Awarded to Yahsat CEO Tareq Al Hosani. Set up only five years ago in Abu Dhabi, Yahsat has already launched two satellites into orbit, enabling the company to deliver high-quality broadband services to markets in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. As the Gulf nations have realised, broadband is key to the development of the knowledge economy and companies like Yahsat, alongside its more traditional peers, are playing a vital role in developing next-generation telecoms infrastructure.