Name: Dr. Maher Chebbo

Title : Vice President Utilities industry Europe Middle East and Africa

Affiliation: SAP Paris La Défense Cedex FRANCE

URL: www.sap.com

Country: Paris, France

‘VENTURE’ - Industrial (internal) Venturing: through sourcing entrepreneurship ideas, incubation and building innovative prototypes that could become successful products on the international markets.

‘BUY’ - Corporate (external) Venturing: through Venture Capital investments, such as regional Gulf Venture Capital Association (GVCA) which promotes within the Gulf countries, and through Mergers and Acquisitions.

‘Among the Energy value chain, all sub-vertical streams will get into huge transformation plans which require consistent and sustainable investments in Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Retailing, Customer Services and deregulated processes.’

“Knowledge Economy is the capitalization on best practices and know-how that would enable countries to do ambitious industrial projects by themselves rather than depending for ever on others.’

For further information on advice or consulting, please contact Dr. Clint Ackerman.