Founder of Salem Al Saman Group, which included Salem Travel Agency, Commercial Services Agency, Salem Cargo International, Al Manara Jewellery and Al Manara Magazine. Al Saman was born in Ras Al Khaimah in 1938, and worked as a merchant on a ship at an early age since 1955. By the early 1960s, Al Saman was ready to move on and become an entrepreneur in Abu Dhabi.