From our founder, Omid Arbab
Omid Arbab is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gateway Global, the London AI company he started in September 2023. His aim is to make advanced technology accessible to everyone.
Most technology is still built for people who already find it easy. Omid builds for everyone else: the patient who speaks a different language from their doctor, the person who struggles with apps and websites, the caller who rings when no one is free to answer. He has started where barriers cost the most: healthcare.
An engineer by background, Omid has been a technology entrepreneur since 2014, and his first company grew into a Microsoft partner. He has spent his career in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and applied machine learning.
He also works to make it easier for smaller UK companies to bring safe AI into the NHS. In 2026, Gateway Global submitted written evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on why UK small businesses find it hard to deploy technology into the NHS.
Omid is a finalist in three categories of the Global Innovator Awards 2026: Emerging Founder of the Year, and, with Heshmat Shoja, Co-Founding Team of the Year and UK SME Global Expansion. The winners are announced on 16 November 2026.
“Technology isn’t finished until the people who find it hardest can use it. That is the test I set for everything we build.”
Omid’s full profile · LinkedIn