Noor Sweid

Noor Sweid is the Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, a venture capital firm based in the UAE investing across the Middle East and Africa. She was formerly Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation. Earlier, she scaled Depa, a family business that became the world's largest interior company and listed on LSE and NASDAQ in 2008 with a billion-dollar IPO, and founded ZenYoga, which grew into the region's largest yoga and wellness chain before being sold to a PE firm in 2014. She is an MIT Sloan alumna, Aspen Fellow, Kauffman Fellow and Young Global Leader.