Entrepreneurship

Abu Ghazaleh: I am not worried about Syria
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Talal Abu-Ghazaleh is one of the leading entrepreneurs both in the Arab World and international community. A man of principle, talent, character, and vision, he was born in Jaffa, Palestine, in 1938, and studied business administration at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He is founder and chairman of the Talal Abu Ghazaleh Organization (TAGorg), the largest Arab global group of professional service firms in the fields of accounting, management, and consulting. He is also vice-chair of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force (ICT TF) and chairman of the ICC’s Working Group on Internet Governance and ICC Commission on E-Business Information Technologies and Telecoms (EBITT). Abu-Ghazaleh is the founder and president of three not-for- profit organizations namely; the Arab Society of Certified Accountants (ASCA), the Arab Knowledge Management Society (AKMS), the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP) and Licensing Executives Society-Arab Countries (LES- AC). He came to Damascus in May 2007 in his capacity as Deputy Chairman of the Global Compact initiative of the United Nations and gave this inter-view to Forward.

 


Something else...
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Picasso once said “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” Ali Mahmoud is a man who had an idea; that Syria was in dire need of a branding agency that would undoubtedly go hand-in-hand with privatization and opening of the Syrian market. The idea materialized earlier this year when Keybrand opened its first branch in Syria.