An engineer by profession, Farouk Almoayyed started his corporate success story as Managing Director of Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons and continues to do so with a keen spirit of enterprise and an uncompromising approach to customer satisfaction and employee welfare.

Farouk Almoayyed's integrity and keen business acumen have earned him recognition and respect of the business community. Today, apart from being the chairman of Computer World W.L.L. is also the owner and Chairman of Almoayyed International Group (a diversified IT group), Farouk Almoayyed is also Member (Past First Vice President) of the Shura Council (Bahrain Consultative Council), Chairman of Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons B.S.C.(c), Chairman of Ashraf Brothers W.L.L., Chairman of Bahrain Duty Free Complex Co. & National Concrete Co., Deputy Chairman of National Bank of Bahrain, Chairman of Bahrain Hotels Co. (Gulf Hotel), Director of International Bank of Asia, Hong Kong & Gulf Union Insurance & Reinsurance Co., Founder Member & Chairman Board of Trustees of Ibn Khuldoon National School - Bahrain, Member of the Board of Advisors of Institute of Social & Economic Policy in the Middle East - Harvard University, Member of the Board of Advisors of Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University - Washington.

Born into the business family of Y.K. Almoayyed, Farouk Almoayyed has come up in life learning business the practical way from his father, Yousuf Khalil Almoayyed, founder of Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons, one of Bahrain's leading business houses.