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4 SPEAKERS & DISTINGUISHED GUESTS = Endeavor Entrepreneur MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH = Speaker = Board Member ANTOINE EL BOUSTANY Saned Partners Lebanon FAWAZ ELMALKI Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited UAE Antoine joined Saned Partners in June 2014 as an Investment Manager of the Fund. Prior to joining Saned Partners, Antoine worked in investment banking at BLOMINVEST Bank. Antoine has 12 years of experience in finance, and has previously worked as finance manager in several industries such as consumer goods, pharmaceutical and retail. Antoine holds an MBA from ESA / ESCP-EAP and a Bachelor in Business Administration with an emphasis in banking and finance from the Lebanese American University. Fawaz Elmalki is a Director in the Dubai office of Conyers Dill & Pearman. Fawaz joined Conyers' Dubai office in 2007 having previously spent four years in Conyers' Bermuda office. Fawaz specialises in investment funds, in particular private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and hedge funds including Shariah compliant funds. Fawaz represents funds,and their sponsors, in connection with their formation and also represents institutional investors in such funds. He also has broad experience in corporate finance and corporate law matters including joint ventures and offshore structuring of Islamic finance products such as sukuk. Fawaz has been cited in international investment fund and private equity reviews and magazines. HALA FADEL Leap Ventures Lebanon Hala is a partner at Leap Ventures, a growth stage venture capital fund in MENA, with offices in Beirut and Dubai. She is also the Founder and Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the pan-Arab region, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship and organizes, among other things, the MIT Arab startup competition. She is also an Angel investor in start-up companies in the Middle East and Europe, and has launched a co-working space in Beirut called Coworking+961. She recently founded MIT Technology review Arabic, the Arabic edition of the MIT Technology review Magazine, that covers science and innovation in the Arab region. Previously, Hala served as a portfolio manager at the European Equities at Comgest, a 20 billion Euro equity fund, for 12 years.