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Teaching entrepreneurship & supporting students realize their ambitious projects 🚀

WJ Ventures is a startup investment fund looking to invest in startups that have validated their business model (MVP) and can show potential for growth. I helped evaluate +50 pitches since the establishment of the fund. 

Responsibilities include running awareness programs and events to spread the culture of innovation & entrepreneurship within the university.

To help run innovation & entrepreneurship initiatives and programs in the university.

Designed & delivered innovation & entrepreneurship programs for Saudi clients/universities while working with leading organisations:

- Top Startup Accelerators/Incubators: YC, 500Startups, TechStars, SeedCamp.

- Leading Universities: Stanford (US), Berkeley (US), Oxford (UK), Cambridge (UK), Warwick (UK), and more.

- Global Companies: Google, Intel, Samsung, and more.

I was invited by UQU to be a member of the consulting committee which include members from the university top management as well as entrepreneurs from different fields.

Educad.me (Formerly DrHariri Research Blog) is an online education startup aiming to educate and spread the awareness of scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by publishing online interactive courses, articles, and resources through it's online platform. With over half a million following the Facebook page alone and thousands of registrations since the beta launch, Educad.me strives to change the shape of education in the MENA region for the better in the next two years. Courses and resources are in Arabic.

We oversee the development of proper quality assurance and quality management & improvement systems and approaches within the university while working as consultants with all the departments within the university.

Mentoring entrepreneurs in the MENA in areas related to IT, Social Media Marketing, and idea testing/validation.

QEConsultant is one of the leading expertise firm in Saudi Arabia in the Quality Management area. Through them, I work with various public and private organizations as a consultant.

I've started working on and designing websites a long time ago while working with staff members within King Abdulaziz University and other clients.

I've done my PhD at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), one of the leading research groups around the world with strong ties with the business world (Jaguar, Range Rover, Tata, Formula one). The University of Warwick is one of the top UK universities, consistently being ranked as one of the top 5 or top 10 universities in the UK.

My thesis discussed the topic of innovation diffusion with an application/validation of an adoption model within the UK higher education sector.

Subjects studied included Six Sigma, EFQM, Leadership, Project Management, e-Business, e-CRM. The final dissertation was a study on the implementation of Six Sigma in Saudi Arabian Organizations. I got distinction on the dissertation for its quality.

BSc in Management Information Systems from the Business Administration school at King Abdulaziz University.