Founder Institute Mentors

Tunis Spring 2023

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Tunis program below.

Mentors

Abdallah Hajji

Product Offering Manager, Voice Revo

Abdel Beldy

Co-founder, HomeSchool

Abdelaziz Beldy

FI Mentor

Abdellatif Najjar

CEO, Prodexo and Picstore.tn

Achref Chafter

Managing Director, FOUNDUP

Adam Chebbi

CEO, Vynd

Adel Beznine

CEO, Boost Accelerator

Adnen Ben Haj Yahia

Executive Director, EL SPACE

Ahmed Hamouda

IT Innovation Manager, Promise Project

Ahmed Ben Achballah

CEO & Founder, Lifeye.io

Ahmed Hadhri

Program Manager, Betacube

Ahmed Amine Azouzi

CEO, Pencils Consulting - Media & Entertainment / QLM Media

Aida Robbana

Doctor, The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat TUNISIA

Ala Chaibi

CoFounder & CTO , Iberis

Ali Omar

Co-Founder & Board Member, Med Group Oy | Growth-Entrepreneur, Med Group Oy

Ali Boulila

Co-Founder & CEO, KNSD

Alia Mahmoud

Regional Citizenship Manager , Microsoft

Alya Kebiri

FI Mentor

Amel Saidane

CEO & Co-Founder, Betacube

Ameni Mansouri

Co-Founer & CEO, Dabchy

Amin Jallouli

Product Operation Manager, Bridge Funding Global

Amine Ben Hamadou

General Manager, Management Business and Consulting

Andrea Jackson

Vice President, Biopharma, Mitra Biotech

Andrea Maiweg

Founder, MaiValueConsulting

Andrea Monti

Managing Director Impact and Sustainability, Founder Institute

Andrey Gershfeld

Executive investment manager, ABRT Fund

Anup Gosavi

CEO, Spext

Ashmita Gupta

Global Head of Analytics, Linedata

Asma Bouzaidi

Investment Manager, Flat6labs

Awatef Adalet

Energy Industry professional, MBA candidate Warwick Business School UK

Ayhan K. Isaacs

Head of Global Growth, Founder Institute

Aymen Mtimet

FI Mentor

Aziza Inoubli

Project Manager , Expertise France

Azzen Abidi

Growth Marketing Consultant, Self Employed

Bahia Nar

Communication & social media expert & trainer , Fire works consultancy

Bassem Bouguerra

CEO, Tunpixel

Bechir Afifi

CEO & Co-founder, Fabskill

Besma Kraiem

Executive Board Member, ISQ

Bilel Bouraoui

H, Atilla

Bill Jackson

Co-founder and CEO, Sinovia Technologies

Brandon Steelman

Founder, Clear Gene, Inc.

Brandon Burke

Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer, LegWorks

Caroline Brummelhuis

Founder & CEO , TheNextWomen Tunisia

Chad Van Vacas

investor, Angel Investor/ VC

Chahira Mehouachi

PHD researcher , Paris Dauphine

Chahrazed Remadi

CEO & Co-Founder, Wantotrip

Chamsseddine Abdelhafidh

Senior Copywriter, Beautiful Destinations

Charlie Jackson

Founder, Silicon Beach Software

Chawki Gaddes

President, INPDP

Chehir Dhawedi

co-founder , Reedz

Chiheb Ghazouani

Managing Partner, CAG Law Firm

Chintan Oza

Founder, Anantam Ecosystems

Chiraz Ennaceur

CEO, CorrosionRADAR Ltd

Chris Cheng (朝晖程)

CEO, 海丁网

Chris Bechtel

Managing Partner, Growth Engine Labs

Chris Barton

co-founder and board member, Shazam

Chris Browning

FI Mentor

Chris Bouton

CEO, Vyasa

Chris Clark

FI Mentor

Chris Turnley

FI Mentor

Chris Chediak

Corporate Finance Attorney , Weintraub Tobin

Chris Rasmussen

CEO, Gajjitz, Inc.

Chris Bolman

Founder, Brightest

Christian Abi Nader

Managing Partner, AdCom Agency

Cyril Grislain

Angel Investor, DouboDoor Property Technologies LLC

Dale David

Founder, MYCURE

Dali Chabaane

Talent Acquisition Partner, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated

Dali Lakhoua

Partner, AfricInvest group

Damon Hernandez

co-founder , IDEAbuilder

David Teten

Founder, Versatile VC

David Weekly

Product Manager, Medcorder

David Jacobson

CEO and co-founder, Synaq

David Silverstein

Founder & CEO, Amaze PBC

David Johnson

Co Founder & Chairman of the Board, From Fat to Finish Line

David Pan

COO Startups and Innovation, KPMG in Taiwan

David Giannini

Chairman and CEO, Cirrusworks, Inc.

David Fisher

President, RockStar Consulting

David Fonseca

VP of Global Development, VelocityTX

David Wohde

Manager WeWork Labs, WeWork

David Salt

HR Director, LOGIVAN

David Bchiri

General Manager , Fabernovel US

Dhekra Khelifi

Partner, Managing owner, Senior Management advisor, 216 Capital Ventures, Good Ventures Consulting, Galactech LLC

Dhia Soussi

Co-Founder & CTO, Daycation

Dhia Zitouni

FI Mentor

Diane Najm

CEO/Founder, PhotoPad

Diane Bailey

Head of Accelerator Growth, Founder Institute

Dr. Hanan El Basha

Founder, The Business Doctor & The Global Businesswomen

Elyes Chafter

Attorney at Law, Chafter Raouadi | Cabinet d’avocats

Emily Forbes

Co-Founder, Seenit

Emily Sit

Head of Partnerships, Phaze

Evgeny Frolov

Founder, Growth coaching for startups and companies

Fares Ben Souilah

FI Mentor

Fares Belghith

Founder & CEO, Kamioun

Farez Zekri

Principal Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Tunisia

Farouk Rezgui

Senior Consultant, RRC

Faten Ghriss

ML Software Engineer , InstaDeep

Fatene Ben Hamza

COO, Cogite Coworking Space

Fatma Mehiri

CEO, OST Pre-incubator

Felipe Novak

Sócio, Negromonte & Prado

Feras Mousilli

Managing Partner, Lloyd & Mousilli

Ghazi Ben Othman

Managing Partner, UNIQ Ventures

Haifa Ourir

Senior Manager - Software Development - Asset Management , Linedata

Hakim Ben Ayed

CCO, Aymax

Hamdi Ksiaa

Development Director, BFPME

Hamza Guizani

Incubation & Acceleration Director, TECHNORIAT

Hana Besbes

Investment Professional , Heal Capital

Hasna Kourda

FI Mentor

Hassine Labaied

Managing Partner, SKILA Tendance

Hatem Haddad

Dr., iCompass

Haythem Mehouachi

Entrepreneur/Investor, Entrepreneur / Digital Transformation

Hedi Zaher

CEO, Datavora

Hela Fourati

Private Equity Manager, AfricInvest Group

Heythem Ben Salem

Expert, Digital Transformation, business development, Go To Market, marketing and strategy, AlTecDev

Hichem Radoine

Co-Founder & Senior Partner, Connect Innov

Hidayet Ayadi

CEO, SgharToon

Houcem Maiza

CEO, Galactech LLC

Houda Ghozzi

CEO, Open Start-up Tunisia

Houda Bakir

FI Mentor

Houeida Anouar

CEO, COGITE

Ichraf Jarray

FI Mentor

Iheb Beji

CEO, MEDIANET

Iheb Triki

Director - Private Equity, Swicorp

Indhran Indhrasegha

Growth Strategist | Brand Strategist | Fractional CRO, Former HSBC, Electrolux, AstraZeneca

Irina Baskova

Growth coach for B2B sales and go-to-market., independent consultant.

Isaac Victoria

Legal Director, Webach

Ismail Ben Sassi

CEO, ilboursa.com

Issam Essefi

CEO, BIGDeal

Issam Smaali

Founder , wattNow

Issam Bellaj

CEO, Med.tn

Jaafar Saied

Co Founder, Dar Blockchain

Jack McGowan

Director, Buffalo Angels

Jack Greco

Principal, Cupule Ventures

James Shomar

FI Mentor

Jazem Halioui

CEO, Innova Tunisia

Jeff Jackel

CEO, Chatter

Jesus Cagide

Senior product manager, Paypal

Jihed Othmani

CTO, Expensya

Jihed Hannachi

Co-Founder, MajestEYE

John Jang

ceo cofounder, Pengguin

Jon Nordmark

CEO , Iterate.ai

Jon Cifuentes

Co-founder, All Turtles

Joseph Shair

Co Founder, Drivr

Joseph Benjamin Ilagan

Co-Founder and CEO, Seer Technologies

Karim Sehnaoui

Founder and Managing Director, Elham Group Tunisia

Karim Koundi

FI Mentor

Karim Jouini

CEO, Expensya

Karim Bahi

Management Consultant, Inceptio

Karim Chabrak

FI Mentor

Katja Gaesing

Employer Branding Manager, Novartis

Kenji Sadamoto

Founder, CEO, Heart Forever Co. Ltd.

Khadija Jallouli

CEO & Founder, HawKar

Khaled Jilani

Senior Partner , Tuninvest-Africinvest

Khaled Dridi

Fund Manager, United Golf Financial Services North Africa

Khaled Helioui

CEO, Bigpoint

Khaled Bendriss

CTO, Wevioo

Khalil Ben Hamouda

CTO, Vynd

Khalil Talbi

Search Fund Entrepreneur, Tunisian Amercian Enterprise Fund

Khalil Ben Hamouda

Co-Founder & CTO, Vynd

Khoubaib Ayari

Program Manager, Wiki Start Up

Khouldoun Bouraoui

CEO, Agile 4UX

Lamine Amine

Founder & Creative Director, Brand & Bear

Lance Loveday

CEO, Closed Loop

Lance Pormarejo

Garage Academy Director, Launchgarage

Lance Cottrell

Founder, Feel the Boot

Leila Charfi

Country Director, Tunisia, Yunus Social Business

Leyth Zniber

Co-Founder, Impact Lab

Mada Seghete

co-founder , Branch Metrics

Maha Khannoussi

Senior Program Officer, Flat6labs

Maha Essoussi

Business Development Manager, Axio

Maher Hanafi

CEO and Founder, Diginium Graphics

Maher Hammami

Accountant , Cabinet Maher Hammami

Mahmoud Hachicha

Director Product Strategy , FLEETCOR

Mahmoud Ibrahim

Founder , Mimos Cube

Makrem Hermassi

COO & Co-Founder, Wantotrip

Malik Nouira

CEO / Founder, Prefabulous

Mariem Sellami

Co-Founder and Managing Director, WeMove

Mark Organ

Cofounder & CEO, Influitive

Mark Lawrence

Co-Founder & CEO, SpotHero

Mark Reinstra

Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

Mark Gonzales

co-founders, The new medina

Mark Hellinger

Chief Marketing Officer, InvolveSoft

Mark Montalban

Founder & CEO, MindfulText

Mark Peterson

Partner, Diepenbrock Elkin Gleason LLP

Mark DeSantis

CEO, Bloomfield

Mark Wald

Managing Director, Supporting Strategies

Marko Kovac

CEO/Co-founder, Repsly

Marko Moračić

FI Mentor

Markus Rupprecht

CEO , Traxpay AG

Marouan Amamou

FI Mentor

Mary Baker Anderson

CEO, Calipa Partners

Mary Glazkova

VP of PR and Communications, Wheely

Mary Koes

Product Manager, Google Cloud, Google Austria

Mary Poppen

President and Managing Partner, HRIZONS EX

Mary Beth Green

Chief Innovation Officer, Sheetz

Mayssa Mrabet

Incubation Director, Njano

Mehdi Khaled

Managing Director / Co-founder, EmKay Consulting (Singapore) / PExMedia (Austria)

Mehdi Rhaiem

Mr , MTI Consulting

Mehdi Cherif

Business Developper , IOHK Cardano Project

Meriem Kebiri

Strategy and Turnaround Advisor, Mkonsult

Moahmed Bouattour

Software Engineer, Foundation Medicine

Moez Ghanmi

Venture Capitalist, AfricInvest Group

Mohamed Bridaa

Country Manager, Microsoft

Mohamed Ben Rhouma

CEO, Evertek

Mohamed Khalloufi

CEO, MINTIT

Mohamed Ali Elloumi

Executive Director and Board member, accesstoebusiness.com

Mohamed Ali Belajouza

Chief Business Officer & Co-founder, Sqoin

Mohamed Amine Ouni

CEO, Trust it

Mohamed Khaled Mezghani

Program Manager , Green4Youth

Mohamed Salah Frad

CEO , United Gulf Financial Services- North Africa

Mohamed Salah Mbarek

CEO, TAWA DIGITAL

Mohamed Salah Boulila

Managing Director, MAZAM

Mohd Santarissy

FI Mentor

Monaem Ben Lellahom

Founding Partner - Head of Advisory Services, Sustainable Square

Mondher Khanfir

Advisor, Arts & Métiers Accélération

Mondher Merai

Head of Centers Of Excellence, Liendata Tunisia, Morocco, Latvia

Mongi Bhouri

Strategic Planner, McCann Worldgroup Tunisia

Monica Phillips

President, Spark Plug Labs

Moritz Blees

Founder & CMO, Kerbholz

Moritz Spangenberg

CEO, Founder, Unlock LinkedIn

Mostafa El Bermawy

CEO, NOgood

Mouna Ayari

Ecosystem Lead, INTILAQ

Mouna Fridhi

Junior Technical Expert in Digital Transformation, GIZ

Mustafa Dalci

CEO, Userspots

Mustafa Kopuk

CEO, Tarvenn Ventures and Advisors

Mustapha Kaddour

Strategy and Transformation Officer, MENINX Holding

Nadine Zerrini

Corporate Innovation Leader, Harvard University

Nassir Rahman

Regional Business Director , Global Solutions Middle East Management Group

Nathalie Rahout

FI Mentor

Nick Huzar

CEO, OfferUp

Nick Saunders

Chairman, Golden Media OOD

Nickolas Zeni Kretzmann

Strategy expert and business development, Sebrae PR

Nicole Gallop

VP, Cultivate Advisors

Nicole Zevola Benvenuti

CEO, 1984

Noam Tamari-Wekser

Growth Investor, TheCircle

Noha Jaafar

FI Mentor

Noomane Fehri

CEO, Our Digital Future

Noomen Lahimer

CEO, Every Technologies

Omar Nacif

VP, Proteak Renewable Forestry

Omar Mohout

Growth Engineer, Sirris

Omar Saryah

Managing Partner, Sayarh & Menjra Law Firm

Omar Valle

Startup Business Development, Innovation Bay

Omar Branquinho

President at Campinas Tech, CEO at Deskflows

Omar Triki

Director Program Management Office, Fondation Tunisie pour le Development

Omar Mansoor Ansari

President , TechNation

Ons Ben Abdelkarim

President, Al Bawsala

Oumaima M'barki

Lead design, LINEDATA

Oussama Messaoud

Chairman, Datavora

Patrick Birault

Founder & CEO, PBRH Consulting

Pedro Telleria

Professor, Tunis Business School

Phil Libin

Founder & CEO, All Turtles

Phillip Merrick

Chairman & Co-founder, VisualCV

Pratik Gauri

Founder and CEO, 5ireChain

Rahma Abid

Founder , Shape

Ramez Mohamed El Serafy

CEO, Flat6labs

Ramzi El Fekih

CEO, CREOVA

Rania Reda

CEO, Augmania

Rania Khedhir

Senior Consultant , Morgan Philips Group

Rebecca Clyde

CEO & Co-Founder, Botco.ai

Remi Christoffer Dramstad

FI Mentor

Richard Finke

Country Manager, Middle East Investment Initiative (MEII)

Rihab Jlassi

Project Manager , Fondation Tunisie pour le Development

Rodolphe Buis

Innovation & Transformation Director, Linedata

Roger Do

Co-Founder, QSearch

Roger Heaston

President & CEO, Refinition

Rudolph Cerqueira

COO International & CEO , AOS - Appels d'offres simplifiés

Russell Brand

CEO & Founder, Responsible Solutions Limited

Ryadh Bouslama

CEO, LEVEL 1

Rym Baouendi

Founder & Managing Director, Cogite Coworking Space

Rym Jarou

CEO, Smart Tunisia

Sabeeha Banubhai

Founder and Experience Director, Jack Studios

Sabrine Chenaoui

CEO & Founder, Monsapo

Sabrine Jelassi

Software Developer, Zimmer Biomet

Sacha Alanoca

Senior AI Policy Researcher & Head of Community Development, The future Society

Salma Belhassine

FI Mentor

Salmine Sassi

Entrepreneur in Residence, Seedstars

Sami Jaidane

Business Consultant / Entrepreneur @, SJDN Consulting / Pack-tory / Valomnia

Sami Ben Romdhane

Vice President, Technical Fellow at eBay Inc, eBay inc

Sami Tounsi

CEO, MonResto.tn

Saoussen Ayari

FI Mentor

Sarah Jane Maxted

Executive Director, MIT

Sarah Toumi

Founder , Acacias for all

Sarra Ben Younes

Project Manager, Startup Act

Scott Leatherman

Chief Marketing Officer, Veritone

Selma Ben Kraiem

HR consultant, BK

Shady Achouri

CTO, Chantier

Simon Turner

Founding Partner, Groundbreaking, Managing Director, FI Ghana

Simran Kaur

Founder, Power Women Corp

Sophia Hasnain

Founder & CEO, Linked Things

Soumaya Ben Beya

FI Mentor

Soumaya Ben Beya

Operations Manager, Veamly

Taher Mestiri

CEO, I.T Grapes

Taher Gayes

Head of Technology Transformation and Innovation, Saudi British Bank

Tarek Ben Abdallah

COO, Afrikwity

Tarek Chelaifa

Senior Manager, GSMA

Taylor Davidson

President, Neil Benton Arts and Entertainment

Timothée Raymond

Head of Innovation & Technology, Voice Revo

Tom Sichel

Co-founder, Nova Finance

Victor Chapela

Founder & CEO, Suggestic

Victor Schiller

President, R Cubed Group

Victor Madueño

Experience Consulting Director | Business & Digital Transformation | Startup Mentor & Angel Investor, Epam Middle East

Wael Ben Romdhane

Brand Manager, Philip Morris

Wafa Gabsi

CEO, ARCHIVART

Wala Kasmi

CEO, Youth Decides GROUP

Waleed Helal

Head of Growth Marketing, Xpence

Walid Qazizada

Investment Manager, InFrontier

Walid Bellagha

Managing Director, Endeavor

Walid Daas

Co-fondateur et Directeur des programmes, Teamlink

Walid Sultan Midani

CEO, DigitalMania

Wassel Berrayana

CEO, Proxym-IT

Wassim Ben Larbi

FI Mentor

Wassim Jouini

Co-Founder, FivePoints Talent Pool

Yahya Bouhlel

CEO & Co-Founder, Go My Code

Yassine Oussaifi

Manager, Africinvest

Yassine Younsi

Senior Partner , Younsi & Younsi Law Firm

Yassir El Ismaili El Idriss

CEO, Tayara.tn

Yehia Houry

Managing Director, Tunisia, Flat6labs

Youssef Said

CEO & Co-Founder, Travaris

Yssem Saadi

Owner & Communciation strategist, Better Ask Y

Zaheer Nasser

Co-Founder | Managing Partner, Doctoori Connect

Zakaria Belkhodja

Head of Strategy, MENINX Holding

Zeineb Fakhfakh

Managing Director , Impact Partner

Zhaira Bennani

Dirigeante , Well-Com International

Zied Guiga

CEO, Wallyscar

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