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Akram Benmbarek
Entrepreneur & Financier

Akram is a tech entrepreneur and a former investment banker with an extensive experience in product management and deal structuring. He spent the first decade of his career as a Silicon Valley banker at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and UBS where he was Vice President of investments.  He then moved to Advanced Equities,  a technology focused investment bank, as a Senior Vice President of private equity  where he led several growth stage financing deals for technology companies such as RMI (sold to Netlogic), and Force10 (sold to Dell).  In 2009 Akram moves on to found his first startup Social IQ – an innovative influence marketing platform based in San Diego. Active in the MENA region as well, Akram is the co-founder and President of Elbotola.com the #1 Sports news portal in Morocco.  He’s also the co-founder of Techwadi.org a Silicon Valley based non-profit organization with the mission of building  bridges between Silicon Valley and the MENA region.

 

Akram holds a B.S and an M.S in Economics, and an MBA from the University of Southern California – Marshall School of business.