C3 Social Impact Accelerator Program 2021

Holly is a corporate trainer and coach and the founder of FH Insights. Holly started FH Insights in 2012 with a desire to help people improve their relationships and their ability to work successfully with others. With a passion for understanding people, a keen business eye and a desire for continuous learning, Holly uses these skills to help business professional reach new levels of under standing and performance.

Holly brings energy, humour and a breadth of knowledge to the training room. She can keep a room of diverse individuals engaged and balance the right amount of information giving and probing for self-discovery. Her passion and understanding of the topics she trains creates a positive atmosphere in the training and leads to improved performance. Holly establishes long lasting working relationships with clients; FH Insights best clients now are those that started with the business in 2012. Holly continues to grow the business through her network; and most importantly referrals from happy training attendees. As a coach Holly is focused, attentive and guides the coachee to make real changes that lead to real results.

Before working in training Holly worked in Sales and Marketing Management roles in the UK and Dubai. Managing diverse teams, Holly quickly learnt that what works for one person won’t necessarily work for another. This led to an interest in personality and behavioral tools which gave her the foundation knowledge for her work today. 

Moustafa is an award-winning author, speaker & coach.

He is considered as one of the world’s top experts on the use of passion to spark creativity, entice innovation and awaken the entrepreneurial spirit of a true leader.

Moustafa is ranked as one of the top 100 leaders of the future (from a pool of over 12,000 applicants) by world’s #1 Executive Coach Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, and he got nicknamed as Mr. Passion by Prof. Tony Buzan Inventor of mind mapping. 

Tarig El-Sheikh is an experienced entrepreneur and finance professional with a 20 year track record across emerging markets in building global businesses, technology startups and finance. 
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Most recently, Tarig was the Chief Product & Marketing Officer of Yacob and Webteb two companies which he helped grow to be the leading MENA ventures in their respective domains and, ultimately, to the successful exits of both Companies in 2019.
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Previously, Tarig was the CEO of Beneple, an HR and health management platform that was successfully acquired in August 2015 after only eight months of operations. Before that, he co-founded a global e-commerce custom menswear company, Knot Standard, specializing in online and retail sales of custom clothing using proprietary online measurement technology. 
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Tarig also serves as an advisor to numerous leading private equity firms and family offices and has worked extensively with the leading Accelerators & Incubators (IndiBio, 500 Startups, NYU StartAD, CONNECT, Sheraa, AliCloud/Dtec, DFA, Astrolabs).
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He also sits on the boards of various companies that he has helped successfully launch.
Tarig’s on-the-ground and direct experience in developing business plans, budget, sales and marketing, corporate development strategy, managing corporate & board responsibilities, has successfully lead to numerous million dollar growth capital funding rounds from prominent investors & VCs.
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He holds MBioch in Molecular Biochemistry from Oxford University, and also graduated top of his class with a Distinction MSc in Finance from the prestigious Cass Business School, London.

Tena is a gender and development expert passionate about women empowerment, community development and social impact measurement. She is based in India with extensive experience in the Middle East, Caribbean, Africa and South and Southeast Asia. She is the Founder of Project Kal, a gender leadership academy focusing on dismantling toxic masculinity patterns in India. Before Project Kal, she was the Co-founder and CEO of The Sustainability Platform, a social impact consultancy dedicated to integrating social business principles into core business operations. Tena is also the Head of Social Impact for C3-Companies Creating Change.

As a mentor, Tena has traveled to Gaza, India, Africa and all over Europe to help female-owned startups grow, and is a board member for a number of impact-driven organizations.
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Tena is a regular speaker at social business conferences around the world and a contributor to Training Magazine Middle East and Entrepreneur ME, as well as a TEDx speaker.
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She has been awarded Global CSR Leadership Award, 100 Global Sustainable Leaders Award and the Iconic Women award. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Development from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and an MA in Social Entrepreneurship from Hult International Business School.

Kevin has over 20 years of strategy and finance experience across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, with broad exposure to different sectors and business models within complex and dynamic environments. He has previously held Head of Strategy positions at AW Rostamani Group, a large UAE family conglomerate, and OSN, the leading Pay TV platform in the MENA region, responsible for managing the group strategy development process, business portfolio mix optimisation and investment strategy, including corporate venture capital. He has also held senior finance positions at Global Integrated Security, Networkers International Plc, and Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. He has substantial experience in high growth, fast-paced, innovative environments, with exceptional strengths in strategic development, evaluation, and execution, investment, M&A, valuation, and analysis. Kevin is a qualified chartered management accountant (London, UK) and an MBA from Warwick Business school (Warwick, UK).