2021 Speakers

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.

Director and Content Creator

Engineer Hani Mahmoud held the position of Minister of State for Administrative Development in 2013, and before that, he had held the position of Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and the Head of the Information and Support Center decision-making by the Council of Ministers, as well as by the head of the National Post Authority.

On the international level, Eng. Hani worked as a Regional Director for Central Europe and Africa at Vodafone Global. He was also chosen as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vodafone Turkey. Engineer Hani is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vodafone Egypt since April 2017.

Engineer Hani has extensive experience in the field of management and enterprise development through practical experience of close to thirty years at the international, regional, and local levels. He has a rich and distinguished career history with the world's largest and most dynamic companies such as Xerox, Vodafone, and Aventis Pharmaceuticals.

Mamdouh Afia is a leading expert in SMEs Development and a management professional with over 35 years of experience in different sectors. He is the Head of the SME Group at the “National Bank of Egypt” (NBE), responsible for the strategic management of the SMEs line of business and the development of the SME banking portfolio in the bank that now exceeds 100 billion Egyptian Pounds. From 2012 till 2018 he was the Head of the Regional Program for SME Development at the “European Bank for Reconstruction and Development” (EBRD), responsible for the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region. 

Prior to his banking career Mamdouh Afia was a practicing management consultant for 17 years. He founded and managed his consulting company “Almanar” from 1994 to 2011, offering management consultancy services to corporates and SMEs. He also provided advisory services to International Development organizations and Donors as well as government bodies in the domain of SME’s and industrial development. 

For 9 years prior to the consultancy career, Mamdouh Afia worked as a business development engineer in several Egyptian Commercial companies that represented international Conglomerates specialized in the manufacturing of production lines to sectors such as the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, packaging, chemical, metallurgical and engineering industries.

Mamdouh has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (1985). In 2002 he was granted the CMC accreditation (Certified Management Consultant) from the Institute of Management Consultancy in the UK. 

Kharma was born and raised in Cairo. He has started playing piano at the age of 9. Kharma obtained his BS in Computer science from the American University in Cairo and his postgraduate studies in art direction at Miami Ad School.

Kharma started working in the field of advertising after graduation as a creative director, his first work was Ahl Masr Hospital for burns ad, after this work he was granted the title of Humanity Burn Free ambassador, for the initiative of the Ahl Masr for burns and for composing the music of Shoof B'albak.

In 2010, Kharma released his first official album, The First Voyage produced by Virgin Megastores, and followed by his second album released under Sony Music Entertainment records, where he was chosen to represent Egypt at one of Sony Music albums of the musical series, Arabesque with Yanni and Can Atilla. In November 2016, released his third album, AlyaQeen, Consisting of 13 music pieces and took about 3 years preparing for its release. 

In 2018, Kharma collaborated with Egyptian composer Omar Khairat, honoring the memory of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his moving memorial at 57357 Hospital. In the same year, Kharma composed the soundtrack for the opening and activities of the World Youth Forum held in Sharm El-Sheikh. Kharma collaborated with Tanvi Shah in a recording work titled Born Free.

In 2020, for the first time, Kharma composed the soundtrack for The End, the first Egyptian Sci-fi television drama series. That year, he composed the soundtrack for Mako, an Egyptian film adapted from the accident of the passenger ship, Salem Express that sank in the Red Sea in 1991.

Peter Cowley, a Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 40 years.  He has built up a portfolio of 75 angel investments with nine good exits (including one that is 107X his investment and returned all the cash he has invested) and thirteen failures.  He is a board member of the Global Business Angel Network (GBAN), President Emeritus 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 ran Martlet: a Corporate VC, investing (currently £10M) 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 is 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.

Systems Analyst turned Tech Strategy Advisor, Public Speaker and Angel Investor, Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD) is Collaborator-in-Chief at TechnoVision, co-founder of the Lagos Angel Network (LAN) and President of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN).  

For nearly two decades after graduating from the University of Miami TD led the implementation of innovative technology-led transformation initiatives in the Oil & Gas, Retail, Information Technology and Telecommunications industries for influential global brands Elf Aquitaine, Marks & Spencer, Ernst & Young and Sapient across Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. 

In 2000 his focus shifted to Africa where he helped create the African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF), led the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative in Nigeria and delivered a World Bank pilot of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) that uncovered over 20,000 ghost workers in the Nigerian Government payroll system. Leading these kinds of innovative initiatives in Africa using his goal-oriented approach to project delivery which consistently delivered effective results inspired his 2014 book “The African Project Manager”.

TD is Chairman of TextNigeria (Telecoms) and Non-Executive Director at MBO Capital (Private Equity) and Big Cabal Media (Media & Entertainment). He is a member of the Lagos State Science, Research & Innovation Council (LASRIC) and sits on the board of Laptops4Learning (L4L) Nigeria, the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) and the Global Business Angels Network (GBAN). 

As a thought leader with increasing knowledge gained from nurturing entrepreneurs in a growing portfolio of tech-enabled early-stage business ventures originating from Africa, TD’s personal mission is “to help drive Africa’s development by supporting young entrepreneurs using innovation and technology to create social impact and economic value.”

TD can be reached at www.tomidavies.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as TomiDee

Cultural Anthropologist. Brand Marketer. Disruptor. Susan got her start as an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand, helping turn prostitutes into entrepreneurs. Today, she's the founder of Emerging Media, a branding, PR and marketing agency dedicated to helping tech founders reach their finish lines. Her award-winning strategies have gotten 10 companies acquired, and she is now hell bent on sharing them with the world. Susan speaks to startups, innovators, and top executives from 60+ countries at GE, PWC, Deutsche Bank, Capital One and at global conferences, consulates and trade organizations about strategic storytelling, mastering the message and the media for maximum impact.

Chief Executive Officer at Nahdet Misr Publishing House and Founder of EdVentures, Dalia Ibrahim has more than 25 years of professional experience in publishing, digital solutions, education and entrepreneurship. Graduated with honors in Business Administration (1993) from the American University in Cairo, she solidified her educational experience with a Masters of Public Administration (1999) and an Executive MBA (2014) both from the American University in Cairo. 

She started her career in 1994 as a Publishing Executive at Nahdet Misr Publishing House. It wasn’t long before she realized the importance of introducing new integrated services and solutions that further support education and learning in Egypt and the Arab world. In 1998, she established Nahdet Misr for Digital Solutions, which offers various digital educational solutions. In the same year, she established Nahdet Misr Advertising, which specializes in animation, virtual reality and augmented reality production. The company is considered the first and only company in Egypt and the Middle East to produce dome theatre movies. Dalia Ibrahim has also succeeded in establishing Nahdet Misr Periodicals in 2004, which publishes the Arabic versions of the world’s most acclaimed entertainment magazines such as; Disney and National Geographic across Egypt and the Middle East. In 2009, she contributed in establishing Nahdet Misr Trading and Distribution; which supplies and distributes all kinds of stationery, and educational supplies.

Driven by a sense of commitment to the society, Dalia volunteers to serve as a mentor or a judge to start-up projects of young entrepreneurs, which triggered her to later initiate the establishment of EdVentures in 2017. EdVentures is considered MENA’s first corporate venture capital specializing in education, culture and innovative learning solutions. 

Gary Whitehill is Chairman of Geostrategic Holdings. Having immersed himself in 100+ countries, he boosts mission-driven world leaders to see, hear, understand and address novel 21st Century events, trends and paradigm-shifts so they can lead innovative systemic transformation from the future’s edge.

Widely regarded as a leading authority on global innovation and nurturing economic resilience in the 21st Century, Gary’s identifies and predicts geopolitical trends and translates them into actionable strategies to empower governments, federal agencies, armed forces, NGOs, local communities, and the private sector.

Academically, Gary earned the Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School, attended Directors College at Stanford Law School, was a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and completed the Executive Program at Singularity University.

Over the last 20+ years, Mohamed played many roles in the entrepreneurial ecosystem; he built and sold startups, mentored hundreds, judged competitions, angel invested in startups, worked for a venture capital, provided training to angel investors, incubators and accelerators and wrote a bestselling book about entrepreneurship (رائد الأعمال Inside Out).

He works as Managing Partner at his firm خضر وبزنس. Also, he produces written, video and podcast content under the same name. 

Mohamed is an Engineer who had some career shifts to software development, sales, marketing, operations, training and management. In professional education he holds an MBA degree and is finishing the DBA.

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 

Ayman Essawy is the Co-founder & GM of Lucky, also a co-founder of Dsquares & previously the COO, the region’s fastest-growing loyalty solutions provider. Ayman has a proven business management track record and over 10 years of experience in technology, product, business development & strategic planning.

Prior to co-founding Dsquares in 2012 & Lucky in 2018, Essawy held a senior Marketing role at Vodafone, where he managed Digital and Mobile Media. Before joining Vodafone, Essawy was leading the Business Development & Operations functions at Sarmady – a Vodafone joint venture – where he, along with a well-qualified team, managed to position Sarmady as the one of the leading digital companies in the region, before that he held different tech & operational roles in the telecom & financial services sectors. Ayman holds a BS degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering.

Thuraya Ismail is an Eisenhower Fellow, international human and social development expert, and an art advocate. Born in Saudi Arabia, she grew up in a highly educated family, where her father was a renowned physician in Riyadh. Thuraya studied political science at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and completed her graduate studies in international affairs at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2002. During her studies in the UK, fundamentalism was overrunning the Arab World, raising Thuraya’s concern over the future of Arab youth. She began a career aimed at youth empowerment and improving the mental and psychological well-being of young Arabs.

As Executive Director of Mentor Arabia, and previous senior specialist at the UNDP, she has worked in strategic planning, team building, partnership development, fundraising, advocacy, and of course, youth mentorship. Throughout her career, she has worked with leading figures, media and art celebrities. Under her guidance, Mentor Arabia has expanded horizontally and vertically across the region, with bases in twelve different countries. It has also increased its network of strategic partners, now up to 90, and a roaster of experts, crossing the 100 benchmark. Additionally, she has built a solid team, attracted reputable board members and public figures; as well as raised more than $6M through major programs and events reaching around 1.5M beneficiaries.

As a passionate supporter of youth empowerment and a strong believer in the value of art in addressing social and humanitarian issues, Thuraya has leveraged art and innovation in various regional initiatives such as the “Films and Songs Youth Empowerment Competition” and the “Youth Social Entrepreneurs Award” reaching more than 3M users. Furthermore, she was appointed as the Ambassador of “El Gouna Film Festival for Humanity” in 2018, Ambassador of Art D’Egypte to Lebanon and KSA, head of Jury for the “Beirut International Women Film Festival”, and a Jury member in the United Nations’ “Plural+ Youth Video Festival”. She is also a Board Member of Takreem Award and Egypt Entrepreneurs Award, and the first Arab to win the “Leading Practitioner Honor” award from the “European Union Society for Research”. Finally, Thuraya was selected as one of the top 25 women leaders across the globe to join the esteemed “Eisenhower Fellowship” advocating for world peace and prosperity."

15 Years of Sales and Marketing experience across the Healthcare  & FMCG sectors in MENAP

Ex - Regional Marketing Manager British Petroleum & General Mills. I was based in Dubai and managing the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan. 

Ex-Healthcare Category manager for Reckitt Benckiser managing North Africa 

EMBA HULT B. School London, UK

B.Sc. in Pharmacy from Cairo University, Egypt 

An Ironman athlete and a passionate sportsman 

Emily Renny is the Managing Director for the Accept product at Paymob, where she is responsible for managing, developing and growing the product, 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.

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.

MARCEL BRUNO DRIDJE is a British Citizen currently leading these Initiatives:

Sophia Business Angels President / EBAN Board Member / Mentor at The Camp Aix en Provence France / Mentor at the ISA BICC Cork Ireland/ Executive Coach / Business Angels trainer / International Business Dev and GTM Strategist.

A seasoned European Sales Executive, Marcel has substantial field experience helping IT and Telecom start-ups 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 start-ups (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. He walked away from his first position with IBM UK as an Applications Engineer greatly relieved to embark on a career in sales...his forte and passion.

Bi-Lingual in French and English with a working knowledge of Spanish, Italian, German and Arabic.

Three major highlights from his career include helping Airespace to be the #2 WLAN in EMEA market share and positioned Cisco to be #1 WLAN vendor worldwide. He has helped start promoting Cisco VCE alliance (VMware, EMC, Cisco) and the BMC OEM relationship to Kick Start their first SP IaaS Cloud offering on a worldwide basis .He also pioneered the French ISP Internet business while leading Ascend’s insertion into FT/Orange first ISP business to include ISDNET, OLEANE and Internetway back in 1995-1999.

Marcel most recently left CISCO Systems in 2013 after 30 years in IT and Telecom Sales to start his new venture as a Business Angel to help start-ups with seed money, VC connections and International Business development & GTM Strategy. Ivas Systems ,FAVEEO ,Digitalarti ,OnePulse,Mpearl,Netwookie and Cyberflowanalytics ( Just acquired by Webroot Inc) are some of his star ventures. Currently focusing on the new AI investments projects.

A self-proclaimed Serial Entrepreneur & Intrapreneur, 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.

Currently he is giving Master Classes for both Junior and Senior BA associations across EMEA, including the ‘Investment Readiness’ workshops for start-ups going through their Incubators & Accelerators scale up programs.

Nelson has been an Angel investor for close to 25 years, is a member of Angel groups in Scotland and the USA, personally investing in 55 companies, and a further 50+ as a FCA regulated fund manager. He managed, and remains a member of Archangel, one of the world’s oldest angel groups, founded in 1992. His personal investment thesis is centered on ‘Strategic’ Angel Investing and creating entrepreneurial wealth. He received the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2015. He is employed the World Bank as a Senior Risk Finance Expert, and has helped to build Angel groups in many emerging and developing countries. 

Egyptian nationality

Born on August 27th,1988 in Cairo (Egypt)

Omar El Zohairy studied film directing at the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo and worked as an assistant director on feature films of Egypt’s most prominent filmmakers, including Yousri Nasrallah. Zohairy’s first short film, Breathe Out (Zafir), premiered at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival and won the Muhr Special Jury Prize for Short Films. His second short film, The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometre 375, was the first Egyptian film to be selected for the Cinéfondation competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film went on to win several awards around the world.

His first feature film ( FEATHERS ) won Cannes Critiques Week grand prix and the fipresci award 2021 . 

Dr. Nicolas Rouhana is currently the General Manager of IM Capital & IM Ventures, $60M programs funded under USAID MENA & Lebanon Investment Initiatives, providing Matching Capital, Equity Guarantee and Technical Assistance to businesses and investors in Lebanon. Between 2002 & 2015, he was the Executive Director of Berytech, a leading Technology Business Innovation & Incubation Center in Lebanon. He is currently also Vice-President of Internet Society-Lebanon Chapter, board member of Berytech and several Lebanese technology companies, and is the current Chairman of Speed@BDD the first seed accelerator in Lebanon. 

Nicolas has a Telecommunications Engineering degree from Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, a PhD in Networking Systems from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, and an EDP graduate from INSEAD, France.

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.

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.

Nina is the founder and Managing Director of Expandise, an internationalisation and expansion consultancy based in Berlin and London. Operating globally, she has active experience in 50+ markets and successfully launched companies across Europe & Asia. Nina studied at Cambridge & ESMT Berlin, and is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on internationalisation.

KHALIL I. EL BAWAB, MBA

CEO , Misr Capital, Banque Misr Investment Banking Arm

Mr. Khalil El Bawab is currently the CEO & Managing Director of Misr Capital (MC); the Investment Banking arm of Banque Misr, the Second Largest bank in Egypt. He joined MC in November 2018 and managed to grow the business from just Asset Management (AM) & Direct Investments to expand to become a full-fledged Investment Bank. MC currently have a footprint and active operations in AM; which became the largest AM in Egypt with AUMs surpassing EGP 30 Bln from just EGP 1.2 Bln before he joined, Private Equity, Fixed Income Brokerage, and Investment Banking activities.

Mr. El Bawab is also the Chairman of Misr Capital Fixed Income Brokerage and a non-executive board member in BM Lease, & Misr Digital Transformation.

Mr. El Bawab headed the Fixed Income Division at EFG-Hermes AM. He was the Managing Director of Hermes Fund Management and a key member of the Investment Committee overseeing the Fixed Income Investment Team. He spent more than 11 years at EFG Hermes. During his reign at EFG-Hermes, the AUMs of the Fixed Income mandates grew more than seven folds reaching EGP 18bn (it was EGP 10bn when he left). Mr. El Bawab managed a variety of Money Market Funds including Credit Agricole Money Market Fund (MMF), Bank of Alexandria MMF, and Qatar National Bank “Themar” MMF, Bank Audi MMF, and Arab Investment Bank MMF. Since joining the firm in 2007, EFG Hermes AM has consistently outperformed market peers in the Egyptian market and has received several awards and distinctions from major local and international prominent institutions including Zawya, EIMA and MENA Fund Manager Awards marking its robust performance. Among those awards, EFG Hermes AM received several awards & distinctions in the MM & FI universe including the title of "Money Market Fund of the Year in the MENA region" for five times in seven years from the London-based MENA Fund Manager Awards, in addition to “Best MM Fund in Egypt” for four times in six years presented by Thomson Reuters/Zawya MENA AM Awards (before Zawya was acquired by Thomson Reuters). Last but not least, he was one of the key team members who managed to win the best AM firm in Egypt presented by MENA Fund Manager Awards for six times in seven years.

Moreover, Mr. El Bawab was in charge of managing the 1st structured capital protected fund in Egypt; HSBC’s Fund "Istikrar" in addition to managing the 1st Fixed Income fund in Egypt for Bank of Alexandria in 2010 which was the first Egyptian FI fund to receive a high commendation; in the MENA region, by the MENA Fund Manager Awards in 2015. He is also co-managing the Principal Bank of Agriculture & Development (El Massy) Balanced Fund which has recently received the title of “Balanced Fund of the Year” for 2012 performance from the London-based MENA Fund Manager Awards. In addition to the funds, Mr. El Bawab was also managing a variety of discretionary portfolios for some of the region’s premiere banks, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals.

Prior to joining EFG-Hermes AM in May 2007; Mr. El Bawab held the position of the Assistant Chief Dealer at Arab Bank plc's Treasury & Capital Markets Department; where he worked since 1998 and was one of the leading primary dealers since its introduction in Egypt.

Mr. El Bawab is also a freelance lecturer in Managerial & Corporate Finance, AM, Treasury Products, & Risk Management.

Mr. El Bawab is a CPM and pursued his MBA in Banking and Finance from Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands in 2008 with distinction and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration; Finance Concentration with high honors from the American University in Cairo in 1998.

Dr. Khalil is the founder and CEO of Tabibi 24/7. 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 has been in private practice for fifteen years, specializing in general Pediatric and Pediatric Nutrition.

Deputy Manager of the biggest pediatric Hospital in the middle east

The Cairo University Specialized Pediatric Hospital

Secretary General for Pedialuxor 2020 ; The Pediatric conference to spread knowledge in upper Egypt

President of Middle East Pediatric conference 2021

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Dr. Khalil is an endeavor entrepreneur 2011 and a graduate of Sandford entrepreneurship program 2013

Johnson & Johnson Scholarship for two INSEAD programs   

INSEAD Strategic Innovation for Community Health (STICH) Programme 2016

INSEAD Middle East Healthcare Leadership Programme.

Board Member Ibrahim Badran Foundation IBF Healthcare Consultant.

Reviewer for Patient Experience Journal.

Over the last 20 years, I have supported entrepreneurship growth in over 30 countries.  I have coached over 1,000 entrepreneurs worldwide on marketing, sales, fundraising, operations, financial strategy, talent acquisition, strategy, and other topics—currently a mentor for flat6labs and accelerate Baltimore.  TechCrunch, Inc, Kauffman Foundation, media outlets, and think tanks have highlighted my work and research.  Also, my work has been recognized by heads of state and other political leaders on how to grow their entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.  

Catalyzing local investment in emerging by leading the Valhalla Global Accelerator in Emerging Markets.  One of Canada’s most active early-stage investors.

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.

Stevica has a background as a developer and a serial founder: Habbits, Locodels and Alamo (robotic landmowers) are just three from his extensive portfolio. He is seriously involved with the Croatian start-up scene. In 2012 with the support from US Embassy and later organisational support from STEP Ri, he founded Startup Camp; a program for early stage startups. Dozen of start-ups managed to raise $4.5m USD after the program.

In 2015 he attended International Visitors Leadership program; the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. During those two months in the USA he met numerous investors, start-up founders and entrepreneurs from both the States and all over the world. In 2019 Locodels, his startup, was acquired by Croatian Post.

Stevica joined Fil Rouge Capital in late 2018 and participated in more than 100 investments in the past two years.

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.

Dimitris Litsikakis holds a BSc in Information Technology from Piraeus University and a MSc in Project Management from Lancaster University. He worked at IBM UK as a Project Manager delivering large scale IT projects. He then joined Edenred Greece as Digital Transformation Manager where he led the entire digitalization of the company’s solution offering, issuing hundreds of thousands of prepaid cards to beneficiaries. In 2018 he was appointed Country Manager Greece, Cyprus & Malta for Revolut, the fastest growing FinTech in Europe with a $1.7B valuation, delivering 400% client growth. He’s now spearheading the digital transformation of deVere Group, a financial consultancy with global presence with more than $10B assets under management, delivering cutting edge FinTech solutions. Since 2014, he also acts as Athens Chapter Director for Startup Grind, the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs.

Ahmed is an international Cyber Security Consultant ant Trainer , he has more than 18 years of experience in Security consultation, Security Training, Governance, 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, Germany, Italy, France, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Netherland, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Cyprus, Portugal, 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-CCSP-CCSK-ISO 27k-CEH-CHFI-ECSA-ECIH-ECSP-CEI-SPISI-ITIL-MCP-MCPD-MCSD-MCTS-MCT)

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.

• Retail 
• IT Services
• Publishing 
• Management Consulting 
• Appliances
• Marketing

Experienced professional in startup and corporate investments. Supporting funds, HNWI and companies to successfully close more than 60 deals in private equity and venture capital. 

Currently focused on developing a cross border network of investors to support startups in early stages.

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.

Mohamed Talaat is a prominent and prolific Egyptian Architect, known for his innovative and unique design styles that matches elegancy and functionality. Mohamed was born in 1974, in Cairo,Achieved his Bachelor Degree in Architecture Design in 1996. Started his practice career early of the same year as a part of a booming engineering team working in prestigious projects before he branched off to establish his own Architecture Firm in 1999.

He earned his Master’s Degree in 2014 in the topic “influence of interior design on architectural design”, also he is currently working on his PHD which is going to finalize at Atlantis University in USA.

"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."

Ayman S. Ashour is the Founder and Principal of Newton International Management, an advisory firm focused on investment, mergers and acquisitions in 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 senior 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. for 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 International 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 serves as Adjunct Lecturer at Suffolk University in Boston, MA where, since 2004, he lecturers on M&A at the Sawyer Business School for their MBA program.

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

Mr. El Akhdar founded LimeVest Partners, an Egypt-focused private equity manager, in 2017. He is the Managing Partner and a member of the investment committee. He is responsible for deal sourcing, investment evaluation, origination, operational oversight of portfolio companies, and exit strategies with a focus on the overall firm management and strategy.

Mr. El Akhdar was previously a Partner with BPE Partners (formerly Beltone Private Equity) since 2008 where he led the firm’s team building efforts and was responsible for fundraising, deal sourcing and origination, operational oversight of portfolio companies, and exit strategies. He led BPE Partners’ investments in Madinet Nasr Housing and Development, Total Egypt, PGESCo, and Pickalbatros. Mr. El Akhdar is a board member of the Housing and Development Bank (2020-Current), Taamir Investment Holding Company (2021-Current), NSA Diagnostics (2020-Current), and Dar Al Teb for Medical Services (2018-Currrent). He also held board memberships of BPE Partners (2008-2016), Madinet Nasr Housing and Development (Ticker: MNHD.CA) (2008-2016), Total Egypt (2013-2016), Pickalbatros Holding and Arabiya for Investments (2009-2012), Metalart (2008-2016), and Arabiya for Investments (Ticker: AIND.CA) (2015-2016).

Prior to joining BPE Partners, Mr. El Akhdar was at American Capital Strategies, one of the largest US publicly-traded alternative asset managers. He started his career as a management consultant with Abt Associates.

Mr. El Akhdar is a member of the Global Private Equity Association’s Frontier Market Council and the Egyptian Private Equity Association.

Mr. El Akhdar received his MSc in Finance from the George Washington University School of Business and his BA in Accounting and Economics from the American University in Cairo.

Tamer Azer is the Egypt Partner of Shorooq Partners, a leading early-stage Venture Capital firm in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP) region. 

Tamer began his career at the forefront of policy making with one of the world’s most influential business designers. He then went on and co-founded a number of startups and worked closely with several entrepreneurs for many years. He later joined Fahrenheit 212 as a Senior Innovation Consultant.

In 2016, he returned to Egypt to join A15, where he led investments and venture development. In 2019, he went on to join Sawari Ventures as Principal.

Tamer holds a bachelor’s from the University of Toronto and a Masters from the University of Oxford. 

Min-Sung is a Managing Partner at Digital Health Ventures (DHV), a specialized Venture Capital fund based in Berlin. Min-Sung’s international investment experience ranges from early-stage, to late-stage. Min-Sung is passionate about opportunities in Digital Health and is both enthusiastic about the immense value creation potential through digital technologies as well as the resulting positive impact on society.

Since 2013, Min-Sung invested in successful Digital Health companies such as mySugr, NeuroNation, Mimi, Medbelle, hi.health and Amwell (IPO 2020). Before joining DHV as Managing Partner, Min-Sung was responsible for the Berlin office of Samsung Catalyst Fund and helped in creating AllianzX (USD 1.0 bn assets under management). Min-Sung studied Management and Business at Witten/Herdecke, Harvard, St. Gallen, and in Seoul.

Basil is an experienced company builder and general partner at Global Ventures, an international venture capital firm that backs global-minded founders, leading growth-stage companies that use technology to transform emerging markets and the world. 

Basil joined Global Ventures in June 2018. From initial idea to business scaling, his background makes him an ideal partner for founders at all stages. Basil has been an Advisor, Investor and Board Member with numerous global technology companies. These have included new ventures, such as the digital patent storage platform PatSnap, the intelligent product builder TARA.AI as well as Sparrho, Floranow and Elmenus.  

Basil started his career as a founding member of the Reuters Venture Capital group. Indeed, he was part of the team that took the group private.  A successful fund, it invested in Netscape, Yahoo!, Verisign, Webex, and several other leading global companies.

Basil then managed emerging markets for Reuters: A $600M business spanning Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, India and China. He grew the business seamlessly and made numerous strategic acquisitions. His approach included buying Zawya, a trusted source of business and financial news. The company plays a critical role in providing insights into the Middle East. Basil subsequently scaled Zawya for significant growth.

Basil's last role was at Thomson Reuters. At Thomson, Basil served as President of the Intellectual Property and Science business. He was responsible for developing the strategic proposition of the $1billion revenue business. His strategy worked in line with customer, market and competitive trends. Upon strategic execution, he prepared the division for sale to private equity which took place in 2016 for $3.55B.  

A champion of diversity and inclusion, he was a founding advisor for Reach Mentoring. Reach is a successful program focusing on high-potential woman executives in the Middle East. Furthermore, he was the executive sponsor of diversity in the workplace programs at Thomson Reuters. 

Basil holds a bachelors’ degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo. Basil earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Adel Heikal is an Audience Analyst for North Africa & Middle East in one of the largest multinational FMCG companies. His responsibilities include creating data strategies for all brands and working on the implementation of data-driven marketing activities for all brands.

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 Social Video Analysis Reports in Egypt and UAE. The reports analyzed more than 800 brands in Egypt, their video performance and online behavior. He has also worked directly with Youtube, Discovery Networks, The UAE Government, and Udacity amongst other partners on behalf of Mintrics.

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.

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).

Radwa Hafez: Nokia Egypt Country Director and Head of Middle East & Africa Sales Support & Customer Success at Nokia

Radwa has 20 years of professional experience within the IT & Telecom filed, during which she has worked in multiple roles including MEA End to End Sales Strategy, MEA Business & Sales Operations lead, Egypt Chief Operations Officer, MEA CIO/IT-Business Partner, and last as Egypt Country Director and Head of Middle East & Africa Sales Support & Customer Success. 

She is a promoter of future technologies, particularly 5G, Internet of Things, cloud computing and virtual reality and their role in shaping a better future.

Radwa holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems from University of Windsor (Ontario) and a Master's of Science in Business Information Technology from Middlesex University (London).

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.

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.

President of The Egyptian Federation for Electronic Games

Serial entrepreneur. CEO of ThePlanet + Mintrics.

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

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 

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.

Yosra Badr leads organizations and businesses on their digital transformation journey 

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

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 transportation. His portfolio includes the likes of Careem, Swvl, Mejuri, Trukker, MunchOn, Zid, POSRocket, and others.

With an entrepreneurial background, Laith founded his first startup in 1997 to bring more people and businesses in Jordan onto the World Wide Web. Three years later that pivoted into what became one of the most notable startups in the Arab World, at the time; Jeeran.com. As Co-founder of Jeeran from 2000 to 2012, Laith served many roles while shaping and executing the company’s product vision, and growing its user base from a handful of friends to nearly 7M registered users.

A self taught technologist and a geek at heart, Laith enjoys working closely with product teams on tackling big challenges. Laith holds
 a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Jordan.

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

Inji is a seasoned economist & management consultant with over 17 years of experience in both fields. On the government policy side Inji has been the project manager for the development of the Egypt Vision 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy, as well as being the lead strategist for several projects undertaken by the Egyptian Ministries of Trade & Industry, Investment, and Planning. On the enterprise development side, Inji has worked across corporations and consulting firms in Egypt and the UAE in order to develop company strategies, launch new products, redesign the organization and re-engineer business processes. In that capacity Inji has worked with the real estate, fintech, food, chemical, plastic, furniture, automotive, engineering and retail sectors.

Inji co-founded Acumen Consulting, a boutique management consulting firm in Egypt which is concerned with improving the business environment for SMEs and ensuring their integration into the global value chains. Inji leads assignments in the fields strategy, innovation, investment and business planning, organization development and design, operational efficiency and marketing and branding for both policy makers and enterprises (predominantly family businesses).

Most recently Inji joined Mastercard as a Senior Managing Consultant in the Advisory team for MEA; leading projects in financial inclusion, digital transformation, loyalty and banking innovation.

Inji is also a serial mentor and angel investor in health-tech. She is the Lean Startup Co. ambassador to Egypt and sits on the advisory board of the National Employment Pact (founded by GIZ).

Inji is an economist with an MBA in finance, and a Stanford Graduate School of Business degree in corporate innovation. She is currently enrolled in an MIT supply chain management degree.

Fady presents more than 18 years of experience in the Telecom and IT Industry. He was working at Etisalat Misr and worked for UNDP, and British Telecom and Emak. Now, Fady is working as Global Information Infrastructure Consultant in Ministry of Communication and Information technology.

Corporate governance, agility, innovation and entrepreneurship are his driving passion and expertise. He has experienced and witnessed how these disciplines transform people and organizations.

He works with business leaders, entrepreneurs and organizational teams to create proper eco-systems integrating change management, leadership and strategy to shape organizational agility and digital transformation.

His diversified experience in both of governmental and private sectors, leading several functional teams and projects at strategic and implementation level utilizing analytical, executive coaching and managerial skills to achieve the strategic objectives and it is related business benefits.

Fady has his university degree in Communication Engineering and had supported his hands-on experience, management sense, and intuition with Master and Doctorate of business administration” from reputable universities.

He is a certified a professional corporate governance from IFC and financial l regularity authority in Egypt. Also Fady is holding many certifications on the project management and agile management fields. He is PMP and ITIL, Certified Program Consultant "SPC5” and Certified Agile coach& facilitator from ICAgile, Professional Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance. He is a certified executive coaching by ICF. He is Certified instructor from IC Agile and Scald Agile “SAFe” with more than 2000 hours of training, webinars and public talks. Fady is the only Arab in country reviewer and exam developer in Scaled Agile,inc.” SAFe Framework Provider

Ahmad Maher is an Architect and Lecturer in the Interior Architecture  Department in the Design & Media Program at the Coventry University  in Cairo - The Knowledge Hub Universities and former Teacher Assistant in German university in Cairo , also he is the Principal designer & Managing partner at IBH architects and Co founder at ATA design lab

His Experience mainly is in Design Development as he worked at Space Consultants , and According to his previous academic experience he Worked as a Teaching Assistant in Architecture Department – ELShourok Academy and 15 of May institute Architecture Department . He participated in several architectural competitions and won four awards in designing different kind of Spaces in addition to doing facelift and redesign to many buildings in US ( New Jersey & New York), and he is also Autodesk certified instructor ( ACI) And Sketch up Certified Instructor . He was involved in co-organizing and participating in community workshops which is held in several Universities in Cairo (ADD-ACES_ECO).

Design interests include Architecture & Interior design, urban open spaces, parametric design, Morphology of spaces , Active learning in classes

Hajdi Cenan is a non-tech person in the tech world, lifelong learner, travel & wine lover, a believer in benefits of equality, and hater of writing short bios.

She is the co-founder and CEO of airt, an AI startup that enables companies to easily and quickly implement and use the power of artificial intelligence on all of their data. Hajdi is also one of the co-founders of PWMN Croatia, the association that promotes equality and gender-balanced leadership, as well as the vice president of the Croatian AI association. 

Fadi Antaki is a General Partner in A15, a VC focusing on venture building & investing in digital products and technology brands, with more than 16 portfolio companies under its umbrella. Under his leadership of A15, there are 8 leading growth companies in the region including Connect ads, the number 1 digital agency in the Middle East. There are also 8 innovative ventures such as PayMob, the rising Fintech Startup for payments acceptance. Antaki is overseeing the business of 17 regional offices of A15, for which more than 1000 employees are working to serve more than 20 promising markets; and partnering with major international players such as Microsoft, Twitter and Linkedin). Early 2020 Fadi has also founded and is the CEO of a leading fashion E-commerce business called TFK (The Fashion Kingdom) offering 120+ local and international brands to Egyptian consumers.

A15 has succeeded in conducting 7 exits crowned by MENA’s first dragon exit which is TPay exit to Helios Investment partners in 2018, followed by Connect Ads exit to Aleph holding, in 2021, and the Otlob exit to Rocket Internet in 2014. Prior to A15, Fadi was CEO of OTVentures & ARPUPLUS. Fadi is also a shareholder & board member in premium card international, a buy now pay later company. 

Rafeh launched Cubit Ventures and Founder Institute Egypt, sits on Falak Startups board, is an advisor to Egypt Ventures and Loyal VC, and led one of the largest consulting firms in Egypt.

He is an experienced triple-digit track record executive, entrepreneur, and management consultant where he advised numerous companies of all sizes on growth, turnaround, and business restructuring strategies.

Founder of Hekaytee for Digital Content LLC.

Creator and host of hekaytee podcast (my story), a podcast with a mission to empower a wider community of change makers through storytelling.

Marianna is a passionate leader and developer of people, with 20+ years of experience in Marketing and Communications. Having worked in different settings in various countries (Germany, Spain, UAE, Egypt) in leading communication roles prior to joining Orascom Construction ‘OC’ (the largest company on the Egyptian Exchange) as the Marketing and Communication Director.

By Jan 2020 Marianna was recognized among the region’s top talents. Five Egyptian women were selected by Forbes Middle East among 50 of the Middle East’s most impactful Marketing & Communications professionals behind the region’s biggest brands’ most memorable marketing campaigns. She was listed on the prestigious list revealed by Forbes Middle East of 50 of the Middle East’s top marketing and communication executives. These are the storytellers keeping consumers captivated wrote Forbes about her

Since 2016 she has been part of a premium digital mentoring program by Robin Sharma “The Circle of Legends”

Marianna joined Dr. Sears Wellness Institute in April 2019, William Sears, MD is a world-renowned nutrition expert.

Marianna is a speaker, podcaster, and above all, certified health and nutrition coach with a focus on Prime-Time Health (lifestyle, exercise, attitude, nutrition) and workplace wellness solutions, building a healthier workforce.

Besides managing the family business in the pharmaceutical field, Ashraf has started, managed, and consulted several businesses in the fields of design, advertising, and media marketing. In 2011, he followed his passion for social entrepreneurship by accepting the challenge to join a global NGO as their Middle East Director. He also acts as a consultant and mentor to several startups with Health 2.0 and the African Entrepreneurship Award.

In more recent years, Ashraf has merged his passion and expertise in tech-entrepreneurship and health, through the highly innovative and trailblazing venture that is O7 Therapy from the ground-up.

Ashraf believes that the impact of technological enhancement can be the driving force behind the success of industries across the board. He recognizes the potential technology has, and is unwilling to settle on professionalism and user-experience, especially when it comes to the journey to mental health and wellness. For Ashraf, the building of O7 Therapy is living proof that technology has the capacity to bridge the gaps in holistic health care by reaching its full value, through accessibility and excellence.

Ashraf graduated from the German school in Cairo, holds a B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo University, and a MSc. in Technology Entrepreneurship from University of Maryland. Additionally, he studied Integrated Marketing Communications at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.

Yasmine Nagaty brings 8 years of project management and leadership experience in youth development and employability programs as well as entrepreneurship. 

Yasmine is currently Acceleration Manager at AUC Venture Lab where she is responsible for an annual acceleration of up to 50 startups across five various sectors. Prior to this, she was responsible for the rollout of several operational projects in an educational management startup. 

Through this experience, Yasmine developed a deep knowledge of the startup scene in Egypt and the challenges entrepreneurs face in access to finance, operations and growth as well as the needs of early stage startups to accelerate their growth.

Ayia is a marketing enthusiast with a passion for psychology.  She has several years of experience in Marketing & E-commerce handling regions like LATAM and EMEA and in diverse sectors like FMCG, Tech, Education, on-demand & last-mile.

Omar Almajdouie is the founding partner of Raed Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders building transformative companies in the MENA region. Raed’s AUM exceeds SAR 500m and backed by top investors in the region including PIF’s Jada, SVC, Mubadala, Almajdouie Holding and many more. As an investor and entrepreneur, Omar founded Raed Ventures in 2016 as part of Almajdouie Holding diversification strategy, which has funded more than 32 innovative startups to-date.

He is the former CEO of Almajdouie Manufacturing Co. and he’s currently the Vice Chairman of the Saudi Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, as well as a chairman and board member of several leading tech startups and companies. Omar has more than 20 years of enriched experience in various managerial and executive positions. 

Founded the first E-sports team in Upper Egypt with hopes and beliefs to reach the highest international stages and events 

Dibo is a widely acclaimed global strategy and creative consultant. Having started an array of different businesses - some which have failed, some exited, and some still running - he has solid experience under his belt. He has worked with clients of different sizes in his capacity as a strategist and a global creative, from multinationals and early stage startups. His clients include Vodafone, Red Bull, OLX, and others, and he continues to serve clients in 4 different continents until today. His biggest passion is directing, and he is working on directing films and commercials. His most recent and most exciting endeavor is his appointment as the Chief Marketing Officer of O7 Therapy because he believe that through therapy and personal development, we can change the world by making people feel better and overcome obstacles.

Born in Belgium, Francesca spent a significant part of her life living and working in emerging markets, from Argentina to Egypt passing by Colombia, Lebanon, Morocco, etc.

After working on public policy and international relations between Europe and the Middle East, Francesca decided to take a leap towards the private sector, and more specifically the entrepreneurial world. Prior to Seedstars, she launched an EdTech venture on the French market and co-founded Changemakers International, a social entrepreneurship education program in Costa Rica.

When joining Seedstars, she started working across 16 countries across the Middle East and North Africa as a VC analyst, screening hundreds of business models and giving training to early-stage startups; she now oversees Seedstars’ activities in MENA. She holds a BA from Science Po, an LL.M. from UNINETTUNO and an MSc from King’s College London.

Ahmed is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Brimore, a social commerce and distribution platform connecting emerging brand owners with a network of individual sellers who market and sell their products using social media.

Ahmed is working with a network of more than 60,000 individual distributors (Mostly women), with a continuous growth of 10X in y-o-y and more than 250 local manufacturers listed, Brimore is aiming at transforming the traditional supply chain in Egypt to be more consumer centric, through allocating marketing, sales and distribution cost on people who buy and refer the product, this allows for smooth market access for local manufacturers despite poor infrastructure, and gives women a huge social and economic empowerment opportunity without the need to leave the house.

Ahmed has vast experience in Supply Chain management working in P&G through several regional and local roles, business development and project management experience working with Save the Children and co-founding Umbrella for business development, besides being an activist in youth development sector, founding and working several NGOs, and regularly giving specialized training and workshops for youth especially school students.

Ahmed has BSc. in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering from Alexandria University, and currently a masters degree candidate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation management in the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Sweden.

Interests: 

Supply chain management, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem development, Technology, Education, Youth Empowerment, basketball and good food

Rula El Kaliouby is a Strategic Communications Advisor and UN Consultant, a former Advisor to the Minister of International Cooperation and Minister of Tourism, Entrepreneur in the Making and Strategy Coach. Prior to assuming her role in 2018, Rula served in several key leadership positions in the Marketing & Communications sector in the region such as the Group Executive Director of Strategy at Tarek Nour Communications/DDB Egypt, Executive Director of J. Walter Thompson & Head of Digital and Social Media BBDO.

As the Strategy & Communications Advisor to the Government of Egypt on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and National Agenda through the Ministry of International Cooperation, she has developed the public and institutional outreach communications and advocacy program, to position Egypt's Development Cooperation story on the national and global stage. In September 2018, Rula was appointed Communications Advisor to Egypt’s Minister of Tourism, focusing on the destination’s brand architect, go - to - market strategies, content development, digital and social media ecosystem, public relations, international partnerships and media relations. During this time, Egypt scored 1st in Country Branding on Strategic Positioning, Digital Demand, Social Media Presence and Tourism Receipts. In September 2019, Rula received an Award of Recognition by the Government of Egypt - For the Creative and Strategic Efforts in "Contributing to Changing the Narrative on Egypt’s Nation Brand".

Throughout her 14 years career in strategic consultancy, marketing and communications, Rula has been cra_ing integrated traditional and nontraditional strategies and orchestrating plans that build brand experiences and drive growth across the public and private sector. In her previous roles, she lead and managed all aspects of the business and external partners’ strategy building communications ecosystems through consumer acquisition and business growth models fueled by data driven intelligence and research.

Rula is a true thought leader, continually developing her understanding of how emerging trends and digital technologies are shaping private and public sector communications, competitiveness and future readiness with a vision to create impact through leading with vision, strategy and stakeholders engagement. She specializes on solving complex and pressing challenges with at the intersection of marketing, technology and operations with fit for purpose transformational strategies. Those responsibilities tap on years of experience managing global, regional and local prestigious and challenging brands such as PepsiCo, Vodafone, Egypt Tourism Promotion Board, Dubai Tourism & Commerce Marketing, Emirates Airline & Commercial International Bank.

Ms. Kaliouby is a member of The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising & Communications (IPA) and has won a number of global and regional excellence awards such as the MENA Effie and Dubai Lynx.. She was also recognized and won several international awards for her globally acclaimed work on @MyDubai, the most creative and effective tourism brand campaign in the past 5 years.

Rula holds a bachelor’s degree from the American University in Cairo in Mass Communications & Business Administration, with Highest Honors.

Dr. Tarek Rakha is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the High Performance Building Lab (HPBL) at Georgia Tech. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2019, he was Assistant Professor at Syracuse University starting in 2015, after earning his Ph.D. in Building Technology from MIT. He published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and two of which won best paper awards. His research is sponsored by federal agencies such as the US DOE, ARPA-E and the NSF, and from state authorities such as the NYSERDA, NYSDOT and GDOT, as well as corporate sponsors. He was recently nationally recognized by the Emerging Contributor Award of the American chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-USA). He was also awarded the Georgia Tech Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 Award.

10+ years experienced Business Development & E-Commerce consultant with a demonstrated history of working in different consumer goods industries. Skilled in Negotiation, Projects Management, Digital Transformation, Sales, Communication, and Strategic Planning.

    Dr. Hazem Shatila, Adjunct Professor of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Cognitive Radio & wireless communication at a number of universities in the USA and Egypt. Hazem has more than 20 years experience in the Artificial Intelligence field, Cognitive radio and Telecom industry. Played different roles in the Telecom industry. Hazem has a descent number of publications and a key speaker/editor and reviewer for a number of worldwide conferences. He is also an Academic advisor for a number of universities in Egypt and a consultant in non-governmental and governmental organizations. He is the founder and CEO of Markov Data. Hazem is currently the Data Science and Artificial Intelligent Advisor to assistant of Prime Minister of Egypt. 

    Hazem Completed his PhD from Virginia Tech University, USA in 2012 in Electrical Engineering and was awarded the outstanding research award certificate in his field. Hazem currently supervises a large number of Masters and PhD research students. Hazem is currently building the first Data Science Academy in Egypt in conjunction with ITI (Information Technology Institute) and the Ministry of Education, he is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation serving a variety of industries (Telecom, e-finance & Banking sectors, Transportation & Agriculture). Hazem has worked as an AI consultant for ministry of Interior and also as a Data analytics/Data strategy/FinTech consultant for non-governmental organizations. Hazem led many projects with many multi-national industries including Intel, Samsung, Vodafone, Ericsson, AT&T, SAS & Huawei. 

Marwan El-Shayeb is currently the VP of Business Development and Marketing  at Capiter B2B 

E-Commerce App. 

El-Shayeb also held the position of Director of Business Development at SWVL increasing passenger transport lines and the number of vehicles and drivers, Getting the biggest Deals that took SWVL to Scale Globally as it entered the third year of its work in the Egyptian market., Also He held the Position of BD Manager at Careem and Commercial Manager of Halan Company, in addition to his participation in many events, the most important of which is his participation as a development consultant for BIZENEX 2018, and his presidency of the Youth Forum in Alexandria.

Al-Shayeb took his first steps in entrepreneurship by launching couple of local marketing agencies , advertising and events. Marwan has a great experience in the field of business development, marketing where he worked in many fields, and his contributions range from creating a lot of business models in the field of marketing to brand Managment for more than 10 companies in different sectors as well as managing more than 25 different advertising campaigns for many local companies A multinational, he is also a board member and business advisor for more than 10 startup companies.

Al-Shayeb was chosen as the President of the youth committee at the Alexandria Sporting Club, to present the idea of ​​simulating start-up companies to entrepreneurs. Al-Shayeb holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing Department, from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.

Ebtissam Farid; Co founder of ENCODE, A multidisciplinary design studio offering to its clients: Architectural, interior and product design services that investigates various digital and physical computational tools to explore opportunities of innovative designs depending on cutting edge technologies and challenging the conventional model of design production in Egypt. In addition, she is an associate Professor at The Knowledge Hub _ Coventry University UK branch. New Capital. Recently Ebtissam has been selected on the power list of 2019 among the 50 most influential architects from the Middle East according to the Architect ME magazine and won the State’s Excellence Award for 2019 in addition she is the recipient of  Tamayouz Excellence Award’s prize for women in Architecture 2018, Rising star category and recently  in 2021 she has been awarded Egypt Entrepreneur award for the Architecture and interior design category.

AbdelAziz El Hakim, Zizo, is the Head of Egypt for Abwaab. A year ago he joined as  Market Launcher of Abwaab Egypt. Before joining Abwaab, he spent five years working at Uber. 

Zizo joined the ridesharing team to set up the lead Greenlight centers across Cairo and Alexandria for nearly two years.  He then worked on integrating it as part of the Customer Experience function while also leading virtual support on the driver side. Zizo then shifted his role to Uber Eats’ Head of Restaurant Operations as it was launching in Cairo. Zizo has an undergraduate degree from the American University in Cairo, where he studied 5 years to become a Civil Engineer.

Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Education For Employment-Egypt (EFE-Egypt).

Nora Toma leads the Strategy and Partnerships efforts of EFE-Egypt across the country. Nora joined EFEEgypt in 2019 as Deputy CEO to provide support to the CEO in a phase where EFE - Egypt is growing in size and expanding in cooperation. She provides support in overall leadership and oversees key projects and initiatives in their startup phases.

Prior to EFE-Egypt, Nora held executive positions in strategy, investment, and finance in operating companies and investment vehicles, with exposure extending from Egypt to Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to that, Nora served as a middle management in finance and other support functions, growing into that from a ten-year career in auditing and accounting. 

In addition to her corporate experience, Nora was the finance officer of Save the Children UK and Finance Manager of Save the Children International from 2011 to 2012, with four years of her auditing experience being in projects funded by the European Union (EU), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and other donor organizations.

Nora is a recognized angel investor and entrepreneurship leader. In addition to her role in EFE-Egypt, she is on the steering committee of Tiye Angels, Egypt’s first women’s angel investor network.

Mahmoud works as MINT Hub Director at the Egyptian Gulf Bank and he is responsible for all beyond banking programs and activities within Youth Banking including but not limited to MINT Incubator for promising startups and the Skills development and capacity building programs for youth. Mahmoud has a demonstrated history of working in different organizations that are supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in Egypt. He also worked for several years as an Economic Analyst in different government and international organizations. He is skilled in analytical skills, international relations, and industry and policy analysis. Mahmoud graduated from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and pursued his Master of Science (MSc) with a specialization in Financial Economics from the University of Leicester, The United Kingdom.

CEO and Founder of Team occupy the first e-sports team in Egypt who belongs to a newspaper (Ahlmasr News). 

CEO and Founder of AFG e-sports for E-sports events 

CEO of AhlmasrNews

World Records Holder.

Adventurer.

Sustainability Activist.

Mounir Nakhla is MNT- Halan’s Founder and CEO. He is known for his entrepreneurial drive, shrewd management style and hands-on, bias-for-action approach to problem solving which has positioned the company into being the leading Super APP for the unbanked in Egypt

Alaa Moustafa has 17+ years of professional experience in business management and software development. Alaa received his MBA degree in Marketing from Arab Academy for Science & Technology and is currently studying his professional diploma in Digital Transformation.

He was the Business Support Manager in The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) who is responsible for managing TIEC Entrepreneurship Accelerator (TEA) that supports early-stage, growth-driven companies through education and mentorship.

He had started his own software development company in 2007. His career path had taken him after that to be in commercial positions in the software development industry; so after getting his Executive MBA, he became a Business Development Consultant and then Sales Lead in Link development where he developed his sales and management skills.

He chose 2 extremely important tracks to focus on where his experience and interests aligned; Life Coaching to help others overcoming their challenges and discovering their potential & Business Coaching to support entrepreneurs and business owners to lead their businesses in a better way based on their personality using Enneagram personality types. 

In addition to that Alaa had trained and conducted training and workshops for hundreds in leadership, self development and business administration.

Alaa has an extensive capability in managing teams, creating project plans, building marketing strategies and managing different programs have been his stronghold.

Heading the amazing Digital & Innovation tribes at B.TECH, Agile Coach, Professional Coach, Founder of Product Guys! 

Hisham A. Kassim is a partner at Levari. Hisham specializes in cross-border M&A transactions, venture capital and private equity transactions, and international tax. To date, Hisham has successfully closed over 100 M&A and corporate transactions representing numerous funds and corporations throughout the MENA region, the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. Several of these transactions include multi-million dollar Series A and B transactions. Hisham is fluent in Arabic and English and is a published scholar in major U.S. law reviews. Hisham holds a J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law, and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the New York University School of Law. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Omar Almajdouie is the founding partner of Raed Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders building transformative companies in the MENA region. Raed’s AUM exceeds SAR 500m and backed by top investors in the region including PIF’s Jada, SVC, Mubadala, Almajdouie Holding and many more. As an investor and entrepreneur, Omar founded Raed Ventures in 2016 as part of Almajdouie Holding diversification strategy, which has funded more than 32 innovative startups to-date.

He is the former CEO of Almajdouie Manufacturing Co. and he’s currently the Vice Chairman of the Saudi Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, as well as a chairman and board member of several leading tech startups and companies. Omar has more than 20 years of enriched experience in various managerial and executive positions. 

AHMED ABD EL SATTAR Group Chief Information & Innovation Officer Prior to joining Qalaa Holdings in 2014 , Mr. Abd El Sattar has held numerous leadership positions at Raya Group's Information Technology and Consulting Services , culminating in his appointment as CEO of Raya International Services business unit in 2009. His long career with Raya began in 1993 and included serving as Chief Operations Officer at Raya IT , Director of Professional Services , General Manager of Strategic Projects , General Manager of Oratech , and as General Manager of International Operations . Mr. Abd El Sattar holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University , and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Maastricht School of Management .

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Hesham K. Issa is a professor of Architecture and a senior architect and urban planner with over 30 years of experience as an academic, educator, mentor, and professional planner. His interest in cross-cultural modes of architectural designs drives his entrepreneurship enthusiasm cross the globe. 

Dr. Issa extensive experience in urban development and digital fabrication resulted in many public lectures on entrepreneurship, startup cultivation policies, startup team building, and open innovations platforms that focus on the construction industry. He is also mentoring startups and incubators to transform innovative ideas from academic research into a tangible solution to the construction industry's problems. He is motivated to bring diversity, ethics, and originality to the startup culture through all his activities.

Dr. Issa holds a joint Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and Cairo University and a Master of Architecture from Cairo University. He is also the former managing director of the TIP program and a former member of the Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Program (BPEP). He is also a former Chair of the Architecture Engineering and Technology Program at Cairo University and a Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at Cairo University. Dr. Issa is currently a Program Director at the Urban Collaborative, a US-based Urban Planning company.  

Muhammad is a Computational Designer and Digital Fabricator focuses on enhancing 3D printing culture and algorithmic design solutions for a better world and specially for his homeland Cairo. He believes in Algorithms, Architecture and Philosophy as a self expression language.

Muhammad graduated from Helwan University, Digital Architecture Department. Practiced computational design and digital fabrication in Dubai and London, participated with MEAN* team in AD Middle East Innovation and Sustainability award winning project "Deciduous", a hybrid 3D printed organic structure, and recently started his masters in Computational Design from University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe.

In 2020 Muhammad started his company Khawarizm, an Innovative Design Studio and Research Collaborative Space that works at the nexus of design and emergent technologies.

Khawarizm utilizes cutting-edge algorithms and digital fabrication tools to leverage the quality of futuristic design solutions aims for a futuristic design wave starts from Cairo HEADING TO SPACE.

Graduated from AUC 87’, Majoring in engineering.

Mostafa has a proven track record of building start-ups and opening markets for them. He is passionate about making digital media and social networks in the Middle East a reality. For 12 years, Mostafa held a range of posts with NCR/AT&T in the region, including National Marketing Manager for NCR/AT&T Egypt and General Manager for AT&T Oman and QatarIn 2013 Mostafa has founded MediaSci as the next generation digital agency in MENA , which has developed a platform for business data analysis based on OSINT and big data AI / NLP technologies ( Big Brother Analytics) and it has been a great success in the region. Also a co-founder of Microdafe, a loan risk AI prediction platform.

Mostafa has also written two books of poetry, drama for M5 animation, and many articles in the printed media and the web. Mostafa was particularly interested in mixing creativity with engineering at work and mixing creativity with heritage at art. He believes that our fair share to innovation and our untapped reservoir of fantasy has not yet been discovered. Mostafa has created a creative process for both work and art. 

Title:

Learning & Development Director of Boost Consulting 

Founder of Grow as you Go 

Bio:  Tarek is an Executive and Positive Psychology Coach - Talent Development
Tarek is an Executive and Positive Psychology Coach - Talent Development 

Expert- Personal Growth Hacker - Dynamic Leadership Development Consultant who dreams to Grow and help others; Grow as they Go. He is the 1st Arab and Egyptian to join the stage with Global Gurus and International Thought Leaders as: Ken Blanchard, Marshall GoldSmith, Gretchen Rubin, Patrick Lencioni during one of the Biggest International Summits: World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS).  

Currently, he is the Director of Learning & Development, Boost Training & Consulting.

In 2017, Tarek founded "Grow as you Go" to boost the personal and professional growth of individuals.

Tarek has served as a project advisor and consultant for Organization and Leadership Development projects with high level governmental entities including: The Prime Minister’s Office of the UAE.

He brings solid experience in corporate sales in some of the top 10 Pharma Multinationals. As well as his work as Marketing Supervisor with some of the Fortune 100’s including Global FMCGs and Tech. Giants. He was also selected as one of the Executive coaches serving the Leaders of the INC 5000, the fastest growing companies in the US chosen by Inc Magazine. 

Rasha is the head of Business Support and Entrepreneurship at the Technology Innovation and entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), ITIDA. Rasha has built extensive networks and assets in the global entrepreneurial marketplace. An entrepreneur herself is currently on board her company; AGTA packaging. Prior to her position in government, Rasha worked in the construction management as the regional manager of HartMannEgypt. Rasha joined TIEC at its inception, heading the Entrepreneurship department and developing policies for tech-startups such as the Accelerator program, and the Venture Studio. Rasha was part of the team that compiled the ICT2020 strategy for Egypt, and the team that launched the first innovation portal for Egypt in Arabic, egyptinnovate.com. Rasha runs uniquely designed policy hacking workshops where innovative policy solutions to entrepreneurship problems may be developed.  Her design has won first place globally in 2017 at the Global Entrepreneurship Network.

Rasha participates in local and international conferences as a speaker and trainer at various leading universities on entrepreneurship, developing entrepreneurial environments, innovation policy, and role of government. She works closely with international entities like the EIB, ALECSA, ANIMA, ESCWA, the UNDP and the CMI on entrepreneurship and innovation projects for the MENA and the EuroMED region. Rasha has worked with and consulted with various European commission projects as part of FP7 and H2020. Her consultancy work includes developing the MENA innovation index, developing KPIs for Technology Parks and developing innovation diagnostic tools for SMEs in these regions and entrepreneurship policy design

Rasha loves to help other entrepreneurs, women and youth reach for the stars, regularly mentoring them. Rasha holds a Masters in Civil Engineering from Alexandria University, a Masters in Management of Technology from Nile University and a DBA in youth entrepreneurship in developing countries from the University of Switzerland.

Rui Falcao is a professional angel investor, co-founder and managing partner of COREangels and REDangels, the leading angel groups in Portugal. Coming initially from a software engineer background, Rui is a serial entrepreneur of the internet booming days, participating as entrepreneur and angel investor in more than 20 startups in technologies and communications sector. Rui has the complete experience of the entrepreneurial cycle going from the founding stage, validation, growth and internationalization, failure, and successful exits. Rui has received several awards during his career, regarding entrepreneurship and creativity. He was the founder and board member of professional associations such as multimedia, management, and business angels, always committed with common good for society. Rui was a university professor before he decided to enter the entrepreneurial adventure. Rui has a PhD on angel investing.

Sherine Hassan Ewase gained over 15 years of experience working with national and multinational companies’ in Development, Public Relations, Event Management, Management, Operations, Human Resources, Customer service, Sales and Administration.

In 2015 joined Careem Egypt & launched Careem Alexandria, Sahel & Damanhour which considered first success in the ecosystem and Entrepreneurship world.

Launched ORO an event management and PR agency in 2016 focusing on supporting the ecosystem by organizing sport competitions for startups, job fairs and awareness summits. “StartupZ Fair”.

In 2018 joined Jupiter Commz "PR and Communications agency" as Head of Client Relations and By 2019 she joined CreditGO an Egyptian Fintech Startup as cofounder and deputy CEO and currently Ewase is Deputy Project Manager of Tawar غ وayar at Care Egypt Foundation.

Sherine is an Activist in the Egyptian Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in addition to being cofounder, mentor and business advisor for some startups

Joined HEYA Campaign as campaign advisor for the year 2018 a project by UN in cooperation with Bibliotheca Alexandrina & Arab Academy for Science & technology.

Represented Egypt in Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Hyderabad, India 2017 and at International Visitors Leadership Program that took place at United States of America in 2019 along with 27 other entrepreneurs, professors & investors from all over the world.

Heba Labib is the Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness Center, IECC, at NU and director of NilePreneurs initiative. From 2014 through 2016, she has managed the Technology Commercialization and Industry Relations Office at Nile University. From 2011 through 2014, she was the founder and executive director of NU100, a nationwide entrepreneurship initiative for techpreneurs who have developmental ideas. The initiative resulted in the establishment of 18 companies. In 2007, Ms. Labib had partnered in setting up Palm Paper, a wastepaper recycling mill, where she had played multiple roles in procurement operations and logistics and later in product development and establishing the company’s sales operations. In 2004 Ms. Labib started Nile’s Gift, a company that processes and exports “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants”. Ms. Labib has won several entrepreneurship awards for the aforementioned businesses from Arab Business Challenge in 2007 in UAE, Business in Development Challenge in 2006, Netherlands, and the Shell “Intelaqah for Best Business Idea” Award in 2005 in Oman. She has also and participated in several Entrepreneurship seminars. Prior to the aforementioned ventures, Ms. Labib’s experience includes technical procurement for utility trucks components, diligent studies on utilization of rice straw waste to convert to MDF and conducting a research study for the FAO on the “Gender Roles in the Production of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants”. Heba Labib holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oakland University, MI, and later she shifted to the field of Management of Technology, with MSc and PhD from Nile University, Egypt.

Associate Chairman for the Security Standards Committee and Secretary for the Scientific Committee of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) for the Middle East and Asia 1998-2006. 

Dr. Negm has more than 75 published papers and 32 patents.  Participated as a member and consultant in several legislative committees and forums to compile digital crime laws and digital privacy laws under several types of jurisdictional systems as Anglo Saxon, French, and Italian based.  Negm participated in enabling Security Operation Centers as turnkey solutions, Cloud Security enablement, and Cloud Security Assessment all for private and public clouds. Additionally, Khaled participated to enable the Unified Compliance Framework for Telecommunication, Governmental entities, Oil & Gas, and private sectors while developing governance and compliances within NOC, SOC and Cloud systems.

In addition to several deliveries of university courses in information security and networks, Dr. Negm delivered several advanced training courses for high-end professionals on Information Security, Forensics, digital crime investigation in UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Egypt, Spain, Jordan, Lebanon, KSA, Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, and USA.  Also delivered training for Judges and attorney generals specialized in digital crime jurisdictions under Anglo Saxon and Pre CiviFrench-systems. Along with mastering new technologies as secure cloud, DevSecOps, SaaS, and security business for GDPR consultancies under different governance guidelines and its mapping to ISO31000.  Negm has a master knowledge of cryptographic functions inclusive of algorithms, hashing, digital signatures, key exchange protocols, public key infrastructure, key management.  Also, with strong background knowledge of regulatory and industry standards specifying the use of cryptography, Fintech, and blockchain inclusive of FIPS, ANSI, PCI-DSS, PKCS, NIST, CMMC, and Basel III.

Ahmed is an avid investment professional with a diversified business experience.

Prior to leading Falak Startups, Ahmed headed the Investment team in the company and helped companies optimize their business models and managed their fund raising processes.

Before joining Falak Startups, Ahmed worked for a number of multinational companies in the energy, building materials and real estate sectors developing strategic plans and financial models.

Ahmed has also advised startups and SMEs on strategic and financial fronts.

As CEO of Zain Technologies, Andrew brings over 25 years of ICT & Telecommunications industry experience gained in a wide variety of Global and Regional roles spanning the Middle East, Asia, Australia and America. 

Prior to joining Zain Group, Andrew was the Chief Commercial Officer of Omantel.  During his career, he has held various commercial leadership roles as CCO of STC Kuwait and STC Bahrain in addition to Batelco, Microsoft, Ericsson, Singtel and Telstra Australia where his career began as part of a fast-track leadership development program.

Andrew holds a MSc in Business & Marketing and BSc in Economics and Commerce from Monash University in Australia.  Andrew is an Alumni of London Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Born and raised in Bahrain, Hisham brings over 10 years of experience in an array of industries including sports administration and technology.

Having also competed in the Olympics, Hisham brings a unique point of view to the projects he works on.

Before joining N3XT Sports, Hisham’s most recent post was as Sports Intelligence Manager at the International Olympic Committee.

He co-founded N3XT Sports and is COO, based in Washington DC. USA.

Samar Halawa is a proud mother of 3 years old twins and a professional philanthropist. 

She received her bachelor degree in Specialized Translation from Sorbonne Paris III and the French University in Egypt.  After completing her bachelor degree, Samar did multiple internships in the field of translation and communication including Ahram Hebdo, Egypt Independent, Regional Center of Renewable energy and Microsoft in PR department. However, she was unsatisfied with this career path as she wished to continue her career in social & economic development.

Therefore, Samar started her career in this field and worked in multiple organizations such as UNDP, Silatech, Innovety and lastly Microsoft. 

Today, Samar is the Philanthropies Lead at Microsoft covering the Arab countries and she focuses on building socio-economic programs that equip underserved youth with Digital, Business and employability skills required to landing a job and to start their businesses in the Digital Transformation Era. 

Nermine Elnemr, Founder & CEO at Al7arefa & Freelancers Hub Community, a fully integrated online platform & community for freelancers, remote full-time & part-time employees.+40.000 talents in Al7arefa network specialized in Tech & programming, Digital Marketing, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Writing, translating, Business Consulting, and more fields.

Al7arefa is handling all the matchmaking, payment processes and providing taxable invoices.‬

Some of Al7arefs clients: Laliga, Fawry, Noon, Raya, ABK and Mazzika Group.

Nermine has  8 years of experience in the Marketing & Public Relations at FedEx Egypt , Kidzania Cairo, Marketers for Market Research and EiTESAL NGO.

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.

-Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Silver Medalist in Modern prntathlon

-Youth Olympic Games Champion 2018 in Buenos Aires

-Studying Engineering in the Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology 

-Youth, Juniors and Seniors World Champion

-Mohamed Bin Rashed Award for my sports achievements in 2018

-2X World’s Best Junior Pentathlete Award in 2 consecutive years 2018, 2019

-Mohamed Bin Rashed Award Ambassador

-Awarded By the President Himself after the Silver Medal in Tokyo

MBA holder with more than 8 years working experience in Telecommunication field in MENA region with strong ability to develop GTM plans and marketing strategy, experienced in ATL, BTL and Digital communications. Managed a lot of award winning 360 marketing campaign in MENA which helped the brands I worked for to reach double market share in less than a year. 

Noha El Nahas, MA. is a professional psychologist who has been in the field since 2006, she started her journey in public hospitals , receiving intensive training in psychological assessments, then worked with prof Ahmed Okasha at the Psychiatric Health Resort.

 After that, she joined the AUC Counseling Center and started counseling students. Then, she moved to Paris for 2 years where she worked in an organization that helps managing family problems. After coming back she spent a couple of years working as a school counselor and founded her own counseling center (Heal), where she mainly works with adults. Finally, she started teaching Psychology at the American University in Cairo along with being a Senior Counselor at the office of student well-being there. 

She is also a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and PSI CHi (Psychology Honor Society). She has numerous appearances on TV along with being a guest speaker in various venues. She also provides supervision to other therapists and offers training programs to aspiring psychologists. She is experienced in working with various psychological problems (anxiety, depression, stress, identity issues, addictive behaviors and family problems). 

Her services are customized and tailored based on the client’s needs, which made her able to provide several trainings, psycho-educational sessions and support groups for many multinational companies and organizations. 

 Currently, she is a PsyD candidate at California Southern university and despite her various professional trainings she chose to follow an eclectic approach which means that she doesn't stick to only one type of therapy because she believes in individual differences. Empathy is her keyword and Psychology is her passion before becoming her profession. At the time she is the founder and managing director of Heal counseling center and an Adjunct Faculty in the Psychology Department at The American University in Cairo. 

Experienced Head Of Public Relations and Communication with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Marketing Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Event Management, and Leisure Industry. Strong media and communication professional with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.) focused in Pharmacy from Ain Shams University.

Rabih is Managing Partner & Chief Exit Officer with Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP, www.mevp.com), one of the leading Technology VC asset managers in MENA. MEVP is an institutional asset manager regulated by both DFSA and ADGM. Rabih has extensive experience in venture capital, private equity and advisory, having executed more than US$5 billion in transactions and raised more than US$2 billion in capital.

Previously, Rabih was CEO of DIC Emerging Markets, in charge of the investment portfolio in MENA, Turkey, Asia and Latin America. DIC is the international investment arm of the Dubai–based conglomerate Dubai Holding.

In New York, Rabih was a founding member of the Media & Telecom Group with Banc of America Securities, focusing on M&A, where he led broad financial advisory and restructuring services for a number of major corporations. He also worked for Prudential Securities as an Equity Research Analyst covering the Oilfield Services & Equipment sector.

In San Francisco, Rabih was a Senior Engineering Manager with URS Corporation, the world’s largest engineering design firm, where he developed new service offerings for the Technology, Biotech and Energy sectors.

Rabih received his MBA from Columbia University and his MS in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He also received a Bachelor of Engineering with Distinction from the American University of Beirut.

With more than a decade of experience, Sarah is an IPA effective certified marketing and communications professional who has developed and implemented strategic plans for award-winning communications programs with a diverse range of public and private organizations.

Sarah recently joined Roche as Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, with a key focus on positioning Roche as the leader in personalized healthcare. She came from an almost eight year career at Ogilvy, from California to Cairo, with her most recent role as Director of Public Relations and Influence in Cairo - building the team from scratch, from capability to execution, and growing the business more than 400%. Amidst her time at Ogilvy, Sarah served a short stint at Wunderman Thompson (JWT) Cairo, tasked with global crisis management following the terrible crash of the Russian charter flight in 2015. 

Sarah started her career in public policy and affairs, managing community outreach in the California State Assembly and later helping write, implement, and manage policy communications for the California version of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in the state. 

Sarah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of California, Davis. You can find her working from home while attempting to get her kids to sit for a Zoom e-learning lesson - and simultaneously leading global calls - in her pajama bottoms. 

Angel investor since 2014, built 7 angel groups with more than 300 angels.

Former entrepreneur and now professionalizing angel investing.

CEO @ COREangels, CEO @ REDangels, and President @ Investors Portugal - Portuguese Association for Early-Stage Investors.

Looking to connect with angels who want to go further on reshaping angel investing with outcomes, involvement, and trust.

Ameer is the Co-founder and Chairman of BasharSoft, the company behind WUZZUF and FORASNA.com - Egypt's leading online employment platforms for white-collar professionals and blue-collar workers respectively. Collectively, both platforms impacted the lives of 5million+ job seekers in Egypt, and helped 50,000+ companies hire more than 750,000 people over the past few years.

Since co-founding the company in 2009, Ameer managed to bootstrap the company with minimal funding for several years after the Egyptian revolution with political and economic instability before successfully fundraising from top global VC tech investors from Silicon Valley, Sweden, and UK. With significant growth and impact on the local market, he grew the company to become one of Egypt’s fastest growing local tech companies. He raised a total of $10m in VC funding along the way and built a team of 300+ employees. Most investors in BasharSoft were first time investors in Egypt and the region, including 500 Startups, EBRD, Vostok New Ventures, and more.

In 2019, he was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He also sits on the board of Egytrans, a publicly listed logistics company.

In March 2021, he was selected as Board Member at ITIDA, the executive arm of the Ministry of ICT in Egypt, to help in setting the digital strategy for Egypt on digitisation, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Today, the company’s mission is to build efficient employment marketplaces and ecosystems, through the use of technology, data, and AI, enabling sustainable social and economic growth for millions of people as well as businesses in emerging markets across Africa. 

Ameer also advises policy makers, government, programs and venture capital funds to help grow the local and regional startup ecosystems. 

Ameer  holds a MSc degree in Computer Engineering and BSc in Electronic and Communications both from Cairo University. He also completed executive programs on Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and business leadership executive programs at Stanford, INSEAD, and HBS. 

CEO and Founder of estshara, Started his career in the giant Novartis in the sales department for 8 years as sales manager in the bone line with revenues exceeding 80 M EGP then went through the adventure of the startups at Vezeeta as sales manager for 2 years and successfully managed the acquisition of 3000 doctors along Egypt, Amin holds a bachelor degree in pharmaceutical science MBA student at Arab academy for science and technology major SME.

Farah Ahmed, Mother & Entrepreneur, founder & CEO of The baby garage

14 years of experience in digital advertising and content marketing, across multiple reputable corporations including Yahoo! Inc, Deutsche Presse Agentur, CBC, Media World, and lastly ThinkDigital Group.

since 2015, we started The baby garage, a shopping advisory platform empowering parents during their parenthood journey. Now it is a complete support system with more than 685K contributors and engaged parents! Our mission is bring shopping convenience to parent’s comfort zone & help parents learn about their own & their kids’ needs through 360 complete platform where we provide a marketplace to buy/sell/donate, authentic content to educate & empower parents, and exclusive offers through our discount card to help them save more.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Moemen Afify is a Full-time Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He taught several courses in both undergraduate and post-graduate studies in several other universities as well, such as architectural design, environmental design and control systems, renewable energy sources, shade and shadow., Dr. Afify is specialized in environmental design and planning as well as energy conservation in buildings. He worked as the Environmental Optimization Coordinator for the new American University in Cairo Project through Sasaki/CDC. Dr. Afify worked in several projects related to environmental studies such as in the cities of Cairo, Aswan and other similar projects. He also developed the environmental strategies for several projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Being an architect, Dr. Afify designed several projects taking into account environmental optimization processes. He was also the member of the committee for the Egyptian Code for Energy Conservation, as well as the technical committee for the new Grand Museum of Egypt during the design stage. He is also the member for the Committee of the Building Code for the Disabled. Dr. Afify also is a professional architect and he established M A Consultants, a private consulting architectural firm on 1983. M A consultants were responsible on the design of several large projects in Egypt and overseas. He is specialized in the design of public, office, service and industrial buildings as well as retail. He won large number of architectural competitions the latest of which is the new headquarters building of Misr Makasah office building in the Administrative Capital. Dr. Afify also design and supervised a large number of projects whith a sustainable approach among which four of them won United States Green Building Council Certificate – LEED certificate.

Naila launched her career at Bates on the Heineken brand, Fayrouz. Her experience in the beverage industry progressed after launching the brand across MENA earning her the attention of BBDO, recruiting her in 2007 to manage the Pepsi portfolio. 

Naila’s responsibilities widened as she became the Group Account Director on Pepsi, Mars, and Barclay’s. 

In 2014, Naila moved to lead the Strategic Planning department. A year later, Naila joined FP7 McCann as the Head of Strategy, helping position the agency as the 2nd most effective in MENA for the past two years as well as garnering global acclaim at Cannes, D&AD and LIA. Two years later she became the General Manager at FP7 McCann, only to join BBDO once again to lead the Cairo office as its Group Managing Director. 

Amal Dokhan is a seasoned professional with experience in startup investments, corporate innovation, and consulting in the MENA region. Amal is the partner at Sanabil 500 MENA fund where the focus is to invest in early stage comapnies and support them throughout the journey of thier startup life. Previous to joining 500 Startups Ms. Dokhan was the CEO of Global entrepreneurship Network Saudi and the Managing Director of Babson Global for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Previously She was the manger of learning and Design at the Entrepreneurship Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology where she Led TAQADAM accelerator and Corporate Innovation Programs. Prior to that she worked at KAUST seedfund developing marketing and events, while also providing a range of services to startups. 

Ms. Dokhan sits on the board of several organizations and startup comapnies. Amal is also active in angel investing as she initiatied the Angel investors forum in Saudi under te ministry of commerce and Monshaat were many angel investors got hands on experince on the practice, she also invests personaly as she has 13 comapnies in her personal portfolio. Amal attended many executive programs at MIT, UCBerkely, Design school and Insead.

Born and lived in Germany my whole life

sworn Translator/Interpreter

Export/Import

CEO of AQUILA Aviation

since one year in Egypt

CEO of ID Ventures Middle East & Africa

Ayman Abdo 

Director of Architecture

RIBA chartered practice 

Ayman joined Dar in 2002, led and participated in the design of a wide range of projects including educational, office, mixed-use, religious, hospitality and commercial projects. 

He studied architecture in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University and was graduated in 2001, occupying the first place in architectural design and of the top ranked students academically. Alongside his architectural practice, he has been contributing and representing Dar in different academic events as a speaker and a juror. 

With the passion of creative design and problem solving, Ayman established an exceptional design team in Cairo office that led to winning mega projects and acquiring new clients in the Middle East and Africa while extending the team expertise and influence beyond Cairo office. 

Ayman believes that architecture represents the tangible expression of innovative spaces, engineering and infra-structure. 

Hamzeh joined Hikma Ventures as an Associate in August 2016 and worked on closing 12 Digital Health deals in North America, acting as an observer on 4 of these companies (Lemonaid Health, Click Therapeutics, WinterLight Labs, Inc., and SeamlessMD). Prior to that, Hamzeh was part of the Corporate Treasury team at Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (LON:HIK). He also held various finance roles at Phillips Morris International and Capital Investments. After graduating from the George Washington University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in Finance, Hamzeh helped organize TedxDeadSea in Jordan. He was also the CEO and Co-Founder of a social networking platform based in Madrid, Spain. Jacobo Lossoj

MOHAMED BADIE is a visionary Egyptian architect who practices originalism to achieve an organic, seamless, and honest social human experience.

He designs structures that create an emotional impact inspired by the roots of expressionism, casualism, and originalism.

Mohamed Badie refuses to follow conventional architectural paradigms in order to create awe inspiring and fresh human experiences.

Badie’s designs are not tethered to convention but are shaped by a sense of physical freedom and experimentation.

Yasmine comes with a 9+years of commercial  experience in both telecom and fintechs with a focus on product marketing for consumer segments.

•She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrated Marketing Communication with highest honors and a double minor in Psychology & Business from the American University in Cairo.

•Prior joining Sympl, Yasmine was one of the co-founders of valU and headed the growth & segments team. Yasmine has lead different functions in valU including product development, call center, sales , e-commerce, and promotions.

•Before joining valU, Yasmine was handling the full go-to market function, proposotions, as well as product operations and vendor management at the terminals business at Vodafone Egypt.

Yasmine is now leading the business in a new fintech startup , Sympl.

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 Institute 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.