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Speaker: Ramy Adeeb

Company: Snip.it (Acquired by Yahoo!)

Role: Founder & CEO

Bio: The son of engineers, Adeeb started writing software at 12. A year later, he built a database to manage a large Egyptian corporation’s employee records. The database crashed when it surpassed tens of thousands of records, which Adeeb later said taught him an early lesson in the importance of building to scale.

In 1994 Adeeb was selected to represent Egypt on scholarship at Pearson College UWC, in British Columbia, Canada, where he completed the International Baccalaureate in 1996.

Adeeb holds bachelor’s and master's degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is the co-founder of the Harvard Arab Alumni Association and the Stanford GSB Middle East and North Africa Club.