About The Speaker
Hassan Mansi
Hassan Mansi, is an entrepreneur who co-founded training and consultancy firms in Egypt and UAE; coming from an engineering and business background, he managed several organizational development projects using the Lean Six Sigma methodology as well as organizational restructure for a wide variety of clients, featuring financial institutions, across different countries in the region. He also headed the Youth Committee at the Alexandria Business Association, providing training for young entrepreneurs; supported the entrepreneurial movement in the city of Alexandria by collaborating with international programs featuring the USAID and others enabling access to finance for local startups. He earned his MSc in Technology Commercialization from McCombs School of Business - Austin, Texas and he holds a Bsc in Industrial Engineering & Management from Arab Academy For Science & Technology. He led and deployed acceleration programs throughout the globe in partnership with lead ecosystems players and key private sector partners. His previous previous roles yielded an engagement with more than 12K participants across 81 events through 14 different cities across the region, with an online engagement that reached more than 27M users. He led acceleration program that received around 6K applications and accelerated more than 151 startups, while delivering 3400+ hours of training, coaching and mentorship. In addition 18 grants to social impact startups at the acceleration stage with the value of around $440K. The accelerated startups have been able to secure follow-on- funds of around $40M while generating revenues of more than $32M. He is currently involves leading a mediatech accelerator program backed by the largest media group in Saudi Arabia and the region, the Saudi Research & Media Group- SRMG. His current goal focuses on cultivating a vibrant mediatech ecosystem harbored in Riyadh, which will enable developing and investing in the next mediatech unicorn from MENA.