Habib Haddad is a Managing Partner of E14 Fund, the MIT-affiliated venture fund; the firm's own profile page for him gives his title as "Founding Managing Partner" while the team index page lists him as "Managing Partner", and his MIT Media Lab profile describes him as "the founding Managing Partner of the E14 Fund, the MIT Media Lab affiliated venture fund". He holds the title of Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. SEC Form D filings name him as a Managing Member of the general partner of E14 2017 Fund, LP, E14 2020 Fund, LP, E14 Fund 3 Limited Partnership and E14 Fund 4 Limited Partnership. Before E14 he was a founding member of Mok3, a venture backed MIT CSAIL spinoff working on image based modeling software; he founded Yamli, a linguistics startup in Boston that he exited to Yahoo! in 2012; and from 2011 to 2016 he was the founding CEO of Wamda, a platform of entrepreneurship programs, networks and venture fund focused on the Middle East and North Africa region. His firm profile page adds that earlier in his career he worked as an engineer at ATI, later acquired by AMD. He was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009 and named a top innovator under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2011. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Communication Engineering, American University of Beirut
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
Previous Experience
Mok3, a venture backed MIT CSAIL spinoff developing image based modeling software - founding member
Yamli, a linguistics startup he founded in Boston and exited to Yahoo! in 2012 - founder
Wamda, a platform of entrepreneurship programs, networks and venture fund focused on the Middle East and North Africa region - founding CEO, 2011 to 2016