Hesham Zreik

CEO, Board Member

2010 - Current

"The success of a startup is based on the provision of expertise rather than the provision of Money" is my motto. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs miss it. I have cofounded FasterCapital and validated the model from the beginning. I have worked with more than 30 entrepreneurs to validate the model over five years. FasterCapital has currently more than 50 companies that graduated from its technical cofounder program and more than 450 companies in all of its programs. FasterCapital has also more than +1000 regional partners worldwide who represent FasterCapital with more than 500 offices. FasterCapital is a new type of incubator with ambition to solve one of the biggest problems in the incubation industry which is the lack of expertise and human resources needed to build/grow a business. Our model has been validated with many startups so far and it proves to be a great success. We complement what the entrepreneur lacks. Our model is called "co-funding & co-founding" meaning that FasterCapital will come as a cofounder (technical or business cofounder) and as a co-funder investing 50% of the money needed in the form of work per equity. This will enable non-technical entrepreneurs to find the right technical partner to help them build the company and technical entrepreneurs to find the business partner who helps in sales/marketing and scaling. My responsibilities: - Setting up the model for the 'co-founder and co-funder'. - Refining and improving on the model gradually over a period of 5 years. - Supervise personally the development of each project both technically, legally and commercially. - Validate the startup submitted with the other cofounders to decide on which to invest it, what kind of equity FasterCapital will be getting. - Helped in strategic planning for the incubator and when it will be public - Help through personal contacts to setup a good pool of mentors.

Technical Manager

2005

- Building of an automatic convertor that can convert Java Me applications/games to Blackberry devices and later to Android devices. - Designed of auto-wrapper that can inject ads into Java ME, blackberry and android games/apps. - Designed and developed the company's system of serving our publishers by easily choosing the products from our catalogs. The system can easily discover any error in the typing of the product and correct it automatically. The system will also ensure there are no duplication of mobile content ordered between two distributors. This system is already being used by more than 600 distributors worldwide. - Designed and developed RepGen which is reporting tool. It has allowed us to gather download reports from different publishers (each using different standard) and produce download reports for each developer in a unified format. This is very essential since ZGroup Mobile has more than 150 content providers and 200 publishers. - Supervised the development of generic Instant Messenger (Rotto) to allow mobile users to send instant messages. Rotto supports known Jabber messengers such as MSN/Yahoo/Skype/gtalk. . . etc and we developed a dedicated versions that relied on our own servers. - Designed, developed and implemented mLocalization: software allowing the automatic localization (translation of one language to another) of mobile applications directly from binaries. The solution is unique in the world and has been used to localize more than 2000 applications to different languages including Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese. - Content2Mobile: Designed and implemented a set of software tools allowing the conversion of multimedia files from PC compatible version to mobile version. This can be implemented on videos, ringtones, and images. - Search Engine Optimization Tools: Developed several SEO tools to improve the ranking of the website. This guaranteed top ranking of website zgroup-mobile.com on google, yahoo and other search engines.

CEO & Founder, developer and publisher of mobile apps

2002

http://www.slideshare.net/zgroupmobile/zgroup-mobile-full-company-presentation -Segmentation of market for the company's products and customize applications and services accordingly -Secure exclusive deals for distribution of such as top movies and top actors/actresses plus top soccer players. -Strategic partnerships with brand owners to convert their brands to mobile devices. -Yearly gross income increased 100% from 2004 to 2005 and 30% y/y for the period between 2005 and 2011. -Preparing a full marketing campaign for the launching of each new service or set of products. -Analysis of the middle-east market and creating appropriate models and products to target it. -Directly supervised and managed the creation of more than 200 games/applications for mobile devices. -Managing and supervising the marketing and sales team. Each member has a yearly target divided to 4 quarterly targets. -Creating new distribution channels with the new content and services. -Building a clear process of how to manage customers and orders (with a simple custom developed CRM). -Building a system to assess all employees' performance and improve their output. -Continuous analysis of the market and its changing state on yearly basis and changing company's product development, pricing and offers. -Setting a marketing strategy and marketing plan to sell all of company's products. -Setting up the business model, pricing policy and negotiation margins in each territory. -Establishing a standard of communication with companies and transparent business model to be used by the whole sales team. -Get the best quality products delivered on time, on budget, and with a team of internal and external individuals that felt success at every level. -Hiring and developing team, day-to-day management of the company, contacting clients and operators, pointing development directions and leading all projects. -Build the company from scratch with no capital (started with $20/month).

Technical Manager

2002 - 2005

-Design and development of the initial framework for development of games and applications on Java enabled handsets (j2me technology). The framework allow for rapid production of mobile content and the achievement of compatibility with wide range of devices coming from different manufacturers. -Continual update of the framework to meet the market challenges including: Applications should run on slow devices (Java emulation) Mobile handsets have constraints on binary sizes and memory Fragmented list of mobile handsets as each manufacturer has their own lines of production with different screensizes, speed, supported libraries. . . etc. -Designed and developed Maxxon which is a set of libraries allowing interaction between applications on mobile devices using GPRS/3G. Maxxon was used later to develop up to 12 multiplayer games allowing users who are remotely located to play together. This framework was then also modified to support multiplayer games over Bluetooth (19 games developed on this standard) -Designed, developed and implemented zMoviePlayer which is a full solution of movie player on mobile handsets. zMoviePlayer was able to play movies on mobile handsets (even black/white handsets). The solution has two parts, a mobile part to play the movie and a PC part to convert any standard video file into our proprietary format for fast rendering on the mobile handset.

Angel investor & CTO

2012

Edunoor has developed several training and education solutions. We have built a portal allowing peer-to-peer education solutions where users can meet tutors (like private tutoring). We also have built several dedicated solutions that can be installed by universities, schools or teaching centers. Our solutions offer several components such as online sessions, scheduling, social, search and discovery. All of those components integrate seamlessly to offer exciting service. With the diversity of our products and the customization of our services we think that we can address all the issues facing online education and take it forward.

Angel investor & Mentor

2013

Entablet is a technology company specialized in Tablet and Mobile enchanting portfolio of solutions and services, with an engaging service catalog and an enormous service pipeline. Entablet has already produced several products: Tabvertise.com, enfleet and Tabpetit. - Tabvertise.com: Tabvertise is a digital media management solution that is developed and available for both Display panels and tablets network. It gives the administrator full control over all tablets, displays and contents broadcasted individually or in groups and clusters, and it can be managed over the Internet using any form of secure connection. - Enfleet: A fleet management system that can serve multiple clients at the same time. A distribution company can use it to control its fleet of cars, monitor their load, forward orders and many more. Any driver can use it also to report their location, loads and receive orders from adminitration or clients. The solution is also accessible to customers who would like to order goods from the company where they can see nearby vehicles and order goods from it. With serving these three different entities (Administration, Driver and customer), enfleet becomes the number one fleet management solution. - Tabpetit: Imagine that when you Enter a restaurant, a tablet is handed over to you that allows you to control everything you want from viewing the items of the menu with full details about what it includes (if any is not suitable for you) and how it is cooked with a video clip to ordering your favorite dishes, to calling the waitress to asking for extra chair, to meeting the chef till payment and even leaving your instant feedback on every aspect you have experienced during your dinner.

Angel Investor & Mentor & Chief Technology Officer

2006

As Technology takes a huge part of our life and many of our daily actions depend on it, it’s so obviously that we should benefit from it in emergency situations. SavMe app uses the latest smartphone technologies (camera, GPS location, compass,... etc) to help caller and operator deal with the situation at hand quickly and efficiently.Once personal information display on operator screen, caller Medical history appears as well, in order to help the operator react faster. SavMe provides an operator with colored emergency cards reflecting caller Medical status (red: severe allergies and Medical devices - yellow: taking medicine - green: good to go).SavMe has taken the need of mute people into account and allows for text interaction with the operator. This feature is also essential if the person is unable to speak because of a danger that might occur to him/her or when he/she becomes speechless and unable to describe the situation.Video conferencing allows the operator to understand the situation at hand and how to react to it correctly (an image worths thousand words). The operator can also give directions on how to provide first aid to other parties involved.

Seed Investor & Mentor & CT

2017

Angel Investor & Mentor & Chief Strategy officer

2013

Seed Investor and CTO

2017

Chairman & Seed Investor & advisor

2012

Angel Investor & Mentor: Search Engine for Mp3 music, Deep Web

2017