Techne Summit 2020 Speakers Lineup

Amr Talaat has been appointed the Minister of Communications and Information

Technology since June 2018, to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Dr. MostafaMadbouly.

Talaat possesses over 30 years of solid experience in communications and information technology areas, with a wide experience in developing and implementing strategies across a vast spectrum of activities in Egypt.

Talaat joined IBM-Egypt in August 1988 and held various managerial positions. On May 23 rd , 2010, Amr Talaat held the position of the Country General Manager of IBM, and also served as IBM Egypt Territory Manager since 2005.

He held various managerial positions within IBM Egypt including Business Partner Organization (BPO) Manager as well as Systems and Technology Group Manager.

During his tenure, his scope transcended financial goals to strategic and operational elements such as building human capital, fortifying customer loyalty, corporate social responsibility and employees’ Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

He also sought to establish relationships with key officials and executives of various sectors, both at the national and international levels, to attract major investments, and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals.

In addition, Talaat was an adjunct professor at Cairo University; teaching marketing and & sales strategies and tactics, organizational behavior and strategic management. He was, also, an honorary member at the ICT Board at Cairo University and member of the ICT Board of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and the Chairman of ICT Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).

Talaat graduated in 1983 from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, completing his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Cairo University.

He earned his PhD or doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) from the University of Paris - Paris School of Business (PSB) and Masters of Science in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), in addition to an MBA from Paris ESLSCA Business School, France.

Mustafa Shamseldin is Senior VP & CMO – Africa, Middle East & South Asia at PepsiCo. 

He has more than 23 years of general management, sales, and marketing experience leading small and large scale enterprises covering more than 50 countries across four continents. He managed multi-billion dollar businesses, led some of the most valuable global brands and trademarks, created and launched numerous successful products and innovations, and built new brands from scratch. 

In his role as CMO for the AMESA sector, he leads the development of PepsiCo’s total portfolio of foods and beverages across one of the company’s key geographies and future growth drivers, with responsibility for the marketing, insights and innovation functions. He is also a member of the PepsiCo’s Global Marketing Leadership Council. In 2020 he was recognized by Forbes magazine the Middle East as one of the top 50 most influential marketing and communications executives in the region. 

Mustafa has been with PepsiCo since 2008 when he started as the Marketing Director for Pepsi Cola Egypt, before moving to different roles across the region including GCC Marketing Director, General Manager Saudi & Yemen Beverages, Vice President for Sales & New Business Development and Senior VP for foods in Asia, Middle East, and North Africa. Prior to PepsiCo, 

Mustafa worked across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region in different companies including Procter & Gamble, Henkel, and Americana Foods. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering from the American University in Cairo and has attended executive education and development programs at Wharton Business School and Cranfield School of Management. 

His passions are social and economic development and the support for startups and small businesses, which he has fulfilled through mentorship, judging in major startup competitions, as well as contributing to key publications as a guest writer. Mustafa is currently based in Dubai, UAE.

Ambassador Jan Thesleff has been serving as the

Ambassador of Sweden to the Arab Republic of Egypt since September 2017.

From 2014 to 2017, Thesleff served as Sweden’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, residing in Abu Dhabi. In June 2015 and in October 2016, respectively, he was accredited as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain and the State of Kuwait.

Thesleff has previously been Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, the Republic of Yemen and the State of Kuwait (2006-2011) and to Libya and Tunisia (2011-14). He also served as Sweden’s Special Representative for the Syria Crisis (2012-2014).

His previous diplomatic posts include serving in Brussels (Deputy to the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process at the Council of Ministers, as well as at the Swedish Permanent Representation to the EU) and at the Swedish embassies in Cairo, Tokyo and Damascus.

Ambassador Thesleff is a frequent speaker in international fora and has contributed to a number of publications, including on art and architecture.

Peter Cowley, a Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 39 years.  He has built up a portfolio of over 70 angel investments with eight good exits (including one that is 107X and returned all his invested cash) and twelve failures.  He is the President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), former chair of the Cambridge Business Angels, and was UK Angel of the Year 2014.  He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and is on the board of nine startups. 

In 2011, he founded and has since run Martlet: a Corporate Angel, investing (currently £8M) from the balance sheet of Marshall, a £2.5bn revenue Cambridge engineering company.  He is a fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Cambridge Judge Business School and on the investment committee of the UK Angel Co-fund.  He has also had 16 years’ experience as chair, treasurer, and trustee of the boards of seven charities.

With his son, Alan, Peter is sharing his and others’ experience and anecdotes in order to educate angels and entrepreneurs via  The Invested Investor which publishes two books and 75+ podcasts.  Peter is a public speaker on entrepreneurship and angel investing throughout the world.

Janaïna Herrera is a French diplomat, holding the position of General Consul of France in Alexandria since 2018. After completing her Masters in International Relations in Sciences Po Paris in 2002, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2003 where she held a series of positions in Multilateral Desks (EU, UN) before being posted in Beirut (2007-2010). In 2011, she founded a think tank on Public Policy based in Beirut, providing multidisciplinary research and consultancy services on unemployment and healthcare policies.

In 2015, she joined the Strategic Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris to reflect on long term trends in the field of international relations, before being appointed in Alexandria as General consul.

She speaks five languages, including Arabic, is married and the happy mother of two.

Visiting professor of management sciences at the Egyptian and French universities for the MBA and the DBA .

Acted as consultant to the United Nations and occupied the posts of chairman , president and general manager of different companies in various fields .

Active in the public life in Egypt and was the board member of the Social Fund for Development , the State Holding Company for Chemical Industies , and the Alexandria and Damietta Port Authorities , the Alexandria Business Association and the Arab Management Association .

Was appointed as the first Honorary Consul of India in Alex and awarded the highest French academic award for his teaching . Also acted as head of the management department of Senghor University and is consultant to the Egyptian Japanese University for Science and technology .

Author of several books on economic and administrative development and write articles periodically in Al Ahram newspaper since 1990 . Member of the High Council for Culture and the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology .

Patrick Gouhin is presently serving in his second year as the CEO of the Angel Capital Association. ACA is a professional society for accredited angel investors, North America's most prolific early-stage investment class. ACA represents 14,000+ member accredited angel investors, 260 angel groups, accredited platforms and family offices and more than 20,000 entrepreneurial companies that are in ACA member investment portfolios. ACA focuses on knowledge sharing, best practices and insights from top angels to ensure smarter investment decisions, connections to vetted angels that supports deal flow and syndication processes, as well as representation to public policy makers to safeguard angel investor rights. Before joining ACA, Mr. Gouhin spent 12 years as the Executive Director and CEO of the International Society of Automation (ISA). In this capacity he was responsible for the operations of a seventy year old, professional technical society with more than 40,000 members and 400,000 customers world-wide. During his tenure at ISA he provided leadership toward the creation of many new initiatives and companies including The Automation Federation, the Automation Standards Compliance Institute, a Globalization Initiative, Government Relations Program, the acquisition of a for profit company, Automation.com, and a Work Force Development Program including a U.S. Dept. of Labor sponsored Competency Model for the profession of Automation. Before joining ISA, Mr. Gouhin served as the Chief Operating Officer of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Mr. Gouhin spent 15 years with AIAA whereby his leadership contributions resulted in significant revenue growth and the successful management of 300+ project teams through development and delivery of multiple products and services. Mr. Gouhin also served as the first Vice President of Operations and Technology Transfer for the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) at Langley Research Center. This was a start-up resulting from $69 million government contract award to build a world-class research and education institute. Gouhin served as the Chief of Staff in managing day-to-day operations and issues associated with a 50-person start-up company after serving as the integration lead on the successful proposal. Mr. Gouhin has experience in corporate divestitures and acquisitions, business construction and relocation, strategic standardization management, business planning, project management, process mapping and reengineering, and serving as a company wide change agent. He has served on the board of directors of multiple non-profits including the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) where he is a past president. He has a bachelor of science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from The Ohio State University and a master’s in engineering management from George Washington University. He has also completed the executive development program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the advanced management college of Stanford University. Mr. Gouhin is a Certified Association Executive or CAE.

Financial savant, author, and fintech advocate, Agustín Rubini is passionate about the world of finance and the future of financial services. Having developed an extensive career in the most prestigious global banks and consultancies, he now spends much of his time speaking at worldwide conferences and writing about fintech. He has a passion for advising businesses on innovation and digital transformation as well as a strong background in digital strategy and driving innovation in the financial services industry. He loves coaching and mentoring leaders of startups and is the author of best selling books such as Fintech in a Flash and Fintech Founders.

Dr. Bell is the program director for Cambridge Social Ventures, Cambridge University's social innovation incubator. She designed and oversees a number of programmes providing targeted advice to supports emerging and scaling social entrepreneurs. Dr Bell teaches on a number of academic programmes at the Cambridge Judge Business School and undertakes academic research focusing on social investment.Dr. Bell is the program director for Cambridge Social Ventures, Cambridge University's social innovation incubator. She designed and oversees a number of programmes providing targeted advice to supports emerging and scaling social entrepreneurs. Dr Bell teaches on a number of academic programmes at the Cambridge Judge Business School and undertakes academic research focusing on social investment.

Sherif is a well rounded business practitioner with extensive marketing & management experience with top global & local companies in the Middle East & Africa region. He has an amazing mix of experiences with different categories such as personal & home care products, food & beverage, confectionary and most recently real estate. As Marketing Director, Sherif helped in the success journey of Misr Italia Properties to become one of the top real estate developers in Egypt in terms of contracted sales. He is now leading the marketing team of Mountain View.

Previous roles included working as Region Marketing Manager for PepsiCo Middle East & Africa handling brand Pepsi. Prior to that, Sherif was the Head of Marketing for Danone Premium Beverages Middle East & Indian Ocean, Regional Brand Manager for Coca-Cola Middle East based in Bahrain and Regional Brand Manager for Unilever North Africa, Middle East & Turkey, based in Egypt handling oral care brands Signal & Close Up. He started his career in 1999 with the marketing consultancy, Marketing Mix, where he worked on several big local brands in their turnaround efforts.

Over the years, he received several company performance and achievement awards for growth and market share gains. Additionally, his work received several awards such as the International Advertising Association's (IAA) INTERAD V, AUC Annual Advertising Award, Dubai Lynx Golden Award and was nominated for Cannes Lions Award.

Sherif holds an MBA degree from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from AUC.

He is also a founding member in the International Social Marketing Association and is a Board Member at Nahdet El Mahrousa, one of Egypt’s most active NGO’s.

Specialties: Brand Management, Brand Building, Brand Development, P&L Management, New Product Development, Strategic Planning, Digital & Social Media, Advertising Development, Market Research, Public Relations, Commercial Due Diligence 

Sridhar is the founder and CEO of Elemental Machines, makers of smart IoT products for the life sciences industry. He previously was a founder of Misfit who developed elegant wearable products, which was acquired by Fossil in 2015 for $260M. Sridhar also founded AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the world’s first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone and shipped 15+ FDA-cleared medical products, 2B+ biosensors, 6M+ glucose meters, with partnerships with Apple, Sanofi, and Walgreens. Sridhar holds over 50 US and international patents and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. He has been known to run 13.1 miles on occasion and has sometimes been spotted on stage behind a wall of drums.

Keith Wallace is a Scotsman with a passion for entrepreneurs and deal-making.  Having founded the Dutch Investors Club (DeInvesteerdersClub) he put his vision of joint investments within the Netherlands and further afield into effect.

With deals in Africa and Asia, as well as Europe, this small group of active investors has striven from the beginning to make impact as well as financial returns.

Working with the Hivos Foundation, he was part of the team that founded Hivos Impact Investments, where he sits in the investment team and manages the portfolio companies of the Hivos Food and Lifestyle Fund (Southern Africa) and the Hivos Mideast Creatives Fund (MENA).

Keith is also Global Ringmaster of Get In The Ring, an international entrepreneurial competition that takes place in over 100 countries and allows him to wear top hat and tails, even in the tropics.

Zeina Mandour is the General Manager of Cairo Angels, handling strategic and day-to-day operations at the network. Zeina started her career in financial consulting at the Egyptian Ministry of Transport , then joined Logic Management Consulting as Senior Business Analyst for over two years. She then moved to Ironwood Investments, a boutique private equity firm based in Cairo as Senior Associate.

Zeina received her Bachelor in Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the American University in Cairo 2014.

Biography Marcel DRIDJE Marcel Dridje is currently the  SOPHIA BUSINESS ANGELS President / EBAN Board Member / Mentor at The Camp in Aix en Provence. A seasoned European Sales senior Executive, Marcel has substantial field experience helping IT and Telecom startups in the US and EMEA. Marcel has a broad range of experience in all aspects of sales, marketing, communication and management with direct experience with Fortune 500 enterprises (IBM, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco, EMC, ALU) and startups (Quantum, Andrew Networks, Pluris, Corvis, Ascend and Airespace). During the course of his career he has held VP roles most notably as VP EMEA Corvis (first all optical router) where he grew the team and business to an outstanding success. Of French-Algerian and British origin, Marcel launched his career after completing a BSC in Electronics and Computer Science from Portsmouth Polytechnic UK and holds an M&A executive program credentials from INSEAD. Marcel most recently left CISCO after 35 years in IT and Telecom Sales to start his new venture as a Business Angel with SBA to help startups with seed money, VC connections and Business development.  A self proclaimed Serial Entrepreneur, Marcel loves new Challenges in sharing his 30 years IT& Telecom experience with IT VC firms and  new High-tech Start Ups Ready to expand their Sales & Mktg success across EMEA,USA and APAC. Area of Expertise :   • Seed money, VC connections to raise Funds for start ups . • Business Dev & GTM strategy  • Channel & Alliances subject matter expert .

Corine has been the Investment Manager at Insure and Match Capital Holding SAL (IM Capital) since April 2015. She supervises the matching & insurance capital process and manages the work of the analytical team. Corine is responsible for IM Capital operations, including deal sourcing, investment project evaluation and valuation, business models validation, value creation and mentoring in investments, and supervision of exits from investments.

Prior to joining IM Capital, and for more than 9 years, Ms. Kiame was a Director at SHUAA Capital psc Dubai, UAE, where her responsibilities included Product Development, Strategy and Project Management, and Operations. In 2006 and 2007, Mrs. Kiame worked as an assistant fund manager on several regional funds representing USD 1 Billion in assets under management, covering fifteen Arab markets.

Corine holds a Masters in Finance from Paris IX Dauphine in Paris, an Executive Education Certification from Harvard Business School with emphasis on Private Equity and Venture Capital, an Executive Certification from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with emphasis on Venture Mentorship, is a member of the Lebanese League for Women in Business, and a member Seeders LWAF Business Angels group and Rising Tide Europe 3.

Dr. Ramzi Asfour is board certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine and is also certified in Functional Medicine (a systems-based healthcare approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease).

Dr. Asfour has worked internationally at the World Health Organization and with Columbia University. With nearly 20 years of hands on experience both internationally and in the U.S., Dr. Asfour has embraced tech in medicine as a tool to expand quality healthcare.

Seventy percent of his interactions with patients and healthcare facilities are technology based. From mentoring and supporting a functional medicine clinic in China to supporting U.S. rural hospitals, Dr. Asfour is using technology to expand quality care. 

Dr. Asfour’s core values are creativity, thinking outside the box and offering solutions to support physicians and health care systems in their quest for excellence. Presently, he is the President of Praxis Infectious Diseases who specialize in remote infectious diseases services and a clinician at the California Center for Functional Medicine.

After completing his MBA , Nader left the family business and returned to create his first startup ( EMEIT) in 1998 , the first Microsoft Business Solutions partner. Currently ranked as one of the leading Microsoft partners in the region. In 2004, Nader created his second start up ( EME International ) focusing on its enterprise mobile apps. EME payment technology was acquired by Fawry, in 2016 and the team was acquired in 2019.In 2017, fulfilling the dream of serving the middle class in Egypt, through disruptive healthcare practices, we ( 3 co-founders) created a new chain of primary care medical clinics “Dawi“ .Nader is an angel investor, speaker, mentor, executive coach and professor at AUC

Dr. Manish Kohli is an experienced and a visionary executive leader with demonstrated history of delivering complex healthcare “firsts,” both, in the US and overseas. A leading voice in his field, he has lent his expertise to pioneering health care organizations and endeavors throughout the world to help transform care and reduce disparities in access to quality healthcare. He works with health systems, policymakers and stakeholders in areas of digital maturity, strategy, governance and workforce development with the goal of redesigning care ecosystems to improve safety and quality while optimizing resource utilization and cost.



Presently, he serves a Senior Advisor with Albright Stonebridge Group, where he advises

clients on health care delivery initiatives and strategies with a special focus on innovation, technology and digital health.  Additionally, Dr. Kohli advises domestic and global startups that aim to transform health and care through emerging and innovative technologies in the areas of telehealth, remote patient monitoring and cognitive artificial intelligence. He is

regularly invited to lend his expertise globally as a speaker, lecturing domestically and throughout the world.



Additionally, a member of the Board of Directors of Wings of Hope, global, humanitarian non-profit organization that helps the world’s most vulnerable communities, Dr. Kohli chairs the Board’s Global Health Programs Committee.  He also serves on the Standards Advisory Panel, Joint Commission International (JCI).  Notably, Dr.  Kohli is the immediate-past

Chairman, Board of Directors of Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a global, 80,0000+ member, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on bet-ter health through information and technology.



In previous roles, Dr. Kohli served as Director of Global Programs, Harvard Medical

International and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at leading health systems

including, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), Advocate Aurora Health and

Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. During his professional tenure in the UAE he helped build a pioneering Health Information Exchange for Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) and

subsequently, he was a key member of CCAD leadership team that delivered the first fully digital, HIMSS Stage 7 hospital in the MENA region.

Dr. Kohli graduated from SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL. USA, and completed

residency training in Family Medicine at Rush University, Chicago, IL USA where he also served as Chief Resident and received the Vijay K. Maker Excellence in Family Medicine award.  Subsequently, he completed residency training in Preventive Medicine at the

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University as well as the Patient Safety

fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.  Dr. Kohli has also completed Faculty Development fellowship at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL. USA, and he holds Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in International Health and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Medical Services Management both from the Johns Hopkins University.



He is a Fellow of both, Health Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) and American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).  In addition, he is a Diplomate of both, Ameri-can Board of Preventive Medicine- Clinical Informatics and the American Board of

Family Medicine. In addition to his passion for digital health, he maintains a special interest in preventive care, personal wellbeing and lifestyle medicine.

Emily Renny is the Managing Director for Accept Payment Solutions, where she is responsible for managing, developing and growing the business, which provides payment acceptance services to diverse companies and merchants.

She has a diverse background spanning finance, technology and entrepreneurship. She began her career working for Morgan Stanley investment bank in London, before shifting to an entrepreneurship focus, running the Pioneers of Egypt program supporting social entrepreneurs in Egypt and then managing business development at the Greek Campus. Emily also cofounded a fintech startup, the crowdfunding platform Tennra.

Emily holds a B.A. (Hons) in Arabic and French from the University of Durham and has passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Nina is the founder and Managing Director of Expandise, a consultancy focused on helping companies to develop their international strategy and launch new markets. She has launched companies into multiple countries across Europe and Asia, with active experience in over 50 markets. Nina is fascinated to learn the differences unique to individual markets and brings that knowledge to her clients. She is based in Berlin but regularly exploits her travel obsession to explore and discover new things about consumer behaviour in other countries. Nina studied at the University of Cambridge in England and completed her Executive MBA at ESMT in Berlin, where she now helps to teach Organisational Behaviour. She is also a founding member of Berli18n, a community group focused on sharing experiences and best practices in expansion and internationalisation.

Sara started her career as a Graduate Teacher Assistant in the field of Electrical Power & Control at the College of Engineering in the Arab Academy for Science & Technology, Egypt. She thereafter joined Siemens Egypt, as part of the international Siemens Graduate Program (SGP), through which she later relocated to Germany for an abroad assignment. She subsequently joined the headquarter working force of Siemens AG to assume product and project responsibilities including leading an international team with diverse backgrounds located in more than four locations over two countries. Business Development, Product/Portfolio/Process/Pricing Management, and finally Serviceability were amongst the stations she had throughout her professional journey in Germany, working with multiple regions around the world in a constantly changing global environment. She has always been passionate about the development and empowerment of young leaders and empowerment of female engineers. Before joining Siemens Egypt, she co-founded an ‘IEEE Student Branch’, which offers offer numerous advantages which focus on enhancing the professional development of both students and post-graduates. She also co-founded a ‘Women In-Engineering (WIE) IEEE Branch’ to address women’s underrepresentation in Engineering. She continued to pursuit her passion even after joining the corporate life of Siemens and relocating to Germany where she continuously aspires to have positive influence to empower young leaders. She has also had multiple speaking engagements on topics – such as Problem Solving, Leadership & Empowerment, and Diversity in Leadership – with diverse partners such as Network Inclusion Leaders (NILE), Citizens for Europe.

Tamer is an innovation expert who has 25 years of experience in the technology domain, he had led Orange Lab programs for

broadband, mobile and multimedia in EMEA region for 6 years starting 2008. His team had succeeded to reach world class

recognition with two products awards best new services in Africa Com 2011 and 2013.

He had initiated the development of completely new products during his career and many of them are still serving globally. That

includes Internet EveryWhere which is a low cost internet broadband solution for rural areas where no 3G/4G is available and the

cost is below $100 per connection serving 50 people at least.

Tamer is an entrepreneur, co-founded 3 startups in the last 5 year(Ogra,Asly and BioBusiness) and he managed many business

incubation programs for the government including Bedaya Center/Ministry of Investment and ASRT Intilac program (Ministry of

Scientific Research).

Tamer started the first specialized incubation program in Egypt with EBNI incubator for IoT in 2015 and with support from Ministry

of Information Technology and Telecommunication.

During his career in incubation management he had mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and more than 200 startups.

Tamer is a biomedical engineer who worked for the government in Egypt and he has an international working experience with Sprint

telecommunication in USA and Orange in France where he worked for more than 10 years.

He is known for managing innovation and leading creation of new products and services in different technology domains.

He holds many prestigious awards in telecommunication, entrepreneurship and innovation like

AfricaCom best new product 2011 (Internet for All)

AfricaCom best new service 2013 (Internet Everywhwere)

Abu Dhabi SME summit runner-up startup 2013 (ASLY)

GIST-I top ten startups 2012 (ASLY)

Alexandria TechneSummit runner up award – 2016 (Qoudra)

He is currently leading the Entrepreneurship and Employment Educational programs for Wadhwani Foundation in Egypt, this

program had educated more than 2000 students in 2019/2020 and succeeded in transforming more that 80% to entrepreneurs.

Fadi Ghandour is the Executive Chairman of Wamda Group, a platform that invests, nurtures and builds entrepreneurship eco-systems across the Middle East and North Africa. Fadi is also the Founder of Aramex, one of the leading global logistics companies. Fadi spent the first 30 years of his work life as CEO of Aramex, building the company, making it the leading emerging market logistics company, employing over 15,000 people working in over 250 offices in 90 countries. He took the company public twice, first on Nasdaq making it the first company from the Arab world to do so, then on Dubai Financial market. He continues to be active on the Aramex board. Fadi is a serial entrepreneur. In his career, he was involved with founding, investing and launching tens of companies and non-profits, ranging from digital tech, hospitality, fitness & wellness to security. Passionate about impact and social entrepreneurship, Fadi founded and chairs Ruwwad for Development, a private‐sector led community empowerment platform that helps marginalized communities, across several countries in the MENA region, overcome marginalization through activism, civic engagement, education and financial inclusion. He has also co-founded and continues to support Al-Riyadi, one of the leading not-for-profit sports clubs in Jordan. Fadi also served and continues to serve on several global and regional boards of companies, education institutions and non-profits.

"Having more than 30 years of experience in diversified fields including: ICT, Management, and the Development and Clustering of Firms including SMEs. My assignments took place in Egypt and internationally, and in various business sectors and vertical industries, including: ICT, education, manufacturing, consumer products, maritime & transportation, automotive, healthcare, oil & gas, tourism, environment, utilities, construction, pharmaceutical, agribusiness and retail.

Throughout my career, I have initiated and implemented large national Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) initiatives. These initiatives were conducted with many Egyptian governmental agencies, such as MCIT, ITIDA, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Telecom Egypt, as well as with different developmental programs funded by international donors operating in Egypt, such as Euro-Mediterranean Private Sector Development Program (PSDP), Industrial Modernization Center (IMC), Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), and USAID."

Lisa is a growth strategist, CEO coach and storyteller, empowering global leaders, particularly women entrepreneurs, whose work focuses on building innovative solutions to serve global communities. Her expertise is in scaling  rapid-growth startups, connecting ecosystems, and building global inclusive communities. Her work converges at the intersection of tech and culture within emerging markets, specifically MENA, Africa, and SE Asia. Her work focuses on those who are building beyond themselves.

Dr. Khalil is the Cofounder and CEO of Tabibi 24/7 the home healthcare Company. He has received his masters and PhD degrees from Cairo University where he became an associate professor of pediatrics. He is a staff member of the Pediatric Nutrition Clinic. He is a member of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and a clinical fellow of university hospital at Tuebingin, Germany. He is a graduate of INSEAD middle east Health leadership program and Strategic innovation for community HEALTH PROGRAM. He Has been selected as an Endeavor entrepreneur in 2013 and a graduate of Stanford — Endeavor Innovation and Growth Program. He has been in private practice for eleven years, specializing in general Pediatric and  Pediatric Nuitrition.He also sits on The board of ibrahim badran foundation A charitable healthcare foundation . He was Deputy Manager of Cairo university Pediatric Hospitals

For the past 20+ years, Mr. Alsharfi have worked closely with key global players to explore new business models, build digital revenue streams, and create mega-sized hybrid platforms using Design Thinking, Applied Innovation, Big Data and Machine Learning.Empathy and inclusive design were at the core of Mr. Alsharfi’s execution, whether it was making a CLIO Award-winning platform to support the blind & visually impaired, introducing new commercial models with electric vehicle charging, and reimagining the way international sports federations engage digitally with Gen-Z to drive new monetization verticals. Currently working within the U.S West Region CTO capacity, Mr. Alsharfi engages with Microsoft’s strategic customers to lead and build jointly digital consumer engagement models; behavior-based telemetry analytics; actionable insights; organizational cross-charging models, and data asset valuation programs. Furthermore, drive customer-led-engineering motions with product groups and research through establishing continuous digital feedback loops. Mr. Alsharfi is an active public speaker and an advocate for digital transformation, with participation in over 500-hours in specialized global industry events, Microsoft developer & customer events, and as a guest keynote speaker in various post-graduate educational programs.

Over the last 14 years, I have been leading, designing, and advising donor-funded entrepreneurship programs in 20 countries. These programs include developing entrepreneur white papers for heads of state, designing programs for donors like USAID, the Swiss Government, AFD, DfID, MCC, and World Bank, developing startup training programs, and building networks of support including investors and mentors. I have advised and supported over 50 entrepreneurship support organizations that supported more than 4,400 ventures on both their programming needs and how to become financially sustainable. These programs have supported in facilitating $15 million in new financing and recruiting 1200 new mentors. Currently, working part-time to catalyze early-stage investing with Valhalla Global Accelerator. Most important I share lessons with the greater development and entrepreneurial community through different events, workshops, panels, training and writings in media outlets like TechCrunch, Inc, the Kauffman Foundation USAID market links and many others. My work has been recognized by heads of state and by other government dignitaries. Currently, I'm writing a book about catalyzers of local economic growth and I have finished 7 marathons, 2 triathlons and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro

Sofana Dahlan is an accomplished Saudi lawyer and social entrepreneur. She holds the prized distinction of being among the first three female lawyers to have been granted the permit to practice law in Saudi Arabia. Dahlan has served as a legal consultant in different parts of the Arab world including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Kuwait. Dahlan was also the Vice Governor for Entrepreneurship Advancement at the Small and Medium Enterprises Authority of Saudi Arabia from 2016 to 2017, making her the first Saudi female senior economic policymaker.
Most recently she has enrolled at King’s College, London in order to pursue a PhD in Culture Media and Creative Industries specialising in: The Obstacles Facing the Development of Creative Industries in Saudi Arabia: A Deep Dive into Intellectual Property Infringement and its Implications.
Dahlan is also the founder of many social enterprises that focus on developing the creative industries in the region. She is the founder of Tashkeil – a Saudi based social enterprise that incubates, accelerates and promotes creative entrepreneurs. She is also founder of Kayanspace – a membership-based environment for creative professionals, entrepreneurs and freelancers. In 2013, Dahlan initiated, the Saudi National Creative Initiative (SNCI) which is a collaborative creative knowledge transfer platform that was established in 2013. Stimulated profoundly by Dahlan’s passion to work with youth and the Saudi Vision 2030, SNCI aims to map and understand the Saudi Creative Industry in order to reinforce creativity and utilize the youth to unleash its full potential and drive Saudi Arabia to a knowledge-based economy.
Dahlan is an active member of the board of directors of Khadija Bint Khuwailid Centre - a businesswomen and lobbying enter at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She has also served on the Executive Board of Namaa Almunawara from 2018 to 2019.
Dahlan is also regarded as icon for female empowerment for her advocacy to advocate cultural, heritage and socially oriented issues. She has spoken at public platforms such as Pecha Kucha in Beirut, Beirut Design Week, TEDxWomen in Barcelona, and BOLDtalks Woman and has penned numerous articles on topics such as women’s rights, social values, and interreligious dialogue.
She has completed an undergraduate degree in Law (LLB) from Cairo University and a postgraduate degree in Islamic Law from the Higher Institute of Islamic Studies in Egypt along with an MBA degree from the American University of Technology. In 2009 she was involved in the Harvard Executive program “Leading for the Future: The Arab Region in a Changing World” and has also obtained an executive degree in Global Leadership and Public Policy from Harvard University in 2013."

Mr. Morsy currently oversees the operations of Finance in Motion (“FiM”) in Egypt and Yemen. FiM is an asset management company based in Frankfurt and is the Advisor for the SANAD and the Green for Growth Fund that both provide financing to financial institutions and corporates in order to facilitate access of finance to SMEs and promote renewable energy and energy efficiency . Mr. Morsy has been working for FiM for more than seven years. Mr. Morsy has extensive experience in the areas of investment banking, credit risk management and corporate lending, both locally and regionally. Before joining FiM in 2012, he was an investment banking manager at Prime Capital (2011-2012). Mr. Morsy also led the corporate lending activities for the Cairo area at Egypt’s second largest private bank - Arab African International Bank ‘’AAIB’’ (2005-2010). During his tenure at AAIB, he led several syndicated loans in tourism steel, telecom, cement and petrochemicals. Mr. Morsy holds a Masters in Investment Banking and Islamic finance from Henley Business School (UK) and an MBA from the University of New Brunswick (Canada). Mr. Morsy is a also a visiting fellow at the MBA program of at the Maastricht school of business and has delivered numerous academic and executives courses in credit risk management, bank management, corporate finance, Islamic finance, financial planning, business administration, human resources, and economics, both inside and outside Egypt.

20+ years of professional experience in Information Technology & Payment Systems.

Former Head of Digital Channels Regulations & Integration, Blockchain Expert, Central Bank Of Egypt.
FinTech & Blockchain Speaker, Mentor & Trainer; providing expertise “FinTech” training sessions for Financial Sector members and Bankers.

Head of Digital Channels Regulations & Integration Department, Project Manager for the RTGS, ACH, CCH, ATM systems, Administration, Design and implementation of Integration Layer of Central Bank Of Egypt.
Blockchain Expert, Central Bank Of Egypt.
Head of the Financial Sector Blockchain Task Force.

Member Of:

The FinTech Task Force Group, CBE
Cryptocurrency Task Force, CBE
Digital Fiat Currency Task Force, CBE
National FinTech Strategy Task Force, CBE
Professional accreditations and trainings are certified from Hong Kong University for FinTech & Blockchain.
Certified Blockchain Expert.
MBA in Financial Management, Project Management, TOGAF, ITIL, Leadership & Decision Making (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management).
System Administration, System Solution Design, Future Leaders Program (FLP Alumni of 2016).
Professional Trainer and Instructor at the American University in Cairo “AUC”, Egyptian Universities, Egyptian Banking Institute “EBI”, IBM, Global Knowledge and Jupiter.
FinTech, Blockchain, Service Integration & Digital Transformation Consultant.

Hussein Attar is the investment manager at Tech Invest Com, a 1Bn SAR Saudi investment firm that invests in tech startups. He co-founded Sawerly, one of the top 50 Arab startups by Forbes. He is also in the opportunity committee at Oqal Angel investment group .

Omar is an English Trainer, Founder & CEO of “Gateway English Community”, but he’s known most for his YouTube channel. Omar’s videos got over 100 million views across social media platforms, and besides that, he was hosted in a bunch of Egyptian and non-Egyptian TV Shows including BBC, Al-Arabiya and Sky News along with a few radio shows. He also gave a talk in Tedx in Egypt “How to be Unique?”.

Omar has trained around 110,000 people on different aspects of the English language, gave training sessions in a few Egyptian Universities, provided training sessions, events and courses across the UAE, and gave a training session about TOEFL in Mena College of Management in Dubai. He also held more than 10 events across Egypt to help spread his message.

Nezar has a wide range of experience in Management of Technology and being as Innovation, Strategic Management, Project Management and Digital Transformation Consultant

Nezar is the chairperson for the ISO56000 Technical Committee, Egyptian Organization for Standards and Quality (EOS)

Nezar is a board member of the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT); USA.

Nezar is a board member of the Arab Council for Social Responsibility (ACSR) and leading the Innovation and Entrepreneurship activities for the council.

Nezar is assigned by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as the National Expert and Coordinator for the Intellectual Property Policies for Universities and Research Institutions Project in Egypt

Nezar is “Innovation Management Coach” providing consultancy service for companies and organizations. Handle innovation processes in manufacturing companies and service providers. In addition to implementing Innovation Management training for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s).

In 2017, Nezar also founded the “Nilepreneurs” Initiative; which is a nation-wide initiative that supports the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s), Startups and Entrepreneurs in Egypt. The initiative is under the auspices of Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and managed by Nile University. Nilepreneurs Initiative acts as the enabler and catalyst between banks and SME’s ecosystem in Egypt.

Mariam began her career in Investment Banking, advising mid- and large-cap companies in connection with restructuring, financing, M&A, and capital markets transactions. She co-founded and managed a family wellness center. She completed her Master's Degree in Public Administration and focused her thesis research on Social Enterprises in Egypt. In recent years, she has explored investment opportunities in Egypt's burgeoning startup scene, and currently manages AUC Angels, the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region.

In addition to his role as CEO of the non-bank financial institute, Walid Hassouna is also a non-executive board member of Tanmeyah microenterprises and EFG Hermes Leasing, both subsidiaries of EFG Hermes Finance. Vice-Chairman of EFG-EV fintech accelerator, board member of Karm solar, and Kazyon hard discount stores.

Prior to joining EFG Hermes in 2016, Walid Hassouna was General Manager and Head of Structured Finance and Investment Banking at Bank Audi, where he closed structured and project finance transactions in excess of USD 15 billion over a seventeen-year banking career that began at Misr International Bank. He also structured and executed several award-winning deals, in project finance and M&A within Egypt and GCC, in addition to several investment banking transactions. He has also been the Head of structured finance and syndication in Banque Misr where he successfully managed to top the league table of the MENA region in syndicated loans.

Walid is a Cairo-University B.B.A holder, where he graduated with the highest honors. He also holds an MBA from J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University as well as Islamic Finance Qualification from CISI- UK.

Ahmed is Cyber Security Consultant and Trainer, he has more than 16 years of experience in Security consultation, Security Training, Information Security Management,  Penetration testing, Forensic investigation, Develop security policies, Security Assessment, Security auditing, Vulnerability Assessment, Code Reviewing, Development and Writing Exploits.

Ahmed won "Forensic Investigator of the year 2016" Award from Ec-Council, in addition to that he has been awarded as one of TOP 100 Information Security Managers in Middle East 2016 and 2017.

Ahmed Delivered Many Training and Consultation Services in UK,USA, Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, Scotland, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Netherland, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, KSA, UAE and Spain with excellent feedback.

Ahmed have the Master Degree in the Information Security in addition to many international certificates like: (CISM-CISSP-CISA-CEH-CHFI-ECSA-ECIH-ECSP-CEI-SPISI-ITIL-MCP-MCPD-MCSD-MCTS-MCT).

Tarek is a Managing Partner at Algebra Ventures.

He started his career as an engineer at Lucent Technologies then as a software developer for SAQQARA Systems, an internet startup in Silicon Valley.

He later became General Manager of CID Consulting where he led the company’s high growth, helping it to become one of the leading local consulting firms in Egypt.

Apart from his role at Algebra Ventures, Tarek is Managing Partner at Ideavelopers where he has been managing $50m of VC investments since 2009, including some of Egypt’s most prominent technology startups.

Tarek is a director of Smart Card Applications, Siwareand IdealRatings.

In this role, he was also responsible for the investment in Fawry, the leading bill payment and presentment company in Egypt, which realized a $100m exit in 2015.

Tarek holds a B.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Founder of Environ Adapt

Mariam began her career in Investment Banking, advising mid- and large-cap companies in connection with restructuring, financing, M&A, and capital markets transactions. She co-founded and managed a family wellness center. She completed her Master's Degree in Public Administration and focused her thesis research on Social Enterprises in Egypt. In recent years, she has explored investment opportunities in Egypt's burgeoning startup scene, and currently manages AUC Angels, the first university-based angel investor network in the MENA region.

I have a diverse professional background that spans social entrepreneurship, investment, UN, and international NGO. 

In 2013 I attended SXSW for the first time and I was inspired to co-create RiseUp Summit, an annual technology and entrepreneurship conference which, in 2017, saw over 6,500 attendees from 50 countries and speakers from Microsoft, MIT, Tech Crunch, Google and Facebook.

I would like to consider myself a free spirit, connector, motivator and consider determination and dedication as the primary keys to success.

I help entrepreneurs grow themselves and their ideas into great businesses.

I would serve as a consigliere without displacing entrepreneurs, rolling up my sleeves to work through all the bits of building their businesses—strategy, recruiting, partnering, financing, leadership—the whole gamut.

Their individual development is as important to me as the development of the business.

Shehab Eldin brings in 20 years of experience as an international Speaker, Entrepreneur, Investor, Executive leadership transformation advisor. He is a leading Consultant and Facilitator focusing on Strategy, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation and decision making across sectors. He is the founder of RESOLVE consulting LLC. and a cofounder of AL-SHEHAB Co., AGRICYCLE for agricultural waste energy and AL-SONBOLAH for textile industries. He is a co-founder and a former board member of Nahdet El-Mahrousa and the Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Community- Cairo Hub. He is currently an adjunct faculty at the American University in Cairo, School of Business.

Lecturer of Architectural Engineering in Alexandria University and Director of ElSayad Associates Architectural consultancy firm, with a Phd in Intelligent Architecture. Founder of the Virtual Reality lab in AU hosting the second CAVE setup in Egypt, he has numerous research in the fields of VR and sustainable architecture and cities. On the administrative level, he has been a former member of the technical office of the Educational Development Fund headed by HE the prime minister and a current member of the heritage conservation committee of Alexandria. As a practicing architect with 200+ realized projects, meticulous work has been always given to details focusing on heritage conservation and adaptive reuse projects.

M.T Architects is a Design Firm based in Cairo Founded in 1996 by arch. Mohammed Talaat, which offers fresh and unique ideas for residential and commercial designs.
over the past two decades M.T Architects has covered a wide range of projects in Egypt & abroad in both engineering fields, design and construction from architectural, interior design, landscaping & urban planning up to construction supervision by MT Architects.

 "Albert Colomer i Espinet 

President Autoocupacio 

Albert is an innovative social entrepreneur, entrepreneurship guru and active Business Angel. 

Driven by the power of entrepreneurship to tackle both personal and social challenges, Albert co-founded (1986) and presently chairs Autoocupacio, an independent NGO charity, committed to the empowerment of entrepreneurs and to support them through all stages of business development, by means of training, counseling, mentoring and financing. Together with the involvement of public and private institutions as well as fellow partners, Autoocupacio has helped thousands of start-ups and entrepreneurs to get born, to grow and to scale up.  

During his career as a consultant, manager, advisor, early stage investor and coach, Albert has gathered profound knowledge of the entrepreneurial skills. He is a passionate entrepreneur's coach as well as an inspiring and compelling speaker, as well as recipient of the Euronews EU Business Personality of the Year 2017 Award.

Pursuing his life's mission, Albert founded Youth Business Spain, an organization devoted to helping the young generations to startup and to grow their own business. Presently, Albert serves as Board member of Youth Business Spain which in turn is part of the worldwide network Youth Business International. After organizing several organizing Global Entrepreneurship Week in Spain he have been appointed Spanish country manager on the Global Entrepreneurship Network.

Albert has also had a role as think tank guru, lobbyer and policy maker: as President of CAT Formacio (trade union representing the Catalan training sector), as well as member of both the Catalan and the Spanish Employers' Confederations (CECOT and FOMENT, respectively), Albert main achievement has been to successfully shape pro-enterprise policies for business to seize market opportunities, thus removing barriers for growth and liberalizing economic activities.  

Furthermore, Albert was also member of the Advisory Board of the Catalan Institute of Finance, the public financing institution of the Government of Catalonia. Being appointed by the highest institution in Catalonia (the very same Parliament of Catalonia), Albert designed and helped to set up the first Catalan Microcredit Facility for those collectivities that do not have regular access to the most traditional and low-risk-focused financial institutions. In addition, Albert is also partner in a myriad of companies specialized in training, design, consulting and project management. 

To go on, Albert has been at the forefront of the angel investor movement in Spain and Europe, since its very beginning. In 2002, he founded BANC (Business Angels Network Catalunya) the first of its kind to operate in Catalunya. Later on, he fostered the creation of the first Spanish Federation of Business Angels Networks, Fundacion ESBAN (2006).  ESBAN Foundation main goals are to raise awareness and to promote Angel investment activities and Business Angels Networks as a way to boost entrepreneurship and economic growth in Spain. ESBAN Foundation also lobbies the Spanish institutions to set up a legal and fiscal framework for the Business Angel asset class.  

Being an active participant in the most top-ranked international early stage and entrepreneurial events, as well as recipient of the Honorary Award to the Largest Contribution to the EBAN Board of Directors, Albert is a proud Board member of the EBAN (European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and other Early Stage Market Players) since 2003. Together with pioneer Business Angels from five continents, he was involved in the creation of the WBAA (World Business Angels Association), the international platform for the exchange of information and best practices between Business Angels worldwide. Today, he is involved in the Global Business Angels Network GBAN, now part of the GEW movement. 

Driven by social and impact investing, Albert's last innovative venture is Reempresa - the first SMEs transfer marketplace in Catalonia - succession planning, small companies looking to wind down are paired with interested buyers through an online matching system and an intensive business education and assistance program, avoiding starting from scratch. 

Passionate speaker and inspiring writer, Albert holds a Master's Degree in Economic and Business Sciences from Barcelona University UAB. His books on management, entrepreneurship and investment, i.e Steps and Costs for setting up a self-employment project (six editions) or  Business Angels: driving the business innovation, or his Entrepreneurship Library‌ have helped thousands of readers on his entrepreneurial pathway  "

Mohamed Aboulnaga is the Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Halan for Technology & Services. He is also a shareholder in Fawry, and a board member of Robusta Studio. He has built his expertise in business development in four different industries; Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Transportation, and Energy.

Passionate, cross-functional, creative and results driven Full-Stack Digital Marketer specialized in SEO & Traffic growth with over 9 years ( 6 years agency experience) of tech marketing experience across product marketing, digital, communications, brand marketing and more!.

Eng. Kamal Shawky holds a (IEng) Member of ICE - institutions of civil engineers (ICE is one of the world's leading civil engineering institutions and have been around for almost 200 years) .He holds a MSc 2014 in Structural Engineering and has a vast experience in structural engineering design and analysis different types of buildings. He assumed different posts in his career and is currently Senior Structural Engineer - UTW deputy project Manager.

He is the Author of Revit Structure Fundamental 2012 Book and Building Information Modeling Book & he is Certified Professional For Autodesk Revit Program (Architecture and Structure) 2012,2014,2015 He has worked in Mega project outside Egypt such as Kingdom Tower ( The highest building in the world ), Air Show 2013 ( Dubai Airport ) , Dragon Mart Mall in Dubai , Shamiyah Expansion ( El Haram El Maky) during his work in Dar Al Handasa .

He has worked in Mega project inside Egypt such as the renovation of Cairo International Airport, CFC Cairo festival city Madinaty, El-Rehab and Al-Shabab Power Plant, and outside Egypt such as Danat Al-Emarat tower and Millennium Resort.

Multimedia Producer From Cairo.
Ahmad Mohsen quit his corporate job as an Architect to make a living off producing videos and sharing his content on YouTube and other social media platforms.
I tell stories by producing, managing and developing digital outputs such as

scriptwriting, video production, still photographs, social media campaigns, illustrations, website designs, print, audio and other interactive medias.

Hisham Moussa
Mr. Moussa is the current Senior GM and Chief Operating Officer of Alfuttaim Group Real Estate, Cairo Festival City, a former CEO of Alargan Towell real estate development and investment company in Kuwait and Oman, and a former Development/Design Director for Emaar Egypt.
He is an Architect by education and previous practice and a seasoned professional with a diverse range of synergized expertise, forged through a thriving 30 years career, juggling a multilateral career paths within the realm of architectural design, construction and real estate development and executive management.
Throughout his career, Mr. Moussa has been responsible for the development, design and construction of several mega developments in Egypt and Oman.
He has worked with diverse teams of professionals, including local and international design/consultancy and contracting firms, gaining extensive experience in managing and delivering end-to-end multiple concurrent projects across different real estate asset classes such as mixed use, residential, commercial, hospitality and others.
This included overseeing the realization of several mega projects from inception till completion taking the lead in master planning, design/technical services, feasibility studies, budgets & financing, construction & project management, sales/marketing, as well as handover and facilities management.
Having also worked for Contrack International, a multinational contracting company and a subsidiary of Orascom Construction , he has experienced the other side of the business from the contractor's side, enjoying extensive site, operations and project management exposure.
He also takes huge pride for privately undertaking private Architectural, Interior design & supervision work for an array of high-end residencies & private mansions for FORBES listed Egyptian HNWI.

I am Adham Hamshary, an Engineer by profession and a world traveller. Simply, I create content about everything related to travelling; from backpacking tips, different cultures & stories and accommodation reviews.

Ahmed Osman is the Chairman of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the world’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization devoted to small businesses internationally. The first Arab and African elected to this position since ICSB’s establishment in 1955 and the youngest Chairman to date. ICSB is the platform that distributes new knowledge and information on small business management and entrepreneurial development. ICSB is the originator of the United Nations’ Resolution to create an International Name Day dedicated to Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises on June 27 (MSMEs Day). He is also the editor of the Global MSME Report for 2019.
Ahmed is also the Managing Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Network in Egypt (GEN Egypt) and is a Project Management & Strategy Advisor for several Government and Private organizations in Egypt. He holds both a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering with Honors and a Masters Degree in Engineering and Management from The University of Birmingham, UK and is a certified Project Management Professional from The Project Management Institute, USA.
He is also the CEO is of a Project and Facility Management firm in Egypt - CHROME. The company currently manages a construction portfolio exceeding 1 billion US Dollars. Moreover, CHROME established the first training academy in Egypt focusing on upgrading the skills of construction professionals.
Ahmed has been instrumental in the launch of the Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit and Nawah Social Entrepreneurship Competition. Since it’s inception Nawah has supported over 100 companies in their startup journey. He is currently working on the development of the Middle East & North Africa’s first GEN Entrepreneurship & Innovation Hub at Bloomfields, East Cairo. He is also a member of the advisory board of the World SME Forum.

BIM oriented expert with 12 years of extensive experience in using wide range of BIM software.Working as BIM manager in mega projects across the Middle East with different clients which leads to a good knowledge of different approaches for both Consultant & Contractor scope, conducting training and courses in Arabic\English speech,with a very good experience in how to make BIM implementation & adjusting the work flow and creating standards and libraries.

Winner of the Wageningen University and Research Urban Greenhouse Challenge

Strategy and Finances Associate at Groots, Vertical Farming startup in Barcelona, Spain.

Dalia El Badry is an experienced Digital Marketeer with a wide background in UI and UX designer. She holds a master's degree in marketing and a Marketing diplomat from Alexandria University.

Dalia is now leading creative media and communication team in icealex innovation hub, in addition to managing i*lead project for women empowerment in Alexandria.
Due to her hands-on approach, Dalia has contributed to several tech events. She has also been supporting and working closely with different startups.
She has experience in different fields of (Social) Entrepreneurship. She expanded her own network within the Entrepreneurship scene and deepened her practical knowledge about incubators' running process.

Abdelrahman Mohie is an Egyptian Architect and a Teaching Assistant at the Dept. of Architecture Engineering Technology CHS, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and Ahram Canadian University, Egypt. Currently, he's working on his Master’s degree in Urban Design and Community Development at Cairo University, where he got his bachelor's degree. Abdelrahman aims to create and find solutions that deal with sustainable urban design and new technologies to conserve and preserve our built heritage.
He joined many workshops and competitions related to urban sustainability focusing on new technologies and human development, including the recent WUR challenge 2020: Urban Greenhouse, as a member of the multinational interdisciplinary team "Bagua", they won the first place by designing an iconic, sustainable, and circular greenhouse, using urban farming technologies.

Dr. Ramy Ahmed Fathy, PhD

Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG20 on IoT and its Applications including Smart Cities and Communities, Geneva, Switzerland



Ramy Ahmed Fathy is a senior telecom executive and advisor, with 20 years of technical advisory and project leaderships in tech R&D space focusing on intelligent solutions, and embedded systems design. Ramy is currently leading teams focusing on developing AI solutions and use cases for regulatory agencies, preparing technology strategy and roadmaps as well as leading R&D and industrial projects related to new digital initiatives, setting architectures, specifications, RFPs, and operational plans of digital services.

Fathy is currently leading 150+ international standardization experts; driving research and standards development in IoT security, identification, systems interoperability, innovative architectures, and IoT platforms development. Over the past decade, he has been selected as a senior advisor on digital solutions design and implementation for a wide range of digital services (smart cities, smart water management, precision agriculture, digital TV, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for highways and urban systems).

Fathy has a PhD in electronics and communications. He has led R&D projects in radio network planning and optimization, cognitive radio systems, video coding, cryptography, DSP/FPGA/GPP based implementations of consumer electronics products and satellite communication systems. He has numerous publications and contributions in IoT and Smart Cities related standardization work in addition to other scientific journals and conferences, and he's the co-author of one book in electronics.

Farrag is a digital media evangelist, founded his first company Mega Media in 1994 to become Egypt’s leading multimedia service provider. His work extended to cover innovative use of technology in advertising, communication and cultural heritage documentation. He has received numerous advertising and content awards. In 2013 he co-founded Fifth Dimension–5d, a merger of 5 companies working in complementing aspects of digital and marketing domains to become a one stop digital marketing agency. Being the creative and innovation director of 5d, he introduced augmented reality applications, game development, hologram projection and Virtual Reality as well as many innovative digital installations. In 2016 he co-founded 5dVR, a company specialized in creating VR/AR content and experiences.

Growing MENA's startup underdogs through StartupsGalaxy.com, a platform showcasing startups directory, top tools deals and growth support. for acquisition, SEO performance & product launches.

12 years of experience in digital marketing & management. Co-founded a google partner digital marketing agency in 2013 which was profitable from the first month

Mohamed is a mid-career professional with fifteen+ years of Middle East-focused work experience, and international exposure having lived and worked across Cairo, Dubai, London and New York. Originally a banker and an economist with some of MENA's top financial institutions, after completing his postgraduate studies, Mohamed made a transition to the non-profit sector. Starting January 2013, he headed the Graduate Programs at NY-based Seeds of Peace where he designed and launched the organization's GATHER social entrepreneurship initiative. In April 2016 Mohamed joined the Endeavor team in Cairo in the role of Managing Director.

Hussein is a tech entrepreneur and the CEO of robusta, a tech agency based out of Egypt and Germany, since 2012, and has lead the company's journey featuring triple digit growth year over year. Hussein has also led robusta's team to launch the E-Commerce Summit, a grass-root movement to stir up the conversation about the potential of selling online, a place educating and raising the awareness of retailers and brands about the inner workings of E‐Commerce and a unique chance for top-tier retailers to network with service providers, marketeers and industry leaders sharing the passion & driving the growth of E‐Commerce in the MENA Region under the same roof in a series of yearly events. Before founding robusta, Hussein has been working at Quick-Wins as a management and strategy consultant for several family businesses and regional conglomerates in the GCC throughout transformation and turnaround exercises across several sectors including technology, retail and distribution. He has also occupied several teaching and research posts at the German University in Cairo. Hussein holds a MSc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and a BSc. from the German University in Cairo.

Short Bio Ayman is the principal of Newton International Management, a company focused on technology & mobility investments. Ayman had a twenty-year corporate career in the security industry before founding Bluehill ID and leading it to NASDAQ. Ayman is an adjunct lecture at Suffolk University, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of several startup boards. Full Bio: Ayman S. Ashour is the Founder and Principal of Newton International Management, an advisory and investment firm focused on technology with special focus on mobility, payment, identification and security markets since 2000. Ashour served as Chairman and CEO for Identiv, (US:INVE, FRANKFURT:INV) which he joined in January 2010 following the combination of Bluehill ID and SCM Microsystems. Ashour earlier founded Bluehill ID AG, an RFID technology company in 2007. Ashour’s professional experience includes several executive positions within the security and identification technology industries. He has served as CEO of Assa Abloy’s Identification Technology Group (ITG), where he was responsible for building one of the most successful RFID companies. He was Regional Managing Director of Williams PLC. In the the Asia Pacific region, where he was responsible for the Chubb Security, Kidde and Yale brands in Asia as well as the global operations of Guardforce and the Chubb Physical Security Group. Ashour earlier served as President of a number of Kidde units in North America, Global Marketing Director of Kidde in the UK. Ashour has B.Sc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Diploma in International Arbitration Law and serves as Adjunct Lecturer at Suffolk University in Boston, MA where, he has been teaching M&A at the Sawyer Business School for their MBA program since 2004.

After attending an eSports World Championship with no African or Arab representation, I decided it was my job to change that. By founding Anubis Gaming, the first eSports team in the Middle-East and Africa, we were able to provide our regions top talent with the incubation they needed to reach the international stage, by winning 13 local titles we prepared ourselves for the world championships, placing fourth in our first try, above all European and South/North American teams.

Tarek El-Kady is a leading entrepreneur and angel investor in his native Alexandria, Egypt. Born and raised in Alexandria, Tarek is the Executive Chairman of KD Group, a group of marketing and advertising agencies serving various clients in the Middle East and North Africa. Tarek is the founder and CEO of Techne Inc. and also the founder and chairman of Alexandria Business Angel Network (Alex Angels) & founder and chairman of The Mediterranean Business Angel Investment Network.

Tarek is passionate about helping young people start their businesses. As Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Community Alexandria hub, he spends part of his time giving to the next generation of business owners in the region. Tarek was awarded by the American University in Cairo’s Venture Lab in recognition to his efforts as one of the prominent contributors to the entrepreneurial ecosystem for their outstanding support.

He has been recently appointed as Senator at the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) Senator Elkady will represent Egypt in the Global Startup Committee of the Grand Assembly in 2020

Keith Wallace is a Scotsman with a passion for entrepreneurs and deal-making. 

Having founded the Dutch Investors Club (DeInvesteerdersClub) he put his vision of joint investments within the Netherlands and further afield into effect. With deals in Africa and Asia, as well as Europe, this small group of active investors has striven from the beginning to make an impact as well as financial returns. Working with the Hivos Foundation, he was part of the team that founded Hivos Impact Investments, where he sits in the investment team and manages the portfolio companies of the Hivos Food and Lifestyle Fund (Southern Africa) and the Hivos Mideast Creatives Fund (MENA). 

Keith is also Global Ringmaster of getting In The Ring, an international entrepreneurial competition that takes place in over 100 countries and allows him to wear top hat and tails, even in the tropics.

Originally a software engineer with both a Bsc & Msc in Business Informatics from France, Mennen is now Vice President for Business Development & Strategy in Siemens Egypt.

Mennen is passionate about digitalisation and enjoys introducing AI and IoT for non-techies in gamified experiences and workshops.

She also mentors startups, tech and non tech, and has participated in Industry 4.0 assessments in Egypt in coordination with GIZ and the Egyptian government.

She loves designing innovation bootcamps, that she also moderates, where she applies Design Thinking methodology.

Adel Heikal is an Audience Analyst at Unilever North Africa & Middle East. His responsibilities include creating the data strategy for all Unilever's brands in the markets along with creating specific brand campaigns consumer journey, setting the micro, macro, and super segments, in addition to leading the implementation of Data-Driven marketing amongst the brands' marketing activities. His previous experience includes working as a Growth Hacker at Mintrics, the leading social video analytics & intelligence platform, where he worked on publishing the first-of-a-kind Social Video Analysis Reports in Egypt and UAE that analyzed more than 800 brands in Egypt only and their video performance and behavior online. He has also worked directly with Youtube, Discovery Networks, The UAE Government, and Udacity amongst others on behalf of Mintrics.

Lives with an ingrained entrepreneurial spirt. His serial entrepreneurial mindset stems from his creativity and imagination as he looks to solve problems and better systems that potentially impact millions of lives. In summary both his natural and favorite problems to solve are around innovative optimalization solutions in establish industries. After seven years working in the Sports Agency Business and detecting many inefficiencies in the process. sKora.tech was born out of Kora Stars to solve a great many problems for aspiring football players seeking their next best step toward professionalism. Ultimately the sKora startup looks to reshape the football player pipeline for the better.

Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of Synapse Analytics, a company that focuses on helping businesses leverage A.I. in their operations, customer experience and business models. Ahmed previously worked in Industrial Automation, Learning and Development, Information technology and Consulting. Currently, Synapse Analytics has helped more than 20+ clients locally,in more than 12 industries locally and internationally to adopt impact driven Artificial Intelligence. and create

Galal is a former dentist who graduated from the faculty of dentistry Tanta University but eCommerce, coding and digital marketing has always been his biggest passion even before starting Taskty. Since 2008, his focus was enabling SMEs to create business opportunities through the internet, and in 2013 and after multiple small projects, he decided to quit dentistry and follow his passion by cofounding Taskty which became the leading online marketplace for home services in Egypt. Taskty.com is serving 20 different services to thousands of customers every month and is creating jobs for more than 1000 technicians. They joined Flat6Labs before raising multiple rounds of investments from The Cairo Angels, 500 Startups, Seedstars, Vision Ventures Capital. They also won the MIT IIC competition for Africa and were qualified to the global finals.

VC and Entrepreneurship in the Middle East, San Francisco and Spain

14 years of experience in marketing communication campaigns Managing marketing department for 2B Egypt for 5 years MBA Holder from Arab Academy for Science & Technology Cairo since 2018 Passionate for learning & teaching about marketing

Ashraf Zeitoon has more than 20 years’ experience in the Public Policy, Technology, Communications & Public Affairs industry. In his most recent position, Ashraf was the first director of Public Policy for the Middle East, Turkey & Africa at Netflix Inc, and he established the Public Policy Function for Netflix in its biggest emerging region, and lead the engagement with Public and Regulatory authorities in a most challenging and dynamic region. In the period between his work with Netflix and Facebook, Ashraf advised a number of regional and global corporations in the technology, media, Investment, and real estate sectors including Mubadala, and Emaar, and he represented the interests of a number of clients in the technology sector, with the local and federal governments in the Middle East & North Africa region, Prior to that, Ashraf served as the Former Head of Public Policy for the Middle East & North Africa at Facebook. During his tenure with Facebook, he led the company’s public policy work in the region, representing the Facebook family of apps including Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp & Oculus, on a broad portfolio of issues including Government Relations, Freedom of Expression Online, Privacy, Data Protection, Online child safety, Regulatory Affairs, Social Media for Social good and digital government diplomacy. Before joining Facebook, Ashraf worked in senior positions in Public Affairs and Communications with leading corporations in the Middle East and North Africa, including Aramex and Arabtec Holding, and he held senior positions with the Governments of Jordan and Emirate of Dubai in several capacities including Special Aide to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Assistant Director of Government performance Directorate at the Prime Ministry of Jordan, and Director of Special Projects at the Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai. Ashraf is a former associate of the Dubai Initiative at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and his writing has been published in the Financial Times and Foreignpolicy.com. He holds a B.A. in Political Science & English Literature from Yarmouk University in Jordan. Ashraf's writing has been published in Foreign Policy Magazine (USA), and The Financial Times (UK), and he has been interviewed by several regional and international publications and media outlets including The Economist (UK), The Financial Times (UK), The Wall Street Journal (USA), Asharq Al Awsat (Saudi Arabia), Al Jazeera (Qatar), Sky News Arabia (UAE) and Al Arabiya (UAE).

ProjectWahba: Wahba obtained his Bachelors Degree in Data Analysis from Pepperdine University, California. After graduating, he completed an internship in BuzzFeed - one of the biggest Social Media platforms - this exposed him to video as a prominent communication tool for creativity & self - expression. He started to explore this medium further with his iPhone & countless hours on YouTube. He wanted to explore filmmaking at a more professional level & later took a film directing course. In the past years, Wahba has worked on campaigns for The Ministry of Tourism in Egypt, Beautiful Destinations, Dubai Tourism, United Nations, Azza Fahmy, Egypt Air and many more. Through Movement Productions, Wahba aims to create an inclusive community for Egyptian Content Creators. As a creative himself, his goal is to help give Egypt's diverse destinations the global recognition it deserves.

Born and raised in the city of Art Alexandria, Assem Omar is a unique blend of a TV Presenter, PR Consultant he kick-started his career 7 years ago, hosted various mega summits and conferences aside from featuring 2 online shows. Assem by education and passion curated managed to step up as the youngest manager in the MEA region at his current position he also had the opportunity to interview a wide range of Celebs and officials. He strongly believes that all he achieved at such a young age is only because of passion and dedication and continuously advocates the concept of empowering youth across all mediums!

Head of Acceptance & Acquiring at Fawry. Egypt’s largest Electronic Financial & Digital transformation Platform, serving consumers and businesses through various channels for payments & payout solutions via thousands of service points all over Egypt. Bassem has over +12 years of experience in payments and digital transformation and held several positions at leading payment companies in Egypt, Morocco, and Bahrain. Bassem holds a BA in computer & information science from Ain Shams University.

Cherine Abdelaal, Founder of cherine abdelaal design house and Camouflé marketing comms. An interior designer, a master’s degree holder, graduated from faculty of fine arts, department of interior design, in 2013. Served as a senior lecturer of interior design at the faculty of fine arts, finished master’s degree in May 2017 and currently working on PHD Thesis. Started Digital Marketing career, in 2019, studied digital marketing in the American University in Cairo. More than 6 years of practical experience with different residential commercial projects & 2 years experience in Digital Marketing.

My Professional Experience is a combination of some fields that makes my Experiences solid, flexible, and able to expand. I have worked in many fields like Public relations, Sales, Customer Support, Call Centers, online solutions, online Community, system engineering, and software engineering. then I founded many startups that allow me to learn more and expand my knowledge especially 302Labs Coworking Space that let me mastering a new field like Operation management, community management, product management, Strategy, and managing director working along with a marvelous team that makes 302Labs one of the best coworking spaces in the industry for 8 years.

Dr. Shady El Zayat is the Commercial Director of Orientals for Urban Development which falls under the umbrella of Oriental Weavers. He was chosen as one of the most successful sales directors in Egypt with a transaction volume of seventeen billion Egyptian pounds in the last 6 years. Dr. Shady was a professor at the British University.

Egyptian Director, Writer and Producer Graduated From faculty of mass communication, Cairo Univ. 2006 in 2015 Eiad Founded His Own Company, KOSHK Creative Studio, A specialized Full-Service writing studio for creative production

An avid gamer and esports enthusiast, I've been involved in the Arabic gaming scene since 2013. I am looking to help the MENA gaming ecosystem develop and reach its full potential.

A senior executive with a proven track record of surpassing ambitious business goals, delivering turnaround & sustainable business growth founded on solid consumer & customer understanding. Consistency in positioning organizations for success, spurring multimillion-dollar revenue growth, opening new revenue streams & delivering unconventional solutions that demonstrate profound dedication to customer engagement. Ability to balance between long-term strategy & day-to-day operational excellence. Eslam has 20 years of marketing, product & business management experience across North America, Europe, Africa & Middle East. He assumed various global / regional leadership roles delivering + executing marketing & innovation development strategies across FMCG, Banking, Media and FINTECH Industries. He started his career in 1997 at Unilever Egypt in Brand Management & then moved on to various regional roles across Middle East, Africa and finally Europe (France) where he was Regional / Global Marketing Director for the Multibillion Dollar Categories. During his tenor at Unilever he Managed various categories including, Foods, Beverages, Personal care & Home care. In 2008 he was appointed as Head of Marketing for a Media & Entertainment Start-up (twofour54) funded by Mubadala where he played a key role in establishing the region’s 1st Content Creation Community (working across TV, Film, Radio, Digital & Animation platforms) at a global level. In 2012 he took on the Role of Head of Marketing for MasterCard across Middle East & Africa where he led the company’s Digital Transformation at marketing & product levels. Following that he was appointed as SVP - Global Head of Innovation / Product Development based in New York. In 2018 Eslam Founded Just Innovate, an Independent Consulting Practice that focuses on driving Digital Transformation and Customer Experience for Large Corporations and Tech Startups. Eslam is also a Venture Partner for Global Ventures, a UAE based Venture Capital Fund where he leads their Fintech Segment and the Egyptian Market. In 2019 Eslam graduated from MIT’s Executive Program for Digital Transformation. Additionally, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Alexandria University and an MBA from Central Michigan / Arab Academy (Joint Program).

My name is Farida Salem. I’m a football player and coach. I’m an Alssonian (and proud). I studied IMC, Psychology and Creative Writing at AUC then transferred abroad to study Sport, Health, and Physical Education at Vancouver Island University, BC, Canada. I worked all across Western Canada in the sports field before moving back to Cairo to fulfil my lifelong dream: establishing Empower Football Academy.

General Statement of Experience: Fathallah brings to bear a very rich and solid background and experience that spans over 35 years in the field of construction and urban development. He is highly renowned for being a real estate development expert & entrepreneur. Founder of a number of companies that acquired a strong reputation in the market for high quality products and customer commitment, and which successfully executed more than 100 diversified projects of summer resorts, luxurious residential apartments and villas compound, business and commercial buildings in Egypt and abroad. Throughout his career, Fathallah acquired unique experience in all aspects of the real estate development value chain starting from the technical aspects of construction through the commercial and legal aspects of land acquisition to the formulation and leadership of large project teams consisting of various local and international consultants and subcontractors. Fathallah also enjoys a keen eye that grabs opportunities with the right level of return on investment complemented by his innate edge to sense great potential with a result-oriented leadership influential abilities that mobilize people and turn his vision into reality. A major differentiating area is Fathallah’s strong ability to create and maintain vast networks of contacts in the various communities related to the urban development business. The networks he developed over the years include key government officials and decision makers, bankers, other real estate developers, contractors, consultants and service providers, public figures, and a rich database of satisfied customers. Fathalla also possesses significant experience in handling contractual and legal issues related to urban development, which might be quiet challenging and complex under the heavy bureaucratic governmental systems. Fathallah is a visionary who enjoys a shrewd investment mentality with a proven track of unique success in formulating strategies, building & energizing teams, leading and developing others to achievement of goals and objectives with a strong monitoring ability while he maintains strong focus on business growth and development. Fathalla managed El Mostakbal for Urban Development, Egypt's Leading Master Developer, developing its flagship development " Mostakbal City" over an area of 11.000 acres at New Cairo city a Fully Integrated development that includes multi uses (Residential, Commercial, Education, Entertainment, Medical, Hospitality). Fathalla succeeded in achieving phase one of the development plan at Mostakbal City and achieved sales that distinguished Mostakbal for Urban Development as of the leading Real Estate Developers in the Egyptian Market with Total Estimated Value of 8 billion pounds. Achievements: • The first private sector developer in Egypt’s North Coast with 5 summer resorts built during the period between 1986 – 2012. • The first developer in • Major projects in Cairo and Alexandria include Mena Garden City 1993, Bustan Mena 1983 Concorde Garden, Mena Residence, Mena Royal, Mena Elite, Mena Star, and Pearl Club. • Expanding the business regionally starting 1995 into Lebanon (Mena House Club) and Sudan (Al Yasmin Residential Compound). • Established and headed the Egyptian Real Estate Association (1998 – 2009). • Initial Public Offering and capital increase for Mena Touristic & Real estate company in 1997 and 2006. Current Position: • Chairman of Mena for Real Estate Development Consultancy. • Board member of Band Egypt for Real Estate. Previous Positions: • Chairman of Al-Mostakbal for Urban Development (March 2013 – April 2015) • Founder and Chairman of Mena for Touristic and Real Estate Investment (1986 – 2012) • Founder and CEO of Mena for Contracting and Trading (1979 – 2008) • Founder and Chairman of Mena for Engineering and Development (1984 – 2008) • Chairman of Mena House Club in Lebanon (1995 – 2002) • Chairman of Blue Nile for Urban Development in Sudan (2007 – 2011) Education & Certificates: • Bachelor of Civil Engineering – Alexandria University 1979. • Certificate of Engineering Consultant from Egyptian Engineer’s Federation. • Certificate of Engineering Consultant from Saudi Engineer’s Federation. • Certificate of Expert Real Estate Appraiser at the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority. Associations Memberships: • President of Egyptian Lebanese Businessmen Association. • Member of Egyptian Lebanese Business Council. • Vice chairman & President of Construction Committee of Egyptian Businessmen Association. • Founder & Board member of Real Estate Development Chamber in Federation of Egyptian Industries. • Board member of Real Estate Committee of Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce. • Founder & Board member of Egyptian Real Estate Council. • Member of the bord of Trustees Beirut Arab University. • Member & President of Real Estate Committee of Egyptian Saudi Business Council. • Member of Egyptian Ethiopian Business Council.

Inertia is a leading Egyptian real estate company that develops distinctive, valuable and dynamic projects in different governorates across Egypt. From its inception, Inertia has kicked off projects that cater to Egypt’s cosmopolitan clientele in Cairo, the North Coast and by the Red Sea, focusing on quality property design that enhances and establishes close-knit and active communities. Inertia’s developments include two medical centers such as Medipoint Sheikh Zayed and seven residential properties in Egypt.

Dr. Mousilli is the managing partner of Lloyd & Mousilli- a boutique law firm specializing in Intellectual Property and Technology law. Dr. Mousilli is currently a visiting professor of law at Kyiv Polytechnic Institure in Ukraine through the United States Fulbright Program. Dr. Mousilli previously served as in-house counsel for both Apple and Dell, and started his career at DLA Piper in the Intellectual Property Division.

Samer Safsafy is the Vice President of the Consumer Business Device at Huawei Technologies Egypt Since July 2014 ..with an Enormous Sales and Marketing Leadership Through 22 years of experience in the Telecommunication, FMCG, and commodity Business with large organisations across the Middle East Region . 

Throughout His  Career with Huawei he was able to Drive the Company across many challenges until Huawei Egypt now become a prestigious Market Player in the telecom industry. Huawei Strong Device Satisfaction Has Encouraged Brand loyalty that Reached almost 10Million Egyptian Users with Customer Satisfaction exceeds 97% ...Driving a Highly Performance Company passionately towards the Global Vision of Huawei which is Make it possible by affording and Mixing Technology with Elegance in Every product Launched to the Egyptian Consumer by accelerate the implementation of seamless AI life Strategy and expanding HMS ecosystem and Build a premium Brand Image.

Co- Founder of Design Sector and five years of experience in architecture and interior design working in Egypt, USA, UAE and Japan. Specializing in visualization technology and Design and is responsible for technical affairs and operation in Design Sector.

Working on digitizing sustainability, I have been focused recently on developing technological methods to digitize the waste management system in several districts and governorates in Egypt. Co-founder of Dawar, the application that includes residents in the waste management system, I have been working relentlessly with my collogues on the training and capacity building of stakeholders involved in the waste process to adopt and at the same time help fine tune and digitize the process.

Heidi El Nahas, Head of Corporate Communication and Sustainable Development at Banque du Caire. She devises state of the art marketing strategies, transforming the brand image adapting to a constantly changing banking sector. Through the enrichment of communication channels to the mass media and audiences, her plan of action is designed to ensure the highest levels of transparency building on existing clients’ trust and loyalty as well as drawing the interest of new clientele. Merging these two factors together reflects profitable and sustainable advancement. This only begins to highlight the pivotal role Heidi El Nahas has been carrying out at Banque du Caire over the past few years. Prior to her time at Banque du Caire in 2009, Mrs. El Nahas built her well-earned reputation as a leading authority in the Marketing field serving as the General Manager of Marketing, Advertising and Media for CIT Global, Marketing Manager for Raya Holdings, and Advertising Officer for General Motors. Her expertise spans over two decades, not only in corporate marketing communication, but also in the field of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. As such, she is currently a Member of the Sustainable Development Committee at the Federation of Egyptian Banks as well as the Corporate Impact and Sustainability Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo (AmCham). Her top priority is to ensure that Banque du Caire’s policies are in-line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and Egypt’s Vision of 2030. By virtue of her influential contributions in business and social responsibility, Mrs. El Nahas has received several influential accolades as she was chosen among the 50 most influential women in the business community during 2017. Not to mention being selected by the Egyptian Women Forum for 2 consecutive years to honor her among 30 success stories of influential Egyptian women contributing to National Institutions in 2019. Mrs. El-Nahas possesses a unique blend of experiences and creativity that has enabled her to introduce a new attractive brand image for Banque du Caire serving the Egyptian massaudience. Her latest efforts have been recognized with enormous success in the Egyptian banking sector in which Banque du Caire stands as one of the leading banking trademarks, increasing customer acquisition day by day. Heidi El Nahas holds an MBA in Marketing from Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) as well as an IAA International Diploma in Marketing Communications from The American University in Cairo, and an E-Marketing Diploma from the College of Multimedia Netherlands.

Naro is a Director and Head of JTC’s Dubai office. He joined JTC as an Associate Director in 2020 as part of our Private Client Services team in Guernsey.
Having grown up in Guernsey, Naro started working in the fiduciary industry in 2004 and has remained in the industry ever since. His experience has been gained in both independent and bank-owned fiduciary companies, with most of his career being spent looking after Middle Eastern clients with a particular focus on UK real estate structures.
Naro has been named on Citywealth’s ‘Leaders’ list in 2020 and also on the Citywealth ‘Future Leaders’ list in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He has also been recognized on the eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35 List on several occasions, most recently on the 2020 Top 35 Under 35 List for the United Kingdom.

Sharif El-Badawi is a founding Managing Partner of Plus Venture Capital (+VC), the leading seed-stage investment firm in the Middle East and North Africa region, where he invests across sectors from seed to growth within the region and diaspora. 

Previously, he co-founded and managed the first US-based venture capital firm with a dedicated fund for the MENA region and was the most active venture capital investor in the region during its investment period from 2017-2020. In his role, he manages the 500 Startups MENA fund, 500 Falcons, which invested in over 180 startups across 15 countries.

In addition, Sharif serves on the board of San Francisco Bay Area-based non-profit TechWadi where he was the chairman of the board from 2015-2019 helping build meaningful bridges between MENA startups and Silicon Valley. He also serves on several advisory boards for startups, organizations, and governments in the MENA region and Silicon Valley.

Prior to his career in investing, Sharif was the Partner Lead to VCs and Startups at Google where he worked with top tier VCs and their most promising startups on strategies that bring all of Google to their businesses. Before joining the Global Partnerships team, he spent 5 years leading performance advertising strategy and solutions for Google’s largest customers in North America covering Mobile, Search, and Display ads.

 He joined Google through the $750m acquisition of AdMob, the world’s leading mobile advertising network. Before AdMob, Sharif was a technologist and serial entrepreneur having founded or co-founded several companies in the Consumer Internet and B2B space over a twelve-year period starting in 1998.

Sharif earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine Merage School of Business, and his Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. He recently relocated from his home state of California to Dubai with his wife and three children.

I am IIN Certified health coach, one of the most important health coaching schools in USA and the world. ISSA certified specialist in sports nutrition I am currently preparing my masters in nutrition. I founded Lean Queen which is the largest Egyptian female community for healthy weight loss. I am a passionate blogger and influencer and I constantly share weight loss tips, tricks and successful transformation stories on my official pages. I was chosen as speaker in cultural events in Egypt such as : the health market events and IYC, the International Youth Culture conference which was held in Bibliotheca Alexandria where I was chosen among the success stories to narrate my success story to encourage youth. Very eager to spread awareness , so I constantly give lectures in schools for parents and students around how we should live a healthy life style, and sometimes for women who were always struggling losing weight.

Rania Ayman is the Founder of Entreprenelle which is a mission driven enterprise that strives to bridge the gender gap economically by educating, training and linking women to all the economic resources possible impacting more than 50,000 women in business in more than 9 govern-rates including under privileged areas, successfully producing more than 2000 project, formalising more than 700. Concerned with socioeconomic gender rights thats why she started her Initiative in Cairo 5 years back serving now most of Egypt and outreaching to the hole region to make sure women voices are on the table heard and carefully listened to.. Been chosen to represent Egypt and speak in many international conferences as The Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India, Social Enterprise World Forum in the United Kingdom, World government summit in UAE and African Youth Conference in Kenya. Beijing +25 Task Force member, Awarded “ Mentor Arabia and MBC Al Amal 2019 “ Empowering Youth Champion “ of the year “ Best Female Entrepreneur “ by YE!, “ Champion of change 2020 “ Featured as one of the most active influential “ 25 under 25 Entrepreneurs “ by Startup Scene, Women Entrepreneurship Network board member, Global Institute for Women's Empowerment member, UN Women Gender innovation Agora member, CEFP Alumni & Injaz Alumni.

A Former Engineer with more than 6 years in digital marketing and e-commerce fields, worked with companies like Ravin, Edfa3ly, and Quattro, Co-founded Botme in 2017 that became one of the leading chatbot building platforms in the MENA region

Saif Ahmed is the co-founder and CPO of WideBot, and a maintainer of WideBot platform, The First Arabic-Focused Bot Builder Platform! He is also the founder of Azkarbot one of the most growing chatbots on Facebook messenger. He focuses on empowering businesses to build the best possible conversational experiences and has years of experience building AI products in the industry.

A persistent entrepreneur with a huge passion for esports. He Co-founded GBarena in 2016, a leading esports platform in the MENA region that serves the ecosystem stakeholders with products and services built on the foundation of data analysis.

President of The Egyptian Federation for Electronic Games

Top sales performance 2018 & 2019 in Europe Middle East and Africa

Sherif Hosny is the CEO and Co-founder of Schaduf for Agriculture and Trade. Previously Sherif was the Managing Director of Rio Tinto Alcan International Network in the MENA and has traveled extensively for business in the Middle East and North Africa Sherif completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering with honors from the American University in Cairo and holds an MBA from the same university. Sherif is a Synergos fellow and part of the Arab World Social Innovators Network, he was chosen as one of the pioneers for the Pioneers of Egypt program (Mobaderoon Masr) and has been awarded by the World Leadership Congress in the UAE for strategic leadership.

Sherif Abdelmohsen is associate professor of digital media and design computing at the Department of Architecture at the American University in Cairo. He is also head of the Design Computing and Fabrication group at the building sciences laboratory. Abdelmohsen received his PhD degree in Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2011), and participated in design computing research and teaching at both Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech. He received his MSc and BSc degrees in architectural engineering from Ain Shams University in 2004 and 2000 respectively. Abdelmohsen has around 60 articles and book chapters published in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals. He participated as PI, co-PI and team member in several funded research projects, amounting to a total of around $600,000. His recent research involves several topics, including the development of low-cost soft adaptive façade systems using hygroscopic properties of wood, automated post-occupancy space management using BIM and GIS, the design and fabrication of complex facades using robotic depositing and multi-point forming, and the design, fabrication and robotic assembly of thermally responsive parametric brick wall configurations. He has also supervised and examined more than 25 MSc and PhD students working in the area of computer aided architectural design. At the professional level, Abdelmohsen has participated in award-winning international competitions and in designing architectural projects in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Italy, Germany and Egypt. He is co-founder and managing partner at UDAAR, an international company specialized in architecture, computational design research, and smart building management solutions. He is also honorary recipient of the Knowledge Application and Notion for Society (KANS) scientific competition (2018), the Faculty Award of Merit for Best Doctoral Presentation (2012), Young Active Researcher Award for outstanding research activity (2013), and the ARCC/KING Medal for Excellence in Architectural and Environmental Design Research (2009).

Sherif Rafik is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Faydety focusing on building the brand through a solid digital marketing strategy. He worked mostly in multinational advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett, BBDO and Grey Worldwide. He graduated from University of New Brunswick in 2003 with a bachelor degree in International Business.

Sherine Moneim is the strategy director for beauty and personal care division for Unilever north africa , middle east, Turkey and Russia region. Before that she led the beauty and personal care division as the marketing director and executive board member For Unilever Egypt and Sudan. Her marketing expertise goes back leading most of the key Portfolio across Beverages, Foods, Home care and Personal Care. Formerly, She was the marketing director for Home Care, Foods and Beverages business leading Lipton and Knorr, two Unilever mega brands. She worked on steering the business towards profitable competitive growth in a VUCA environment. Sherine’s contribution went beyond Egypt and Sudan, her influence went across 7 countries in the MENA region because of her focus on building passionate leaders with powerful consumer insights and digital capabilities who can win in a connected world. She is a graduate of the faculty of commerce, English department Alexandria University and joined her career in Unilever back in 2003. Her passion lies in creating a great impact on people’s lives through creating a disruptive consumer marketing that adds value to their lives. Also her inspiration gets fueled everyday by building a 2nd line of tomorrow’s leaders who can unleash their potential to the best of their capabilities and accordingly play an instrumental role in spinning the wheel of the economy.

With more than 8 years of experience in the film and entertainment business, Siza Zayed is a leading marketer in the field. She started her career at MAD Solutions, the first marketing and distribution company in the Arab world focusing on the film industry, she worked on several campaigns for films in both theatrical releases or international releases in film festivals. She was also the manager of Arab Cinema Center which is an initiative that supports Arab cinema to be present under one umrella at akey international film festivals. She is currently working as a Marketing Director at RAW Entertainment, with a group of team members, they are responsible to create full marketing campaigns for the company's films. She is also working at El Gouna Film Festival as CineGouna Bridge Manager, in which all masterclasses, panels and workshops take place. Moreover, she was an Industry Consultant at Red Sea International Film Festival at Jeddah at the beginning of 2020. She is also freelancing with some talents as a marketing and a PR representative.

Serial entrepreneur. CEO of ThePlanet + Mintrics.

Toam Jaber is Program Director for HighTechXL, the Netherlands’ premier deep-tech venture builder based in Eindhoven. Toam came onboard just as Hightechxl pivoted from high tech startup accelerator to the more ambitious and complex deep-tech venture building program. Toam leads teams through a rigorous nine-month program in three phases. The program features 166 tasks and mission-critical deliverables. Toam implements the tasks and mission-critical deliverables of the program and is involved in all stages of venture building, including organising the reverse-hackathon FasTrackathon, pre-program sessions final selection day and the nine month program. To date, seven teams have completed the program and Toam currently leads 13 teams in phase 1 and phase 2 of the three-phase program. The HighTechXL team works very closely with deep-tech ventures and provides them with all the building blocks to become the region’s fastest growing tech companies.

I work as a program manager at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung with a focus on Climate, renewable energy and sustainable urban planning. I have over 10 years of work experience in international development with a focus on climate and environmental protection.

Yasser Ghallab has had many remarkable accomplishments in the world of business. He is the head of digital marketing of multiple multinational companies, a business transformation consultant for more than 70 local and international companies, and an expert international trainer who has achieved success in training 45000 leaders from 37 nationalities since 2009. Yasser is an MBA holder, certified professional coach, and academic tutor in the American University in Cairo, and formerly in Cairo University. Furthermore, Ghallab has also been a cornerstone in the establishment of digital marketing teams for Vodafone, Banque Du Caire, Bites, and Emirates Auction. Moreover, Yasser has created various transformation strategies that helped businesses transform and grow by two digits’ percentages month over month. He is a certified consultant for several international entities like the United Nations, International Trade Center, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

H.E. Dr. Nabeel Koshak is the CEO and a Board Member of Saudi Venture Capital Company (SVC). Nabeel is the Founder and Angel Investor at Athaal (Angel Investors Group). He is the Chairman of GEN (Global Entrepreneurship Network) Saudi. Nabeel is a member of the Investment Committees of KAUST’s Innovation Fund. Formerly, he is the Founding Dean of Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College (MBSC) of Business and Entrepreneurship at King Abdullah Economic City. Nabeel is the Co-Founder and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wadi Makkah Company (Startup Accelerator, and Venture Capital Fund). Nabeel is a mentor at Endeavor Saudi Arabia. He is a Board Member and the Chairman of the Investment Committee at King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Innovation (Mawhiba). Koshak is a Member of the Executive Committee of King Faisal International Prize. Formerly, he was a Board Member of Oqal (Angel Investors Group) Jeddah branch and a mentor at Flat6Labs Jeddah (Startup Accelerator).

Nabeel is the former Co-Founder and Director of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) GIS Technology Innovation Center. He is the former Co-Founder and General Supervisor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute. Nabeel is the former Co-Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of Transportation and Crowd Management Innovation Center.

As an entrepreneur, Koshak was the Founder and CEO of five tech startups.

Nabeel received an Executive Education in "Venture Capital and Private Equity" from Harvard University in 2019, an Executive Education from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in "Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program" and "Management, Innovation, Technology" in 2017, a PhD in Design Computing from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, and a Master of Architecture (Computing in Design and Planning) from the University of Colorado in 1997. 

CEO / Co-Founder of Arabhardware, Web-obsessed & Suck-up for anything related to Gaming & Tech. started Arabhardware since 2002, Graduated from Computer Science with Software Engineer Major, and decided to turn Arabhardware into a real business in 2010, Arabhardware is now considered as one of the Top Tech and Gaming Communities in the MENA region with over 20M+ Monthly reach. Ibrahim is also a Board member on GBArena the MiddleEast No1. eSports Platform as well as being a Digital Content Consultant for Some firms.

A proud curly-haired who has been working in the digital field for 6 years aka Content Heisenberg 

Khalid Mostafa is a seasoned consultant who has been a main reason behind many successful corporate turn-arounds in the past 15 years. He has been a trusted go-to-expert for Commercial related initiatives performed for a prolific list of Multinational firms in MENA Region. Among them Telco giant Etisalat, leading Digital Advertising company: Connect Ads and the new Saudi OTA AlMatar Application Khalid brings thought leadership on Marketing strategies and has managed the entire operations for Twitter, Microsoft Advertising properties (Skype & Outlook) & other prominent digital brands playing an integral role in different companies successful campaigns in KSA & pan regionally. He has drastically increased the market share of Connect Ads in both Saudi & Qatari markets. He holds an EMBA Degree from Georgia State University and Marketing Communications Diploma specialised in Integrated Marketing Communications from International Advertising Association (IAA).

An entrepreneur in the sports tech industry that has developed some unique solutions in recent years.

Co Founder and CCO of GBarena, the largest online gaming community and Esports platform in the region.

Nawaf Mohamed Alkoheji is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Tenmou. He is committed, driven and dedicated to developing a start-up culture in Bahrain and to work together with key stakeholders to benefit entrepreneurs and encourage companies to grow and scale up. Nawaf started his entrepreneurial journey by launching Foods Limited now called the Culinary Company, a specialized catering company in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Nawaf also has several years of startup and SME experience, while was working in Tamkeen. Nawaf graduated with a BA in International Relations from Webster University London, and an MBA from the University of Incarnate Word in Texas.

Marketing Manager of Virgin Megastore

Dr. Omar Sakr is the founder and CEO of Nawah-Scientific, the first online multidisciplinary research center working as an outsourcing destination for research in the fields of natural and biomedical sciences. He holds a PhD in pharmaceutical technology from the University of Geneva and an MBA degree from HULT business school in London. His career extends over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical field, both in academia and industry. His workplaces include Egypt, Switzerland and Germany. Dr. Sakr is also an adjunct Lecturer of entrepreneurship at Zewail City of Science and Technology. To his name, Omar holds several scientific and business awards.

Laila Badawi is an architect, graduated in 2007 from Cairo University where she held a teaching and research position for 3 years and got her MSc (2010). She also pursued a design career with Shahira Fahmy Architects (2008-2013). She received the Hassan Fathy Design Award (2013) and acquired freelance projects until she founded “Grids Architects” 2017. Grids Architects was recognized in; Cairo Design Award 2017&2018, DNA Paris Design Award 2019 and the Egyptian National competition to represent Egypt at the Venice Biennale of Architecture2020. During the Covid19 Lockdown, Badawi has joined Esorus as Partner because she believes that the design community should come together to improve the industry dynamics by introducing digital solutions.

Manal is a subject matter expert at E-Business. She started
E-Business Career since 2003. She is working at her family
Business for 19 years now, a company of 30K employees
started by her grandfather 56 years ago. She is managing a team of 500 people at Elaraby. She established the E-business department at Elaraby 15 years ago.
Also, she established their E-commerce portal, and she set their digital marketing strategies. She established an e-learning portal for employees training and development at Elaraby.
She also contributed on different projects, related to marketing, sales, PR, and CRM. Currently she is the head of digital and Omnichannel at Elaraby group. Also, She is a lecturer at EU business school. She do mentoring on different ventures and startups . She is the founder and CEO of E-Business school an e-learning portal specialized in digital business learning.
She is an expert at:
Digital transformation / E-commerce /Digital strategic Planning / team leadership / omnichannel/ trade marketing/ telesales/ customer centric/
Process Improvement /Relationship Management / mentoring/
project management / marketing management/ change management / products marketing / online advertise
team building / integration /analysis / digital media / brand management /CRM/ mobile marketing / content marketing communication online PR/ PR/ e-learning / Omnichannel/ direct sales / digital branding/ knowledge management/ online operation and monitoring / digital solutions / family business/ photography/ intranet & extranet/ online entrepreneur/ mumpreneur.
She holds 3 MBAs, MBA in E-Business from Eu Business School,
MBA in communication & PR from EU business school, and MBA in Business administration from Roehampton University UK. Currently, she is a DBA candidate at EU Business school,
Geneva. She is Mela 11 graduated. She is a public speaker, trainer, mentor,and women empowerment.
She published different articles, and papers about E-business at different professional websites, and university website 

Marcia Dawood is an investor in over 100 early stage private companies. She is a Venture Partner with Mindshift Capital and a part of the investment committee for Next Wave Impact Fund. Previously, she was the COO of Portfolia (one of her portfolio companies) as well as a managing partner at BlueTree Capital Group where she was responsible for investment strategy, diligence research and member education. She was also a member of Golden Seeds in NYC and Dallas. She currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Angel Capital Association (ACA) with a co-chair position on the membership and marketing committee. She will become Chair of the Board in July 2021. Marcia also is a founding member and current chair of the Growing Women’s Capital group building syndication and collaboration among US investment groups focused on women-led companies. She received an MBA from the Global Executive program at UNC’s Kenan Flagler’s School of Business, OneMBA. During her graduate studies, her group acquired the franchise rights to a new sports team. She served on the Board of Directors and managed financial and legal matters for the organization. This gave her experience as an entrepreneur from the start through the exit of a business. Prior to becoming an active investor she was with Kaplan Higher Education for over 16 years.

May Khaled has +10 years of experience in business development and project management, besides her job as a Project Manager in noon Egypt, e-commerce pioneer in MENA, she is still perceiving her passion for storytelling by running her own podcast, Boharat. May has finished a recent degree in Liberal Arts as well as project management where she seeks to find a mutual ground between business and stories of life.

Moataz Salah is a cybersecurity expert with 14 years of experience. He is the founder of CyberTalents, a platform for top talented cybersecurity professionals. CyberTalents is an on-demand cybersecurity platform that enables companies with different levels to keep their business secure. CyberTalents helped many startups in the region including SWVL, Almentor, Shezlong, Harmonica, Moneyfellows, and many others to secure their apps. In 2010, Moataz founded the most valuable cybersecurity conference in Egypt, Cairo Security Camp, since the launch and till now it is the must-attend conference for all cybersecurity Communities. Moataz focuses on building the cybersecurity awareness culture in the Arab community through his conference, competitions, boot camps with a clear objective to discover young cybersecurity talents in this part of the world through his platform https://cybertalents.com/ Before launching CyberTalents, Moataz has been working for a couple of international companies including Intel and Valeo after being graduated from the faculty of engineering, Communication department, Alexandria University.

E-Commerce Consultant for more Than 10 years in MEAN Region Market مستشار تطوير الأعمال لحلول التجارة الإلكترونية منذ أكثر من عشر سنوات في سوق الشرق الأوسط

Electrical engineering degree, 18 years managing successful high-tech products & companies Joined and co-built 4 startups: 2 take-offs, 1 exit, 1 failure

Dr. Mohamed has played many roles in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. He built and sold startups, mentored many, judged competitions, gave keynote speeches, invested in startups and worked for a venture capital. He recently wrote a book about entrepreneurship. He works as business consultant through his consulting firm, Khedr W Business, and produces relevant content and video.

Mohamed Okasha is the managing director of Disreuptech Ventures , With over 18 years of experience in the corporate retail sales, marketing and operations management of both IT and telecom Industries, Okasha launched the retail operation of Fawry across Egypt and built the strong client base of Fawry billers. Before joining Fawry, Okasha held top executive roles at Raya and Vodafone, where he contributed to the launch and establishment of various successful initiatives in the IT and Telecom sectors. Okasha holds a BSC in Computer Science from AUC, and an International MBA from the graduate school of ESCLSCA.

As Partner at Arzan Venture Capital, Laith has lead many investments into technology companies in MENA, North America, and UK. He covers most verticals but is specifically passionate about SaaS, marketplaces, logistics, and teansportation. His investment thesis: honest hard working founders backed by data. A proud Endeavor Entrepreneur, Laith started his journey in 1997 to bring more people and businesses from the Arabic speaking world onto the World Wide Web. He started what became one of the most notable startups in the Arab World for the next 15 years; Jeeran.com. As Co-founder of Jeeran, Laith served many roles while shaping and executing the companyís product vision, and growing its user base from a handful of friends to 7M. In 2012 as Jeeran matured he decided to take a step back and left the company, taking on advisory and consulting roles with startups such as TasmeemME, OpenSooq, Akhtaboot, LunchOn, and HelloWorldKids. A self taught technologist and geek at heart, Laith enjoys working closely with developers and designers on solving product challenges. He still codes almost daily, and speaks fluent Arabic, English, Objective-C, Swift, PHP, C#, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, HTML, and a little bit of Python. Laith holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Jordan.

Lamiaa El Rashidy is the Technology Incubation Department Manager at the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC). Through managing TIEC’s incubation department, she aims at promoting entrepreneurial spirit and increasing SMEs in the ICT sector in Egypt. Lamiaa has over 10 years’ experience in the incubation business as she joined ITIDA in 2010 as an Incubation Specialist and since then she has supported and mentored through her work many of the current Egyptian successful startups. Lamiaa has also joined Mowgli mentorship program in 2018 and she is currently one of Mowgli’s regional mentors. Lamiaa has joined TIEC since its inception in September 2010 and has been managing the incubation department as the Incubation Department Manager since June 2012. Prior to her current position, she held different positions at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt and DaimlerChrysler Egypt. Lamiaa earned an MBA from Maastricht School of Management (MSM), with Distinction and a B.A. in Business Administration – Concentration Marketing, American University in Cairo with high honors.

Mahmoud El Guezery is the CEO of Tredco Mobility and serves on its board of directors. Before being named CEO in November 2018, Mahmoud was Tredco’s Managing Director and was responsible for all of the company's automotive business activities, including end-to-end management of four automotive feeding industries plants. He was the first in the Egyptian market to introduce Electric 2 & 3 wheelers locally assembled under the brand name “Glide”. Prior to joining Tredco Group, Mahmoud was Territory Manager for Exxonmobil and was responsible for selling lubricants and specialties to Power Generation and Oil & Gas sectors . . . Mahmoud earned an MBA from University of Toledo “Ohio”, and a Bachelor degree in Engineering and Material Science from German University In Cairo.

MSc. Global Mental Health, King’s College London, UK