Adham Azzam

Adham is a highly experienced and personable leader who boasts over 20 years’ experience in financing and investment. Fluent in Arabic, French, German, and English, his career has seen him work across Europe and the MENA region. He is currently pouring all his passion and knowledge into helping SMEs across the region grow and prosper through LNDDO’s digital lending solutions.

NDDO is the pioneer of digital lending for SMEs in MENA. The company leverages technology and big data analytics to deliver innovative credit products to businesses across the region with a current focus on the UAE, Egypt and KSA. Through its proprietary digital loan underwriting and origination technology platform, it is delivering financing solutions to vast sections of the economy underserved by traditional financial institutions. It is developing partnerships to fund working capital for SMEs through ecosystem partners such as payment gateways, e-commerce, large manufacturing supply chain corporates and F&B Manufacturers.

Prior to co-founding LNDDO, he spent a number of successful years working as a Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Cooperation (IFC) in MENA region. This saw him advise governments across the region on structuring and implementing PPP projects.    Meanwhile, he started his career by spending 15 years’ working across various prosperous European corporations, and he holds degrees in Engineering from the French Engineering school INSA, and an Executive-MBA from INSEAD.