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Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program

Contact Person: Antoine Abou Samra
Address: Beirut, Museum Area, Damascus Road, Berytech Building, 5th floor
P.O. Box: na
Telephone: +961 1 612 500 ext 5153
Mobile: +961 3 198989
Fax: +961 1 611005
Website: www.baderlebanon.com
"Bader" means take the initiative. More specifically, Bader means we are asking the young generation to take the initiative despite the very difficult political and security environment. It also means we are asking our community to take the initiative to support and inspire the young generation, contribute to their education, and fuel economic growth. For that purpose, a group of 40 young business leaders of various industries, regions, and political parties have joined forces to achieve these goals. And in less than 1 year, despite an extremely difficult situation including a full-scale war and intense internal strife, Bader has reached key milestones. To name a few: Bader has initiated the first Arab Business Plan competition together with MIT (www.mitarabcompetition.com) and LBC, which will be broadcasted in all the Arab world in Q2 2008, thus raising awareness of the young generation of Lebanese and Arabs on the importance of entrepreneurship and its rules. In addition, Bader has successfully launched the first ever equity fund focused on Lebanese Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs) (www.thebbfund.com) thus creating a new equity industry in Lebanon that will ultimately channel hundreds of millions of dollars into SMEs. By doing so, Bader is also pursuing higher purpose goals: promoting team work and spirit, setting new standards in transparency and accountability, and more importantly, making the case that the upcoming generation of leaders of Lebanon has the desire and willingness to take the initiative to work effectively together for the public good. Because we strongly believe that renewing our commitment to Lebanon while it is going through one of the most challenging times of its history is one of the secrets of our country’s resilience.

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