Nayef bin Sultan Al Kabeer (born 29 January 1975) is a Saudi businessman who has been the chairman of the board of directors of
Almarai Company since March 2020 when his father
Sultan bin Mohammed resigned from the post. Nayef bin Sultan is a member of the Al Kabeer cadet branch of the
Saudi royal family
The House of Saud ( ) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia. It is composed of the descendants of Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the Emirate of Diriyah, known as the First Saudi State, (1727–1818), and his brothers, though the ruling fa ...
.
Biography
Nayef was born on 29 January 1975. He is the grandson of
Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer and great-grandson of
Saud Al Kabeer.
He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from
King Saud University
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in 1998. Prince Nayef is the chairman and a member in the boards of various companies, including Almarai,
Zain Saudi, Al Yamamah Cement Company, Farabi Gulf Petrochemicals Company, the Arabian Shield Insurance Company, Tarabot Investment and Development and the Global Co. for Downstream Industries.
[
Prince Nayef was named the chairman of Zain Saudi, a ]telecommunications company
A telecommunications company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many t ...
, in October 2015, replacing Farhan bin Nayef Al Jarbaa in the post.
On 4 January 2018 Prince Nayef, his brother Prince Saud and other members of the Al Kabeer family were detained due to their protest over the cancellation of the state payment of their water and electricity bills and over the execution of their cousin Prince Turki bin Saud Al Kabeer, in 2016. They were released one week later.
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