Troels accumulated experience in finance/PE (BlackRock) and e-commerce as he was leading Groupon’s operations in China/Japan pre-IPO, from 1 office into a 4,000+ employee strong organisation in 5 months. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Mathematics and Economics from Copenhagen Business School.

Saad is an expert in traditional/digital marketing and professional with a strong understanding of MENA region, having worked for companies like AMEinfo.com, Souq.com, Cellucom, Dubai World Trade Centre and Mikyajy cosmetics to name few, having industry experience of 12 years. He is currently enrolled in CIM – UK, from one of the top Asian schools for postgraduate in digital marketing.

Hassan is a UAE national that has lived and worked in Europe for 8 years before joining Boston Consulting Group, supporting several large scale IT related projects. He holds a first class masters degree (with honours) and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK.

Amr started his career as a C++ developer for an Arabic-optimized search engine. Later, Amr switched to web development with Maktoob --The largest Arabic network. After 3 years,  Amr started working for Yahoo!’s mail global team. Amr then moved to Vardot, developed an appetite for e-commerce and Magento, becoming the first certified Magento developer in Jordan and one of the first in the Middle East.

With 20 years of experience liaising between the private sector and governments, offering consultancy and procurement solutions, Cyrus is based in Abu Dhabi since 2008 where he founded Tawreed. Cyrus is a Board Member of MRO Center in the US (a global industrial supplies distributor). Cyrus is educated at Sciences Po Paris and holds a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University.