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Expert at scaling startups with confidence; Marwan is a seasoned tech executive, entrepreneur, and innovation leader with over 15 years of experience across Digital Financial Services, Payments, FinTech, Web3, and AI. With a strong footprint in the EMEA and Africa regions, he has delivered 400+ projects for 250+ entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, regulators, and Tier-1 financial institutions. Marwan’s work has driven nine-figure revenues, a 700% profit boost, and a 45% EBITDA margin—proving his mastery in scaling innovation. He’s also a prolific master instructor, having trained over 3,500 professionals with more than 1,200 teaching hours. Marwan currently leads strategic initiatives that help scale FinTech ecosystems, empower founders, and drive responsible tech adoption.
Helping entrepreneurs at different product life cycle stages, from ideation to launch and growth, through reaching a full business plan, detailed technical architecture, Product-Market Fit, Business Model (value creation, monetisation, pricing, revenue streams, and customer success), and Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy.
Helped shaping the future of financial services through key leadership roles at ITS (a global technology provider of tailored banking and payment solutions for Tier 1 and 2 financial institutions), Commercial International Bank (23.7 billion USD in terms of total assets), Central Bank of Egypt, and Network International UAE.
Last but not least, expert at building scalable, robust, complaint, and high-growth business ecosystem across Africa, Europe, GCC, UAE, KSA, Egypt, and Morocco.
Driven by a passion for the startup community, I want to make an impact and help entrepreneurs scale their business and knowledge through relentless innovation. Helping startups build an enterprise ecosystem and develop strategic partnerships using proven tactics and tools for building market-leading and customer-centric value propositions, accessing new revenue pools, and expanding consumer solutions. Hence, drive significant growth at scale, lower Customer Acquisition Costs, and scaling opportunities.