BELGRAVIA ADVISERS - Key Persons
Senior Executive with demonstrable experience working in multicultural environments and proven achievements in managing complex roles and projects. Hazem has more than 20 years of experience in sales, business development and management. His experience particularly lies in business development and growing sales, with specialties in technology, e-commerce, and telecom. He has proven success in many regions around the world including the UAE, Brazil and UK. He has also successfully lead Transtek Systems Sales and the Business Development division for 10 years and was the GM of Transtek Systems mobile VAS subsidiary for six years before joining Belgravia Advisers in 2017.
Nick is a widely travelled finance professional with over 40 years' experience in his field. Nick has worked in various roles for major organisations such as Price Waterhouse, American Express and Norton Industries. Nick was also a Senior Director of an international oil trader with offices in Geneva, Amsterdam and Singapore; a company with annual turnover in excess of $6bn. Nick was responsible for the reporting and tax function and had the sole responsibility of winding the group from 2008. Nick holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of London and an MBA from City University London and holds an international Oil Trading-Princeton Oxford Certificate. He is also used to working in French, German and Dutch.
Pedro is currently the CEO of InEvent. InEvent is a Y Combinator venture backed company providing an event, marketing and sales platform for Forbes 2000 Global companies, including Amazon, Coca-Cola, KPMG, Santander, Unilever, Boeing, Embraer and Citibank. Previously Pedro started a company in college where he had more than 10,000 monthly active paying users. He is an Y Combinator Alumni, a 40 under 40 founder by Association Magazine, a UK Event Tech Award Winner and a Gold Crocodile Award Winner.
Co-founder of Akdemia (a Techstars accelerated ed-tech company in Latin America in charge of scaling to over 60,000 users), Valentina has executed SEO, web design and marketing strategies in a fast-paced start-up environment. Holding a masters degree from Hult International Business School and accountant by trade, she has managed the finance department of MANPA - one of the largest pulp and paper companies in the continent before finding her passion in web design and product management. She have lived in 5 different countries throughout her life before settling in London - her favourite place in the world. She speaks fluent Spanish and English and is constantly looking to learn new things.