" By his own admission, Waleed J. al Mossallam is not like his contemporaries – in a culture more attuned to discretion and almost tribal intimacy he has made his mark by thinking outside the box and challenging accepted norms in business practice to let in some creating “coloring” as he calls it. He is a perennial optimist who always looks for the positive; a philosophy that has taken him to the top of the financial community in Qatar and established him as an innovator. "