Ahmed is the Managing Director & Ventures Lead at 35°N Ventures, a Dubai-based venture studio co-building, with technical founders, companies that modernize and digitally transform legacy industries across select markets in Africa and the Middle East. The studio has already launched Atom Africa, its first portfolio company in Nigeria, a fintech providing affordable plug and play digital infrastructure for Microfinance banks, institutions as well as SMEs. The studio also has a consulting arm 35N Consulting, which aims at supporting clients through innovation strategies and world-class planning and execution of digital and transformation plans as well as venture-building. Over the past 12 years, Ahmed has launched products from 0 to 1, led the growth and expansion of new products and led large scale critical and strategic programs within large organizations and banks across several MENA countries. He served in the following positions:
In addition to his corporate experience, he has supported, angel invested, mentored and advised startups in the Middle East and Africa with a focus on venture design and building, product design and launch, commercialization of technology as well as finding product-market fit, pivoting and problem solving. His work with startups included the following:
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