Thimar Gold, Jewellery & Real Estate
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — full-time · 1985 – 1986
General manager of gold and jewellery outlets and real-estate investments spanning more than 180 property units.
Founder-led educational consultancy
Abed Saeed Baghazal
Founder & Educational Consultant, RASSEDCO
Who founded RASSEDCO
Who founded RASSEDCO
Abed Saeed Baghazal leads RASSEDCO as its founder and educational consultant, turning decades of hands-on business experience into a single, accountable consultancy for investors, institutions, schools, families and students.
Born and raised in Jeddah, he completed his education there before founding several ventures spanning Hajj and Umrah logistics, public auctions, and the purchase, sale and maintenance of heavy equipment for international companies. He also worked as a marketing manager fitting out local and international airports, alongside industrial support and school-consultancy work — serving as Chairman of the Parents' Council at one of Jeddah's most established schools (elementary through secondary), and later as a member of an independent school's parents' council in Qatar. That combination of experience is what let him add educational-consultancy work to RASSEDCO after more than 40 years in management and marketing.
Today RASSEDCO works with a seasoned team on school and training-centre establishment, structural fit-out, furnishing, staff recruitment, administrative (ERP) and learning-management (LMS) systems, training, and local and international accreditation for schools and training centres — alongside supporting students beyond secondary graduation into bachelor's, master's and doctoral study at universities worldwide, accompanying them from the airport to the university and attending to their housing needs on or off campus.
Career history
A professional timeline
Nine ventures across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, spanning gold and real estate, airport fit-out, public auctions, Hajj logistics, tourism, digital visa services, trading, and — since 2010 — educational consultancy.
Al-Shaer Trading, Industry & Contracting
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — full-time · 1986 – 1991
Fibreglass fit-out of local and international airports, government hospitals and major tourism offices, including Doha International Airport.
Baghazal Auction Centre
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — on-demand liquidation work · 1984 – 2000
Founded and ran a public-auction business, selling company and individual assets through legal liquidation proceedings as requested.
Baghazal Domestic Hajj Services & Pilgrim Transport
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — seasonal, Hajj period · 1993 – 2016
Housing, transport and catering for pilgrims across Mecca, Medina, Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah — initially for pilgrims from across the Gulf Cooperation Council, later focused on Saudi domestic pilgrims, serving around 1,500 pilgrims in full each year. Imported and re-leased buses from Egypt to close a transport shortfall, growing the fleet past 1,000 high-spec tourist coaches and managing a seasonal team of 2,500.
Baghazal Domestic Tourism
Jeddah and the Kingdom's tourism regions — seasonal · 1991 – 2001
Organised the “Popular Village” festival, with an international theatre and circus and more than 700 shops and restaurants across 200,000 square metres, held in summer 2000.
Labaik Company
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia · 2001 – 2003
Head of the visa department at the first Saudi company to offer electronic Umrah visa services, supporting Saudi Umrah companies internationally — coordinating with roughly 900 licensed Saudi companies and 6,000 accredited overseas agents across more than 100 countries.
RASSEDCO Trading Company
Doha, Qatar · 2003 – 2010
Founded, managed and operated the Harees Al-Walda restaurant chain, the Al-Faisal car and heavy-equipment rental office, the RASSEDCO Training Centre (safety and security), and the RASSEDCO Medical Centre (occupational health in industrial zones) — the training and medical activities wound down after the 2008 global downturn cut workforce levels by up to 70% on some energy-sector projects.
Tibyan Educational Services
Qatar — educational & business consultant · 2019 – 2022
Liaised with Qatar's Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Ministry of Culture and Sports (publications and books), and every government body, school, college, university and training centre — public and private — involved in education. Introduced the Calmoon Arabic-language programme, the Classera and Huwaz learning-management platforms, ETEM training and STEM/robotics lab supervision, virtual-reality labs for grades 4-12 in Arabic and English, chemistry-lab equipping, and curriculum/library book accounts across Arabic, English and French.
RASSEDCO Educational Consultancy & Services Centre
Doha, Qatar · 2010 – present
Founded and manages RASSEDCO's education-consultancy arm — contributing fully or partially, without ownership, alongside companies and individuals establishing schools and private training centres, and supporting licensing with government bodies for several international and private institutions.
Memberships and experience
- Former member, Jeddah Chamber of Commerce, Saudi Arabia
- Former member, Hajj & Umrah Committee, Saudi Arabia
- Member, Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Various volunteer and charitable work
- Former Chairman, Parents' Council, Al-Thaghr Model Schools (elementary to secondary), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Former member, Board of Trustees, Al-Wakra Independent Preparatory School for Girls, Doha, Qatar
RASSEDCO today
With more than 40 years across management, marketing and consultancy, RASSEDCO today works exclusively in educational consultancy and in establishing schools, centres, colleges and universities — covering feasibility studies and planning, curriculum design, administrative, educational, technical and support staffing, laboratory and equipment fit-out, ERP and LMS deployment, furnishing, school uniforms, and local accreditation for schools and training centres. In response to strong demand, RASSEDCO recently added support for students after secondary graduation registering at universities worldwide for bachelor's, master's and doctoral study — accompanying them through their earliest steps, from the airport to the university, and attending to their housing and transport needs through a local team in each country.
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