Today I am talking to Maan Hamdan of Hexa Global Ventures. Maan is a pioneer of the HRTech space by being the founder of the ATS and HRM system HRSmart. He has also had several other successful exits in the HRTech Space. Maan has been actively deploying capital in early stage HR tech companies for the last couple of years and is having great success. You can watch/listen the podcast on YouTube, Apple, or Spotify.
Maan Hamdan is an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor with a wealth of hands-on experience providing focused leadership, building effective management teams, and creating, developing, and exiting profitable companies.
As a serial entrepreneur, Maan recently founded TechGenies, software development and professional services provider, and TrenData, a predictive Analytics firm. As an investor, Maan invested in many technology firms, including Insala Inc. and MindTap Marketing. Maan sits on the board of Insala, TrenData, and Impact Workforce Technology, among others.
Maan founded HRsmart in 1999, formulating the original vision and strategic direction for HRsmart and leading the company to become a multi-national cloud provider of talent management technology. HRsmart had a thousand enterprise clients in over 30 countries when Deltek acquired it in February 2015.
In other entrepreneurial efforts, Maan co-founded Directel, a multinational paging company that employed over 500 professionals in Brazil and Argentina. He also co-founded and served as chairman of the board for CNI, an executive recruiting firm, and Careernet, a public career board based in Florida.
As a corporate executive, Maan headed the national indirect distribution for PageNet, at one time the largest paging company in the world. He also held various senior sales and marketing positions for telecommunications conglomerate GTE (currently Verizon.)
He received his BE in computer systems engineering from the American University in Beirut and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2016, Maan and his wife, Weeda, founded Education Unbound, a nonprofit focused on helping expand and support software and environmental sciences education worldwide. (www.educationunbound.org)
What You’ll Learn:
Career Change from Corporate to Entrepreneurship
Exits and Failures
HR Tech / Talent Management
Fundraising
Ecosystem Building
Favorite Quote:
“It’s not about managing your employee talent now! It is about managing the people before they join your company and after they leave.”
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