Team – Startups Without Borders Summit

Yousef Ghouneim

Valentina Primo — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:37:10 +0000

I’m a Tech savvy Marketing and Communication Director with 6 years of experience in SaaS/ TaaS, Fintech, Procuretech, Web3, and E-commerce kickstart and business development. Worked with Swvl as a founding team member, Buseet as Head of Commercial, Business Consultant for many startups in MENA and ex-CEO for Tndy.

Valentina Primo

monikagilmore — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:28:04 +0000

Valentina is an entrepreneur and a journalist with a Masters in peace studies, Human Rights, and EU policies. She is the founder of Startups Without Borders, and an Advisor for SXSW Pitch. Valentina has been involved in the Middle East’s startup landscape since 2013, having launched Egypt’s largest platform on entrepreneurship, Startup Scene Middle East, in 2017. She has given speeches at conferences in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Russia, Norway, France, and Italy, including Lean Startup Nights Cairo, Egypt’s RiseUp Summit, and Techfugees. She was awarded the Women Economic Forum’s Women in Excellence Award 2019.

Rahma Arafa

monikagilmore — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:18:43 +0000

Rahma has been involved in the entrepreneurship scene in Egypt for 4+ years, working with different startups like Entreprenelle, She was the co-project manager of SHE CAN 19 that has hosted 3000+ attendees. While she was traveling somewhere in south Asia, she got inspired to launch GSO, a social media agency specialized in the organic growth, which is supporting the packbackers who want to make money while traveling, and they worked/working with 30+ company & startups in Egypt, Dubai, USA & Germany as Marj3, Brandloca, IHearYou & Conmidea.

Omar Ghayaat

monikagilmore — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:24:39 +0000

Omar Ghayaat works as a Growth Marketing Manager, helping businesses grow faster through performance marketing and funnel optimization. He has previously worked for clients in the MENA region like Emaar Dubai, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Citibank, Noon, and Technology companies like Eventtus, Widebot, Gameball and more.

Eslam Tawakol

monikagilmore — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:26:57 +0000

Eslam is a Dubai-based User Experience Designer with a background in marketing and project management. He’s also co-founder and Local Leader at IxDA Dubai, and is passionate about making people’s life easier through human-centered design

Ahmed Abuzaid

monikagilmore — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:28:20 +0000

Ahmed Abuzaid is a copywriter and designer who often obsesses over art, design, and photography. He keeps track of how many countries he’s visited so far as well as how many times his work has been published.

Faiza Taha Yasin

monikagilmore — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:27:07 +0000

Born in Egypt and raised in the Netherlands, Faiza is a a blogger, marketer, and content writer (aspiring novelist). She is also a freelance teacher, instructor and owner of English fun, a conversational learning program. A curious world explorers, she is always ready to hear stories of the world.

Daina Basello

monikagilmore — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:25:38 +0000

I grew up bilingual and was lucky to have had the opportunity to travel a lot starting from a very young age. So, multilingualism and multiculturalism have always been a part of my life. In 2017 I decided to study Applied Languages at the ZHAW in Winterthur and this July, I got my bachelor’s degree. During my studies multilingualism has become one of my biggest interests. I’m especially interested in the “life in-between two cultures”. I have written both my seminar paper and my bachelor thesis on bilingualism, more precisely on the language phenomenon code-switching. My studies also provided me with linguistic expertise, and I was introduced to the basics of translation. In addition, I dealt with oral communication in various contexts, improved my intercultural competence and learnt the basics of professional social media communication. I had the chance to coordinate several projects and events during my studies and to do an internship. I completed an internship in the language school DILIT in Rome where I performed a wide variety of tasks, including the translation of the school’s website. Because of my school career and my travels, I had the chance to meet many different people from all over the world. Therefore, I’ve acquired good social and language skills and became even more passionate about the different cultures and languages. In addition to the recently completed internship in Italy, I’ve also spent six months in the US and one month in Colombia. I speak German, Italian, English, Spanish and a little French. Right now, I’m looking for a job opportunity in translation and/or international relations. Besides that, I’m passionate about community work and committed to help other people however I can. I strive to change lives and people often tell me that I’m a dreamer, but I think that’s one of my best qualities.

Mohamed Amr

monikagilmore — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:18:07 +0000

Mohamed is a Computer Sciences student based in Cairo, who is deeply interested in volunteering and engaging with the startup environment. In his free time, he explores the forgotten, mystical places of the capital and of Egypt and reads books that he almost never completes.

Rokaya Abdel Rahim

monikagilmore — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:22:58 +0000

Rokaya Abdel Rahim is the Lead Graphic Designer at Startups Without Borders. Having graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, scenography department, in 2009, her experience revolves around working on visual concepts and graphic representation for architecture and interior design, focusing more on the idea of visual narration through photo manipulation, digital collage, drawing and graphic art, also joined and participated in several workshops in different art fields including photography, architecture and illustration.