Companies & Strategies

Samer Hanna is both a pioneer in Lebanon’s online economy and a leader in his niche, which, in simplistic terms, is the provision of outsourced information technology (IT). Hanna is …

“The movie business is a gambling business,” says Salim Ramia, chief executive of Grand Cinemas. “When you buy a movie for a million dollars before it is even filmed, isn’t …

A journalist from Executive magazine and 200 others from around the globe were flown to San Francisco last month on a junket that included airfare, two nights at the Hilton …

Joseph Ghossoub is chairman and CEO of the MENACOM group and a pioneer in the advertising and communications industry. The former chairman and world president of the International Advertising Association, …

Soraya Narfeldt is the top executive and founder of the logistics firm RA International. When her business cards came back from the printer with the title “Chairman” instead of “Chairwoman,” …

Good news for middle income house seekers searching for affordable apartments: Sayfco Holding, the Lebanon-based high-end real estate developer is going back to its roots, said Chahe Yerevanian, Sayfco’s chairman. …

Arabic language content makes up only one percent of the total data on the Internet, but after Yahoo Inc.’s purchase of Maktoob.com, the language spoken by 320 million worldwide may …

Edmond (Eddie) Moutran  is the founder of the advertising firm Memac, and is now the chairman and CEO of its successor, Memac Ogilvy. As the first Lebanese advertising executive to …

Stéphane Réjasse, managing director for Fujitsu Technology Solutions in the Middle East, has had a 22-year career in information technology that spans Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Previously based …