Director, Business Development
Fineamin SA, Geneva, Switzerland

Presentation Title: “Management of Innovation in Water-Treatment & Other Technologies”

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Mr. Abou Zeid moved with his parents to Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of five, in 1972. He has 35 years experience in the field of technology and Information Technology (IT). Starting in 1992, he established the European arm of Hummingbird, a Canadian software company, which he grew to $100m in revenues. In 1993, the company was floated on the New-York NASDAQ stock exchange and the Toronto TSE stock exchange. After leaving Hummingbird in 2001, Mr. Abou Zeid established a Swiss IT software outsourcing company, INTRAVISION, which later spun-off several software start-ups. At the same time, he led several property and renewable energy projects in Switzerland and abroad, which were all successfully completed. Lately, Mr. Abou Zeid has been focusing on green water-treatment technologies.