Fadi Chahine Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

8 Dimensions is a value-based, integrated interactive digital media agency that helps aspiring regional small & medium sized businesses grow their revenue, profit, brand equity and achieve ambitious growth.

Beirut, Lebanon

Despite immense amounts of wealth and increasingly vibrant Middle East and North Africa economies, businesses still find themselves lagging their developed market peers in terms of access to and affordability of research, analytical, and other business support tools. EconoMENA promotes productivity gains in the region, and especially among consulting and financial businesses, the firm strives to develop affordable world-class research and analysis tools along with several key business support services to local markets.

Beirut, Lebanon

Mr. Chahine is the founder and the Managing Director of RPN, a Middle East-based news agency, corporate intelligence service provider and source of news and information about, and from the MENA region.

Beirut, Lebanon

Director of the Beirut Branch of Zawya.com, a Dubai-based information services firm which provides business, economic and financial news about the Middle East and North Africa.

Beirut, Lebanon & Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Managing editor of the Zawya Dow Jones newswire in Beirut. The mission I realized for ZDJ was to define and articulate an editorial vision, and lead a team in implementing this vision.Daily activities included generating story ideas, assigning stories, and managing a large editorial team and budget.

Beirut, Lebanon

Responsible for overall planning and development of the Online Edition, integrating products and community to build compelling content that will retain audience. Developed creative and innovative editorial solutions, news placement and priority, adding or removing news sections, site tools or services and monitoring site performance. Also responsible for editing wire and original copy, writing headlines and captions for all stories, columns, photos and other editorial material that appear in The Daily Star Online Edition. Other duties included researching new content partners and liaise with existing partners while keeping up to date with all partner obligations. Increased revenue for the Online edition by 300% in less than six months. In addition, Chahine has been working with company founders, investors, and bankers in seeking institutional & angel funding for the company.

Beirut, Lebanon

Developed a proposal for a business strategy including unified global brand building, revenue strategy and proposed multiple revenue platforms to diversify the business model. Worked closely with the Company's founder, acted as internal mentor and added to the knowledge management function within the firm. Other responsibilities included creating an efficient editorial workflow for the daily and weekly newsletters. In addition, Chahine had worked with the firm's founders, investors, and bankers in seeking institutional & angel funding for the company.

Durham, North Carolina - United States

Responsibilities included identifying, accessing, analyzing and building an on-going network of country partners within the Internet/wireless space in over 25 countries. Partners included telecommunications companies, Internet service providers, web development companies, media and publishing conglomerates, wireless & mobile service providers and others. Identified and executed international alliances and strategic acquisitions with third party content and product partners to develop revenue opportunities through Internet/wireless platforms including business-to-business, e-commerce and stock exchanges, turnkey portal solutions and content syndication. MENS became a subsidiary or RPN in 2005.

Durham, North Carolina - United States

Responsible for the daily acquisition, compilation, publication and syndication of news content. Also in charge of data archiving, client interaction, implementation of new content procedures & policies. Additional responsibilities included online publishing, content distribution, web development and other IT related tasks.