Fouad Assaf, Advisor

Fouad Assaf

Advisor

Flat6Labs

Lieu
Liban - Beyrouth
Éducation
Doctorat, Business Management Consulting
Expérience
34 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :34 years, 5 Mois

Advisor à Flat6Labs
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • Je travaille ici depuis mars 2017

- Grow start-ups 10 folds by optimizing their operation.
- Facilitate peer networking for more than 25 start-ups, saving them time and money.
- Shorten start-ups learning curve time by 25%
- Ensure start-ups overachieve by completely aligning their operation to their strategy.
- Advise 20+ leaders and bring them to excel by applying the lean approach.
- Assist start-ups in building there pitch decks to fundraise with 100% success rate.

Board member - General manager à ProActive – Communication & Digital Agency
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 1996

- Lead growth by onboarding 750+ clients in retail, FMCG, aviation, media and more.
- Design and oversee the execution of 100+ digital transformation projects for retail,
FMCG and financial institutions operating in Europe and the Middle East, doubling
their operation response speed.
- Build strategy and oversee the execution of 100+ marketing & branding campaigns.
- Spearhead corporate advertising campaigns for 5M+ USD budget.
- Lead governmental entity communication & digital transformation increasing exposure.
- Design with CTO 100+ software architecture maps for companies across industries.
- Optimize in-house development operations leading to 20% less production time.

chief executive officer ceo à Proactive Group
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2003

- Plan & execute growth by forming 5 companies and acquiring 2 companies in ten years.
- Manage and coach personnel by recruiting and training more than 100 employees.
- Build and adapt strategy by conducting & analyzing 10+ market studies in the ME.
- Listen to market feedback and create more than 10 high quality products and services
- Spearhead overhaul of numerous departments and entities while providing functional
management, establishing and overachieving on key performance metrics
- Determine impact of marketing campaigns & pivot strategies accordingly enhancing
cost of marketing / revenue by 10%

CEO cofounder à Slidr UK
  • Royaume Uni - London
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2015

Lead a 10M+ technology company offering price discrimination for ecommerce partners.
- Determine strategic direction and spearhead technological development.
- Sign with 140+ International FMCG mega brands and onboard them to the platform.
- Lead the software architecture design and execution cutting production time by 20%
- Spearhead the building of a proprietorial price discrimination algorithm with scientists.
- Lead long range planning with industry partners & software architects.
- Planned and executed a 500, 000 USD digital marketing strategy budget /year.
- Closely worked with digital advertising agencies in London to plan and execute customer
acquisition.
- Acquired 50, 000+ users in less than 1 year
- Rebuild and execute a growth hacking plan dropping customer acquisition cost by 70%
- Grow GMV from 0 to 1M Sterling pounds in 1 year
- Raise 3M+ capital in 3 rounds

First Aide Teams à LEBANESE RED CROSS
  • Liban
  • janvier 1987 à janvier 1993

Head of Sector - BEIRUT Region - Tabaris headquarter
Designed a framework (material and human resources) to meet the war
requirements. Motived and held the responsibility of 60 first aides personnel,
Attended to the emergency medical needs of a 75000 +population.

à IPSOS, Statistical & research Co
  • janvier 1990 à janvier 1992

Beirut-Lebanon
Field Research - Marketing Research Dept.
Conducted with my team physical research on consumer goods in order to
study their impact and competitiveness. The responsibility consisted on
monitoring ATL & BTL activities.
Advisory Experience
2016 - To date Start-ups Coach
Coaching several Startup in different incubators both local and regional
2016 - To date MIT Enterprise (Arab Startup Competition) Judge
2012 - To date Red Cross -Advisor
Emergency Medical Teams -restructuring & coaching the teams on both
management & operational levels. Performed on-field medical emergencies

Éducation

Doctorat, Business Management Consulting
  • à Bircham University
  • janvier 2010

courses: Business Management & Consulting Bircham international university - Spain

Master, MBA
  • à Princely University
  • juin 2003

Masters in Business Administration conducted by Distance learning

Baccalauréat, Administration and Management
  • à Lebanese American University
  • juin 1991

Double Major: Management & Marketing

Specialties & Skills

operations
Mentoring
Global Strategy
Global Leadership
Optimization
Digital transformation
Management
Operations
MARKETING
ADVERTISING
COACHING
CONSULTING

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert
Français
Expert

Adhésions

Red Cross
  • EMS & Coach
  • June 1987

Formation et Diplômes

ISO 9000 - Lloyd's London (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 1996
What Matters most (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Franklin Covey
Date de la formation:
January 2001
The Six Sigma (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Motorola University
Date de la formation:
January 2002
7 Habits of highly effective managers (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2007
Start-ups business building (Formation)
Institut de formation:
UK Lebanon Tech Hub
Entrepreneurship (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Babson College - USA
Date de la formation:
March 2016
Retail business in Tech (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Incubus - London UK
Date de la formation:
February 2017

Loisirs

  • Skiing, reading, technology, coaching
    Emergency Medical Services expert training award Award for excellence in service for more than 25 years Who's who Business Society award