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| The LSS have a ruling board, elected among its members. Listed here are the at the present elected board members |
Raja HABRE |
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Talal HIJAZI |
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Joe ABI-AAD |
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Nasser HAMMOUD |
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Ralp SIOUFI |
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Habib MAAZ |
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Talal Hijazi
Senior Business Advisor in Quality Management Systems at ELCIM- Euro Lebanese Centre for Industrial Modernization, managing the Lebanon Softshore Cluster.
He has 11 years of experience in quality management and the developing and follow up of the Quality Improvement System. He is a QMS 2000 Lead Auditor, certified by IRCA (International Register of Certified Auditors), as well as being a Member of the Technical Advisory Committee concerning the Hospital Accreditation Standards at the Lebanese Syndicate of Hospitals.
He started his career working in the agro food industry at Crown Flour Mills, a major manufacturing concern. From there, he went on to become a free-lance management consultant. He has considerable experience as a quality and auditing consultant at different Lebanese hospitals as well.
He has attended a great number of training courses regarding quality tools and auditing, both in Lebanon and abroad. He continues to conduct and attend similar workshops to invest even further is his education and skills.
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Joe Abi-Aad
Joe Abi-Aad was born in Lebanon in 1962, graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris (Engineering degree) in 1986 and New York University (Masters in Computer Science) in 1987.
He started his career in 1986 with Andersen Consulting (Accenture) in Paris where he was a member of the team in charge of developing the Paris Stock Exchange back office system. In 1990 he joined General Electric Information Services as a business consultant in charge of deploying electronic commerce communities in Europe, linking suppliers and buyers of major corporations such as Intel, AMD, Motorola, SGS Thomson, Valeo, Bosch, SKS, Renault, and Philips.
In 1995 he returned back to Lebanon and founded, Netgate, a company specialized in website design and development.
In 2000 he started Netiks sarl, which became Netiks International SA in 2003 when another partner, M. Georges Antaki joined the company. Netiks is a software house specialized in the development of advanced e-business solutions, namely in the Banking, the Telecommunications and the services business sectors.
Under Joe’s supervision and management, Netiks created its own internet banking platform, already installed at 10 banks and financial institutions in Lebanon and Qatar.
In parallel, Netiks developed a near shore development team in charge of the French market, where it serves software houses and international French companies.
He is the president of ALSI, the Association of the Lebanese Software Industry which cooperates closely with the Euro-Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernization (ELCIM) to sustain the development and expansion of the Lebanese software sector.
Joe holds the French citizenship, is married since 1993 with one child.
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Raja HABRE
In August 2005, Raja Habre was appointed Director of the Euro-Lebanese Centre
for Industrial Modernisation – ELCIM, a Euro 6 Million programme partially
funded by the European Commission. ELCIM’s objectives are to provide
manufacturing SMEs with technical and financial consulting services, as well as
training seminars to improve business performance, enhance product quality and
increase exports.
In October 2007, Mr. Habre was elected President of Lebanon SoftShore, a Cluster
that was created in the summer of 2007 to offer software development services to
international companies, especially in Europe, the US and the Middle East. With
currently 23 software companies and a pool of over 400 software developers, this
cluster represents a unique spectrum of skills, expertise and worldwide market
experience.
Between 2001 and 2005, Mr. Habre worked at the United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation – UNIDO, where he managed UNIDO’s Integrated Programme
for Lebanese Industry. At the same time, he was a senior adviser to the
President of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists. He also worked as an
expert on several European Commission projects in Lebanon.
Mr. Habre has worked with the Lebanese manufacturing sector, in different
managerial and advisory capacities, since 1993, starting as a senior manager in
the Association of Lebanese Industrialists. In the 1980s, he pursued
undergraduate and graduate studies in International Affairs in New England
College and George Washington University in the USA. |
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