Elias Ghanem

LIFE is a global professional network empowering the Lebanese community.
Founded in 2009, LIFE is a worldwide membership organisation, non-partisan, non-sectarian and independent, for Lebanese professionals in the diaspora. LIFE welcomes professionals in the fields of Finance, Consultancy, Law and Technology.
LIFE operates through 4 pillars:
- CONNECT Lebanese professionals together
- NURTURE the future generation of Lebanon
- PROMOTE entrepreneurship and job creation
-… Show more

LIFE is a global professional network empowering the Lebanese community.
Founded in 2009, LIFE is a worldwide membership organisation, non-partisan, non-sectarian and independent, for Lebanese professionals in the diaspora. LIFE welcomes professionals in the fields of Finance, Consultancy, Law and Technology.
LIFE operates through 4 pillars:
- CONNECT Lebanese professionals together
- NURTURE the future generation of Lebanon
- PROMOTE entrepreneurship and job creation
- ADVOCATE for economic and social reform Show less

Le French Fintech Tour is the sole chance to connect with the vibrant French Fintech ecosystem and financial leaders in the UK and Ireland. A unique 3-day event designed to resolve a single challenge: increase French Fintech adoption into the British and Irish financial landscape. Le French Fintech Tour is returning for its second edition on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of July 2018

I coached several FinTechs as part of the Netherlands FinTech Startup Bootcamp

Hivos Mideast Creatives Fund provides funding for ‘early stage growth’ or ‘missing middle’ entrepreneurs in the creative industry in MENA.
THe fund is committed to the following investment criteria:
* Stimulating Creative Industries
* Stimulating Impact on freedom of expression & information, arts & culture, transparency & accountability, empowering economy for civic society, youth employment and gender equality.
* Contributing to the overall ecosystem, by investing in the ‘missing… Show more

Hivos Mideast Creatives Fund provides funding for ‘early stage growth’ or ‘missing middle’ entrepreneurs in the creative industry in MENA.
THe fund is committed to the following investment criteria:
* Stimulating Creative Industries
* Stimulating Impact on freedom of expression & information, arts & culture, transparency & accountability, empowering economy for civic society, youth employment and gender equality.
* Contributing to the overall ecosystem, by investing in the ‘missing middle’ and actively fulfilling a conduit function between the companies the Fund invests in and the global network of its stakeholders.

Investments will be focused on:
* Start-ups in ICT that ameliorate more fair societies
* Start-ups in (digital) media
* Start-ups in (digital) creative services
* Start-ups that use technologies or innovation to increase access to essential foodstuffs

http://www.hivosimpactinvestments.com/the-people/ Show less

Fashion and market place startup to connect to local fashion stores wherever you travel.

PayKii focuses on the nascent but highly promising cross border bill payment remittances niche.
B2B fintech company with the mission to make it simple for people living abroad to meet the financial needs of their loved ones back home.

Bridg is a mobile-to-mobile payment platform that leverages the power of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to process cashless payments in any offline scenario. Aiming to Bridge the gap of face-to-face payments without the need of infrastructure, thanks to mobile.

Bridg makes cashless payments available to SMEs in the physical world without the burden of carrying a POS.

The Boy Scouts teach young adults to develop their technical and human skills through hands on experience and clear roles and responsibilities. Things only happen if each component of the team does his part