Zakaria Nana – Founder & Managing Partner
Zakaria founded aZensys in 2006 with a vision to build bridges between Europe and the Islamic world through innovative social business or philanthropic initiatives.
Prior to founding aZensys, Zakaria served as Director at leading innovative companies: Innovatron Data Systems belonging to the Smart Card Inventor’s Group, where Zakaria was in charge of the Franchising & Licensing world activities. Through an Acquisition, he joined the Ingenico Group (World Leader in Smart Card based Payment Systems) as Vice President of Middle East & Africa Region.
Through a Merger, Zakaria was in charge of the Emerging Business Development of Bull Corp (World leader of the Smart Card Technology) within its international network : Asia, Africa & Easten Europe . Zakaria started his career as a Sales Engineer within the Sales network of IBM France since 1989.
Zakaria Nana holds a first degree in Computer Science from Blaise Pascal University and a Master Degree in Business Administration from Reims University.
Zakaria received Executive Program Certificate in international management from Insead, and Columbia Business School where he succefully completed a program in cross-cultural and social entrepreneurship as an Ariane de Rothschild laureate.
On behalf of OSEO (French agency dedicated to innovation), Zakaria acts as an Expert in innovation management.
Zakaria gives lectures about the best practices to conduct business in the arabo-islamic world, for Ubifrance (French agency in charge of international development of SMEs), Institut du Monde Arabe and the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ACFCI, CCIP,…), as well as Business Schools (ESCP Europe/ ESCE,..),
Since 2005, Zakaria supports SOS Pèlerin – The French NGO in charge of defending the rights of pilgrims on their road to Mecca and the Holy land.
