They call him the “Man from Ajman who can”. And with good reason. Mangalore-born Thumbay Moideen was plucked from the timber and construction industry to set up the Gulf Medical University in Ajman in the mid-1990s. Nowadays, the group employs more than 1,500 staff, and is hoping to hire more than 7,000 in the next five years.
His vision is that one day we will no longer have to rely on foreign trained medical experts — they will be grown right here, in the UAE.
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