Amr Shady

Amr Shady is the CEO of Tribal Credit, where he is spearheading a mission to help bring financial inclusion to startups in emerging markets. From ideation to fundraising, product development to operations, investor to board relations, Amr is leading the overall execution of Tribal's strategy and vision. He is a serial tech entrepreneur and data scientist with two decades of experience in building and scaling startups. Amr co-founded Tribal Credit, a spin-off from his NYU research on using AI to predict startup success at inception. At 22, he started his first company, TA Telecom, and bootstrapped it into a multimillion-dollar business. The Financial Times dubbed it a "local hero" and Deloitte ranked it as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in EMEA. Amr is a former board member of Endeavor and TechWadi, two non-profits that are advancing entrepreneurship in the MENA region and around the world. He holds an MS in Business Analytics from NYU and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Dalhousie University.