User:Salim.akil/sandbox

Salim Akil, is an entrepreneur in the MENA region and has a degree in communications technology engineering. He has long focused on e-marketing and the online PR landscape. This passion led him to create the start-up Search in MENA.com, a Business search engine and b2b database designed for SMEs to promote their products to customers across the MENA region.

The business search engine aims to fill the void in the Arab e-marketing by creating new channels for businesses to build their own B2B networks.

Salim is also a member in IEEE and JCI. He has participated in a number of regional entrepreneurial competitions including The Entrepreneur TV SHOW, MENA 100, TBPC, MITEF. His startup project was also listed in the top 30 Best Mediterranean Startups during MedVentures’ 2010 competition in Marseille, France.

Salim first founded Search in Syria in 2007, and later expanded the business model to incorporate companies across the MENA region and founded Search in MENA.com. The startup is based in Dubai.