.

She was also a Policy Advisor for Governance and Financing for Gender Equality at UN Women from 2010 to 2012. Alami led UNIFEM’s global work on Gender Responsive Budgeting from 2001 to 2010. This work focused on aligning policies of national governments on budgeting and development cooperation with gender equality goals.

Prior to that, she was responsible for coordinating UNIFEM’s programmes in the Arab Region. Alami holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and Development Studies from the London School of Economics as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Jordan.

Hanadi Qadourah’s progressive senior financial management career spans more than 22 years, giving her unique insight and knowledge in accounting and finance in the international IT sector.

As now Group Finance Director, her long tenure since 2009 at the global financial technology company EastNets has rewarded her with special abilities in IT business planning and analysis, budgeting, ad hoc analysis and P&L management. Qaddourah has been instrumental in EastNets growth strategy in international markets, acquiring profound knowledge and skills in conceptualizing and implementing financial policies, procedures and strategies.

Qaddourah graduated from the University of Jordan with BSC in Accounting. Earlier in her career she worked in administration, logistics and financial management across MENA region markets.