Wail A. Mousa is the Founding Dean, Entrepreneurship Institute (EI), and Professor of Electrical Engineering (EE), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM).  Dr. Mousa received two B.Sc. degrees (with honors) in electrical engineering and mathematical sciences and an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from KFUPM. Mousa's Ph.D. is in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Leeds, U.K. Wail was the first Saudi to be sponsored by the Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Research, Dhahran Techno-Valley, KFUPM, for a Ph.D. He taught many courses and established a couple of new ones at the EE department. Also, he has more than 50 publications, 6 issued USPTO patents, and three books. Dr. Mousa held many leadership roles including: Director of KFUPM Business Development (2009), a coordinator for the Academic Leadership Center (ALC), Ministry of Education (2009), a consultant to the Vice-Rector for Business and Innovation) at Umm Al-Qura University (2012), Director of KFUPM Business Incubators (2012-2014), Assistant Dean, EI-KFUPM (2014), and the EI Founding (2016). In return of his tireless efforts, KFUPM received in 2017 the inaugural award from the SME Authority of the Best University in the Kingdom that Supports Entrepreneurs & SMEs in the Kingdom. Such efforts also have resulted in more than 30 students' Startups within the last 3-5 years that generated a cumulative revenues of about SAR 25M, and created over 100 jobs. Also, during his term, in August 2021, the EI Incubator was ranked No. 1 in KSA in terms of all KSA licensed Business Incubators, according to the incubators performance overview of 2020 by the SMEs General Authority’s Platforms Assessment for the year 2020 (performed by PwC). Dr. Mousa attended many executive education programs: the 32^nd Price-Babson SEE, Babson College (2013), Management Development Program, Harvard University (2013), Finance & Accounting for Non-Finance Executives, Stern School of Business, New York University (2018), the 49^th Institute of Educational Management (IEM), Harvard University (2018), and the 2024 Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP), MIT Sloan Executive Education, MIT. As a volunteer, he served as Chair of the World Petroleum Council-Youth Committee (2008). Dr. Mousa has received many awards, including a letter of distinction from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Schlumberger in 2008 for his technical contributions to the company and appeared in the Schlumberger Company Magazine January 2009 issue in an article titled: “He has a Dream…And Saudi Research Scientist Wail Mousa isn’t just sleeping on it”. Also, he appeared in Arab News December 2019 edition of “Saudi Arabia Who’s Who”. He also received the Award of Excellence of Serving the Department of Electrical Engineering at KFUPM for the academic year 2008-2009. He, as well, received in 2011 a letter of appreciation from H.E. KFUPM Rector due to a published paper in the IEEE Transactions on Education, which was sharing KFUPM’s experience in offering a multidisciplinary course on Seismic Signal Processing. More recently, in 2021, he won the Entrepreneurial Award for the prestigious Saudi Arabia British Council Study UK Alumni Awards. The finalists and awardees were selected from 1,300 applicants from around the world, for their outstanding achievements as business professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders.