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May Al-Karooni (Born in Iraq on the 23rd of May, 1980) is a British entrepreneur Globechain,

Early life and education
At 2 years of age, May's family moved to the UK and lived in Leeds, graduating in Accounting & Finance and finally moved to London in 2002 to kick off her career in Investment Banking - working in hedge funds, property funds and asset management before setting up Globechain.

Work
May previously worked within the investment banking and asset management industry, fundraising monies for venture capital, property and hedge funds for the last 10 years totalling over £120 million in funds raised. In 2013 May set up Globechain after seeing a demand for a new online circular economy within the waste management industry after her own employer expressed a need to reuse items in a more collaborative way.