Executive caught Rudy Sayegh at a bad time. “There’s blood on the street,” joked HSBC Lebanon’s managing director as he walked into his office. Sayegh had just wrapped up a …
Vanessa Khalil

Vanessa Khalil
Vanessa is a Beirut-based journalist, researcher, and communications specialist. Across these three disciplines, Vanessa has extensively covered the regional and global banking and finance; media and advertising; and tech and entrepreneurship landscapes over the past decade.
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Eager to turn the page on money laundering scandals and rumors that hounded the industry at the beginning of 2011, Lebanese banks have gone on a summer retail advertising binge. …
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He may be a business-savvy art connoisseur with a scholar’s comprehension of modern Arab art, a buyer for the London-based Fine Art Fund Group and a founder of Lebanon’s Agial …
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An avid Lebanese contemporary art enthusiast, Marwan Kheireddine, chief executive officer at Al Mawarid Bank, recently sat down with Executive to talk about his personal art collection, his take on …
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Rami El Nimer is general manager at First National Bank (FNB) and an experienced art collector. He chatted with Executive about how his art collection fed on history and identity, …
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Simon Cooper is deputy chairman at HSBC Bank Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Herecently sat down with Executive to discuss the effect of the regional unreston business and investment …
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If anything can be reliably forecast amid the growing upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, it is the direction of global food prices. They have currently settled at …