Osama has a background in consulting and innovation. He graduated from King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals with a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and then went on to work at E&Y and Strategy& as a consultant. Upon this, he pursued an MBA from Duke University and then worked at Amazon as a Senior Product Manager and at McKinsey & Co. as an Associate Consultant.

His most recent experience prior to founding Lendo was at the Misk Foundation, a Saudi youth-empowerment non-profit, as the organization’s Executive Manager of Innovation.