HEC UK Emerging Markets x HEC Alumni Lebanon x HECèdres - Success Story of Anghami: From Lebanon to NASDAQ in Music
Join us for a passionate discussion with Elie Habib the Co-Founder & CTO of Anghami who will take us through his successful journey overcoming the terrible events that have rocked Lebanon.
Elie Habib will be joined by Walid Hanna (H.97) and Rabih I. Khoury, the General Partners of MEVP, who will walk us through the SPAC model and MEVP’s role in supporting Anghami’s NASDAQ listing. The event will be moderated by Nicolas Boukather (H.07), President of HEC-Paris Lebanon Alumni Chapter, Board Member HEC-Paris Alumni.
Anghami: From Lebanon to NASDAQ in Music
How MEVP, a VC founded by an HEC Alumnus, supported Anghami make the journey to NASDAQ
Thursday 20th May 2021
5-6.15pm London / 6-7.15pm Paris / 7-8.15pm Beirut / 8-9.15pm Dubai / 12-1.15pm NY
Online
The event is organised by HEC UK Emerging Markets, HEC Alumni Lebanon, HECèdres in partnership with HEC US, MEREF CCI France Liban and ESA Business school.
About the Panelists
- Elie Habib, Co-Founder & CTO of Anghami : Elie Habib co-founded Anghami in 2011 alongside the firm’s CEO, Eddy Maroun.“When we started in 2011 the biggest thing that we contributed to the [MENA] region and to everybody that came afterwards was education,” “We taught people what streaming is.”
Prior to launching Anghami, Habib was co-founder and CTO of PowerMeMobile, which operated in the mobile messaging market.
Elie holds a Master Degree in Software Engerineering from the Lebanese American University. - Walid Hanna (H.97), Founder & CEO, MEVP : Walid has been active in venture capital and new venture development for the past 20 years, successfully completed more than 50 VC investments in the past 9 years and several exits. Prior to founding MEVP, Walid was the CEO of "the Arab Business Angels Network" (ABAN), which managed a regional seed venture fund as well as the first Business Angels network in the Arab World. Prior to ABAN he has served on the investment-management team of Abraaj Capital. Walid has co-founded, invested in, led and exited several startups in the MENA region, spanning a range of industries with a focus on technology.
Walid holds a Bachelor's of Economics from McGill University (Canada), and a Master's in Finance from HEC. - Rabih I. Khoury, Chief Exit Officer, MEVP Rabih I. Khoury has extensive experience in private equity and advisory, having executed more than US$5 billion in transactions and raised more than US$2 billion in capital. Rabih I. Khoury currently serves on the Board of Directors of Palmboard Technology Holdings and the Advisory Board of Kalaam Telecom. Previously, Rabih I. Khoury was the Chief Executive Officer of DIC Emerging Markets, in charge of Dubai International Capital’s (‘DIC’) investment portfolio in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in addition to Turkey, Asia and Latin America. Rabih I. Khoury received his MBA from Columbia University and his MS in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering with Distinction from the American University of Beirut (AUB).
About the Moderator
- Nicolas Boukather (H.07), President of HEC-Paris Lebanon Alumni Chapter, Board Member HEC-Paris Alumni: Nicolas is chairman of A.N.Boukather Holding with activities in the U.A.E and Lebanon into the fields of mobility, real estate and agriculture. He is member of the board of HEC Alumni-Paris, the Children Canter Center of Lebanon (CCCL), Endeavor and YPO. Nicolas is an OPM48 from Harvard Business School, holds an Entrepreneurship Masters from HEC- Paris, and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut.
About MEVP
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MEVP, one of the leading VC asset managers in MENA (and founded by HEC Alumnus Walid Hanna) is the largest investor in Anghami, the leading music streaming platform in MENA. MEVP lead Anghami’s Seed and Series A funding rounds, anchored its Series B round and was instrumental in facilitating the SPAC process.
As MENA’s first music streaming platform, Anghami has come a long way since being founded by longtime friends Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun after a 2012 meeting in a coffee shop on the outskirts of Beirut - Lebanon.
About Anghami
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Anghami with its 15 million active users and 56 million user-behavior datapoints per day, made history on March 3, 2021 by announcing a merger with NASDAQ-listed Vistas Media Acquisition Company, NASDAQ: VMAC, https://vmac.media/, a publicly traded SPAC (special purpose acquisition company). The landmark merger partnership with VMAC will position Anghami as the first Lebanese and Arab technology company to list on NASDAQ through a SPAC. The merger with VMAC is expected to close in June 2021 and Anghami will trade on NASDAQ under the ticker ANGH.
About HECèdres
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HECèdres aims to promote Lebanese culture and values on the campus of HEC Paris. HECèdres makes every effort to create a professional and constructive interface between students and the professional world by conducting conferences around various cultural and economic themes with prominent Lebanese personalities. HECèdres also organizes a yearly trip to Lebanon for students of all nationalities.
About HEC UK Emerging Markets Club
The Emerging Markets & Geopolitics Club explores these parts of the world which are not mainstream today but may nevertheless shape our future. The HEC UK Emerging Markets Club is currently led by Philippe Belot (H.81) and organises multiple events each year covering relevant topics among emerging countries.
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