Amr Shady
Co-Founder & CEO, Accord Partners · Technology Entrepreneur · AI & Financial Services
📍 San Francisco, California & Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
✉ amr@accordpartners.ai
🔗 linkedin.com/in/amrshady
I build and back AI-driven service businesses. A technology entrepreneur and operator with over three decades in financial services and telecommunications and 15 years in applied artificial intelligence. I have founded and scaled companies across four continents — North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa — including Tribal Credit, which raised over $180 million from QED Investors, SoftBank, and other leading global investors before its acquisition in 2024. Earlier, I built TA Telecom into a mobile-technology platform reaching 36 million users across ten countries. I currently lead Accord Partners, building the first AI-powered roll-up of audit and accounting firms in the region. I hold an MSc in Business Analytics from NYU Stern and a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from Dalhousie University.
$180M+
Raised for Tribal Credit
36M
Users reached at TA Telecom
560%
Revenue growth '09–'14
Experience
Co-Founder & CEO · Accord Partners
Dec 2025 — Present
A holding company that invests in established Saudi audit and accounting firms and deploys capital, technology, and AI to expand their capacity and quality of service — the first AI-powered roll-up of professional-services firms in the region.
Head of B2B · Klar
Oct 2024 — Dec 2025
Led the business-to-business line at one of Latin America's leading digital banking platforms.
Chief Executive Officer · Tribal Credit
Nov 2019 — Oct 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Corporate financial-services platform providing payments and credit to emerging-market businesses. Raised over $180 million from QED Investors, SoftBank, and other leading investors; scaled across Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Acquired in 2024.
Chief Executive Officer · AiNGEL Corp.
Sep 2016 — Oct 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Built a patent-pending machine-learning platform to identify game-changing startups ahead of time, giving venture capitalists early detection of the next breakout company based on a proprietary algorithm and an extensive founder feature set.
Chief Executive Officer · Reveel Inc.
Oct 2014 — Jun 2016
San Francisco Bay Area
Predictive-analytics platform measuring the performance of mobile subscription services to grow revenue. A SaaS company spun off from TA Telecom.
Chief Executive Officer · TA Telecom
Jan 2000 — Sep 2014
Egypt · MENA & South Asia
Grew over 17 years from pitching mobile advertising in Egypt to a full mobile-technology platform serving businesses, NGOs, and consumers — processing ~1.4 billion transactions annually and reaching 36 million users.
- Revenue grew 560% (2009–2014); ranked Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Africa & Fast 500 EMEA.
- Operated across Egypt, Nigeria, Afghanistan, UAE, KSA, Libya, Rwanda, Cameroon, Morocco, and Sudan.
- Built Buzz (content delivery), Mazady (mobile auctions), and MegaKheir (mobile donations raising millions yearly for charity).