Scaling Across MENA: An Operator’s Guide to Hiring, Payroll & Compliance

​Scaling into a new MENA market is easy to announce. Actually building a team there is where things start to get complicated!

​The first few hires are usually manageable. Then suddenly you’re dealing with different employment structures, payroll, visas, compliance, local entities, HR systems and teams spread across multiple countries.

​Join Jamie Lane, FWDstart, and Kamal Reggad, CEO & Co-founder of RemotePass, for a practical conversation on what actually starts to break as companies scale across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the wider region, and how operators can avoid creating a mess as they grow.

​Kamal has spent the past few years building RemotePass into a global HR and fintech platform helping companies hire, manage and pay teams across 150+ countries. The UAE-founded company recently raised a $17.4M Series B led by EBRD, after reaching profitability in 2025, and now supports more than 35,000 workers and has facilitated over $800M in cross-border payroll.

​We’ll get into:

• ​When setting up your own entity starts to make sense

• ​EOR vs contractor vs direct employment

• ​What actually changes between hiring in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

• ​The mistakes that start appearing as regional teams grow

• ​How global hiring infrastructure fits into an existing HR tech stack

• ​What comes next once employment itself is largely solved, from payments to spend

• ​Plenty of time for live questions from the audience

​Who’s it for?

​Founders, COOs, finance leaders, people/HR teams and operators building or expanding teams across MENA.

​Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll share the recording afterwards.