Introducing: our new regional office. Can you guess where?…

Just back home after an important event in a country where… the strongest beer you can get is 0.0%! ->

Getting warm? (That, actually, is another clue.)

Still not guessed it?…

Will a pic of its capital’s skyline help? ->

Well?…

We were back in Saudi Arabia! And the reason – as you already know from the title: the gala opening of our new regional office in Riyadh! Wait – there’s more: we were opening our new Transparency Center there too – as part of our Global Transparency Initiative! Hurray!…

Ok, let me give you a tour of the new and shiny office…

First up – conference room. This is where our grand opening took place (later that day), and later on it will be used for our Kaspersky.Academy trainings:

And now for another quiz question: what’s the machine code etched into these glass wall panels?

K-folks getting ready for the official part of the proceedings:

Multinational tech-support sketchings:

Here’s our local staff. In all we have a team of around 50 already, but that – for sure – is going to go up and up and up given our promising further business prospects in the Middle East ->

The number of customers here is on the up and up and up too – already with double-figure %-growth every year (and that was before we had an office here!). In short: as per – we’re busy as bees…

I check out the stage where I’d be speaking later (as you’ll have guessed, these pics so far are mine) ->

This is a special device constructed by our K-techies, which enables our customers to connect to the net to be able to show them the superiority of our technologies and products remotely. It’s a heavy beast, so it has a handle at the top (not quite visible in the photo) ->

The director’s office; bigger than mine in Moscow! :)

From here onward, these aren’t my photos; they were taken by a pro…

Everyone hard at work – as I like it! ->

Prep all done, it was time to get this gig started…

Here’s the Saudi Vice-Minister for Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), His Excellency, Haytham AlOhali:

And yes, that is me – the one in the suit, in case you didn’t recognize me in such attire!

And, you know me – keeping things light ) ->

And that was that: our new regional office was now officially fully open for (a lot of) business (a dream for others – we just went ahead and got it done). All our promises and assurances duly honored, and everyone happy )…