Ossama Hassanein

Ossama Hassanein General Information

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Dr. Ossama Hassanein serves as Chairman at Rising Tide Fund. Dr. Hassanein served as a Senior Managing Partner at Newbury Ventures. He also serves as Chairman at Rising Tide Fund. He was a Board Member at Eonite. He also is an Angel Investor. He is an entrepreneur, mentor, and venture capitalist. Over the last 30 years, he has managed over $1 billion of international technology funds in diverse leadership roles including EVP of Berkeley International in San Francisco, Chairman of Technocom Ventures in Paris, President of Newbridge Networks Holding in Canada. In the eighties, he led the mezzanine financing of 80+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes including: Adaptec; Cirrus Logic; Atmel; PMC-Sierra; LSI Logic; Linear Technologies; and Oracle. Combined market value today exceeds $200 billion. In the last 25 years, he was chairman or co-founder of seven leading-edge high technology startups in the US, UK, France and Switzerland including ACC in Santa Barbara (routers, acquired by Ericsson), Algety in Lannion (soliton transmission, acquired by Corvis), HighDeal in Caen (rating engines, acquired by SAP), Highwave in Bretagne (fiber optic amplifiers, Listed on Euronext), NetCentrex in Paris (VoIP, acquired by Comverse), nCipher in Cambridge (encryption, listed on LSE), and Zong in Menlo Park (acquired by eBay). Currently, he is director of Bank of the West in San Francisco and chairman of TechWadi, the largest network of Arab American high technology executives in Silicon Valley. He is a charter member of the C100, a Silicon-Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs. He has served on the Board of Advisors of Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of UCSF Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine in San Francisco. He also served on the Board of Directors of Relief International, a non-profit, focusing his efforts on social entrepreneurship and women development in the Middle East. He was chairman of the board of the Egyptian American Society in Silicon Valley and vice-chairman of the Board of PSD, an NGO focused on providing one Netbook per child for up to 130,000 Palestinian children in need of education. Dr. Hassanein is the Willard Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC (American University in Cairo)School of Business, where he is also member of the Board of Advisors. He lectured on Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and the University of San Diego, and on international business at UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University. He was also guest speaker on entrepreneurship in diverse venues including the White House, the State Department, the Commonwealth Club, MIT, Harvard University, and Qatar Computer Research Institute. He holds PhD from University of British Columbia. He holds MBA, BS and MS.