He has been a Partner at Sawari Ventures since 2015.He is frequent Lecturer on Managing Professional Services and a guest lecturer at the AUC MBA program. He also was a mentor and judge to Endeavor, Flat6Labs, Google Ebda2, Injaz, and Bedaya.

Asaad is a graduate of the University of Houston in Texas in Computer Science and Information Technology and Harvard Business School in Advanced Management (AMP191). After working for fifteen years in the US in information technology & financial services in companies like American International Group (AIG), etc., Asaad returned back to Egypt and joined Raya Holding in 2005. She was ranked #38 in Forbes Middle East as one of the top 100 most powerful Arabic Businesswomen 2016.

Co-Founder & CEO of Si-Vision; founded in 2007. Eng. Mohamed Mohsen is a semiconductor professional with more than 15+ years of experience holding BSc and MSc degrees in Electronic & Communication Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; with strong business, management and entrepreneurial expertise. Eng. Mohsen has been driving Si-Vision LLC business leading to a worldwide business growth across APAC and North America, creating strategic partnerships with tier-one WW partners and developing the company global branding, to be known as key provider for low power wireless IP for IoT market. Back in July 2015 Eng. Mohsen and the team were able to achieve the company’s success story when Synopsys, Inc. the world’s leading provider of EDA and interface IP acquired Silicon Vision leading Bluetooth® Smart wireless technology, and a new area for Si-Vision started as the exclusive R&D partner of Synopsys Inc. in the region with very fast growing team & technologies. Prior being the CEO of Si-Vision LLC, Mr. Mohsen was VP of Business Development/Marketing, and back to 2010 he was VP of Wireless BU in Ensphere Solutions, CA, USA; delivering cutting-edge semiconductor chips to tier-one worldwide customers including Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Cypress Semiconductor, Sony, Toshiba, Sumitomo Electric and others. Prior to the foundation of Si-Vision, Mr. Mohsen worked at Vodafone Egypt in Global Technology department and at Si-Ware Systems as AMS Design Team.

Dr. Shedeed founded the science and technology center of excellence of material research. He is one of the dominate electronics industry figures and contributed with other figures in drafting the national Electronics strategy. He is fond of voluntary work and was sitting in the board of EiTESAL NGO for 6 years. He is now the managing director of EITESAL since August 2011. He supervised the establishment of EBNI incubator since 2014.

Managing Director of MENA Region, Mentor Graphics. He is member of different organizations such as IEEE (Circuit & System, Computer Society, Design and Test, Embedded System, Management and Quality Control), EITESAL, AmCham, CIT, SEBA, SECC, Engineering Chamber (Electronics section) that are working to promote technology and support the development of Ecosystem in the region.