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About DNA

A Jeddah firm with an
international spine.

Consultancy, communications and delivery — built in Jeddah, franchised from the United States, measured everywhere it works.

Who we are

Stay FIT for Purpose.

DNA is a Jeddah-based consultancy working across strategy, communications and PR, publications, events and AI-native platforms for chambers of commerce, government entities, development institutions and commercial brands. Our organising idea is FIT for Purpose, Trivergence's framework for how organisations plan (Foresight, Innovation, Transformation), how they resource (Funds, Investments, Talent) and how they build (Fintech, IoT, Transition).

We are deliberately a delivery firm. The strategy practice shares a roof with the teams that run events, produce publications, operate communications departments, work the media and build platforms — so advice here has always had to survive its own execution.

The franchise

Trivergence, delivered in the Kingdom.

DNA is the official Saudi franchisee of Trivergence, a US-based consulting firm. Its franchise principal serves as Trivergence's Vice President for the Middle East & Africa — so the connection between the methodology and the market runs through one accountable person, not a licensing letter.

For clients, the franchise means three concrete things: international methodology and quality standards; in-Kingdom contracting, delivery and Arabic-first work; and access to Trivergence's network of specialists when an engagement needs depth beyond our resident team.

The record behind the firm

Twenty years. Three continents.
One record.

Built by a founding team that earned its record inside the institutions it now serves — a development bank's President Complex, a US regulator's modernisation programme, the Kingdom's chambers and event stages. The two halves of this team first met on the same shelf — IsDB's flagship publications, led from inside the Bank and produced page by page at DNA. Here is the trail.

2005Engineering on Verizon's converged US internet backbone
2007The US SEC's financial-transparency (XBRL) rollout
2011A decade at the Islamic Development Bank begins
2014An Arabic online event-management learning platform founded
2016On the founding team of the Lives & Livelihoods Fund — US$2.5bn blended finance with the Gates Foundation
2017Senior strategy roles at the Bank
2018Event Management published
2020G20 Sherpa support through the Saudi Presidency
2021SEAL Award & Paris Peace Forum selection for the Global Coordination Platform
2022IsDB's flagship "Future" shelf published — led inside the Bank by one half of this team, produced end to end by DNA
2022Trivergence founded in the United States
2023Packaging — the first specialised Arabic packaging guide — published
2024DNA — the Saudi franchise, Jeddah
2026Advisory Professions Committee chair at the Jeddah Chamber · "We contract on the result"
2021SEAL Business Sustainability Award — the BanQu–IsDB Global Coordination Platform (Sustainable Innovation)
2021Paris Peace Forum — the Global Coordination Platform, a selected project
2020Climate Bonds Initiative Green Bond Pioneer Award — IsDB's debut EUR 1bn green sukuk

From the client's chair

Before this firm sold consulting, its founding team bought it — commissioning and directing Boston Consulting Group and Roland Berger teams on the Bank's transformation programme and its flagship industry reports: framework agreements, service requests, acceptance certificates. We know what time-and-materials costs at scale. It's one reason we contract on the result.

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Teams commissioned and directed at the Islamic Development Bank, 2017–2020.

In the Kingdom, that record ran through the institutions themselves: implementation lead of the Bank's cooperation programme with SDRPY; the Bank's representative on a joint vaccine-localisation team with KSrelief and the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources; strategic engagement with the Ministry of Finance as the Kingdom's IsDB Governor; the Saudi G20 Presidency of 2020 — alongside a career of events and training for chambers and development institutions in Jeddah. The firm's toolkit includes a proprietary revenue-cycle-management methodology registered with the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (2023).

Clients & partners

Who we've served.

United Nations Development Programme
UNHCR — the UN Refugee Agency
Islamic Development Bank
Lives and Livelihoods Fund
Digital Cooperation Organization
Qatar Fund for Development
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Founder Institute
Arab Monetary Fund
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
International Camel Organization
Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jeddah Governorate
Saudi Ministry of Culture
Saudi Ministry of Media
Monsha'at — SME General Authority
Saudi Fund for Development
Saudi Industrial Development Fund
Saudi Arabian Military Industries
Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen
Institute of Public Administration
King Abdulaziz University
Asharqia Chamber
Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah
Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
AlAhsa Chamber
Effat University
SABIC
Abdul Latif Jameel
Saudi Binladin Group
The Kanoo Group
Halwani Bros
Al Othaim Holding
Tourism Malaysia
Doctor Ghassan Pharaon General Hospital
NeoCare
Mangiya
LEAGX
APSCO

Media we've worked with

Newsweek
Foreign Affairs
The Guardian
REDmoney
APO Group

Institutions we've delivered for

Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry · Digital Cooperation Organization · Islamic Development Bank — flagship publications (Future of Finance, the Global Value Chains series, The Road to the SDGs) and country programmes across three continents · Digital & Smart Applications (DSA) · commercial mandates including a 28-branch Jeddah retail chain · Social Development Bank (specialised training for the Bank's beneficiaries) · executive-education cohorts delivered with London Strategy Centre, including 30 senior UAE federal technology officials and 25 Saudi logistics entrepreneurs

Our franchisor

Trivergence (USA) — official Saudi franchise

Partners

Zoho — Consulting Partner (agreement, 2024) · London Strategy Centre (UK) — executive education (MoU, 2025) · APO Group — media distribution · RedMoney — publishing

The wider network

Through Trivergence and our specialist network, DNA teams have contributed to engagements across 33 countries for international organisations, ministries and corporates.

Come and see how we work.

Visit us in Jeddah