Born and raised in the UAE, I’m half British, half Lebanese, and grew up in various countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe. I’m now based in London. I love terrible jokes, beautifully crafted sandwiches and looking at designer houses I will never live in. I like to torment my children with my piano playing and spend more time than is reasonable making lists of things, à la High Fidelity.
Get in touch if you ever want to chat all things scaling when it comes to startups! Just stick hello in front of this site.
What I’m doing now
Generic Exec Person @ PostHog
Stuff I’ve written about startups
What I’ve done before
partner @ hedgehog.vc
- Created a VC fund from scratch during a 48-hour hackathon, focused on early-stage open source investing, made one investment and they got into YC
- Now hibernating
COO @ Vitl
- Looked after ops, product, R&D, CS, and legal
- Was interim CTO for a lot longer than was sensible
- Ran process for 2 big licensing deals to giant pharma companies
Various @ ROLI
- Held basically every non-engineering role - Ops Manager, Director of Product, Chief of Staff to the Founder, Head of Program Management, etc.
- Grew the business from 15 to 150+ people
- Raised $70m+ through Series A and B (and then spent it)
Where I’ve studied
- University of Cambridge - BA Hons, Law
- SOAS, University of London - MSc, Public Policy & Management
- Imperial College, London - MBA
I learned nothing about startups at any of these places
Books I’m reading
I use Storygraph and always appreciate a recommendation