About Amr Shady

Amr Shady is CEO of Tribal Credit, where he spearheads a mission to help bring financial inclusion to startups in emerging markets. From ideation to fundraising, product development to operations, investor to board relations, Amr leads the overall execution of Tribal’s strategy and vision. He is a serial tech entrepreneur and data scientist with two decades of building and scaling startups. Amr co-founded Tribal Credit, a spin-off from his NYU research on using AI to predict startup success at inception. He started his first company (TA Telecom) at 22, bootstrapping it to a multimillion dollar business — dubbed “local hero” by the Financial Times and ranked by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing tech companies in EMEA. Amr is a former board member of Endeavor and TechWadi, two non-profits advancing entrepreneurship in the MENA region and the world. He holds an MS in Business Analytics from NYU, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Dalhousie University. Amr Shady is the Co-founder and CEO of Aingel, data science engineer and serial tech entrepreneur.  Prior to starting Aingel, Amr spent 17 years building, scaling and acquiring companies. Passionate about using technology for social good, Amr’s philanthropic work includes founding MegaKheir, a mobile donations platform that connects donors with tens of Egypt-based charities, and RefuKids, a humanitarian initiative aspiring to alleviate the suffering of children refugees.