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The MINT Fintech Hackathon
The MINT Fintech Hackathon
Posted by: EGBANKEgypt

Judges

  • Noha Shaker

    Noha Shaker - Secretary General
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: The Egyptian Fintech Association

    Noha Shaker brings more than 18 years of experience in Consulting, Banking and entrepreneurship. She has studied Business administration, strategic management and financial engineering at leading schools in UK. She has passion for financial inclusion and sustainable finance, and has mentored many promising startups in the MEA market.
  • Moemen Salem

    Moemen Salem - Head of Youth Banking
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: EGBANK

    Moemen has 18 years of banking experience with speciality in product development & design. Worked in several multinational & regional banks across Egypt, Middle East & North America. Moemen holds a BA degree in Business Administration from Cairo University & Executive Education programs from London Business School & Harvard Business School.
  • Ahmed Tantawy

    Ahmed Tantawy - Head of Retail Risk
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: EGBANK

    Ahmed has more than 12 years experience in Risk Management, has worked in several multinational banks. Ahmed is very interested in Lending platforms & fintechs. Ahmed holds a Fintech Certificate from Oxford University.


Mentors

  • Ahmed El-Sharkasy

    Ahmed El-Sharkasy - CEO and Co-founder
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Knowledge Officer

    Ahmed El-Sharkasy is a software engineer and product manager with more than 10 years of experience working in world-class startups in the Middle East and Europe in Ecommerce, Fintech and Edtech. He was the first engineer at Bkam, a leading price comparison website in the MENA and was also the first engineer at Onfido, the leading identify verification service in the UK and Europe. After going through one of the top accelerator programs in Europe (Entrepreneur First), Ahmed is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Knowledge Officer, a London-based EdTech startup with a mission to build the shortest and most efficient path to employment and career progression. He has also been included in the list of top 100 influencers in Edtech.
  • Ahmed Sabri El Shanawany

    Ahmed Sabri El Shanawany - Head Of Mobile Money
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Orange Egypt

    Ahmed Sabri El-Shanawany comes across with 18 years of diversified banking experience with Commercial International Bank (CIB) in serving corporate and retail segments by developing a customer centric approach grounded in business realities, to deliver digital services that are relevant, affordable and accessible to the end user. Currently Ahmed is the Head Of Mobile Money at Orange Egypt that exists in 17 countries with global exposure combining the telco experience with banking to serve and penetrate the un-banked segments to achieve financial inclusion as a strategic objective
  • Dr Anuraag Guglaani

    Dr Anuraag Guglaani - Partner
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: MBG Corporate Services

    Dr. Anuraag Guglaani, Ph.D, is a Partner for Strategy, Turnaround, Expansion, Digital Transformation and Cyber Security at a Global Consulting firm, MBG, having 15 offices in 6 countries and 500 professional team members providing advisory in Taxation, Auditing, Accounting, Risk, M&A, Legal and Technology services. Dr. Guglaani is based out of Dubai and is a known personality amongst the affluent business community in Middle East and South Asia, having led multibillion dollar worth family business groups to leadership status by helping them create and implement their Business Strategy, achieve profitability goals, turn around underperforming business units, drive increased revenues, Mitigate Risk, Expand globally and embark on Organizational cum Digital Transformation.
  • Floreta Zhulali

    Floreta Zhulali - Senior Digital Transformation and Innovation consultant
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: EGBANK

    Floreta is a C-Level product and marketing executive, focusing in Fintech and Innovation With over 18 years of experience in start-ups and mature companies in Europe, Asia and Africa, she brings a wealth of knowledge in building bridges between strategy and execution through result driven performance. Her skills and expertise include agile leadership, innovative product management, human centred design and data driven decision making.
  • Hassan Ali

    Hassan Ali - Founder & Managing Director
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Teknolojia

    Hassan Ali has 10 years of experience in the field of electronic Banking and E-commerce. He is the founder of Egypt's first FinTech & Blockchain consulting and training provider Teknolojia. Hassan has worked alongside some of the region’s leading startups such as Elves and Otlob all while holding experience as a public speaker and trainer on subjects including Innovation, FinTech, and Blockchain. Hassan delivers FinTech and Blockchain training to Egypt’s largest banks and has trained more than 2500 banking employees in addition to training and mentoring many FinTech entrepreneurs.
  • Ibrahim Hassan

    Ibrahim Hassan - CEO
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Digified

    Ibrahim is Digified co-founder and CEO, with more 9 years of experience working with international and local organizations such as The World Bank, Korean Green Growth Trust fund, PwC and the American University in Cairo. He is heavily experienced in business development, project management and international development cooperation. At Digified, Ibrahim's role is overseeing strategy planning, implementation and directing business development efforts, besides managing investors and business partners relations, most importantly the Central Bank of Egypt relations and other respectable partners. Ibrahim successfully managed and supervised international cooperation projects between government entities, private sectors and international development agencies, with excellent communication, planning and management skills. Also, he was awarded his masters’ degree (MPA) from the American University in Cairo
  • Ismail Tekin

    Ismail Tekin - Founder & CEO
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Lambert & Co.

    An understanding of global business relating to domestic and international markets. Extremely dynamic character with an ability to unite people from all walks of life. Deeply passionate for our environment, innovation, technology, ethics and humanity. Expert in international relations, high profile transactions and mentorship programs. Global B2B shared service solutions, e-commerce and international trade.
  • Mazen Ballout

    Mazen Ballout - Country Manager - Middle East & Africa
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Forrester

    Mazen Ballout is a highly driven Technology and Business Leader with 18+ years of leadership experience in building and coaching best in class Sales organization, excelled in defining and penetrating Emerging Markets and capitalizing opportunities to strategically drive consistent double digits growth for large Enterprises, SMEs, Technology start-ups & disruptors. Over the past few years Mazen followed his passion with supporting CxOs in delivering Customer Obsessed strategies, Coaching & mentoring Startups & disruptors in Fintech, investing in Research-tech companies and Executive Advisor to different industry leaders. Mazen's core expertise lies in business transformation, GTM and new market penetration in Tech space, evolving over the years from a pure advisor to Executive leadership. Starting his career with some of the worlds' greatest consultancy and to Research Technology companies Like Gartner, to a founder and co-founder in the digital world, today Mazen is the Country Manager for Forrester Middle East & Africa overseeing some of the most remarkable Business transformations for industries and enterprises that have had to go through in recent times. Mazen hold an M.B.A degree as well as a B.sc in computer Engineering from Lebanese American University, Lebanon, in addition to global certification of Leadership mentoring, AI in Business and Customer Experience.
  • Rami Al Karmi

    Rami Al Karmi - CEO
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: Ahli Fintech

    Rami is a proud geek, futurist, investor, and executive advisor. He is a member of the advisory board of Fintech Galaxy. Rami is the senior vice president and chief innovation officer at Jordan Ahli Bank, also he is CEO of Ahli FinTech the 1st Bank fully owned financial technologies company and fintech accelerator in the middle east. Rami is a mentor at 500 Startups, Unreasonable Future, and Startupbootcamp fintech, chairman at Arcoten, Octonius.com, member of the board at Al Raed Arabi School, and member of the advisory board of Fintech Galaxy, Think Barter Network, Roybi AI Robots, and WAKE International in San Francisco. Rami founded his 1st startup at the age of 19, he holds an Electrical Engineering degree from University of Jordan, and completed the Venture Capital Executive Program at HAAS UC Berkeley, and “The Leading for the future”, and “The Leading, Organizing for Action” Executive Programs at Harvard Kennedy School, and the Senior Executive Education Program at UC San Diego.
  • Amr Sanaa

    Amr Sanaa - Startup Mentor
    Theme: Digital Lending & Credit Scoring for Non-Clients
    Organization: SWYFT Egypt

    Amr Sanaa is a fintech expert in the Egyptian market with 20+ years of experience in the field of distribution and financial services, he has devoted 90 percent of his practice to serve customers for the last twenty-one years in the operational and executive management of telecommunications technologies and e-payment services, with practical experience in market planning and operations management. He has worked for multinational organizations in the field of banking and telecommunication and privately-owned companies as well, he has worked extensively with the local market partners and fully understands the behavior of both the customers and merchants through his years of experience and the different roles and projects that he carried out during his years of experience.

Participants
56

Team size
2-5

Registration Start Date
Jul 16, 2020

Registration End Date
Aug 20, 2020

Shortlisting Date
Aug 27, 2020

Hackathon Start Date
Aug 31, 2020

Hackathon End Date
Sep 06, 2020

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