User:Guizeler/sandbox/Samir Chreim

Samir Chreim is a US co-founder and managing director of SCAS Capital, a private equity advisory firm that invests in real estate, tourism and technology.

He obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University in 2000.

Career
Mr. Chreim has been served to a number of businesses particular in venture capital and private equity firms. In his career as real estate investor and advisor, Mr. Chreim worked on the controversial waterfront development in Tripoli which angered residents. He also worked on Tripoli Vision 2020. He was recently appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Egnyt – a technology incubator and venture capital firm focusing on early-stage tech companies.

Upon graduation from business school, he joined a ten-person team at Booz & Co Middle East which grew to over 400 consultants by the time he left to establish his own private equity practice SCAS. Mr. Chreim raised three private equity funds focusing on Iraq real estate and hospitality. The funds were aimed at addressing the housing shortage plaguing Iraq since the 1990's.

In 2015, Mr. Chreim launched a 2,500-sqft technology incubator in Beirut Lebanon, which will be followed by an identical facility in Boston. The company also eyeing New York City as their next logical place to expand footprint on the East Coast.

Patents

 * System and Method for Facilitating Charitable Donations, 2011, a method suitable for electronically facilitating a transaction between a donor and a recipient.
 * Motor Controller Unit having Thermal Startup Protection, 1999, A motor controller unit includes an operating program that controllably responds to manual motor start and stop commands for protection of the semiconductor switches connected with each phase of a multi-phase electric motor.