Advisory Board Member Profile
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Jemal Idris
Founder & CEO
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Areas of Expertise:
Your Customers - Their Journey, To Market - The New Business Plan, The Design Thinking Organization
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With decades of experience as an entrepreneur and executive, Mr. Jemal Idris is a leading international business strategist and advisor. Mr. Idris started his first business in 1985 out of necessity in Southern California after fleeing a war zone in Eritrea few years earlier. In an effort to provide for his family while continuing his professional development, he founded an education company that would eventually partner with leading educational organizations like Thomson Education Direct, the American Management Association, ELS Language Centers and Education Testing Services (ETS) to provide distance learning in over 30 countries before the internet.
After a successful exit, Mr. Idris would go on to consult top multinational corporations operating in the Near East, such as Chevron Arabia, The Saudi French Bank and served as a founding board member for Dale Carnegie Arabia. Mr. Idris has since founded Washington Performance, an award-winning international consultancy helping organizations of all sizes launch products and services globally and develop a performance-oriented culture necessary to realize international growth opportunities. A true cross-cultural business leader, Jemal speaks 4 different languages and has traveled over 2.3 million air miles developing an extensive global network reaching Europe, Asia, the Middle East & Africa, and Latin America.
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