Ahmad Fareed Al Saif

CEO

Amman, Jordan12 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of successful EdTech platform serving 15,000 students.
  • Recognized with multiple awards for innovation and entrepreneurship.
  • Ten years of diverse experience in sales and management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in EdTech and Renewable Energy sectors with strong sales and project management expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementTeam LeadershipSales ManagementMarketingSales Engineering

Other Skills

Customer ServiceCustomer Relationship ManagementHVACMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficePowerPointManagementProject PlanningMicrosoft Project

About

Ahmad and his team have successfully implemented Alefredo Edtech's mission in the EdTech industry across Jordan and the MENA region. As a digital platform for school students of all grades, it currently serves 15,000 students in 16 countries. The platform offers educational support materials, interactive mock exams, and a marketplace for buying and selling academic books, which are also available in digital format. The company is valued in the seven digits. The team has received several national and international awards for innovation and entrepreneurship from UNDP, the Embassy of Switzerland in Jordan, Plan International, and has been recognized with the 30under30 Unicorn Award and the Social Enterprise Award in 2021, and as one of the Top 40 companies on the Abu Dhabi Impact List for 2024 Ahmad holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (2011) and an MSc in Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing (2019), both from the University of Jordan. He has ten years of experience in the private sector, working with Izzat Marji Group and Total Jordan in their Renewable Energy and Commercial departments. Previously, he was the founder of Jo Drive, a carpooling application (2015-2018), and has seven years of experience in the ecosystem and startup business in Jordan and the MENA region.

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Alefredo edtech

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Amman, Jordan

  • Alefredo EdTech is an online marketplace for all types of used academic books & supporting educational material in addition to mock exams, available in digital format as well, for school and university students of all grades. Moreover, Alefredo Books is offering students an interactive assessment tool that
  • highlights their weakness areas and recommends supporting material to strengthen them. we secured our first seed investment with Oasis500 (USD 100K) beside collaboration with 5 Global NGOs and Embassies.
  • 1- The ability to recruit qualified employees with a high level of responsibility, I always relied on the presence of two important elements in the employee and I tried to transfer it to my staff when they do the first filtration, the first of which is good communication skills in addition to his ability to discipline and abide by the instructions and passion to accomplish. The rest of the things are easy to teach and earn provided the above conditions.
  • 2- Dealing with the employees in a very positive and respectful way and preventing any comments on a personal level negatively.
  • 3- Giving the credit and thanking for the doer of the achievement and not robbing any employee of its achievement.
  • 4- Providing a safe and energetic environment in terms of basics. It's not preferred to contact employees (In Business) or give them any tasks after work or holidays, except in emergencies where they can work overtime.
  • 5- Giving clear, measurable and monitorable tasks and easy to evaluate the outputs in terms of quality, speed and efficiency by completing the work.
  • 6- Focus on customer satisfaction and feedback monitoring. And the perception toward the brand and the work team.
  • 7- Focus on doing reliable and efficient partnerships with the local community and global organizations and NGOs. To extend our services and brand to the max number of audiences effectively. The idea is to find the value and the benefit for both of the partners in the agreement,
Customer ServiceProject ManagementTeam Leadership

Jo drive (car pooling applaciation)

Fonder and CEO

Oct 2015Oct 2018 · 3 yrs · Jordan

  • Jo Drive application has been founded since Oct-2015. It is a social, free application
  • aims to raise the level of social solidarity and environment awareness between
  • neighbors and residents of the area and strengthening the relationships and social
  • bonds between them This application works as a link between neighbors and the
  • residents whose live in the same area and have the same work and study destinations
  • even if they own or don’t own cars so they can cooperate between them to share the
  • same transportation recourses.
  • I managed the whole developments stages and user experience developments with the
  • contractor, and customers feedback, public relation, 4 years of working that’s allowed
  • me to enter the entrepreneurship world and the eco system. but we unable to continue the journey due to the regulation of car pooling in Jordan.
  • 7k App Downloads in 9 Months, 100,000 Followers in social Media platforms

Totalenergies

Sales Account Manager

Aug 2015Jul 2022 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Amman, Jordan

  • 1- Long profitable Partnership, agreement, Investment in Tools and tech systems, Marketing Activity with Major OEMs in Jordan (KIA, Isuzu, Mazda, Peugeout, Nissan, MAN, Renault, Audi, VW, Opel, Auston Martin, GreatWall, and Renault Truck).
  • 2- Creation of Fleet Management System from scratch:
  • A dedicated software manage all the lubricants/fuel needs based on the required distance for each point of the vehicle. Linked to customer stock and operation team.
  • Main Customers: Mining Site, OEMs, Rental Cars, SMEs and corporate fleets
  • Benefit : Save operation time; Maintain the fleet; same software(Cost) can be used as investment for serval deals. Which can improve the efficacy of our investment budget.
  • 3- Advanced and tech-solutions for mining sector customers.
  • 4- Matured person who can Initiate independently new prospects, follow-up, with good understanding of the lubricants market.
Sales ManagementMarketingCustomer Relationship Management

Izzat marji group

Renewable (Photovoltaic) Sales Engineer

Aug 2013Aug 2015 · 2 yrs · Amman, Jordan

  • Renewable (Photovoltaic) Sales Engineer - B2B channel.
  • 1- I closed deals in a total of 1,500,000 $ (one and half million U.S. Dollars) in one year.
  • 2- One of the ( Top 3 Employees) Award in Izzat Marji group for 2014
  • 3- Appreciation letter from Izzat Marji group for ( Advanced Competitors analysis) for Jordan Market in PV Systems.
  • 4- maintain good relations with customers for repeat business
  • 5- generate Sales revenue from various Industry Segments ( like Pharma, Chemical, Food, Engineering, Textile, Dairy & Manufacturing etc.)
  • 6- ensure collections on all sales outstanding. 100% collection rate
  • coordinate with customer support engineers for installations.
  • 7- do cold calls in assigned territory for sales and business development based on the prepared list by me and the team.
  • 8- handle assigned territory independently
Sales EngineeringCustomer Relationship Management

Alefredo team (kids party events)

Founder (During my university years)

Jul 2008Oct 2013 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Amman, Jordan

  • Alefredo Team was my first business experience, I started it in my first university years. dedicated to Kids and family events and entrainments. I did my first exit here and sold 80% of my shares to group of professional induvial from the same field, currently, I own equity of 20% and act as a silent investor.
  • 1- I managed more than 50 staff part-time, trained 7 teams to serve all customers at the same time and same quality especially on the peak time like Eid's and holidays.
  • 2- Succeeds to be the main entertainment provider for six five stars hotels in the dead sea (Movenpick, Holiday inn, Crown Plaza, Hilton, Kempinski, Maeen Lagoon)
  • 3- The main provider for the most popular kids area and malls in Amman, (City Mall, Mecca Mall, etc)

Education

University of Jordan

Master's degree — Marketing

Apr 2018Apr 2020

University of Jordan

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2013

Education creativity School - Amman Jordan

High School Diploma

Jul 2008Present

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