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On the Internet, Class of 1968 (Part 2): Samer Khanachet & J.P. HarpigniesFROM: Arab Bankers Association of North America, AND Spuyten Duyvil.netSamer Khanachet, president of United Gulf Management, Inc., has spent over 25 years managing investment banking companies with a focus on developing innovative approaches to matching capital and opportunities between the Middle East and the US. Mr. Khanachet earned B.S. degrees from MIT in Chemical Engineering and in Management Science. In 1975, he graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and joined the Industrial Bank of Kuwait, a government controlled institution. He worked on the initial development of Kuwait's capital markets, the financing of industrial projects and providing them with technical, financial and strategic support. In 1980, Mr. Khanachet joined the Sharjah Group, a Kuwaiti-owned investment company with offices in London and throughout the Arabian Gulf. As Executive Vice President, he developed a strategy to diversify the company from its dominant local stock market activity. In 1990, Mr. Khanachet joined the Kuwait Projects Company (Holding) as General Manager to develop and implement a global strategy. In 1996, Mr. Khanachet reduced his Kuwait responsibilities to pay greater attention to the U.S. market and the sourcing of further opportunities, technology, know-how, products and ideas to support KIPCO's many regional activities. Mr. Khanachet has a keen interest in education and in Middle Eastern affairs. He is a member of the Corporation Development Committee and the Educational Council of MIT, of the Advisory Board of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, and of the Board of Trustees of Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a Cambridge private school. He is president of the Arab Bankers Association of North America and director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. ************************************************************************ J.P. Harpignies, a radical “new left” student activist in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. and Europe, has been involved with many environmental causes. A former program director at the New York Open Center and contributing editor to its magazine, Lapis, he is an associate producer of the annual Bioneers environmental conference as well as a program consultant and conference producer for other organizations. He is the author of Double Helix Hubris (Cool Grove, 1997), a polemical critique of genetic manipulation, and co-editor (with Kenny Ausubel) of the first two titles in the Bioneers book series: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions (both Sierra Club Books, 2004). He is also a long-time instructor of Taijiquan based in Brooklyn, NYC. SOURCE: http://www.arabbankers.org/my/shared/custompage/custompage.jsp?_event=view&_id=445505_c_sU127360_s_i133194 AND http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/authors/JPHarpignies.htm |
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