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Chehadé's career has been defined by building consensus and promoting
collaborative technologies and practices. He has more than 25 years of
experience in building and leading progressive Internet enterprises,
leveraging relationships with senior executives and government officials
across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.</p>
<p>Chehadé, age 50, is a citizen of Egypt, Lebanon, and the United
States. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Egyptian parents and left the
then war-torn country in 1980 at the age of 18. He speaks fluent
Arabic, English, French, and Italian.</p>
<p>Most recently he served as Chief Executive Officer of Vocado LLC, a
U.S. firm that is a provider of cloud-based software for the
administration of educational institutions.</p>
<p>Prior to Vocado, Chehadé was CEO of CoreObjects Software, Inc., a
leader in new product software development services for both large and
growing companies. He oversaw the expansion of the company to include
more than 400 engineers and its successful acquisition by Symphony
Services.</p>
<p>Prior to his role at CoreObjects, Chehadé served as the General
Manager of IBM's Global Technology Services in the Middle East and North
Africa. Based in Dubai, he led a team across an emerging region
experiencing high growth. He also built and managed a new global
business for IBM, providing managed services to large clients in
telecommunications, aerospace and retail to improve the accuracy, depth
and timeliness of business information visibility across demand and
supply chains.</p>
<p>Chehadé founded and has led three companies since 1987:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Viacore</strong>, launched in 1999, was the world's leading
B2B process integration hub offering a complete solution of specialized
software and services for global 500 companies. In 2006 he led
Vicaore's successful acquisition by IBM.</li><li><strong>RosettaNet</strong>, a non-profit multi-stakeholder company
founded in 1997. Chehadé rallied all the leading ICT companies in the
world including IBM, HP, Microsoft, SAP, Nokia and Oracle to collaborate
on B2B standards. RosettaNet became the high-technology industry's
leading eBusiness standards consortium. RosettaNet adopted a
multi-stakeholder approach to define and standardize a complete
inter-company process language, enabling the ICT sector to use the
Internet for real-time process synchronization between thousands of
trading partners.</li><li><strong>Nett Information Products</strong>, launched in 1987 to
create and develop an Internet-based content management and sharing
solution, successfully weaving hundreds of ICT suppliers and thousands
of their resellers into a powerful collaborative business web of
applications and content. Ingram Micro the world's largest ICT
distributor acquired Nett, where Chehadé became vice president of its
Customer Information Services Group.</li></ul>
<p>Chehadé is a graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a
master's degree in Engineering Management. He earlier earned a
bachelor's degree in computer science from Polytechnic University in New
York, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.</p>
<p>Fadi Chehadé is also the founder of Nilorado, a youth organization
raising funds to support schools for handicapped children in Upper
Egypt, also delivering bicycles to boys and girls from needy families in
that region who otherwise cannot reach their schools.</p>
<p>Chehadé lives in Los Angeles with his wife of 25 years. They are the parents of two adult sons.</p></div>
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