Kamal Bahamdan

Kamal Bahamdan is a Saudi Arabian businessman and five time Olympic equestrian, born in Riyadh on 12 February 1970. He graduated from Boston University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering. He founded Safanad in 2009 with the backing of the Bahamdan Group, where he is vice chairman, and serves as the global holding company's chief executive. The Bahamdan Group was established in the 1940s by his grandfather Salem Bahamdan in Makkah, and his father Abdullah Bahamdan was once managing director and chairman of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia. His sister is the painter Hanan Bahamdan. Olympedia lists him at the Games from 1996 to 2012 and credits him with one Olympic bronze medal.