Hesham Zreik
Hesham was ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits.
Hesham is an angel investor, a mentor and sits as a board member on many companies. A growth-oriented business leader with entrepreneurial skills, and +20 years of proven experience in leading multinational businesses. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak, read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.
Hesham invests in AI, Fintech, Blockchain, e-commerce, IoT, HR, b2b startups. He wears various hats from team management to technical cofounder to user experience and product/process/knowledge management.
Hesham is a cofounder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online accelerator/incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 100 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide, 100 partnerships (incubators/accelerators and venture funds) and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. Hesham has co-founded and invested in Edunoor.com, dooet.com, letuscloud.com, Mobayle.com, Meody.com, abcmob.com, TVlize.com, Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies.
Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services.
He started writing his first programs in 1989 in Basic and then moved to Qbasic in 1992. He has been writing software since 30 years now.
He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000 participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.
