How it all started

Teknitrade, Ltd. was founded in 1990 out of humble beginnings, exporting several containers of high-end North Carolina home furnishings to longtime associates in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Based on their feedback, we quickly expanded our business to become a wholesale exporter of a wide range of networking infrastructure, serving commercial clients throughout the Arabian Peninsula.

Teknitrade, Ltd.

Our Focus

Our business has focused on supporting our commercial customers serving the cabling and electrical needs of Saudi Aramco, various government institutions, the US military, and other large institutions in the area. These have included a ten-million dollar five-year purchase agreement with Saudi Aramco for NORDX cabling and connectivity products, as well as a high-profile project supplying military-grade communication cables (valued at over a million dollars) to the US Embassy in Baghdad through our partners in Kuwait. But we are not limited in either our product focus or our market focus, as we have fulfilled the procurement needs of a diverse range of smaller projects around the world, including to customers in Canada, Venezuela, Singapore, Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and, of course, Saudi Arabia.

Our Team

Rifaat Masri

Rifaat Masri

Rifaat began his international business career...

Rifaat Masri

Rifaat began his international business career in Bahrain, where he spent 25 years building a contracting and trading business from ground level into a top-tier company, sourcing products from around the world for projects across the region. Rifaat later immigrated to the USA and established Teknitrade, Ltd. to export US products back to the Arabian Peninsula. His experience and business fluency involve working with people globally, particularly between the USA and the Arab World.

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Wael Masri

Wael Masri

Over the past 20 years, Wael has utilized his...

Wael Masri

Over the past 20 years, Wael has utilized his management and technical background to create strategic and cost-effective solutions for clients worldwide. Intimately familiar with the culture and business language of the Arabian Peninsula, Wael regularly travels there to support and nurture new and long-term business partnerships. Wael has master’s degrees in industrial engineering and international business studies from top-ranked programs in the United States.

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Nawaf Marjan

Nawaf Marjan

Nawaf spent the first 18 years of his...

Nawaf Marjan

Nawaf spent the first 18 years of his life in Kuwait before moving to the USA. He is bilingual and understands the cultures of the Arabian Gulf and the MENA region. He worked over twenty years in the technology sectors at a variety of major companies, including Sprint, Leidos, and Boeing, where he sold into the federal, state and local government sectors in the USA. He has a business management degree from NC State University and a Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University / ESADE with an honorary degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

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