Ahmed Rahhou obtient son baccalauréat série «C» (Mathématiques) en 1976 au lycée Moulay Abdallah à Casablanca. Il est diplômé de l'école polytechnique (1980) et de l'École nationale supérieure des télécommunications à Paris (1982)1.

Il a occupé plusieurs postes dont celui de responsable du service informatique à la Royal Air Maroc (octobre 1982-mai 1985) et directeur général adjoint au Crédit du Maroc (1994). En mars 2003, il a été nommé président- directeur général de Lesieur Cristal, poste qu'il a occupé jusqu'à sa nomination par le Roi Mohammed 6 comme P-DG du Crédit Immobilier et Hôtelier (CIH Bank) le 6 octobre 2009.

Ancien Ministre des Affaires Étrangères, des Finances et de Commerce et d’Industrie.

Diplômé de l’ISCAE et titulaire d’un DEA en sciences économiques à l’université des Sciences Sociales de Grenoble, M. Salaheddine MEZOUAR, après une solide expérience dans le secteur public et privé au Maroc et en Tunisie, a rejoint le groupe espagnol TAVEX au sein duquel il a assuré les fonctions d’administrateur Directeur Général.

M. Salaheddine MEZOUAR a également présidé l’Association Marocaine des Industries du Textile et de l’Habillement pendant deux ans, ainsi que la Fédération du Textile et du Cuir au sein de la CGEM.

À l’occasion de ces mandats et ayant conçu la nouvelle stratégie de repositionnement du secteur, il a été nommé par Sa Majesté le Roi, Ministre de l’Industrie, du Commerce et de la mise à niveau de l’Économie en 2004 En 2007, il a été nommé Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances par Sa Majesté le Roi dans le gouvernement Abbas El Fassi, Monsieur Salaheddine MEZOUAR a eu à gérer les effets de la crise financière mondiale sur l’économie et le tissu des entreprises au Maroc.

Durant son mandat, M. Salaheddine MEZOUAR a adopté des mesures fortes, dont notamment la plus importante baisse du taux de l’impôt sur les sociétés et par l’élargissement de la base de l’impôt sur le revenu ainsi que d’autres mesures fiscales nécessaires pour adapter l’économie marocaine à la compétitivité mondiale dans divers secteurs.

Ensuite, il a été nommé en 2013 par Sa Majesté le Roi, Ministre des Affaires Étrangères et de la Coopération pour mettre en œuvre la vision de Sa Majesté relative à la diversification des partenariats économiques, particulièrement avec le continent africain.

Monsieur Salaheddine MEZOUAR a également été nommé par Sa Majesté le Roi, Président du Comité d’organisation de la COP 22. Il est actuellement co-gérant de la société CTC Maroc, Senior Advisor de la BAD, Senior Advisor du Fond Africa 50 et partenaire de deux groupes pour la réalisation d’unités industrielles.

Driss Temsamani is Region Head of Digital Channels and Enterprise Banking Services for Citi. He is also a member of Citigroup Treasury & Trade Solutions Latin America Executive Committee and responsible for Citi Latin America Data Innovation Agenda.

In his current role Driss is responsible for a full range of digital and mobile enabled banking platforms for cash management, liquidity investment services, working capital solutions, commercial cards and trade to enable multinational corporations, financial institutions and public sector organizations to operate in the most connected and efficient manner across 22 countries in Latin America and more than 70 countries around the world.

Driss started with Citi as Senior Business Interface for the Corporate and Consumer Bank. He then became CIO and Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for Citigroup e-Business Latin America. Before assuming his current role, Driss held several positions with Citi including Head of Business Management, Regional Market Management Head, and Business Intelligence, Analytics Region Head.

Driss is a member of the US State Department Global Entrepreneurship Program, The American Marketing Association, The International Institute of Finance, The Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Corporate Strategy Board and The Aspen Institute Partners for New Beginning.

Andrea LERVOLINO (born December 1, 1987) is an Italian-Canadian film producer, entrepreneur, and businessman.

In 2004, he made his film-producing debut in the United States co-producing The Merchant of Venice, which premiered worldwide at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. LERVOLINO's film, In Dubious Battle was screened at the Capri Hollywood Film Festival and as well as the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.

In 2018, he launched TaTaTu - a block-chain based platform, intertwining social media activity with entertainment viewing through which users are rewarded to watch movies, television episodes and other forms of content, and receive additional rewards from their friends' viewing. In June 2018, TaTaTu Token sold over $575 million worth of its currency through an initial coin offering (ICO), making it the third-largest coin offering, behind Telegram and EOS, respectively.

LERVOLINO was awarded Knighthood of Italian Republic (Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana) on June 18, 2018 by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella and the Italian Consulate of Canada for recognition of his outstanding achievement in the fields of business and media culture.

Passionné de l'interactivité digitale, Anas EL FILALI a lancé une entreprise qui réalise des jeux à la demande dont 60% est destiné au marché à l'export.

Lorem fait aujourd'hui partie d'un groupe qui offre des services avec grande valeur ajoutée dans le monde du web et du digital.

Créer, innover et déployer des stratégies digitales avec une grande valeur ajoutée.

Lorem innove avec du gaming on demand : imaginer vos propres jeux sérieux et nous les réalisons dans toutes plateformes confondues : Mobile, Tablettes et desktop.

Ajouter du Serious Game à votre stratégie marketing ou gestion de ressources humaines, fera de votre action un leader dans la région.

Lorem est présente dans plusieurs pays MENA et a eu la confiance du Centre Marocain d’innovation.

Hervé HILLION est un spécialiste reconnu en CONSEIL AUGMENTE  (Supply Chain Augmenté, Smart City, ....) 

Fondateur du 1er cabinet français en Supply Chain Management, PEA Consulting, puis Associé Worldwide d’Arthur Andersen Business Consulting et V.P d’Headstrong, il a recréée son propre cabinet de conseil Say Partners.

Egalement expert en « Supply Chain Finance », Hervé Hillion intervient sur l’analyse et la gestion des risques de crédit et des risques opérationnels de la Supply Chain, et sur la mise en place de schémas alternatifs de financement des PME-ETI.

Il est co-fondateur et membre du board de la 1ère association de Supply Chain Finance en Europe (“ Supply Chain Finance Community ”).

Andrea Varriale is a veteran of Blockchain, deeply passionate about the digital world. A Design Thinker with a strong ability to interconnect new technologies, he’s a specialist in IoT. He prototyped his first hardware and connected it on the internet at the age of 16, and two years later he started traveling the world while studying by himself, acquiring leadership skills and specializing in cognitive science. After 12 years of traveling around the globe, he decided to come back to Italy and contribute to the development of his beautiful country “La bella Italia” to reignite flailing economic and employment culture, with the help of the StartupGrind team.

Adnan first started his career as a CS Manager at Northwest then America West Airlines before he moved to the Automotive Industry where he was quickly recognised for his dedication to innovation and creativity. Adnan ran the Sales and Finance at Honda, Nissan, and BMW Financial Services. These were opportunities that allowed him to annually generate multi-million dollar profits for these companies with a stellar record of customer satisfaction and management leadership .

In the last few years, Adnan has been involved in several ventures, where he had the privilege of acquiring extensive experience in building products and startups from the ground up. These ventures have given him a unique blend of skills requiring applying leadership and innovation in the connectivity field of technologies. 

Présidente du Comité parité et diversité et directrice financière et du contrôle de gestion de la chaîne 2M

Elle occupait, avant 2M, le poste de Directrice Générale dans une société de production de la place. Elle a découvert le monde des médias, de la communication et du marketing. 

M. Abdelhamid Addou, a été nommé Président-Directeur Général de la RAM par Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI, que Dieu L’assiste, le samedi 06 février 2016 à Laâyoune

Diplômé en 1996 de l’École Mohammadia d’ingénieurs. 

En 2008, il a été nommé à la tête de l’Office national marocain du tourisme (ONMT) après un parcours au sein Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola et Méditel

En 2012, il a été nommé directeur général du groupe agroalimentaire Diana Holding

Kenn Lisudza is a seasoned Software Engineer with 10 years of experience. He currently serves as the Head of Global Delivery at Cellulant Kenya Ltd. He is responsible for delivery of technical projects and integrations across the Cellulant Group.

During his career span at Cellulant he has been at the heart of delivering the company’s transformational projects. In 2011, he worked with a team of people to deliver the e-wallet commonly known as the Growth Enhancement Scheme which has transformed the agricultural sector in Nigeria. To date the project contributes an additional $30-40 billion to Nigeria’s GDP and increased farmer income from US$ 700 pa to US$ 1,800 paper household.

This project has since then been scaled to Liberia. Kenn also oversaw the development and testing of the various components of the Cellulant Payment Gateway system which facilitates bill payments through wallets. He was one of the software engineers in the Wallet V2 and V3-Mobile Banking Platform that enables

banks and financial institutions to extend their services to their customers through various channels which include mobile, web, ATM etc.

Most recently, he led the development and deployment of the Eco bank mobile banking solution across 33 markets in 84 days. The mobile app is the primary access channel that supports four languages (English, Portuguese, French and Spanish).

Over the span of his career, Kenn has always believed that his greatest contribution to Africa is not only fostering growth of great companies, but investing in developing and nurturing tech talent in the continent. As such, he has mentored and continues to mentor young talent who he believes are the future of realizing the Africa of tomorrow.

A black-belt in Taekwondo, a licensed windsurfer, and an avid runner, Annabelle is one of the most dynamic people you will meet. Before she turned 15, she had already marched for her nation in the National Day Parade, and represented her country again on a Tsunami relief mission to Phuket (Thailand). At 20, she spent 6weeks in Togo (West Africa) travelling between rural villages & cities, working with NGOs. She has spent 8hours behind a live chicken on a jam-packed bus, robbed at knife-point, and balanced countless buckets of water on her head. At 22, she met U.S. President Barack Obama.

Annabelle was offered a full-time job even before entering university, and has worked with the CEO of a million-dollar Israeli social commerce company to provide them with market insights. She has also led an international team of consultants to develop the business model for a local startup (presently in talks of a high acquisition) and later joined a startup that raised $2million in Series A investment as their Chief Operating Partner.

Upon graduating university in Mathematics, she taught herself hardware & software engineering, winning prestigious Hackathons, mentoring others and working on TV projects with National Geographic & WWF. Also, Marina Bay Sands Art Science Museum sponsored her personal tech-project. All these were a hobby whilst she founded a new department for community growth at Shopee, an e-commerce startup by Garena, its $3.75billion parent company.

At 24, she is presently the founder of 2 Artificial Intelligence startups, speaking at large conferences, and featured on international media such as NVIDIA & Yahoo! News.

Music is her personal vision of the perfect retreat: Musically trained & performing from 4, she has 7 guitars, 4 harmonicas, a piano, violin, saxophone & djembe.

Annabelle is always on the lookout for opportunities to expose herself to the different slices of life. Do reach out to her for coffee, even if it's just to talk about life's surprises!

Diplômé de l’Institut National des Télécommunications d’Evry, M. Yves Gauthier a démarré sa carrière au sein d’ Orange (ex-France Telecom) au sein des équipes commerciales. Quelques années plus tard, il est nommé DGA et Directeur Commercial d’Orange Roumanie qu’il quittera en 2005 pour prendre la Direction Générale d’Orange Netherlands.

En 2007, il est nommé Directeur Général de Tunisiana qui sous sa direction est devenu leader du marché tunisien en quelques mois avec 56% de parts de marché. En 2012, il revient dans le Groupe Orange pour prendre en charge la plus importante filiale du Groupe dans la région Middle-East & Africa, Orange Egypte (ex-mobinil) et ce jusqu’en 2016. Une filiale où il a mené avec succès plusieurs projets structurants et notamment le rebranding de mobinil à Orange Egypt. En 2016, Yves Gauthier est nommé Directeur Général de Orange Maroc.

Larbi EL Hilali est ingénieur de l’Ensias de Rabat et titulaire d’un MBA de l’IAE de Paris Sorbonne. Avec 17 ans d’expérience, il a commencé sa carrière en France comme ingénieur en logiciels financiers, puis durant 5 ans comme consultant en réglementations bancaires auprès de grandes institutions financières de la place de Paris. En 2008, il travaille à Oseo - Banque publique d’investissement - notamment sur le volet PME du plan de relance économique, ainsi que sur les mécanismes financiers d’aides aux PME, à l’innovation et au développement territorial.

En 2012, ce fils d’ouvrier OCP intègre le groupe comme chargé de mission en responsabilité sociétale, puis directeur du Développement durable du groupe, avant d’être nommé son premier ombudsman.

Kamal Mokdad is the Group Co-Chief Executive Officer and the Head of International Global Banking of Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) in Morocco. He is also the CEO of “BP Shore Consulting”, BCP’s own consulting firm.

Kamal joined BCP’s executive management after an extensive international experience in audit and advisory across France, Morocco and Sub-Saharan Africa. He debuted his career in Paris where he joined Mazars, and led various engagements for several European groups mainly in the banking and insurance sectors. In 2007, he was appointed as a Partner at Paris office. By 2010, he became Mazars’ Managing Partner in Morocco.

Kamal earns a degree in economics and finance at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences-Po Paris). He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds an MBA obtained in France.

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CMO & co-founder at MarsBased, and Regional Director at Startup Grind for Southern EU.

MarsBased is a full-remote development consultancy from Barcelona specialised in web and mobile applications developed with Ruby on Rails, AngularJS and Ionic. Àlex runs the sales/marketing area and is in charge of communications & growth of the company.

In barely 2 years, he's done:

- 5-digit contracts within weeks of having launched the company.

- 6-digit contracts eight months after the creation of the company.

- Grown the company (LLC) to 10 full-time employees & 5 freelancers.

- International clients from three different continents, hailing from USA, Germany, Spain, Abu Dhabi, France, UK, Singapore and Finland.

- Providers for development of the core product for some of their clients.

- Featured in press for some of their outstanding projects like the Barcelona Startup Map, among others.

In 2015, Àlex became responsible for the expansion of the Startup Grind brand in Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland) 

His background in consulting & development (ex-Deloitte, ex-VASS) and his international profile helps him with the technical and the business perspective.

Ph.D. in management, former manager of the Loccioni Group, today he is head of the internationalization area of the Hive business incubator and has recently co-founded HYLE, a company that provides open innovation services to corporates. Franks is an entrepreneurial professional with a strong passion for innovation and leadership. My past experiences are comprised of many facets of business development, marketing, team management, and community building - each with the end goal of attaining growth within a company. My present experiences consist of project management activities, managing coworkers and teams, influencing and inspiring peers, and cultivating business relationships. I am an expert in lean startup methodologies with an exceptional ability to network amongst diverse groups of people. The areas I excel in are operations and strategy as well as marketing and advertising. I am continuously looking for new experience and opportunities to help me improve on my skills. Finally, one of the greatest realizations I have come to early in my career is how important and tangible a company’s culture is. It is fascinating to see the connection in employee attitude and output, and whenever I have the chance it will be one of my top priorities to foster a culture of positivity and trust that will motivate people to excel. He is chapter director of Startup Grind Ancona, Founder Institute & Lean Startup Machine mentor and Business Advisor of Silicon Valley Business Journal. Public speaker at various international conferences on the subjects entrepreneurship & innovation: -Startup Grind Europe Conference - London Jun 2017 -Startup Grind South Europe Conference - Barcelona Oct 2017 -Meet The Lead - Casablanca Dec 2017 -Startup Grind Global Conference - San Francisco Feb 2018 - Innovative Boosting Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Regions for Young Entrepreneurs - Brussels Mar 2018

Director at Startup Grind London. Founding Partner at IPM Growth, a VC company investing in extremely ambitious technology companies from the Central & Eastern Europe. Advisory board member at T-Mobile Czech Republic & Telekom Slovakia. Founder of BrainTrust, a think-tank helping top tech CEOs scale globally. Ex-Orange, ex-Reebok. Marian was featured in New Europe 100 (organised by Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Fund), the list of outstanding challengers who are leading world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe.