The Team

The management team brings to the fund a range of financial and business development skills, from critical investment analysis to shrewd economic and innovative development strategy. The team has also oversight over the management of portfolio companies.

Maroun N. Chammas, Chairman

Maroun N. Chammas is an established entrepreneur. He is Director and Deputy General Manager of the Chammas Group of companies, one of the largest privately owned industrial and service oriented groups in the Near East with interests in downstream petroleum activities and services. He is co-founder and Director of Teleinvest Holdings which has equity interests in several telecom companies of which Inconet-Data Management(IDM), Netlink, Triband and Netcommerce. He is also Chairman and CEO of Berytech and Chairman of the Berytech Fund.

Sami Beydoun, Managing Partner

Sami spent most of his career with major US investment banks in Beirut, New York, and London. After obtaining his diploma in Law & Economics from Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut, he worked eleven years with Merrill Lynch out of which five years were in Beirut, one in New York, and four in London where he was Vice-President, Manager of the international managed futures accounts department. The next three years he was the Managing Director of SB commodities, a British asset management firm which he created, and subsequently, still in London, moved to what became Lehman Brothers (E.F.Hutton, Shearson American Express), where he spent eleven years as Senior Vice-President and General Manager of London Retail.

Nicolas Rouhana, Technical Advisor

Nicolas is a telecommunications engineer from ESIB (USJ), with a PhD in Networking Systems from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France. He is a published researcher in the IT field, a Certified Cisco Networking Academy Instructor from University of Central England (Birmingham), a graduate of the INSEAD School of Management (Young Manager’s Program), and a certified Business Counselor from UNIDO Entrepreneurship Development Center. He is also accredited Business Advisor from the Institute of Business Consulting (UK) and accredited Assessor by the Oxford Cambridge & RSA Examinations (OCR) and a Certified Trainer by the Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute, Switzerland.

He is a lecturer at ESIB and acts as Director of Berytech Technology Pole which he had joined since inception in 2002.

Tania Saba Mazraani, Communication Advisor

A communication graduate of the Lebanese American University (LAU), Tania has a seven-year communication experience within Saatchi & Saatchi, Beirut. In 1998 she co-founded a technology wholesale business in California, handling the administrative and financial aspects. In 2001, upon returning to Lebanon she co-founded a cable TV guide in Beirut within a large publishing group. She joined Berytech in 2004 and is now Director of Berytech Technology & Health. Tania is an accredited Business Advisor from the Institute of Business Consulting (UK) and accredited Assessor by the Oxford Cambridge & RSA Examinations (OCR) and a Certified Trainer by the Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute, Switzerland.

Waddad Sawaya El Khoury, Financial Advisor

Waddad pursued a Masters degree in Economics from Université Saint Joseph where she graduated in 1999. While pursuing her studies, she attended different conferences concerning the political economy of the government & general investment strategy. In 2000, she joined “Cashless Card”, a Lebanese credit card company where she handled the accounts & the finance studies such as feasibility & projections. In March 2007, she joined Berytech in her capacity as Accounting Manager and has been involved in ongoing financial concerns of the Berytech Fund as well.

Lola Fayad, Assistant to the Managing Partner

Lola has a Masters degree in Finance from Saint Joseph University (USJ). She joined Berytech Fund in May 2008 as Assistant to the Managing Partner. Lola was previously Chief Accountant at Current Systems International, a shipping company, where she had handled the accounts and financial studies of the firm.