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Rama Chakaki

President of Qatar Science & Technology Park

Rama Chakaki’s passion is at the intersection of impact and tech investing. She is a tech professional with 30 years of experience in media, telecom, edtech, fintech and AI.

Rama is currently President at Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), leading the organization’s mission to make Qatar the global hub for deep tech and impact. She is a partner at Transform VC, a firm on a mission to unlock the potential of our community’s tech entrepreneurs to each make a​ billion and impact a billion. She also took on a COO role at aiXplain, a Transform VC portfolio company on a mission to democratize AI.

Rama co-founded VIP.fund, a non-profit incubating technologies to empower 2,500+ marginalized youth in the Middle East. Run by its beneficiaries and a volunteer community, VIP.fund has built a tech platform and digital support community that crowdfunds for higher education and creates employment opportunities in tech.​

Rama also founded Baraka Ventures, the first impact tech incubator in the Arab world; worked on projects supporting the Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid as a social impact​ strategy advisor, the World Bank Group as a communications advisor to the UAE Ministry of Labor and Kuwait Ministry of Finance, and Etisalat UAE as an advisor for a youth market product strategy; and built BarakaBits, the first digital content platform focused on good news out of the Middle East.

As the COO of Eastnets, a global provider of compliance and payments solutions for the financial services industry, Rama led two investment rounds and scaled the business from 22 to 200 employees. In her late 20s, she, along with five colleagues in Washington, D.C., raised $60m in funding to build 11 data centers worldwide.​

Rama holds a M.S. and B.S. in computer engineering and engineering management from George Washington University and continued education in scaling impact from Stanford University. Rama has been featured in Forbes Arabia, Arab Women Rising, and The Power of Presence,​ among other publications. She is a 2017 TedxBeaconStreet speaker.