Investor Relations Partner With over 8 years of financial services industry experience in London and Dubai, Jumana leads SVVI's investor network and community. His attention to detail and attentiveness to clients ensures that promises are always met and expectations are always exceeded. The genuine partnerships he has created throughout the years, combined with his astute business instinct, have generated tens of millions of dollars in sales for the companies he has built and partnered with. Ramzi’s on-the-ground execution experience is an asset and an advantage. And served clients in 12 of the region’s leading markets. Having set up offices and presence in KSA, UAE, Jordan, Oman, and Egypt. As a founding team member of the first regional SMS Value Added Services Provider in MENA, the founder of the first privately owned and run Radio network, and the founder of the first Social Media services provider in the region, Ramzi mastered the craft of new media and technology large enterprise business and partnership development. Ramzi has capitalized on innovation waves one after the other. Ramzi spent the last 2 decades introducing new technologies to regulators, governments, and large scale organizations in the Middle East and North Africa. His role also entails helping corporates execute their innovation and VC strategies. Operations Partner As one of the main partners at SVVI, Ramzi offers his network of investors the opportunity to invest in some of the hottest VC tech opportunities in the US generating excellent financial returns. In 2004, Zafer co-founded his first company: Modern Media, LTD, a media house that owns and operates popular radio stations which received recognition from the US-based National Association for Broadcasters in 2007 (In 2014, Modern Media was acquired by D&C Electronics). Previously, Zafer co-founded The Online Project, where his team developed and executed digital strategies for Fortune 500 companies and high-profile organizations. He created and led the 500 Startups' Corporate Startup Innovation (CSI) Program in San Francisco, which aims at getting corporations and startups to innovate together. In 2016, Zafer launched 500 Startups' Ecosystem Development Programs in Japan, which scaled to Australia and Latin America in 2017. Zafer worked with entrepreneurs from all over the world as a partner at 500 Startups (2015-2018), through 500's acceleration programs in Silicon Valley and its Ecosystem Development Programs around the world. Chief Executive Officer Partner Zafer founded Silicon Valley Venture and Innovation (SVVI) in 2019 in San Francisco with the aim of working with world-leading governments, corporations, and Institutional Investors on capital deployment and ecosystem development strategies and execution.īefore SVVI, Zafer was at Social Capital, a pioneering VC firm in Palo Alto, where he lead capital formation for the MENA region and later was tasked with spinning out Capital as a Service, an AI, data-driven investment technology set of tools.
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