Disrupting the world of construction

Amir Dehghan

Amir Dehghan, Expansion & Strategy Lead at AstroLabs, specializes in guiding companies through their KSA expansion strategies and offering advisory services for scaling strategies. Amir has over 8 years of management consulting experience spanning diverse sectors. Prior to AstroLabs, Amir led various advisory projects for corporates and large SMEs across Europe and the Middle East, with a focus on market penetration and growth.

Imad Itani

Imad Itani is the Innovation manager for ALEC, one of the leading construction firms in the Gulf region. Imad is an experienced construction professional having background in delivering high profile projects including airports, theme parks, hotels and high-rise towers. He is known for utilizing experience, proactive project management skills and different innovation tools to transform practices in the construction industry.

Imad is highly motivated with a genuine eagerness to learn and develop thus keeping pace of new procedures, strategies, and technologies to stay abreast of developments across different fields.

Passionate about people and utilizing interpersonal skills to increase collaboration between all parties hence adding value across the whole construction ecosystem. Imad has also completed multiple certifications including PMP, EMBA from INSEAD in addition to many other certifications and trainings including innovation.

Imad has been leading the innovation drive across ALEC since early 2017; working with many staff across the organization and promoting the innovation culture. Since inception, many new initiatives were driven from simple ideas into successful projects that generates value to the organization. Continuous improvement is a prime focus and have been utilizing technologies including Data, Analytics, Technology & automation in addition to 3D printing, where it adds value, in increasing efficiency and process improvements. Imad has been featured in many articles explaining construction innovation and have also presented in multiple forums.

Laura Mansour

Laura Mansour is the Program Director at Flat6Labs. She previously worked at Microsoft for Startups where she managed their flagship B2B technology accelerator program. Prior to her job at Microsoft she was part of the investment and venture growth team at Falak Startups, an accelerator based out of Cairo – Egypt. Laura has experience in management consulting as well; she led the EMEA business development team for an Edtech startups based out of the London UK.

Jourdan Alexander Younis

Jourdan focuses on five main areas: Venture Capital, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, and Company Boards/Corporate Governance. He is especially passionate about Proptech, Fintech, and Blockchain, and the practical application of these technologies to help people build better lives for themselves. He has experience as an entrepreneur and investor in all these areas with a history of successful exits across multiple jurisdictions and cultures.

Jourdan currently serves on the Board of Directors for several companies and delivers executive level courses on behalf of universities and major financial institutions in emerging markets. Today, some of the organizations Jourdan focuses on include Presidio Invest, Mowgli Foundation UK, and Alpin. Presidio Invest, a venture company that focuses on collaborating with VC firms, family offices, incubators, alumni associations and funds for investments and deal flow, and Mowgli Foundation UK, a non-profit, are focused on supporting founders and start-ups in the Middle East and Africa to develop/scale in the fields of Cleantech, Fintech and Edtech. As an active director of the board, Jourdan helps these firms to fulfill their ambitious missions.

Jourdan is also a director and former Managing Director for Alpin Limited, a privately held sustainable development company he founded with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Doha. He successfully brought together over 100 individuals to create a unique, diverse, and high-performing team comprising of PhDs, Building Physicists, ESG Professionals, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and MBAs.