Ep 217 Silicon Valley and The Middle East with Fouad Alnazawi and Stephanie Richards
Ep 217 Silicon Valley and The Middle East with Fouad Alnazawi and Stephanie Richards
Guests: Fouad Alnazawi and Stephanie Richards
Topic: Exploring the unique challenges and opportunities for startups in Silicon Valley and Saudi Arabia, and how collaboration between these two regions can drive innovation and growth.
Intro:
Career Journeys and Regional Insights:
Venture Capital Landscape and Investment Strategies :
Growth Trajectory and Global Collaboration:
International Collaboration and Initiatives:
Regulatory Considerations and Areas of Collaboration:
Challenges and Success Stories:
Connecting with the Guests and Conclusion:
Additional Questions:
Foaud Alnazawi Bio
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fouad-alnazawi-a1175712/
Foaud is the Managing Director of Lamarka Consulting Services
Lamarka is a consultancy firm that provides range of services; we have been helping visionary leaders to unleash growth and development by Crafting Winning Strategies and Implementing them.
Lamarka is a group that has 2 companies; Lamarka Consulting Services and Lamarka 700. We offer range of services for our clients to improve their businesses and take it to the next level.
Our purpose is to inspire companies and individuals to achieve their highest potential.
Our core values are:
Stephanie Richards https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieerichards/
Stephanie has 20 years of experience at the intersection of national economic development and innovation ecosystems. She focuses on the strategy, policy, intelligent capital and international connectivity needed to accelerate young innovation and startup environments.
With a background in economics, strategy consulting, entrepreneurship and venture capital, and following nearly a decade as a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) emerging markets and economic development specialist at Monitor Group (subsequently Monitor Deloitte), Stephanie founded her own firm in 2013. She advises and partners with mission-aligned venture capital funds, ecosystem builders, academic institutions and government entities to ensure that pioneering IP, innovation and technologies find a path to international markets and global impact.
Stephanie has a particular passion for mentoring researcher-entrepreneurs, building innovator-founder communities, and supporting innovation commercialization and ecosystemic transitions from shallower tech to deeper tech. She serves as an advisory board member, mentor and investor for numerous startups and early-stage companies, and is a business supervisor, guest speaker and regular mentor for entrepreneurial talent at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Having been based in MENA since 2005, Stephanie now divides her time between the GCC, the UK (London and Cambridge) and North America (primarily Silicon Valley), actively working to improve collaboration between the diverse set of innovation communities on all three continents.
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