Born in 1981, Sami is an MBA graduate from ESSEC Business School (2004) after a BBA specialised in Entrepreneurship from the American University of Beirut (2002).

He worked in Paris as an innovation consultant for FABERNOVEL, a French innovation-consulting firm. An “entrepreneur for hire”, he developed many innovative services, projects and products for major French and global companies including Orange, Vodafone (SFR), Bouygues Telecom, Google, RATP, and Transdev.

After coming back to Lebanon to revamp Naharnet.com in 2008, Sami founded and launched ihjoz.com into a one of a kind ticketing platform and marketplace. Sami is the CEO and acting CTO of ihjoz and is involved in every aspect of running the company.