Kamel Abdallah, Ph.D
Advisor
Kamel is an experienced Group CEO with over 25 years of experience with GCC Family
Investment Offices (Assets over $1bn) with a track-record in achieving profitable double-digit growth, along with execution of portfolio rationalization, private placements and joint
ventures with Multinationals.
- National Food Security expert, specializing in turnaround management and leadership of large agricultural industrial groups in the region. He is the MD and CEO of Canal Sugar, a UAE-Egyptian multi billion dollar agricultural industrial group in Egypt that aims to ensure Egypt Self Sufficiency in Sugar which is executing the most significant agricultural project in Egypt since 1952 with land reclamation of over 180 thousand feddans (over 800 km square) and a sugar factory that produces around 1 million tons of sugar a year, making it the largest sugar beats processing factory in the world.
- For over twenty years, he has led large regional companies with emphasis on Agri-Food in the Middle East with turnaround mandates. He has served Board Director/Managing Director/CEO positions in Agri/Food based companies, including Baladna QPSC, Aujan Industries/Rani Investments, and Exeed Industries/National Holding.
- Kamel is also a founder of Mind Cloud Academy, an incubation hub for startups/social enterprises, where he leads the mentorship program of scaling up, and has funded several startups.
- He remains integrated with the industry and with academia, where he has served as Assistant VP of the American University of Beirut; and Professor of Strategy and Finance, as well as being a tenured Prof and department chair at accredited business schools in the USA.
- Kamel holds a Ph.D in Strategic Management & Finance (OSU), and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Agri Business management program (2020, 2021,2023).
- He is a mountaineer who has summited Mount Kalimanjaro, Atlas mountain, Mount Ararat, and the highest peeks in the Levant and the GCC.
