May Habib’s impressive record started at Harvard University,
where she gained a degree in Economics and Near Eastern Languages and
Civilisations in 2007. With that in hand, she began working at Lehman Brothers,
where she helped US software companies raise capital.
From 2009 to 2011, Habib was vice-president of the Abu Dhabi
sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, where she helped to build a portfolio she says
is now worth more than $20bn.
Today, she is the co-founder and CEO of Qordoba, a
technology, cloud-based company that globalises digital content and employs 31
staff.
“If you had told someone you were building a tech team in
the Middle East a few years ago, they would have thought you were insane! Today
we’re showing we can write software here that disrupts industries,” Habib told
the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards in 2014.
Habib was born in Lebanon, grew up in Canada and spent
several years in the US before moving to the Middle East in 2009.
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