• Our Story

  • handprints representing the diverse experience within linguists

    In 360 SMART LINGO, we understand the power of language. We know that finding the right words can open up opportunities, bridge divides, and make the world a better place. That's why we are dedicated to helping our clients communicate effectively and accurately.

     

    We believe that words have the power to transform the world and our services are designed to ensure that they are used in the most effective way. We are a unique, human-first, technology-enabled approach to language services

    language word cloud to clover the many languages and cultures handled

    We have the knowledge, experience, and innovative technologies to make your cross-language communication seamless. With our help, you can be sure that every word is used to its fullest potential.

     

    At the end of the day, we are in the business of forming connections. We are proud to be helping our clients create a more connected and understanding world.

  • Our Character

    At our company's initiation, we aimed to facilitate better mutual understanding among people. As a growing company with team members all over the globe, we strive to find those that align and expand to our authentic identity. We always seek to follow our three core tenants in each project, assignment and interaction.

    Compassion

    We established our business with the goal of aiding people to have deeper understanding of one another. We know how easily mixed messages can impact people’s health, livelihood and growth. We care about the people we help on each and every case.

    Accountability

    We recognize the value of accurate communication, and we take it seriously. In order to ensure your messages are delivered accurately, we have implemented checks and balances at all levels. This includes rigorous review processes that allow us to spot errors and make corrections. This helps us ensure that all communication is accurate, efficient, and effective.

    Tenacity

    We understand that our line of work is rarely easy, and there are always unpredictable challenges along the way. Our collective culture defines who we bring on and how to support them for all types of scenarios. Our talent has this drive about them that takes each turn or curveball with stride. We trust and rely on their commitment and dedication to rise to each challenge every day.

  • Our Founders

    Reem Elkady

    Reem Elkady 

    FOUNDER & CEO

    Reem is an entrepreneur, a clinical pharmacist, and a former interpreter. She held multiple managerial positions and worked in various industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education, and the language industry. Reem has always been an advocate for the human rights of equality, and access to education and healthcare. She decided to invade the language industry to become one of the few women-led companies in the field, lifting her company from the ground up and bootstrapped it to generate +$1m in the first year of operations.

     

    Reem is focusing on the sustainability of the business by driving expansions and securing alliances and partnerships with key players in the healthcare and education fields, as well as decision makers in governments.

    Ahmed Nadim

    Ahmed Nadim

    Co-Founder & CIO

    Ahmed is an entrepreneur, a civil engineer, and a former interpreter. He drives the development of the infrastructure of 360 SMART LINGO. He defined and established the brand, launched the marketing strategies externally and internally, and now focuses on building the company systems in all aspects.

     

    Ahmed started his career as a civil engineer but found his calling in the language industry. That’s when he career-shifted to become an interpreter and decided to create a larger impact on the world by co-founding 360 SMART LINGO.

    Sherif Elhaddad

    Sherif Elhaddad

    Co-Founder & Business Development

    Sherif is an entrepreneur, linguist, and a former interpreter. He left engineering school purposefully so that he could study linguistics and has capitalized on his linguistic ability and affinity for teaching by forming the educational basis of 360 SMART LINGO.

    Through his experience as a medical interpreter, Sherif realized the importance of language access and has made it his mission to create a tailored learning journey for those who are willing and passionate enough to become linguists, in an attempt to break language barriers.

  • Our Team

    Amr El Taha

    Amr El Tahan

    BUSINESS DIRECTOR

    A tactical business advisor and HR Product Manager with 14+ years of experience in local and multinational, profitable and non-profitable organizations, in the industries of manufacturing FMCG, engineering, e-commerce, internet, education, management consultation and language service solutions. Amr is a domain Expert who is capable of transforming functions into dynamic dashboards where management can easily track their master plan progress via an affordable business intelligence tool, raising the efficiency of the work and reducing the cost, which expands the organization annual revenue up to 6 digits.

    He is an experienced service provider, project manager, policies guard, managers' coach, who effectively and efficiently leads people’s efforts on ground and gets things done.

    Asmahan Saif

    Asmahan Saif

    LINGUIST RELATIONS MANAGER

    Asmahan is a psychiatrist, former professional interpreter, and head of linguist relations; with 8+ years of extensive experience in various industries such as mental health, language services, finance, and operations. She is a data-driven manager, decisive leader, and strategic solution architect with a tracking record of successful operations management. Highly skilled in cultivating and leading high-performance teams focused on exceeding business objectives.

     

    Asmahan is focused on excelling in operations excellence within 360 SMART LINGO by managing performance and leading teams' efforts on the ground to achieve business goals in the marketplace.

    Richard Brooks

    Richard Brooks

    BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR

    Richard Brooks is an accomplished business leader with a proven track record of developing profitable companies and associations. He has successfully built businesses around the key principles of stakeholder engagement, technology, and profitability, and has consistently developed international opportunities while navigating the corporate and government world. With experience across multiple sectors, including technology, manufacturing, government, retail, publishing, and non-profits, Richard has positioned his company as a strategic supplier to several key customers.

     

    He has also held board roles at trade and academic bodies in the UK, Europe, and USA, where he was responsible for raising industry awareness, developing professional standards, and managing change.

    Kirsten Barrie

    Kirsten Barrie

    FINANCIAL ADVISOR

     

    Founder/owner of Verte Consulting - I have over 17 years experience as a CFO working with large corporate brands, small businesses, marketing agencies, tech start-ups, retail/e-tail, and professional service businesses.

     

    I'm passionate about effecting change of financial equality by supporting founders (especially women+ founders) and helping them achieve their dreams.

     

    “Because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred, before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.” – Emma Watson

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