The UK-Qatar Business Bridge is the UK and Qatar leg of My Most Trusted, hosted by Abdur Rahman Ilott. A warm introduction is the only way to meet someone here. No bots, no spam, no cold outreach.
majlis. The sitting room where Qataris receive guests, talk things through and settle matters face to face.
Every Qatari family has a majlis, a room or tent where guests are welcomed, coffee is poured and the news of the week is shared. A good deal of Qatari business has been agreed there long before anything was signed in an office. You do not walk into a majlis uninvited. Somebody brings you. That is exactly what an introduction on this Bridge is: a seat in the right majlis, through a person both sides trust.
Every club has an idea like this one, and it belongs to the place rather than to us. It is not a slogan we handed out.
AR, as Abdur Rahman Ilott is known, stands in the middle of this Bridge, working from the United Kingdom with contacts on both sides. By day he is Chief Commercial Officer of REG-1, which builds AI-driven legal and regulatory automation for compliance, privacy and legal teams. Before that he worked in export, freight and data roles, closing deals and partnerships in the UK, Africa and the Gulf, and he once led a British school in Sudan, adding French and Chinese to its timetable. A SOAS graduate with first class honours, he has made 148 introductions on My Most Trusted.
Abdur Rahman Ilott is a real person, based in United Kingdom, not a logo. That is the point. Somebody has to know both people for an introduction to be worth anything.