Hesham Abdelghaffar

Adjunct professorPart Time

• Job Details:Location: Cairo Egypt, Company Industry: Academia and executive education Job Role: Teaching, Training, management Consulting, Coaching July 2018 – Present Adjunct professor teaching: Strategic management, Leadership in organization, Entrepreneurship, Organization behavior and culture, Change, Digital transformation and Information Driven Healthcare for both AUC business school's executive education program and the school of continuing education. I teach to postgraduates’ students and executive education, also actively involved in curriculum design and development of management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Information Drive Healthcare. Website: https://business.aucegypt.edu/execed Website: https://sce.aucegypt.edu/home

Executive Vice President and Regional Managing Director Middle East and North AfricaFull Time

• Job Details:Location: Los Altos California USA, Bangalore India, Cairo Egypt Company Industry: Non-For-Profit Organization specialized in Jobs creation and fulfilment Job Role: EVP and Regional Managing Director July 2018 – May 2020 Executive Vice President and Regional Managing Director of Middle East and North Africa managing 22 countries in MENA region for Wadhwani Foundation (WF) "Creating Jobs, Changing lives", a Global not-for-profit corporation HQ in Los Altos, Silicon Valley California, USA. WF works in developing economies across the 3 continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America supporting job creation by promoting entrepreneurship and youth employment through vocational skilling. WF is backed by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani , a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, billionaire and philanthropist, who has committed a large part of his wealth towards social causes. Most recently WF setup India’s first Artificial Intelligence Institute for social good and has become a partner in Co-Impact a $500 M global social fund for advancing education, healthcare and livelihood challenges along with Bill Gates, Rockefeller Foundation, Jeff Scholl and others. I founded and established the Wadhwani foundation in MENA region and was responsible for managing the foundation various programs in MENA’s different 22 countries, the operation was run by myself and my handpicked local team from the WF MENA HQ I established in Cairo Egypt, reporting to the WF President and CEO in Bangalore India, to the Chairman Dr. Romesh Wadhwani and the foundation board of directors in Los Altos California USA. Check Website and who we are

Founder and Senior PartnerFull Time

• Job Details:Location: Cairo Egypt, Beirut Lebanon, Jeddah Saudi Arabia Company Industry: Startup Funding and Investment Job Role: Investment, Coaching, Mentoring and Talent scouting November 2015 – Present Founder and Senior Partner, at MenaGurus which is a 100 million angle investment group specialized in pre-seeds and seeds funding of startups working in MENA region. MenaGurus operates in Egypt, Lebanon and KSA where it follows the CIT, Healthtech, Fintech, and Green-tech talented minds to mentor and finance there brilliant ideas into success and profit. I am one of the 8 founders of this angle investment group specialized in putting pre-seeds and early seeds money in Rockstar startups transforming and disrupting the businesses in MENA region. As the senior partner, I am responsible for strategic partnerships, business planning, recruiting and scouting talents, spotting investment opportunities, risk management and operation management for 4 investment rounds per year in 3 different countries (Egypt, Lebanon and KSA), I am also coaching and mentoring startups that Menagurus fund and others not funded by the group in cooperation with various incubators and accelerators in MENA’s ecosystem. Website: http://www.menagurus.com Daily news report (English): https://goo.gl/Zb7MwP Enterprise report (English): https://goo.gl/r7egWn Wamda report (Arabic): https://goo.gl/Yj7kX9 Al-Mal news reports (Arabic): https://almalnews.com/menagurus