📅 Tuesday, September 29
⏰ 3:00–3:45pm UAE | 2:00–2:45pm KSA
Scaling into a new MENA market is easy to announce. Actually building a team there is where things start to get complicated.
The first few hires are usually manageable. Then you’re suddenly dealing with different employment structures, payroll, visas, compliance, local entities, HR systems and teams spread across multiple countries.
Join Jamie Lane, FWDstart, and Kamal Reggad, CEO & Co-founder of RemotePass, for a 45-minute live conversation on what actually starts to break as companies scale across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the wider region.
This is less about compliance theory and more about the practical decisions operators have to make once regional expansion becomes real.
Kamal has spent the past few years building RemotePass into a global HR and fintech platform helping companies hire, manage and pay teams across 150+ countries. The UAE-founded company recently raised a $17.4M Series B led by EBRD, after reaching profitability in 2025, and now supports more than 35,000 workers and has facilitated over $800M in cross-border payroll.
We’ll get into:
When setting up your own entity actually starts to make sense
EOR vs contractor vs direct employment
What changes when hiring in Saudi Arabia versus the UAE
What starts to break as regional teams grow
How global hiring infrastructure fits into an existing HR tech stack
What comes next once employment itself is largely solved, from payments to spend
Live questions from founders and operators in the audience
Who’s it for?
Founders, COOs, finance leaders, people/HR teams and operators building or expanding teams across MENA.
We’ll keep the conversation tight and leave plenty of room for audience questions.
Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll send the recording afterwards.
