amin matni, Program Manager

amin matni

Program Manager

Qatar Business Incubation Center

Location
Qatar
Education
Master's degree, Design thinking and complex social problems
Experience
25 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 9 Months

Program Manager at Qatar Business Incubation Center
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since September 2015

Design, manage and lead training of incubation programs for tech startups
Coach startups during their 1 year residency
Manage the telco fund via incubation services and manage the partnership
Run intrapreneurship programs for key stakeholders

Program Manager at Center of Design Innovation, Qatar Foundation
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since July 2011

Develop, implement and assess programs to respond to social needs
Build capacity (students and professionals) to nurture the ecosystem
Support seed concepts for pre-incubation
Establish a network of value to connect with various stakeholders
Build strategic partnerships to leverage the delivery of the programs
Contribute to the incubated research projects

Head of Programs and Head of Digital & Beyond Incubator at Qatar Business Incubation Center
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since July 2019

- Manage Investment fund and portfolio of startups
- Manage and deliver training programs to showcase on Demo Day
- Scout locally and internationally for startups and scale-ups
- Coach startups

Founder MZCommunication Department at MZ&Partners / Communications
  • Qatar - Doha
  • February 2005 to June 2011

Establish the Communication division at MZ&Partners
Support marketing MZ&Partners
Business development for the division
Supervise the quality of creative and service output
Art directed advertising, branding, event theming, publishing projects

Co-founder at PiDesignhouse
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2001 to February 2005

Establish the company
Attract new accounts
Manage creative output
Manage key accounts
Business development

Freelancer at Freelancer
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 1997 to August 2000

Designed more than 10 corporate identity projects
Designed advertising campaigns
Designed, art directed 6 magazines
Supervised printing and production

Education

Master's degree, Design thinking and complex social problems
  • at Virginia Commonwealth University
  • May 2014

Deploy and test Design Thinking as an innovation method through a pilot program in higher education under the obesity theme.

Specialties & Skills

Business Growth
Coaching
Entrepreneurship Education
Social Entrepreneurship
leadership
project management platform
Abobe CS / Microsoft office
Collaboration-co-creation
Presentation-Negotiation

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
French
Intermediate
English
Expert
Greek
Intermediate

Memberships

PASSA
  • Founding member
  • August 2014

Training and Certifications

Business Model Canvas MasterClass (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2018
Building Invincible Companies MasterClass (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
Service Design (Training)
Training Institute:
Royal College of Art - Design London
Date Attended:
May 2012
Duration:
27 hours
CSR program development and implementation (Training)
Training Institute:
informa
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
12 hours

Hobbies

  • Socio-cultural events, professional training, skiing, swimming, ping pong, traveling
    - Regular presenter/Jury member in Pecha-Kucha cultural event - Founding member of PASSA, NGO focusing on water safety and addressing drowning incidents in Qatar, Lebanon