Mohannad El-Khairy
United States
Mr. Mohannad El-Khairy serves as Executive at Tidal Impact. He also serves as Board Member at Localized. He also serves as a Adviosr at Emergence Industries. He is an Angel Investor. He also serves as Managing Partner at E11 Capital. At 22, he began his career in institutional sales with Montreal-based investment research firm BCA, where he quadrupled their Emerging Markets book of business. In 2006, he moved to Dubai to help build Zawya.com, the MENA-focused BI and market data company that became known as "The Bloomberg of the Middle East" before its acquisition by Thomson Reuters in 2012. In the Bay Area since the end of 2011, he supported Plug & Play, one of Silicon Valley's largest seed-stage startup accelerators, with international expansion, deal flow and joint venture activities across a number of sectors and geographies. He then formed NXT Innovation, a global innovation consulting firm in San Francisco, Paris and Milan, brokering the adoption of technology solutions between Fortune 500 companies, governments and startups. He has advised several pioneering startups such as Zenysis Technologies, AltSchool, Wally, TINT, eBrandValue, and Instabug. He is also an active board member of talent-tech company Localized to support students in emerging markets that don't have robust alumni networks, career services, or infrastructure necessary to access employers, as well the Arab Film & Media Institute, a 501c3 organization based in SF and LA producing the largest Arab Film Festival outside the Middle East. He completed his degrees in both Economics and Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
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