People of Now

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to Dina El Mofty.Dina is the founder of Injaz Egypt, an organization which has a strong educational focus on entrepreneurship as well as work readiness and is part of the Junior Achievement Worldwide network. Injaz works in partnership with schools and universities across Egypt, and has helped impact more than half a million young people. The organization also has a strong focus on supporting young entrepreneurs through its startup incubator and helps them launch and accelerate their businesses. Injaz has seed funded and supported over 50 successful startup businesses over the past five years. Dina has recently founded Inspo, a company focused on delivering leading global programs on personal and professional development in Egypt and the Middle East. She is also actively involved with the American Chamber of Commerce as the Co-Chair of the Women in Business Committee, and is a Member of the U.S.-Egypt Business Council. Dina was nominated as one of the world’s most influential young Arabs under 40 by Arabian Business for 2016 and olds a graduate degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from the American University in Cairo. Additionally,  she also holds professional degrees from Penn State University, INSEAD, and Harvard University.In this episode, we speak about Soulfull Festival, Dina's latest venture which she co-founded. A festival focusing on the importance of taking care of your mind, body, and soul in order to be able to achieve optimum performance, as well as Mentor Me, a mentorship program that was also founded by Dina in order to make sure that young entrepreneurs find a mentor that they need in order to help them succeed in their business ventures.For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.orgThis season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor. 

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to Ebtisam Farid, co-founder and associate architect at Encode Studio. Ebtisam is a PhD associate professor at the School of Design and Media. She graduated from Coventry University and the Knowledge Hub. Encode is an award-winning architectural design firm established in Alexandria, Egypt since 2011, by a group of internationally acclaimed architects who have developed distinct age and digital design. By exhibiting their work across the world, they have developed a reputation for excellence and the ability to innovate. Their interdisciplinary approach adopts computation, bespoke creative design, and digital fabrication offering clients architectural design, interior architecture, and surface design. Their vision is to redefine the concept of design and foster innovation through advanced technology, research, and collaborative stakeholder participation. For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.orgThis season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor. 

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to Abdellatif 'Tino' Waked, Senior Director Regional General Manager of Uber.He is part of the team that launched Uber in Cairo in 2014 and built it to become the fastest-growing city for Uber in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Since then he has also led the expansion into Alexandria and Gouna, creating more than 50,000 work opportunities for partner drivers in the process and moving millions of riders every week. Tino has quickly risen through the ranks at Uber becoming Regional General Manager. He initially joined Uber as Head of Operations in Egypt where he was responsible for supply growth, finding and training new driver partners, ensuring quality standards, and making sure everything ticks seamlessly across the Uber platform.Prior to Uber, Abdellatif worked for McKinsey & Company consulting across their Cairo, Toronto, and Dubai office. He worked across a diversity of functions ranging from the Public Sector and Healthcare to Airlines and Telecom, focusing mainly on strategy, marketing, and corporate finance. He is also the co-founder of TrainForAim (TFA), a sports company focusing on conditioning and events management.For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.org and stay tuned for the awards ceremony in June 2022.This season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor. 

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to Ahmed Sabry and Daki Marouf, co-founders of fashion accessories brand, Sabry Marouf.Founded in 2012, Sabry Marouf is an accessory brand that blurs the lines behind fashion, art, and technology creating modern day, wearable artefacts. Their pieces pay tribute to our shared heritage, combining aspects of ancient Egypt with contemporary expression to better articulate something entirely new, and the notion of timeless, cherished objects is at the heart of their creative process. Marouf’s perspective on life is informed by a symbiotic relationship between Eastern and Western perspectives – not so much a culture clash as a sense of different philosophies, coming together to work effectively as one. Sabry’s youth was characterised by a unique mix of past, present, and future – of alternate, sometimes competing, versions of history which have left their mark on a bustling modern city in the shadow of the Great Pyramid. For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.org and stay tuned for the awards ceremony in June 2022.This season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor. 

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to Omar Abdelwahed, founder and CEO of Valify. Omar Abdelwahed started off at IBM, as a mobile application developer, and then moved into the Fintech space where he has been able to get exposure to the drawbacks of physical identity verification and how it is a bottleneck for financial inclusion. Alongside Ibrahim Eid, he co-founded Valify as CEO, which has become the first Egyptian startup to get accepted into the Regulatory Fintech Sandbox under the supervision of the Central Bank of Egypt. Together with different stakeholders, Valify is working on digitizing the onboarding process for different financial as well as non-financial services in the region.For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.org and stay tuned for the awards ceremony in June 2022.This season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor. 

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to Yasmine Yeya, founder and creative director of Maison Yeya.Surrounded by French architecture – her inspiration stemmed from a cosmopolitan environment, that blends traditional Arab heritage with a modern European touch. From the early age of seven, her passion for hand-made clothing was cultivated, when she began knitting “perfect” patterns with utmost intricacy. Today, perfection is at the core of her brand’s DNA.Her career reached heights after she showed at the international leading fashion designer competition “MBC’s Mission: Fashion” in 2008. In 2017, she was named “The Bridal Wedding designer that charmed the world” by international platform CNN. In 2019, her success regionally peaked after being selected to participate in the UAE Expo 2020 Pavillon Art Program. A year later, she was featured in Forbes’ “Women behind Middle Eastern Brands” list.For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.org and stay tuned for the awards ceremony in June 2022.This season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor. 

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to founder of Matter and BRÜZ, Dina Aly.Starting in 2012, Matter was founded by Dina, Mohamed Abbas, and Majd El Sherif. Matter grew to be an internationally awarded branding agency, winning several prestigious awards the most recent being the D&AD Pencil award in 2020.Dina Aly is a passionate endurance athlete. Since discovering triathlon in 2016 with her husband, she has since competed in eight 70.3 ironman races, two full ironman races, and an ultra marathon. It was this passion that led her to found BRÜZ with her friends, a company dedicated to providing healthy nutrition.For more information visit www.eeawwards.org and stay tuned for the awards ceremony in June 2022.This season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and our official bank sponsor is EG BANK.

In this episode, our host Nour Hassan speaks to CEO and founder of BeFit 360 Aly Mazhar. Starting in 2013, BeFit began as a functional training session on a gym rooftop, which grew into the leading and fastest growing fitness entity in the Egyptian market. BeFit progressed from a functional training brand to full gym services, fitness camps and retreats, seasonal locations, nutrition programs, and physiotherapy services. It has since opened 12+ locations with a team of more than 75 coaches and trains over 40,000 people.  Aly Mazhar grew as an inspiring public figure in the country to the Egyptian youth. In 2016 he was chosen as Endeavor Entrepreneur and in 2021 won the first Egypt’s Entrepreneur Award in the "Sports & Fitness" category. He has been chosen as part of a nationwide anti-drug campaign by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, and has become an advocate for integrating a healthy lifestyle within our communities. We speak about starting BeFit and what it takes to grow a business as an entrepreneur int he sports industry. As a founder, what's the best advice he's gotten, how he navigates social media and what Aly is working on now.For more information and to apply visit www.eeawwards.org and stay tuned for the awards ceremony in June 2022. This season of People of Now by EEA is powered by Tatweer Misr and EG BANK, the official bank sponsor.