Adel Batterjee

Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee is a noted Saudi Arabian businessman, philanthropist. A chairman of Waad Holding Company and Doroob Albarakah.

Personal narrative of adel a. batterjee

Adel A. Batterjee: Family Background

Adel Abdul Jaleel Batterjee was born on March 11, 1946, to a prominent merchant family in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. After completing his primary and secondary education in 1963, Adel A. Batterjee pursued mathematics at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas U. S. A., graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree. After working for over two years as a graduate assistant at King Fahd University for Petroleum & Minerals, he joined The Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) as a computer systems analyst where he spent approximately four years. He then started his own business in computer analysis and programming in Riyadh. Twelve years later, he moved to his hometown, Jeddah and diversified his business interests, expanding into the hotel business. These efforts were economically successful.