A serial entrepreneur, mentor, consultant, and an executive director with over 25 years of hands-on business experience. Furthermore, I am an adjunct professor of management and marketing with the executive school of management at the American University in Cairo, the college of management and technology, and the postgraduate school of business at the Arab Academy for science and technology and maritime transport. Integrating academic knowledge with practice enriched my experience in terms of gaining in-depth insights about the methods of creating successfull link between theory and practice.