General Info
Professional Track
- Information Technology
Country
EgyptAreas of Expertise
- Engineering, Systems
- Information Systems Management
- Data Mining and Analytics
Professional Interests
- Fintech Payments & Remittance
- Fintech investment, venture capital, lending and alternative finance
- Wealth management and personal finance management (P2P, Defi)
Age
26The Top Three Things I Would Like to Learn or Experience During my Mentorship
- Acquire hands-on experience from the Fintech leaders in Silicon Valley in building defensible and distruptive business models, how they manage their products and plan to go to market and create suitable operational models
- How to commercialize fintech startups, how to localize and introduce fintech solutions or products that fill market gaps in emerging markets
- How to scale and fund fintech startups
Ideal Company Type
I aspire to be matched with fintech company that leads the innovation worldwide and look forward expansion in our region. I look forward a company that can help me grow my skills personally and grow my influence and empower me to help our fintech startups and our fintech ecosystem in Egypt in general.
Certifications
- Fintech (Knowledge Officer, 2021)
- October 2021, Venture Capital at American University of Cairo
- September 2021, Product Management Career Accelerator at Knowledge Officer
- July 2021, Fintech program from GIZ & Knowledge Officer, 1st place grade with 100% in all projects
- September 2021 Private Equity and Venture Capital at Università Bocconi
- August 2021 Entrepreneurship, Financing and Profitability at University of Pennsylvania
- December 2020 Awarded Startup Factory competition powered by US embassy, 3rd place
- June 2019 Awarded youth health hackathon held by UNFPA, 1st place
- March 2018 Awarded Ibtacr held by AYB 1st place and pre-seed grant
- September 2020 Fintech Fundamental Cousera
- June 2020 Product Management Business School
- May 2018 Market Research Fundamentals, Egypt Innovate
- February 2018 Data analysis at Udacity
- September 2017 Technology Entrepreneurship Accelerator from TIEC
Additional Technical Skills
Python, SQL, Systems Engineering, Alternative Investment, Proptech, Regtech and Compliance
What are three adjectives that best describe you in the work place?
- Reliable hard worker
- Eager to learn
- Assertive with flexibility mentality
What impact will your mentorship have on your career and professional path?
Mentorship is always of huge benefit to help me and I always seek to have mentors that went on the path I aspire to go through. The mentorship will help build my profile, support my career path and open new areas to discover. Additionally, I'll gain hands on experience and connect with my potential.
After participating in the TechWomen program, how will you leverage your mentorship experience to make an impact in your home country?
I am fond of knowledge transfer. I plan to transfer the experience to all my networks in our Entrepreneurship ecosystem, implement what I have learnt in my fintech product to help other startups enhance their products, get connected with their potentials and maybe share in building a better fintech ecosystem as I am in the network of the regulatory CBE and FRA.
Work History
Years of Full-time Work Experience
5Primary Professional Focus
- Individual contributor leading innovation
- Localization
- Technical product manager
Current/Most Recent Job
- Title and Company: Program Manager, Startup Factory - Pmaestro
- Direct Reports: 10+
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Giza, Egypt
- Dates: September 20, 2021 –
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Responsibilities:
Pmaestro is a Digital solutions management, Business Growth and Investing enabler unit. My role includes but is not limited to: Sponsorships; Develop relationships with prospective partners and sponsors, while maintaining the existing ones; Scope project requirements/specifications and create proposals; Stay up to date with entrepreneurship scene news and deals; Partners management; Qualify reliable and trustworthy partners / service providers to deliver assigned projects; Program management; Provide end-to-end project management; Highlight potential risks and act proactively to resolve issues; Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects.
Job #2
- Title and Company: Product Specialist and Business Analyst, Launch SaaS incubator Nilepreneurs
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Giza, Egypt
- Dates: September 1, 2019 – October 5, 2021
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Responsibilities:
Nilepreneurs is a national initiative funded by Central Bank of Egypt to enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Throughout my role At NP Incubation (Launch SaaS Incubator) worked with more than 60 startups in different industries. All of them were developing digital tools that digitalize SMEs processes. My responsibilities were: Conducting the startups business analytics; Supporting startups product development; Fulfilling all their requirements from market penetration, validation & revenue generation; commercializing startups products; preparing startups investment file
Job #3
- Title and Company: Business Instructor, Nile University - Ideas Gym
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Giza, Egypt
- Dates: June 20, 2017 – December 31, 2018
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Responsibilities:
Nile University Ideas Gym is a STEM Career Discovery for Kids aimed at building new generation of leading children and teenagers in science, technology, engineering and maths. My responsibilities: Career Counselor; Conduct entrepreneurship boot camps; Validate Business concepts and help them to make prototypes for their product depending on customer needs and making market research. I had delivered more than 25 camps with different international students (from age 10 to 18).
Education History
Highest Level of Education Completed
Bachelor'sInstitution #1
- Institution: Faculty of Commerce, English Section
- Degree Awarded: Bachelor's
- Major: Finance
- Minor:
- Location: Egypt
- Completion Date: June 1, 2017
