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Ayad Alhadi is Partner, Client and Product Solutions at Apollo, where he is responsible for covering the Middle East. Prior to joining in 2010, Ayad was Managing Director in the Marketing Group at Galleon, and Managing Director in the Marketing Group at EIM before that.
Ayad is a graduate of Babson College.
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