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Fadi Chehadé

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Fadi Chehadé

Chairman, Chehadé & Company
Fadi Chehadé

Fadi Chehadé is Chairman of Chehadé & Company and a serial entrepreneur who founded and led companies in the digital space, including Vocado acquired by Oracle in 2018 and Viacore purchased by IBM in 2006. He is a Partner at Abry Partners, a private equity firm, where his focus is on strategic transactions in the digital information and Internet sector. He is on the advisory board with the World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is a member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. He serves on the corporate boards of Sentry Data Systems and Interactions LLC, and the advisory board of the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy. Fadi was a Senior Advisor to Prof. Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. While as President and CEO of ICANN, he led the globalization of the organization and guided its historic transition to an independent transnational institution governed jointly by private, public and civic stakeholders. He also held corporate posts at AT&T, Ingram, and IBM where as General Manager, he led IBM's Global Technology Services in the Middle East and Africa.