About The Speaker
Hossam Allam
Hossam is Founder and Managing Partner at Climate Resilient Africa Fund (CRAF) which backs startups at the intersection of climate and agri-food security.Over 15 years Hossam has built his name as a prolific angel investor and founder of Cairo Angels, a regionally significant organisation that has backed hundreds of startups. He has himself invested in dozens more and is a 500 Global instructor on the subject.Before CRAF he built a property management business into a market leading 4,000-person, multi-city operation before himself exiting. Previous to that he spent 10 years at Shell first as an environmentalist, and later post London Business School MBA, developing natural gas markets for small scale distribution as well as USD multi billion country-to-country scale.He is a marine environmental scientist by education.