Hasan Haider – 500 Startups

Hasan Haider is a Partner at 500 Startups, the most active Venture Capital firm in the world, based in Silicon Valley, with 1,800+ investments in 50+ countries and $330m in AuM. Hasan heads up the firm’s practice in the MENA region, with the Arabic speaking market being a core area of focus. 500 Startups has…

Dimple Sahni – Impact Investing Anthos Fund & Asset Management

Dimple Sahni joined Anthos Asset Management in the fall of 2014. As senior director in the impact investing team, Dimple is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the portfolios at Anthos Asset Management dedicated to impact investing. This includes Skopos Impact Fund, a global, private, impact investing fund focused…

Anthony Hobeika – Mena Research Partners

Anthony heads MENA Research Partners (“MRP”), a research and consulting outsourcing company offering customised and syndicated business intelligence to corporations in the Middle East & North Africa (“MENA”). MRP offers economic, sector, market and financial research, providing products like financial modelling, valuations, equity and fixed income research, business plans, feasibility studies and review of feasibilities,…

Ahmad Saleh – Al Tamimi

Ahmad is a Canadian attorney and engineer coming with over 12 years of higher education studies in law and engineering and 12 years of western and local experience in IP and commercial law. He has worked for reputable Canadian and international law firms before joining Al Tamimi as Head of Patents & Designs (R&D and…