6. Anthony Nakache
Company: Google
Designation: Managing Director—MENA
Nationality: French
Global Headquarters: U.S.
Sector: Technology
Nakache joined Google in 2008. In July 2023, Google launched its generative AI experiment “Bard” in Arabic. Powered by PaLM2, Google’s latest language model, Bard understands questions in over 16 Arabic dialects, including Egyptian colloquial Arabic, Saudi colloquial Arabic, and modern standard Arabic.