Mr. Hassan Abdou is an experienced CEO, investor, entrepreneur and mentor with over 30 years of work experience. He began his career in 1991 in project management with ExxonMobil in the US and Europe and later as management consultant at BCG New York. He then went on to be CIO of EFG-Hermes Private Equity as well as running his own PE firm. Mr. Abdou is currently the Executive Chairman of Gemini Holding. In 2011, Mr. Abdou was appointed to the Advisory Board for the Business School of the American University in Cairo and is on the management and advisory boards of various companies and institutions around the world. Mr. Abdou received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Wharton Business School. He later went on to earn an MBA from the Harvard Business School.