Being bored and serving military service for a year “which wasn’t taking up too much of my time” is how this financier came up with the idea of starting a nightclub in Beirut in 2004. Zein has since gone on to form The Crystal Group which counts the famed People by Crystal nightclubs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, rooftop bar 40 Kong on Sheikh Zayed Road, and Muze restaurant and lounge and Arabic restaurant Em Sherif in Downtown Dubai.