ABOUT WOMENPRENEUR TOUR EGYPT
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Date & Location
- Location: Consoleya: 5 El-Fadl, Bab Al Louq, Abdeen, Cairo
- Date: 28 March 2022 at 14h00
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AGENDA
SPEAKERS
Mohamed Emad Eldin Aly Morsy
Mohamed Emad Eldin Aly Morsy is an Experienced Regional Investment and Risk Champion and he has an extensive professional experience in fund advisory and management, investment banking, credit risk management, and corporate lending. He has superior academic qualifications – MBA (finance) from the University of New Brunswick and MSc focused on Investment Banking & Islamic Finance from Henley Business School. As visiting fellow in the MBA program at the Maastricht school of business (Cairo Campus), he has delivered numerous academic and executives courses both inside and outside Egypt.
Mariam Okasha
Passionate about storytelling in all its forms, Mariam channeled that love into her career as a marketer by telling the stories of dynamic brands helped by her previous experience in content writing and film production. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication from Glasgow Caledonian University and is a real nerd about all things equality and inclusivity.
Sana Afouaiz
Sana is an award-winning, gender expert, women advocate, and public speaker on feminism and women issues. In 2016, she established Womenpreneur Initiative that aims to advance women’s place in the entrepreneurial scene, technology, innovation & society. Since its establishment, Womenpreneur has trained 16,000 women in Belgium and the MENA region. Through her work, Sana reached thousands of women, to drive visibility, social impact, and resources for women in the ecosystem and beyond. In recognition of her achievements, Sana received recognition by the World Bank, Adecco Group, and many more.
Zienab M. Fatehy
Zienab is the Co-founder and tech products manager at ClueApps. According to her role for the past 7 years, she has been working closely with +50 tech startups to help them start, validate, and enhance their business journey through technology. Having a background in computer science in addition to business experience, makes her acting as the middleware between the technical side and business side.
Farah Emara
Farah is the co-founder of FreshSource, the region’s first B2B agri-supply chain platform, leveraging technology to become the leading agri-supply chain platform in the MENA region, by changing the way fresh goods are sourced, moved and sold. Farah has extensive experience with start-ups and SMEs. She has worked in Procter & Gamble as the Head of the Strategic Communications Department as well as Entrepreneur Selection & Growth Manager at Endeavor. She has appeared as a judge on CBC’s Hona Al Shabab and was awarded the Obama Presidential Award.
Manal Amin
Manal Amin is the CEO and Founder of Arabize, a start-up that she established in 1994 in order to address the need for professional Arabic localization. Arabize is now a leading Arabic content provider that provides top quality content-related services; including localization, translation, transcreation, content development and management, testing, digitization and desktop publishing. She has won the African ICT Champion award in 2013 and was ranked 77th among the 200 Most Powerful Women in the Middle East by Forbes Magazine in September 2014.
Irene Boghdadi
Irene Boghdadi is Head of Entrepreneurship and MSMEs at Chemonics Egypt Consultants. During her career she worked for several companies in the Strategy and Business Development field, as well as research analyst and program manager. In 2020 she completed her Master of Science in Energy Systems Management at the University of San Francisco, having already graduated in Visual Communications at the American University in Dubai.
Riham Abu Elinin
Riham Abu Elinin is the Founder & CEO at BznsBuilder, the first bilingual (English/Arabic) platform that provides entrepreneurs and businessmen with a professional step by step business plan building tool. Serial entrepreneur and angel investor since 2006, she won the Global innovation competition in 2015 by the U.S. Departments of States. She founded several startups in the Industrial Sector as well as one of the leading Charity organisations in Egypt.
Minoush Abdelmeguid
Minoush Abdelmeguid is the CEO of Mezzan & Investment Manager focusing on Gender Lens Investments. Experienced Managing Partner with a demonstrated history of working in leading companies in the financial services industry, she is skilled in M&A, mid-market Private Equity, Investment Valuation, Investment Advisory, Market Research, and Board level management. She is a Young Global Leader and a strong Business Development professional with an Executive Diploma in Leadership from Harvard University.
Noha El-Ghazaly
Noha El-Ghazaly, is the Egypt Country Advisor at Mediterrania Capital Partners. She has over fourteen years of experience in corporate finance and M&A across the MENA region Independent Investment Committee Member for Sanad Fund ESF II. Independent board member at Middle East Glass Manufacturing Company. Featured by Forbes Middle East as one of the Top 100 Power Businesswomen (2020) and Most Influential Women (2018) in the Middle East and by Financial News London (a Dow Jones Company) as one of the Top 50 Women in Middle East Finance in 2019. MBA graduate of Edinburgh Business School of Heriot-Watt University.
Noha Shaker
Noha Shaker is the founder and Secretary General of the Egyptian Fintech Association and the elected Vice President of both the Africa FinTech Network and the union of African FinTech associations. They are non-profit organizations that serve Financial Inclusion, equitable economic and gender parity through FinTech and entrepreneurship in general. Noha’s experience in the financial industry spanned over 20 years. She has served on the executive board of the Arab Academy– driving Banking & FinTech education in the Arab world.
Hala Barakat
Hala Barakat is the director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Holding a BA in Business Administration from The American University in Cairo, she became Financial Institutions Manager of the Arab African International Bank. In 2005, strengthening the value of trade and encouraging local production, she co-founded Arabiaware S.A.E, which focuses on leather products manufacturing and retailing. Thanks to her longstanding interest in education and entrepreneurship development, she started providing education-for-employment training, as well as workshops & mentoring in entrepreneurship and other related fields.
Dr. Rasha Tantawy
Rasha is the board member of the Women Entrepreneurship Network (WEN) and the founder of TIYE angels – the first women angel network in Egypt. Prior to that, she was the head of Business Support and Entrepreneurship at the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), ITIDA. She has developed policies for tech-startups as Heya Ra2da, a program supporting female entrepreneurs. Rasha has built extensive networks and assets in the global entrepreneurial marketplace. She also works at both local and international level as a consultant on entrepreneurship and innovation projects for the MENA and EuroMED region.
Noha Abdel Hamid
Noha is the Regional Initiative Manager for CTEK Women in the MENA. She has 22 years of working experience for many international organizations. Through all of her career, she has proven to be hard working, a dedicated individual with an eye for detail. This has given her the confidence to become self motivated and to operate successfully within any environment. Her core skills are in the field of public affairs & amp, communications, marketing and customer service.
Dalila Djamane
Dalila Djamane is the head of the legal department and human resources manager in kreston international Almohaseboon. She’s Master 2 degree holder in public law of strategic and business sectors from university of Jean Moulin Lyon III. Her passion for law and legal studies encouraged her to start her career as a political and legal researcher specialized in the investment and business laws and corporate governance in Africa and the MENA region. . Her target was to highlight the dynamic investment opportunities in Africa and Middle East and focusing on the importance of SME’s regulations in economy prosper, in order to attract local and foreign investors in Africa she conducted many research on the investment climate, regulations and the investment opportunities available in these region, not only from a legal aspect but also from a political aspect as well. She has more than 15 published articles/white papers about investment laws, family office regulations in GCC, corporate governance, cybersecurity and legaltech industry. She’s also the international relations and protocol manager at the Egyptian National youth council since 2012.
Mariam Tag
Mariam Tag is the product manager of Stllr, the marketing platform providing instant access to vetted marketing experts and teams. She has completed her master studies in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science, after getting a bachelor degree in Economics at the American University in Cairo. She is passionate about the intersection of entrepreneurship and social justice to promote economic growth and inclusion.
Nermine Elnemr
Nermine Elnemr is the Founder and CEO of Al7arefa. She has 8 years of experience as a full-time employee in Marketing & Public Relations fields and industries like Information Technology, Shipping and Market Research. Since 2018 Nermine has decided to be a freelancer and started her entrepreneurial journey with Al7arefa: Egypt’s first and simplest freelancing platform. With 40,000 members it is one of the biggest digital freelance communities across the Middle East. It supports local freelancers, manages the match-making processes and provides medical insurance for the employees.
Salma Abu El Naga
Salma Abu El Naga is the founder & CEO of Toi To Go Application. She studied pharmacy at the German University of Cairo. She decided to become an entrepreneur after recognizing the need of a digital application for on-demand beauty services. Her co-founded company Toi to Go offers at-home beauty services for women who do not have time or the possibility to go to beauty salons. Toi to Go is also the main accelerator for digital transformation in the Beauty market in Egypt at the moment. Previously, Salma worked as a pharmacist and in corporate marketing.
Dalia Laz
Dalia Laz is Founder & CEO of Esorus. She is passionate about design, technology and content creation.That’s how she launched Esorus in 2019: an online showcase and network for suppliers to connect, build partnerships and share their products and services. The pandemic hit hard on her business, as interior design wasn’t a priority for Egyptians. Soon she changed peoples mind by highlighting the importance of design in times of home working. During the pandemic, she initiated Design To Go with other professional designers and architects and created one of the strongest design community platforms that aims to empower and support the design scene in Egypt.
Menna Shahin
Menna Shahin is the Co-founder & COO of TeKeya. Egyptian entrepreneur and a food waste advocate, Menna Shahin is eager to complete even more UN Sustainable Development Goals with her company. Some might say Menna’s second name is ‘ambitious’ with the company’s aim to save more than 15 million meals within five years, enabling affordable food and protecting the environment at the same time. But that didn’t stop her from achieving three SDGs with Tekeya and creating the first safe space for female travellers with She Travels.
Nevien Magdy
Nevien Magdy is a Senior SharePoint UI developer/UX designer with more than 3 years of experience in this field. She is skilful in converting designs into responsive, interactive user friendly and accessible portals. As a SharepPoint UI developer she implemented different online and Intranet portals using many SharePoint branding techniques. Nevien has been exposed to very tough working conditions. As a result, She gained strong abilities to manage multi-disciplinary projects and to navigate complex challenges. Since 2018 Nevien works full time on her venture Origine Technology Solution, which was established in 2014. Since then she successfully manages her remote working team in Cairo.
Mayar Khaled
Investment Analyst at Finance in Motion. In the last years, she obtained a degree in Economics at Cairo University. Then she started her career working as Investment Analyst and as Credit Analyst at several companies in Egypt.
Nora Rafea
Program specialist at UN Women. Nora Rafea is experienced in working on gender issues focusing on women’s leadership and political participation, gender responsive
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