Chicago, IL | Cairo, Al Qahirah | Philadelphia, PA
Also known as: sillygoose
velopment staff, snarky yogini, ambivalent spiritual seeker, queer, foodie, and silly goose. Tweets are my own.
Cairo, Al Qahirah | New York, NY
Also known as: AMaheer
Ahmed Maher lives in Cairo, Al Qahirah, but has also spent time in New York, New York.
Cairo, Al Qahirah | Boston, MA
Also known as: Karim_Elsahy
Karim Elsahy is a winning serial entrepreneur with a current emphasis on revolutionizing Small Business Social Media and Deciphering the Corporate Graph. Karim started and lead several successful companies the first of which, founded in his early twenties, reached more than million in revenue in its first year of operation and currently employees more than people with offices globally. More recently Karim founded Genius Ventures (Genius.VC), a VC firm which was itself also acquired (Sawari Ventures). Karim is currently a Kauffman Fellow (Class ) being mentored by Ahmed Alfi, Chairperson Sawari Ventures, and Dave McClure, Founding Partner Startups. Karim frequently consults with Fortune companies, well known business and political leaders, and many VC backed tech companies. Karim has served as an expat on advisory boards to the Egyptian Ministry of Communication focusing on how to expand and brand Egypt as an outsourcing destination and has traveled with several Egyptian Ministers on trade mission to other counties. With a Masters in Architecture Karim initially started his career as an architect and designer for a firm in Boston that specialized in Iraqi Reconstruction. That was combined with political writings in several top publications with interviews ranging from Noam Chomsky to the Egyptian Ministerial Cabinet in addition to being a frequent guest political analyst for BBC radio Karim has serious political passion. Karim is married to Abeer, whom he still considers his college sweetheart, and has two crazy Bohemianesque boys. They divide their time between Boston and Cairo.
