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We'd like to thank all the sponsors of our 2014 fundraising gala. Mimar Invest is a Jeddah based Holding and Investment Company, with a diverse portfolio including Building Materials and Steel, Food Products, Textiles and Real Estate Development. The investments span the globe, from Canada to the UK, Germany, Egypt, the Levant, GCC and Far East. Since its inception in 1944, BankMed has been at the forefront of Lebanese banking institutions, maintaining a prominent position as a leading, dynamic, and socially responsible bank with a firm commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility. The bank enjoys a widespread presence over the Lebanese territory through a network of 60 branches in addition to a strong existence in the region. Amana Capital, founded in 2010, is a leading, award-winning, Middle Eastern brokerage firm offering direct brokerage execution services in international markets with a specialty in currencies, precious metals, energies, and stock indices. Amana Capital services customers in more than 60 countries, through its operations in Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates. In 1998, aged 24, Farid Chedid decided it was high time to get into the reinsurance brokerage business in the Middle East. From modest beginnings out of Cyprus, Chedid Re evolved into the leading regional reinsurance broker, competing against the major names in the Industry, throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Farid then expanded his group company Chedid Capital Holding, by launching an Insurance Company in Qatar and direct insurance brokerage services in the GCC. Today, Chedid Capital Holding employs 248 persons with operations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Cyprus and Lebanon with business originating from 22 countries in MENA and Europe. The Beirut Digital District is an all-inclusive community dedicated to improving the digital creative industries in Lebanon through providing the ultimate business environment for companies with superior support services and state-of-the-art infrastructure in addition to the healthiest living environment for the young and dynamic workforce. BDD's objective is to create the right ecosystem, a community of experts, that will help digital start-ups, answer all their needs, and connect them with established companies and industry decision makers and thus become the 'go-to' destination for the digital community in Lebanon and the region. 62