Al Zayani Commercial Services S.P.C (AZCS) was established in 1980 and today is run by the powerful Afnan Rasid Al-Zayani.
Afnan is the CEO of the multi-million dollar company Al-Zayani Commercial Services (AZCS). The company creates many digital and IT products and solutions for clients such as RICOH and KONE. AZCS consistently brings to customers unparalleled IT Business Solutions. In 2016, Afnan was elected as Treasurer of re-launched MENA Businesswomen’s Network. She is presently a Board Member and Head of the Businesswomen’s Committee of Bahrain Chamber of Commerce. Afnan has also published numerous cookbooks and has hosted her own television cooking show. She is also a partner in Martinizing Laundry and a board member of Al Ayam Publishing.
Afnan is recognized internationally as one of the most powerful businesswomen of this era. She is responsible for the passing of personal status laws in Bahrain that ensure the protection of Muslim women’s rights in divorce and custody proceedings, something she oversaw during her leadership of the Bahrain Businesswomen’s Society (BBS). Subsequently, Al-Zayani led the Middle East and North Africa Businesswomen’s Network and in 2010 she received the Leadership in Public Life Award from Vital Voices, a women’s empowerment organization. She was listed among the most powerful women by Forbes and Arabian Business Magazine.
An in 2016, she was honored by the IWEC Foundation at the annual conference in Brussels, Belgium.