Marcel Dridje

After 30 years of Executive Sales & Business Development experience with EMEA, USA and APAC with High-tech Startups, he is currently coaching, mentoring and training Startups, entrepreneurs and Business Angels in the EMEA region. Marcel is also an Executive Advisor to Startup Ecosystems worldwide and currently onboarding a move to the GCC region based in Doha, Qatar. Marcel leads his advisory services under his consultancy firm “Entrepreneur Avenue”. Marcel is a UK citizen, bilingual in English and French with a working knowledge in Spanish, Italian, German and Arabic.

He co-founded and launched from scratch 2 major BANs : MDBAN (Maghreb Diaspora Business Angels) and MedAngels

He is an EBAN Board Member, being the largest federation of Business Angel Networks. He currently leads their worldwide corporate partnership initiatives .

Some achievements in the Corporate world:

A seasoned European Sales Executive, Marcel has substantial field experience helping IT , Deeptech and Telecom startups in the US and EMEA. Marcel has a broad range of experience in all aspects of sales, marketing, communication and management with direct experience with Fortune 500 enterprises (IBM, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco, EMC, ALU), Scale-Ups (Quantum, Andrew Networks, Pluris, Corvis, Ascend and Airespace) and Governments (France, Tunisia, Morocco, Greece). Three major highlights from his career include helping Airespace to be the #2 WLAN in EMEA market share and positioned Cisco to be #1 WLAN vendor worldwide. He has helped start promoting Cisco VCE alliance (VMware, EMC, Cisco) and the BMC OEM relationship to Kick Start their first SP IaaS Cloud offering on a worldwide basis. He also pioneered the