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I was born in Boulogne Billancourt (France), October 5th 1976. It was the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon. I came back to Lebanon and lived there until the end of my high school. I have the Lebanese and French nationalities.

I studied in Lebanon more than 10 years in the Collège Louise Wegmann. After I had my French Baccalaureate, I went to Paris and spent two years at Lycée Privé Sainte Geneviève.

These two years at Sainte Geneviève, in Versailles, prepared me to high and competetive French Engineering Schools. After that, I completed 3 years at ENSEA, a Graduate School in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, in Paris, where I specialised myself in Networks and Telecommunications. In 2000-2001, I completed a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta (USA). I spent my first semester in its European platform, Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL), in France.

Following my graduation in the USA, I came back to France. I joined, in September 2001, the European Communications Research Lab (ECRL) of Motorola, near Paris. As a Senior Research Engineer, I addressed the architectures of Beyond 3G mobile telecommunications systems, focusing on the light integration of heterogeneous networks. From January 2004 to April 2006, I was the Technical Manager of the End-to-End Reconfigurability (E2R) Project, a European research project coordinated by Motorola.

In June 2006, I joined T-Mobile International as a International Project Manager in the Mobile Messaging area in Vienna (Austria) and spent a year and half there. I invite you to visit my blog with a lot of information for expats moving to Vienna or living there @ http://www.viennaexpats.com. In November 2007, I relocated to T-Mobile's Headquarters in Bonn (Germany) and joined the Project Management division as a Senior International Project Manager at start then as an International Program Manager in January 2009.

In November 2009, I joined the "International Businesses" (IBU) division of Deutsche Telekom as a Senior International Partnership Development Manager. From August 2011 to October 2012, I was the Head of Project Development, responsible for product innovation across IBU, ensuring the delivery of new products & propositions within the "Business Development & Innovation Scouting" team. From November 2012 to March 2016, I was Vice President of the Business Development & Innovation (BDI) unit, having the P&L responsibility for the development & sales of enabling services to content & OTT players in the B2B and Wholesale markets.

Since April 2016, I've joined Apple in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, from 2008 to 2010, I completed the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA program jointly offered by Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (USA) and the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany).

Beside all that, I always grasp the opportunity to meet new cultures and discover new countries. I invite you to go through my website and discover my Lebanon Guide.


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