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Ossama R. Hassanein, PhD

Born:

·       January 1, 1948, Alexandria, Egypt.

Occupation:      

·       Chairman, Rising Tide Fund.

·       Senior Managing Director, Newbury Ventures.

·       Founding Chairman and Director, Technocom Ventures.

·       Chairman or co-founder of seven leading-edge high technology startups in the U.S., UK, France and Switzerland.

·       President of Newbridge Networks Holding and Member of the Chairman's Executive Council.

·       Executive Vice President, Berkeley International.

·       Director of Venture Capital, Northern Telecom (Nortel).

·       Member of Scientific Staff and Vice President of Marketing, Northern Telecom (Nortel).

Known for:          

·       Entrepreneur, mentor, venture capitalist, and a veteran of the communications industry, having played active and diverse roles for over 35 years in the industry as an educator, entrepreneur, corporate executive, and venture investor in Silicon Valley.

·       Leading the financing of 100+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes.

Board member of:

·       Director of Bank of the West, San Francisco, USA.

·       Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund, Dubai, UAE.

·       President Cabinet member at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Serves on the Dean of Applied Sciences Board of Advisors at UBC and is the Chairman of the UBC Silicon Valley advisory board for the Personalized Medicine Initiative.

·       Board of Advisors of Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine.

·       Chairman of the Board of the Egyptian American Society.

·       Member of the Board of Advisors at the Willard Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC (American University in Cairo) School of Business.

·       Board of Directors of Relief International, a non-profit, focusing his efforts on social entrepreneurship and women development in the Middle East.

·       Vice-chairman of the Board of PSD, an NGO focused on providing One Netbook per Child for up to 130,000 Palestinian and Syrian children in need of education.

Associations:

·       Charter member of the C100, a Silicon-Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs.

·       Chairman of TechWadi, focusing on mentoring, financing and business acceleration of leading Middle East and North Africa (MENA) entrepreneurs.

Education:

·       Dr. Hassanein holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the California Coast University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.B.A., a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering; from the University of British Columbia, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with distinctions and first-class honors from the University of Alexandria.

Spouse:

·       Marjan Hassanein.

Children:

·       Dina Hassanein, Tamer Hassanein.

Ossama R. Hassanein, PhD
Born: January 1, 1948, Alexandria, Egypt.

Occupation:
 * Chairman, Rising Tide Fund.
 * Senior Managing Director, Newbury Ventures.
 * Founding Chairman and Director, Technocom Ventures.
 * Chairman or co-founder of seven leading-edge high technology startups in the U.S., UK, France and Switzerland.
 * President of Newbridge Networks Holding and Member of the Chairman's Executive Council.
 * Executive Vice President, Berkeley International.
 * Director of Venture Capital, Northern Telecom (Nortel).
 * Member of Scientific Staff and Vice President of Marketing, Northern Telecom (Nortel).

Known for:
 * Entrepreneur, mentor, venture capitalist, and a veteran of the communications industry, having played active and diverse roles for over 35 years in the industry as an educator, entrepreneur, corporate executive, and venture investor in Silicon Valley.
 * Leading the financing of 100+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes.

Board member of:
 * Director of Bank of the West, San Francisco, USA.
 * Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund, Dubai, UAE.
 * President Cabinet member at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Serves on the Dean of Applied Sciences Board of Advisors at UBC and is the Chairman of the UBC Silicon Valley advisory board for the Personalized Medicine Initiative.
 * Board of Advisors of Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine.
 * Chairman of the Board of the Egyptian American Society.
 * Member of the Board of Advisors at the Willard Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC (American University in Cairo) School of Business.
 * Board of Directors of Relief International, a non-profit, focusing his efforts on social entrepreneurship and women development in the Middle East.
 * Vice-chairman of the Board of PSD, an NGO focused on providing One Netbook per Child for up to 130,000 Palestinian and Syrian children in need of education.

Associations:
 * Charter member of the C100, a Silicon-Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs.
 * Chairman of TechWadi, focusing on mentoring, financing and business acceleration of leading Middle East and North Africa (MENA) entrepreneurs.

Education:
 * Dr. Hassanein holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the California Coast University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.B.A., a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering; from the University of British Columbia, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with distinctions and first-class honors from the University of Alexandria.

Spouse: Marjan Hassanein.

'''Children: '''Dina Hassanein, Tamer Hassanein.