It started as a way for his mother to go back to the u. S. , but the overwhelming response he received convinced the family to go all in. From one small stand in beirut, he is using his own company to market the brand and boost his success. Time now for this high flyer to join us on the singapore flyer as he tells us how he is designing the future. Haslinda Christopher Karam. Welcome to highfliers. It was a coincidence and it was a love story. Tell us your story. Christopher i am born to an American Mother and a lebanese father. The way my father ended up in United States was via scholarship. There was a civil war in lebanon that lasted 25 years and it made it difficult for him to continue his education there. A best friend of his applied on his behalf to the university of texas and he coincidently got a scholarship to go there. So he moved there and my mother, out of 40,000 students, fell in love with the only lebanese guy who had no money, and when he finished his education wanted to
Her father co-founded the company in a garage in 1976 to make calculators and microprocessors, but it is now among India's largest software services providers.
Forbes has released its ninth edition of the "30 Under 30 Asia" list, celebrating 300 young entrepreneurs, leaders, and trailblazers under 30 driving innovation and transforming industries across the Asia-Pacific region. The list includes India s Akshit Bansal and Raghav Arora, co-founders of Statiq, and Bhagya Shree Jain, Founder of The Disposal Company. Sharify Services, founded by Bansal and Arora, offers a nationwide network of charging stations for electric vehicles.
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