Amr El-Husseini: Lead Mentor
CEO, Lodestone Advisory Group
About Amr El-Husseini:
Areas of Expertise: Finance, Fundraising, Healthcare, Leadership, Marketing, Operations, Presentation
Amr El-Husseini is the Founder and CEO of Lodestone Advisory Group, an award-winning US based boutique venture capital and management consulting firm. Amr is a global strategist and investor who has worked across five continents with clients and portfolio companies in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, venture capital, M&A, growth and acceleration, corporate development, turnaround and transformation, international expansion, corporate innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Amr has been a Lead Mentor at the Wond’ry since its inception, where he advises founders and aspiring entrepreneurs on aspects including business and innovation strategy, start-up growth, financial management, market entry, product market fit, governance, capital raising, and operations.
Amr is a board member at the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council of Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC), a center focused on commercializing research through entrepreneurship and corporate partnerships. Over the past decade, Amr has served on the selection/investment committees for local and international venture capital funds and accelerators; a full term on the board of an international banking subsidiary of the QIB Group where he led a successful turnaround effort and reorganization of the bank; and the board of the International Business Council of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. Amr is also a board member of the Jordan Thomas Foundation, an organization supporting amputee children across the US; the Linden Waldorf School, an independent school in Nashville; and the Arab Golf Federation. He was recently selected to the inaugural Leadership Connect cohort, an initiative focused on small business engagement, leadership, and growth across the region.
Prior to founding Lodestone, Amr served in several capacities, the last of which as Head of International Development at the QIB Group. There, he was responsible for the bank’s international operations and strategic investments (M&A, Ventures and Integrations) as well as the bank’s international network stretching across Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America. While at QIB, he led M&A deals, successful turnarounds, and restructuring assignments, as well as the development and execution of the bank’s international expansion strategy. Prior to his work at QIB, Amr worked in several banking and consulting roles with regional and international firms including Path Solutions, Fransabank, Ernst & Young, HSBC and Audi Bank.
Amr is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. He also received an MBA from the University of Wales, and a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the RHU where he was presented with the Alumni Achievement Award. Amr also holds the CIPA certification from AAOIFI. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.
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Amr El-Husseini Q&A:
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The Wond’ry’s potential to contribute to the development and transformation of Nashville’s innovation ecosystem and the creation of a true global innovation hub in the city. I have no doubt this is an imperative for the future of Nashville, but even more importantly it is doable.
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Corporate Strategy
Financial Management
International Business
Deal Negotiation
Investment Analysis and Valuation
M&A
Business Acceleration
Corporate Turnaround
Venture Capital
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Corporate turnaround and deal negotiation (mostly in acquisitions) have always given me a lot of excitement and personal satisfaction, mainly because of the enormous challenges they bring and the problems that require swift solving. I would probably say the successful turnarounds of a number of international banks in London, Kuala Lumpur, and Beirut, in three to six months’ time each, tops my list. Similarly, the establishment of an international accelerator where start-ups and SME’s had the opportunity not only to put their growth on a fast track, but also to expand beyond their local market and explore global opportunities ties the rank.
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Absolutely.
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There is not a single most important quality for success. To try to come-up with a shortlist, I would say perseverance, consistency, integrity, global awareness, intellectual curiosity, and ambition.
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I was always fascinated and interested by the world of business, investments, and banking, to the extent that I saved part of my weekly pocket-money in a bank account as a child, and was able to open a tiny stock trading account for the minimum required at a very young age.
Tags: Fundraising, Entrepreneurship