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Adel is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Aumet. Aumet automates the pharmaceutical procurement supply chain by providing enterprise resource planning services that provide real-time artificial intelligence-driven healthcare data to government entities and pharmaceutical manufacturers to monitor the demand and supply of medicine nationwide.

Before joining Aumet, Adel worked in a spectrum of fields ranging from Transaction advisory, Investment banking to corporate banking. Adel holds an MSc and and MBA from top universities such as IE Business School.

He led a number of senior positions in countries such as the UAE, Qatar, Spain and Canada. He currently also advises a Cleantech startup based out Spain.

In this episode, we sit down and have a conversation with Mohammed Elhorishy, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Taager, a leading e-commerce platform that is revolutionizing the industry in the Middle East.

Khalid Abou Kassem is the Founder of AlGooru, a Saudi-based early-stage EdTech startup.

He is renowned for tutoring early-stage founders about the 101s of entrepreneurship and is fuelled by a passion for breaking things and moving fast. His specialties include purpose-creation, culture-building, hiring, and fundraising.

Nadim Nagui is the CEO of Partment, a proptech platform simplifying real estate through co-ownership solutions. In 2022, he co-founded Partment with Ahmed el Raggal and Chinmaya Das, marking a new chapter in his entrepreneurial journey. Recognized with the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2022, Nadim's strategic prowess and contributions stand out.

Mohamed Jawabri is the Co-Founder and COO of Lendo | ليندو. Lendo is a shariah-compliant debt crowdfunding marketplace. They have recently closed a $28 million Series B round led by Sanabil Investments. Lendo enables SMEs to digitally pre-finance their outstanding invoices. The platform also offers SMEs a limited option to borrow cash quickly and short-term options to gain higher returns for investors/lenders.

Lendo has also recently crossed a significant milestone, facilitating more than 1 billion SAR in financing through over 2,500 transactions, all directed towards supporting Saudi Arabia's Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

What does it take to go from an idea to these achievements?

Sharif El-Badawi is the CEO of Dubai Future District Fund, an evergreen venture fund of funds and direct investment vehicle of the emirate of Dubai. The fund is anchored by Dubai Future Foundation and the Dubai International Financial Centre to invest in the Future of Finance and Future Economies with the aim of bolstering economic development in Dubai, the UAE and the broader region.

Previously, he co-founded and managed Plus Venture Capital (+VC), a leading seed stage investment firm in the Middle East and North Africa region, investing across sectors from seed to growth within the region and diaspora. Before that he was a founding managing partner of the first US-based venture capital firm with a dedicated fund for the MENA region and was the most active venture capital investor in MENA during its investment period from 2017-2020. In his role, he managed the 500 Startups MENA fund, 500 Falcons, which invested in over 180 startups across 15 countries.

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

In this episode, we speak to Abdel-Azim Osman, one of the leading marketing experts in the MENA region. He is the Co-Founder & CMO of Nawy and the Co-Founder of Lynkrs. Under his leadership, Nawy became Meta's most sophisticated real-estate client in the world! This led him to hold roles on Meta's EMEA Advisory Board Panel and Meta's MENA Advisory Board. Additionally, he has been selected as an Endeavour Entrepreneur. 
After graduating from MIT, he started his career as a Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, and he later joined the family business, Osman Group. There, he served on the Board of Directors and managed two building materials companies: Insumat, producing waterproofing membranes, and Technocrete, specializing in concrete interlocking paving stones and hard landscaping. 
With experience overseeing a team of over 800 employees, he ventured into entrepreneurship for a new professional challenge.
Thank you to Nasser Mouti for helping us prep the questions for this episode.

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