Nashwa Al Ruwaini has been featured as part of the book, Champions of Industry 2009, published by ITP Business Publishing. As a woman with more than 20 years of experience in the media industry, Nashwa was profiled in the Broadcast and Media section as a media personality and CEO of production company Pyramedia.
Champions of Industry 2009 chronicles some of the success stories of the year and the people behind them. The book features close to 50 profiles of CEOs in ten major business and industry sectors which include Construction, Aviation, Retail, Supply Chain and Oil and Gas. Featured alongside Nashwa in the Broadcast and Media section are Tony Orsten, CEO of twofour54, Marc-Antoine d’Halluin, President and CEO of Showtime Arabia and Sam Barnett, Chief Operating Officer of MBC.
The in-depth profile of Nashwa covers her long history in the media industry, from her start on Qatar TV, to her move to MBC and finally, the establishment of her own TV and film production company, Pyramedia which now employes around 400 full-time and freelance staff with multi-million dollar annual revenues. In the past year, Pyramedia has seen enormous growth, opening two new film divisions, PyraMovies and PyraDocs with plans to produce more than 15 films over the next ten years and branching out into marketing and pubic relations campaigns.
Over the course of 2009, Nashwa and Pyramedia have won a string of awards including the Feigenbaum Award for Best Woman Leader, the Cambridge Award for Best Arab Media Personality, the Arab Youth Media Forum Award for Best Talk Show Host, the Digital Studio Award for Lighting Installation of the Year for Million’s Poet and the Association of International Broadcasting Award for Most Creative Specialist TV program for Prince of Poets.
