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Ronan Kelly

Founder & Managing Director, Vistas Rathmore

The ambition hasn’t changed. But the approach has to.

The GCC countries made a promise to the world. And they delivered.

In just over two decades, nations transformed. World Cup stadiums. Metro systems. World-class infrastructure built at a pace the world hadn’t seen. We didn’t just watch this happen. We were in it. Proud to have played our part.

But success came at a cost. Complex projects bring complex problems, and they start right from inception. We’ve been in the trenches for decades: claims, disputes, schedules slipping, budgets overrunning. The same patterns repeat. Unrealistic deadlines signed from day one. Silos. Firefighting. Data everywhere, clarity nowhere.

We know where the problems are. Not because we studied them, but because we lived them.

The region isn’t standing still. From Saudi Arabia’s era-defining giga-projects and the 2034 FIFA World Cup, to the UAE’s 2040 Urban Master Plan and Qatar’s continued expansion toward the 2030 Asian Games. Trillions of dollars are actively reshaping the built environment across the Gulf, and the pipeline only grows with Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait accelerating their own programmes.

The ambition continues. But the approach has to change. The old way won’t deliver the next chapter. It’s no longer about building faster. It’s about building smarter.

That’s why Vistas Rathmore exists. We aren’t a new logo on an old playbook. Rathmore brought decades of hard-won expertise in claims, disputes and delivery. We know where projects go wrong. Vistas Global brought cutting-edge tech capabilities. Two worlds brought together for a reason: to fix a broken model.

We’ve lived the problems. We’ve learned from them. And now, we’ve built something engineered for what comes next.

Clarity. Control. Certainty.