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Sam Badawi, founder of MEB International, has over thirty of experience in international business. He graduated with a BSEE from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, and taught there for three years before coming to the United States to pursue graduate studies. After finishing his studies he worked for National Semiconductor, where he held a variety of marketing, sales and business management positions both in the United States and Europe.
Upon returning to the US after seven years in Europe, Mr. Badawi founded, and was Vice President of Business Development for, David Systems Inc., a telecommunications equipment company. In this capactity he was responsible for raising 17 million dollars of equity capital from US venture capital sources, Sharp Corp. of Japan and Pirelli of Italy.
Mr. Badawi was also the Managing General Partner of Equity Venture Management, which is the general partner for two venture capital funds which invested, primarily, in semiconductor and communications start-up companies, and provided a very attractive return to its investors.
Mr. Badawi founded MEB International in 1986 and has counted among his clients companies such as Cisco Systems and Crescendo Communications of the US, as well as SQP of France and Delta Electronics of Italy.