Hesham Zreik

Project Manager and Software Engineer in the United Arab Emirates

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Note: Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits.

Hesham Zreik is a technology professional and a serial entrepreneur with strong academic & business backgrounds and a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. Hesham is multilingual and can speak, read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.

Hesham Zreik is currently more of a business guy, but he wrote his first BASIC programs/games in 1990. Over +28 years He built many applications in Pascal, C, C++, Java, Java ME, Prolog, Lisp and Perl.

Hesham Zreik started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5 million in 2005 (by Public company Incagold plc). Hesham has also founded FasterCapital which is a virtual incubation in UAE. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) more than 30 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 200 regional partners, +100 offices worldwide and more than 200 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 30 incubated startups. He has also helped also in the marketing and supervised the execution.
During his work in FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: Edunoor: online learning platform with social components, Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content, Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization, abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered, Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer, Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. He also cofounded TVlize.com, Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com and many more.

  • Work
    • www.fastercapital.com
  • Education
    • Heriot-Watt University