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Forbes Top 50 Angel Investor | 11 Exits | Invested +400 startups | +100 Serial Entrepreneur | Forbes Technology Council | AI Expert | Thought leader | Keynote speaker | Mentor +80 | Advisor | Software Architect | Judge
Hesham was ranked #39 out of the top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) <https://www.forbes.fr/classements/top-50-des-business-angels-selon-leurs-investissements-et-leur-reussite/> based on investment and successful exits. Hesham is also a Forbes Technology Council member. Hesham is an angel investor, a mentor and sits as a board member on many companies. A growth-oriented business leader with entrepreneurial skills, and +25 years of proven experience in leading multinational businesses. Hesham has invested in +400 startups. He has co-founded more than 100 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak, read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge of German and Spanish. Hesham wears various hats from team management to technical cofounder to user experience and product/process/knowledge management. Hesham is a co-founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is #1 online accelerator/incubator that has border-less reach. Under Hesham's leadership FasterCapital grown to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide, 300 partnerships (incubators/accelerators and venture funds) and more than 800 startups. FasterCapital has helped more than 800 startups raise more than $2.3B and invested $681M in startups. Hesham has invested in Twitter, Zomato, SpaceX, Edunoor, dooet, letuscloud, Mobayle, Meody, abcmob, TVlize, Nakkeb, BeamGift, PickTaxi, MobAdv, Bazarmaker, Entablet, PinProfile, mp3ready, BookThatbook, Newsanalyse and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 80 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc. ZGroup Mobile is a developer and
Heriot-Watt University
Doctorate, DBA
January 1, 2009 – January 1, 2013
The Arab Academy For Management, Banking And Financial Sciences
Master in CIS, Computer Information System
January 1, 2006 – January 1, 2008
Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology
Engineer, Electrical and electronic Control and Automation
N/A – Present
DentalCareFree
Investor
October 1, 2025 – January 1, 2026
United States
MDHow
Investor
September 1, 2025 – February 1, 2026
United States
HasUsed
Investor
January 1, 2025 – Present
United States
Forbes Technology Council
Member – Forbes Technology Council
January 1, 2023 – Present
Fixiest
Seed Investor & Mentor & CT
January 1, 2017 – Present
BookThatBook
Seed Investor and CTO
January 1, 2017 – Present
Mp3Ready
Angel Investor & Mentor: Search Engine for Mp3 music, Deep Web
January 1, 2017 – Present
NewsAnalyse
Investor and Mentor and CTO
January 1, 2017 – Present
BazarMaker
seed Investor & Mentor
January 1, 2014 – Present
PickTaxi
Investor & Advisor & Board member
January 1, 2014 – Present
PinProfile
Investor & Mentor:
January 1, 2014 – Present
PutTag
Angel Investor & Mentor & Chief Strategy officer
December 1, 2013 – Present
Entablet
Angel Investor
September 1, 2013 – Present
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ME2TV
Angel Investor & Tech cofounder & Mentor
April 1, 2013 – Present
Fulhost
Angel Investor & Chief Technology Officer
January 1, 2013 – Present
MobAdv
Investor & Mentor
October 1, 2012 – Present
TVlize
angel Investor, Technical Cofounder
October 1, 2012 – Present
Edunoor
Angel Investor
March 1, 2012 – Present
California, United States
LetusCloud
Seed Investor & Mentor
March 1, 2012 – Present
Stockton, California, United States
Meetingg
Chairman & Seed Investor & advisor
January 1, 2012 – Present
BeamGift
Seed Investor & Mentor
January 1, 2012 – Present
ABCMob
President, lead investor, Mento
January 1, 2012 – Present
Mobayle
Investor, co-founder
March 1, 2011 – Present
Meody
Investor, Co-founder, Mentor
January 1, 2011 – Present
UpApps
Investor, Co-founder
November 1, 2010 – Present
Dooet
President, Angel Investor
June 1, 2010 – Present
FasterCapital
CEO, Board Member
January 1, 2010 – Present
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Arab International University
Lecturer
September 1, 2009 – September 1, 2010
NextStep
Owner
July 1, 2008 – April 1, 2010
Nakkeb
Investor, Search and Data mining
November 1, 2007 – Present
Free4mob.com
Manager
November 1, 2006 – September 1, 2008
BlueMagiq
Investor, Bluetooth Advertising System
August 1, 2006 – Present
Savme
Angel Investor & Mentor & Chief Technology Officer
January 1, 2006 – Present
United States
ZGroup Mobile
Technical Manager
February 1, 2005 – Present
ZGroup Mobile
CEO & Founder, developer and publisher of mobile apps
February 1, 2002 – Present
ZGroup Mobile
Technical Manager
February 1, 2002 – January 1, 2005
Almassah Software
Managing Director
January 1, 2000 – October 1, 2001
Programmer
Self-Employed Programmer
February 1, 1997 – January 1, 2000
abc TV
January 1, 2013 – Present
abcTV is an application targeted to TV channel owners or owners of series of TV channels. abcTV can be used by broadcasters to get closer to their audiences. Users will be able to know the new shows, catch hottest shows, EPG for each channel, read information about each show, TV Guide, reminders for shows, suggestions and feedback. abcTV can be installed on all major devices as a native application on ipad, iphone, android, blackberry, windows mobile, bada, symbian and J2ME. It can also be accessed from any of these devices or from tablet and PC from any web browser. abcTV has also a server component which allows channel administrator to update and highlight specific shows to the users, configure what users will be receiving, read users feedback/suggestions and interact with them. Uses: TV Guide from mobile. Read information about future TV productions. Benefits: Direct interaction with end-users. Portal to allow users to navigate through shows and put their feedback. Improve user experience and allow them to see feedback from channel. Increase users loyalty and engagment with the TV Shows or TV channel(s). Keywords: TV mobile application, TV android application, TV iphone application, TV ipad application, TV windows mobile application, TV native mobile application, TV blackberry application, TV client/server full solution, TV HTML5 application, TV tablet application
abc Survey
November 1, 2012 – Present
abc Survey is unlike any other survey application on the market. abc Survey provides the ability to administer user-created surveys online. Surveys can be created by an administrator or by any other user depending on the configuration of the system. With this ability surveys can be created into a separate mobile applications that can be administrated remotely. Political parties, market research firms and data collection companies can speed up the process of data collection and reduce the amount of errors in the results. The application has been designed to work for all kinds of market research related activities like face-to-face interviews and in-store quality checks. abc Survey has different types of questionnaires like multiple options, true or false and open questions that have been optimized to be used by mobile phones or tablets. The intuitive design will make it very easy for any user to enter their choices and navigate to the next screen. abc Survey will assemble all of the information in a database at the server side. Administrators will be able to check the results of the survey in realtime and see charts accordingly. Uses 1) Market research and analysis. 2) Impact of a new product in the market. 3) Political campaigns Benefits: 1) No more paper. 2) easy and intuitive experience for the user. 3) Results will be available in real time wit charts. Keywords: survey mobile application, survey android application, survey iphone application, survey ipad application, survey windows mobile application, survey native mobile application, survey blackberry application, survey client/server full solution, survey HTML5 application, survey tablet application
abc realestate
October 1, 2012 – Present
abc realestate allows realestate investors and agencies to interact with their clients directly on a mobile phone or tablet. Clients will be able to receive updates and informations about important offers. Agencies and clients can schedule meeting, property inspections and rating. Easily search for real-estate property online, view instantly locations on map, see photos of realestate, get alerts, access anytime, receive updates, get direction to properties, check auction times, receive prices and full details in any given neighbourhood. The application is optimized for tablets and mobile and can be accessed as native mobile application or on the browser (HTML5). Investors in real-estate can easily view and compare offerings on different locations. Investors can also get updates about recent sell/buy operations that will highlight the prices. Real-estate agencies can use this mobile application to directly send offers to its clients and interact with them directly. Agents can follow up with clients, offer them properties and get clients interests. Uses 1) Save your searches for property and get updates. 2) Save favorite properties to be viewed later 3) Search from your current location or using the map 4) Check out auction times and save them to a calender 5) Get directions to properties 6) View full details about each home or property 7) Users will get Benefits 1) Easy search for client. 2) Easy tracking of users interest 3) Agencies get feedback from clients. 4) Help schedule meetings between agent and clients. 5) Increase client loyalty and improve client experience. Keywords: realestate mobile application, realestate android application, realestate iphone application, realestate ipad application, realestate windows mobile application, realestate native mobile application, realestate blackberry application, realestate client/server full solution, realestate HTML5 application, realestate tablet application
abc Airlines
January 1, 2012 – Present
Take your travel information to your fingertip with abc Airlines. The mobile application will allow users to search for suitable flights, book a flight (one way, two ways...etc), track a flight, view and change seat assignment, get notification about suitable offers, get information about cargo limitation and cost in a flight, flight status and many more. abc Airlines is a full client/server solution that can be used from any mobile device, cellphone or a tablet. The server solution can be installed on the side of the airline company and it is used as an interface with its databases. Uses Direct interface with the customer. Check new offers. Finding agents and offices. Book a flight. Query to get more information and allowance. Flight track. Benefits Increase user satisfaction. Get closer to users who can access your srevices from their mobiles or tablets. Analyse users actions to get more information about what offers are interesting to the users. Get offers information directly to end-users with their mobiles and get a quick booking even for the last seat! Mobile applications attract more users who would like quick and easy way to serve themselves and those apps can also improve your relation with your existing clients. Reduce stress and demand on your employees and agents. Keywords: airlines mobile application, airlines android application, airlines iphone application, airlines ipad application, airlines windows mobile application, airlines native mobile application, airlines blackberry application, airlines client/server full solution, airlines HTML5 application, airlines tablet application
abc Banking
January 1, 2012 – Present
Mobile Banking is relatively a new banking service that is rapidly gaining trend because of the wide spread of mobile phones and smart phones in particular. More than half of the largest banks in USA and Europe offer a mobile banking solution either as a separate mobile application or a webpage that can be browsed through mobile. abc Bank is a full solution that can be used from a mobile device, cellphone or a tablet to conduct banking activities such as balance enquiry, account alerts, bill payment, scheduled payment, locate closest ATM and mobile payment. The solution is both a server/client solution. The solution offers the following: 1) Full server solution that can interface with the database at the bank. This solution can be installed at the bank side in a dedicated server. 2) Client Side that can be: a) Mobile application: we support all platforms such as Android, iOS, WindowsMobile, Blackberry, Symbian and Java. b) Mobile Website: That can detect any cellphone/tablet and automatically render the website in a customized way to be opened from the mobile handset. This solution will support both touch and non-touch handsets. Uses Allow users to check their balances. Allow users to get account alerts. Users can locate closest ATM machine. Mobile payment. Benefits Lower the number of orders on ATM machines. Get more satisfaction from the user. Analyse users actions to get more information about what offers are interesting to the users. reduce costs by cutting older SMS costs and by lowering the time needed to support users and lower the pressures on offices for customer care. Mobile applications attract more users who would like quick and easy way to serve themselves and those apps can also improve your relation with your existing clients. Reduce stress and demand on your employees and agents. Keywords: bank mobile application, bank android application, bank iphone application, bank ipad application.
abc Gym
January 1, 2012 – Present
abc Gym is a mobile application that can help fitness centers and Gyms give better customer service to their clients. The application can help users find the nearest location, search classes by time/location/instructor, news and information, track progress, BMI progress, calculation of calories burnt on workout, continue exercise outside of the gym (personal fitness feature) and Goal countdown. abc Gym is a series of software that can be used from a mobile device, cellphone or a tablet to access Gym/fitness services online. We also provide a server component to enable administrators to control the application and deliver messages to clients. The software will work as a native mobile application on iPad, Android tablets, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices. It can also be run from any browser on any operating system. Thus we will cover all platforms and we leave it to users to choose the way to access the information Uses Search for closest location of Gym if it has multiple locations Get news/information and new offers Instructor can track progress easily Track BMI over the period of exercising Calculation of calories burnt and charts of progress with time Personal fitness integration: clients can continue some exercises outside of the gym and trainer can get updates Goal countdown: encourage clients to continue exercising to reach their goals Benefits Users can get advises from professionals from their mobile handsets Mobile applications attract more users who would like quick and easy way to serve themselves and those apps can also improve your relation with your existing clients. Keywords: Gym mobile application, Gym android application, Gym iphone application, Gym ipad application, Gym windows mobile application, Gym native mobile application, Gym blackberry application, Gym client/server full solution, Gym HTML5 application, Gym tablet application
abc HRIS
January 1, 2012 – Present
abc HRIS will allow Human resources professional to interact with employees and the HR system whenever they can. abc HRIS will also allow employees to check any HR information whether they are at the office or outside it. abc HRIS will make a good use of the BYOD experience as users can get notifications and information quicker. abc HRIS is a full client/server solution that can be used from a mobile device, cellphone or a tablet. The server solution can be installed on the side of the enterprise and it is used as an interface with its databases or legacy HR system. The solution comes with its own server solution that can also be used in case there's no previous installation. The solution offers the following: Client Side that can be: 1) Native Mobile application: we support all platforms such as Android, iOS, WindowsMobile, Blackberry, Symbian and Java. 2) Mobile Website: That can detect any cellphone/tablet and automatically render the website in a customized way to be opened from the mobile handset. Uses Direct interface with the employee. Encorage BYOD behaviour and reach directly your employees on their handsets. Full secure solution. Full configuration of permissions of accessing the application from within/outside. Check all HR information easily from mobile. Benefits Increase employee knowledge about internal policy and their rights/obligations. Get closer to employees who can access your srevices from their mobiles or tablets. Allow HR more ease of accessing information about employees or contact with them. Mobile applications will encourage good BYOD behavior in the company. Keywords: HRIS mobile application, HRIS android application, HRIS iphone application, HRIS ipad application, HRIS windows mobile application, HRIS native mobile application, HRIS blackberry application, HRIS client/server full solution, HRIS HTML5 application, HRIS tablet application
abc Hotel
January 1, 2012 – Present
abc Hotel is an innovative application who offers hotel's guests with information about services of the hotel plus other information that might be of interest to them. The application provides full contact information of the hotel, way back in case the customer is lost with GPS and maps, mobile ordering of services from the hotel, full information about all extra hotel services and their prices, information about other hotel facilities such as bars, restaurants, pool, meeting facilities and many more. It also offer the guest with special offers such as free drinks, discounted tours to the city, events tickets and many more. abc Hotel is a full solution that can be used from a mobile device, cellphone or a tablet to access Hotel services online such as query of empty rooms, prices, booking, location services and many more. The solution is both a server/client solution. The solution offers the following: Uses Allow users to check empty Room with their features and prices Get direct assistance from someone at the Hotel online and on the mobile Receive updates about offers from the hotels (city tour, discounted tickets, information about other facilities, free meals, menus..etc) Way-back information in case you are lost to your hotels Offer the user with a language assistant for the important words in the local language Offer Travel Area guide which includes famous tourist locations, museums, beaches, shopping areas and malls Keywords: hotel mobile application, hotel android application, hotel iphone application, hotel ipad application, hotel windows mobile application, hotel native mobile application, hotel blackberry application, hotel client/server full solution, hotel HTML5 application, hotel tablet application
abc Insurance
January 1, 2012 – Present
abc Insurance is an all-in-one application offering full access to all services that insurance companies would like to provide to their users. The mobile application will allow the user to check his account, due payments, insurance information, quick access to necessary information in case of accident, locate closest agent and document any accident. abc Insurance is a also a full client/server solution that can be used from a mobile device, cellphone or a tablet. The solution is both a server/client solution. The server solution can be installed on the side of the Insurance company and it is used as an interface with its databases. Uses Direct interface with the customer. This will help to interface directly with the customer and update him/her about any new offers that you have or your new policies. Paying directly online. Finding agents, offices and authorized repair facility locations. Getting quotes for different insurance activities. Benefits Increase user satisfaction. Get closer to the user with their needs. Analyse users actions to get more information about what offers are interesting to the users. Reduce costs by cutting older SMS costs and by lowering the time needed to support users and lower the pressures on offices for customer care. Mobile applications attract more users who would like quick and easy way to serve themselves and those apps can also improve your relation with your existing clients. Reduce stress and demand on your employees and agents. Keywords: insurance mobile application, insurance android application, insurance iphone application, insurance ipad application, insurance windows mobile application, insurance native mobile application, insurance blackberry application, insurance client/server full solution, insurance HTML5 application, insurance tablet application
abc Restaurant
January 1, 2012 – Present
abc Restaurant is a complete mobile solution for your restaurant or chain of restaurants. The solution is a full mobile application and web service that allow your customers to access all of your services online. Users can check your menu, prices, available meal, availability of tables, reserve tables, order meals all on their mobile handsets or from their preferred browsers. Users can also get more info about your new meals or menus while they are away from your restaurant. Users can choose their meals from the menu that is within the application. Restaurant owners can provide loyal users with discounted offers and increase the satisfaction from the customer. abc Restaurant is a full solution that can be used from a mobile device, cellphone or a tablet to access Restaurant services online such as browsing of menu, ordering, reservation, price querying and location query. Uses Allow users to check restaurant offering online. Get Chef recommendation or users recommendation. Browse menus and special meals. Get location of new branches. Order online for a takeoff. Benefits Get users feedback on their meal and increase satisfaction. Ideal when users are shy to give their feedback. Increase user satisfaction. Analyze users actions to get more information about what meals/offers are welcomed by users. Reduce costs of printing brochures or menus and deliver everything directly to the mobile of the customer. Keywords: restaurant mobile application, restaurant android application, restaurant iphone application, restaurant ipad application, restaurant windows mobile application, restaurant native mobile application, restaurant blackberry application, restaurant client/server full solution, restaurant HTML5 application, restaurant tablet application
abc University
January 1, 2012 – Present
abc University make it easier and more enjoyable for students to stay connected with their university while on the go. The application allow students to check university news, campus map, event calender, courses times, timetable and results. Students can also send their feedback directly to the university management about courses or professors. Uses Increase students access to information offered from the university Improve services with students feedback With more information available to students, students will participate more in all activities/events Benefits Get students feedback on courses, processors or exams. Increase students satisfaction. Analyze students actions to get more information about what offers/activities are mostly visited. Reduce costs of printing brochures or menus and deliver everything directly to the mobile of the student. Reduce stress and demand on your staff and cashier. Mobile applications attract more users who would like quick and easy way to serve themselves and those apps can also improve your relation with your existing clients. Keywords: University mobile application, University android application, University iphone application, University ipad application, University windows mobile application, University native mobile application, University blackberry application, University client/server full solution, University HTML5 application, University tablet application, education mobile application, education android application, education iphone application, education ipad application, education windows mobile application, education native mobile application, education blackberry application, education client/server full solution, education HTML5 application, education tablet application
Dooet
August 1, 2010 – Present
Dooet is a vertical search engine for mobile content such as applications, games, ringtones, wallpapers, videos and themes. The company has developed already an alpha version (launched Mar/2011) of the product with more than 18 million products fully indexed and ready for search. The company has released a beta version on Oct/2012 with more than 25 million products indexed on several platforms and in several languages. The vertical search allows narrowing down results depending on several parameters that are automatically extracted such as price, rating, size, platform and type. My responsibilities: - Identifying end-users’ challenges in the market. - Feasibility study about the market, competitors and how to address end-user needs. - Setup of technical team and allocating resources as necessary to reach deadline. - Design the architecture of the vertical search engine: crawler, identifier, data extractor, indexer and web interface. - Contributed hugely to the development of crawler and data extractor phases. - Supervising the testing of different approaches and choosing the best based on speed/efficiency. - Talking to potential investors who are ready to invest in the startup. - Building of Mobile Android client that can use Dooet as a service. The mobile app can also recommend applications on the same platform depending on what the user has already installed. The application can also recommend similar mobile apps on other platforms.
NakkebWeb™
May 1, 2010 – Present
NakkebWeb™ is a solution for crawling website and extracting information in an automatic manner. NakkebWeb™ will crawl and extract information from any website or collection of websites. It can be easily used for web mining depending on the customer’s requirement. The solution relies on an advanced technology that was developed at Nakkeb that allow us to classify web pages and extract information from them even when the pages change their structure. The work is excellent if the goal is to extract information from semi-structured webpages that are simply showing products from a backend-database. The engine can identify the structure itself and suggest a naming for each field.
DSearch™
November 1, 2009 – Present
DSearch™ is a series of products in the Domain Search. DSearch™ is a full solution for creating vertical search engines in specific domains. You just define the domain to us verbally and we will create the necessary ontology for crawling and extraction. The solution has the following main components: 1) Domain specific crawler that can crawl websites and determine their relevancy to the search. Each domain name will be given an estimate degree or relevancy to our domain. Crawler will store all of the information in an easy-to-retrieve database. 2) Extraction Phase where we will be extracting features for the products. Those features will be grouped depending on their specific values or depending on the semantic of the field. 3) Ontology creation: where keywords will be grouped into an ontology tree. 4) Identification: Extracted fields will be grouped automatically and uniquely identified into appropriate fields. 5) Indexing: To allow search on multiple fields using normal keyword search. DSearch™ is a vertical search engine that is domain specific. The search engine will be available immediately. DSearch™ engine will continue on crawling and updating its database in real-time (almost one update per hour) and data will be updated in the results as they are crawled, extracted and identified. The advantages of DSearch™ are: 1) Easy to configure and run. 2) Solid solution and results are 100% correct even for new domains. 3) Low on resources consumption. You don’t need a full cloud of servers. If the number of pages to be indexed is less than 100 million pages then one server will be sufficient. 4) Produce a full facet search on the data crawled. DSearch can create vertical search engines in different languages such as English, French, Spanish, Italian, Germany, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. We can extend it to any other language upon request.
NakkebSEO™
May 1, 2009 – Present
Our approach to SEO is different from others. We do a full and complete simulation of the general algorithms used by big search engines such as Google and Bing. Our NakkebSEO™ can estimate the PR of each page to a good accuracy and can recommend different architecture of your website to increase the PR of some specific target pages. This approach is easy when the site is composed of tens of pages but when the number of pages is in thousands or even tens of thousands then you need an algorithm.
PSearch™
February 1, 2009 – Present
PSearch™ (or People Search) is a full solution that we have developed in Nakkeb. PSearch™ can help companies search for people in any domain. The engine is crawling the worldwide web to find information about people from sources such as Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Xing and many other social networks. The engine currently has more than 200 million profiles extracted and indexed. This engine can be used by recruitment companies for head-hunting and recruitment and it can also be used by marketing/sales people who want to find specific segment of clients to approach. 1) The solution includes also information about how people are linked together, so it will allow exploring and discovering new people. 2) The facets enable the searcher to view number of results depending on different criteria such as country, occupation, business sector, years of experience, tag cloud..etc 3) The engine allow for incremental search where each new search can be applied on the results of the previous one. . . thus allowing the searcher to narrow down the results to reach exactly what he/she is looking for. PSearch™ includes profile for more than 200 million people aggregated from web crawling.
ESearch™
December 1, 2008 – Present
ESearch™ is a full and advanced search solution for the enterprise. The solution is fast to deploy and easy to be managed. The solution already supports more than 40 formats including documents, videos, images, emails, websites, RSS, databases or any XML data. ESeach™ is ideal if you have lot of documents that are unstructured like reports, bills, contracts, presentations..etc. If your documents are semi structured or if you have products in a database then please use VSearch™ [LINK]. Advantages: 1) Fast deployment: You will get a quick solution deployed at your end. Depending on the size of the data that you have and the servers that can do the crawling, the crawling can be done in between two days to a month. Most cases that we have seen require a crawling of no more than 2-3 days for medium size companies. 2) Security: Your data is safe with us. We will not keep a copy of it. We will just index it. In some rare cases we can install the full solution at your side so your documents will not leave your organization or servers. 3) Configurable: We will configure the solution to suit your requirements, connect it to your database or allow it to crawl all documents at your company. 4) Multiple Formats: The solution already supports more than 40 formats including documents, videos, images, emails, websites, RSS, databases or any XML data. 5) Facet Search: If you have products stored in a database then the facet feature will automatically be turned on and ESearch™ will allow users to facet results based on those fields. 6) Accessibility: ESearch™ can allow different access points to different type of content in case you don’t want all of your employees/users to access the same content. 7) Logging: ESearch™ allow for logging for all search activities and where it was done. The solution support different languages such as English, French, Spanish, Germany, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
VSearch™
December 1, 2008 – Present
VSearch™ is a vertical search solution for the enterprise. If you want to apply vertical search within the enterprise or for your customers then you can use VSearch™. VSearch™ is a complete solution that is customizable and scalable that can help you easily enable search for your products or within your organization. Features include: 1) SEO friendly URLs that will make your sites easily crawled by search engines. 2) Social integration is just a matter of on/off. 3) The interface can be easily redesigned to include custom components or to use the general theme of the original website. 4) Directly connect with your database in read-only mode, thus not disturbing your data. 5) Solution is hosted at your server, so your data stay where they are. 6) Multilanguage search. 7) Faceting on range, values 8) Tree Faceting. The vertical search support different languages such as English, French, Spanish, Germany, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Mobile Advergaming
June 1, 2007 – Present
Mobile advertising :: Mobile Advergaming :: Ads Injection into Games Mobile Advergaming What is it? Advergame is the practice of using video games to advertise for a product. Since mobile phones are becoming more and more popular, and are mostly equipped with the latest technologies, then brand-owner will have a new TV-like audience who would like to pass some of his time behind his mobile phone. Actually cell phones have one big advantage over all other tech gadgets, which is that we carry them whereever we go! So approaching users through their small screens will prove to be efficient. How is it done? Suppose that you have a big brand and you would like to increase the awareness of the users about your brand. This technique works mostly if your audience are teens who are familiar with the use of cellphones or any user who doesn't have a big difficulty in working with cell phone (no tech phobia). The idea is to take one big title that prove to be selling well, rebrand it under your brand, then offer it for free to your end-users. It's a win-win-win situation. The users will be happy to receive something for free. The brand owner will be happy as there's a considerable increase in the awareness of the brand and their new products. We will be happy to provide you with good service!
mLocalization
December 1, 2006 – Present
mLocalization A software tool for localizing mobile games and applications automatically without the need for sourcecode. 1. Summary: mLocalization is a software tool completely developed at ZGROUP MOBILE that will help mobile developers/aggregators to localize (between two different languages) mobile games and applications rapidly and without the need to go back to source-code. 2. Definitions: Product: any java mobile game/application. Usually the Product includes more than one Binary in order to be compatible with wide range of Handsets. Localization: is the process of translating a Product to a new language. This process involves translating all text to the new language and in some cases changing some of the images or resources. Source-code: is the java source code that was written by the developer of the Product. Once this code is compiled and packaged, it will produce several Binaries representing the Product. Handset: a mobile handset (cell phone) that can run Java. It’s either MIDP1 or MIDP2 device. The solution will support Mophun, Symbian, ExEn handsets in the future. Binary: a compiled version of the Product that will run on a handset or a range of handsets. When this word is used in plural then it means all the binaries for one Product. How does mLocalization work? The program works in three consecutive phases: parsing phase, translation phase and reproduction phase. The mLocalization program will extract jars and parse all the classes’ files. It will produce later a string table of all strings used in all classes in all jars. It will also produce a map of where strings are used. This is called the parsing phase. We should translate the list of strings into one or more languages. This is called the translation phase. A person usually does this manually. We supply mLocalization then with the new strings and it will produce new binaries for each new language. This is called reproduction phase.
Bluemagiq
November 1, 2006 – Present
BlueMagiq is a full solution enabling Bluetooth advertising and Bluetooth marketing (also called Proximity Advertising). Bluetooth marketing is the ability to send short messages, images and applications to mobile phones, PDA, and PocketPCs over a distance of 100m without any additional costs. More info about Bluetooth marketing and Bluetooth Advertising BlueMagiq was developed by our technical team. With our experience in mobile content and mobile games, we can bring excellent content to the Bluetooth Advertising that you have and create custom application for your need. We can also rebrand some of the games and applications that we have for your usage. BlueMagiq vs. other Bluetooth Marketing Solutions: 1. True Usage of Bandwidth. The question is not only how many users the device can handle, but also how fast it can handle the users 2. Service more users at the same time. 3. Scalable: adding more devices is very easy. 4. Upgradeable: Each device can be upgraded to handle more Bluetooth devices at the same time. 5. Remotely Controllable: using network (internet, intranet) or GPRS we can connect to the device remotely, operate it, upgrade the advertising campaign or tune it. 6. Running simultaneous For more information about detailed Benefits read: Advantages of BlueMagiq (Bluetooth Marketing) Technical Specifications: Anti-virus software protecting mobile users from malicious programs. Compatible with Bluetooth v1.0 & v2.0. Active range is 100m. The new Bluetooth transceivers were able to detect and send information to devices up to 180 meters. Max transfer rate is 2.5 M/sec per each transceiver. Each Transceiver can send data to 7-21 devices at the same time. Data exchange rate with each mobile device can reach 100kbytes/sec. The total bandwidth is 2.5 Megabits/sec. BlueMagiq can send Text, still images, animated images, video, voice, and application/game.
zMoviePlayer
June 1, 2002 – June 1, 2002
ZGroup Mobile was the first company to offer real (not only an animation or presentation of consecutive images) video player viewing on mobile devices back in 2002. The first version of zMoviePlayer ran on black/white devices and it was able to offer around 14 frames/seconds on the slow Siemens SL45i. The solution has progressed a lot since then and now it can show video on any java-enabled handset (without sounds). While implementing the solution there are two choices: • Stand-alone: In this version when the user downloads the midlet then he/she is downloading the engine plus the clip itself. No Internet connection is needed. • Internet Version: This version includes only the Engine and the capability to connect to the network and download the content from the Internet. The application has two versions: • An optimized version that runs on all Nokia, MIDP2 devices plus wide range of new Siemens, Motorla, Samsung handsets. The optimized version offers twice the number of frames per seconds at half the size. It can run movies at 4-6fps and between 10-30 seconds on a 64k limitation. • A standard version that runs on all java-enabled handsets. This version offer about 2-3fps (depending on speed of target device, newer devices are in most cases faster) with around
Cultural Fit Analysis
The candidate's profile shows a strong entrepreneurial drive, with a history of founding, investing in, and mentoring numerous startups across various technology domains, particularly mobile and search. This indicates a preference for dynamic, innovative, and fast-paced environments. Their diverse project portfolio, ranging from mobile applications for various industries to search engines and data mining, suggests adaptability and a broad technical interest. The target role of 'Android Developer' aligns with their historical mobile development background, but their recent roles are more strategic/investor-focused. A cultural fit would be strong in an organization that values innovation, autonomy, and a strategic, big-picture approach, potentially in a leadership or architect role within Android development rather than a pure coding role.
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The candidate's extensive experience as a CEO, investor, and mentor in numerous startups suggests strong leadership, strategic thinking, and business acumen. Their involvement in building companies from scratch and managing diverse teams indicates resilience, problem-solving, and operational management skills. The Forbes Technology Council membership further highlights thought leadership and industry influence. However, the provided data does not offer direct insights into day-to-day team collaboration, stress handling, or specific communication styles within a team context.