Management Team
Meet our management team:
Faouzi Sefrioui, President and Founder
Real estate developer, businessman since 1972
Commissioner, The Washington State Housing Finance Commission
Board member, Vice Chairman of The African Chamber of Commerce
Zine Badissy, Vice President and co-Founder
After graduating from MIT in the early 1970s, Zine served as Assistant General Manager of Royal Air Maroc in charge of financing and purchasing the airline fleet of aircraft. In 1990 he started three aviation-related companies to serve the air transportation industry. in 2006, Zine started developing new farming for production of vegetable oil and bio-diesel in Washington State.
Mohamed Belali, Secretary and co-Founder
Mohamed was born and raised in Morocco; in 1986 he came to the US to attend the University of San Francisco. In 2004, Mohamed and his family started a non-profit organization called American Moroccan International Exchange (AMIE) to promote cultural exchange between Moroccan and American teens. Today, he is a Program Manager with Microsoft and serves as Board Director for multiple organizations.
Advisory Board
Mike Daher, CEO, Denali Advanced Integration
Michael Larson, Attorney At Law, Larson Hart & Shepherd
Mike Lowry, US Congressman (1979-1989), Washington State Governor (1993-1997)
Richard J. McIver, Council Member, City Of Seattle
Noriko Osaka, former Field Officer - United Nations Children’s Fund
Ali Deerhound, Professor, University of Washington Business school
Michael Verchot, Director, U. of Washington Business & Economic Development Center
Jawad Khaki, Vice president, Microsoft corporation