Bio
Essam AL-Lawati (MCIM) is the founder and CEO of Hexa-edge Business Consultancy.
He was the Head of the Business Department at Nizwa College of Technology. He is a
holder of a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Technology Malaysia and an MSc in Marketing from the University of Stirling, UK. He is a member of the
Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, since 2011. He specialized in Marketing
(Entrepreneurial Marketing) and has published several papers in this field. He was a
speaker in startup weekend 2017 in Oman and a mentor in startup weekend in Malaysia
2019. He delivered marketing courses during the COVID 19 pandemic as social responsibility to towards the community.
He worked in a private company before entering the academic stream at the National
Ferries Company. Also, He worked in different sectors such as Transportation, Tourism,
Banking, and Oil & Gas. He is a certified Entrepreneurship Educator with the SMEF
program in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman.
He managed the Entrepreneurship cell at the Higher College of Technology and taught
many courses such as Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Principles of Marketing,
and International Business. He was given the responsibility of supervising senior student
projects as well. Also, he has conducted workshops in Entrepreneurship on several related
topics. At the moment, he is a Ph.D. candidate at UTM in AHIBS in the field of Management,
specifically entrepreneurship education.