Wissam "Will" Yafi

The best way to describe what I do at TIDWIT is Helper in Chief. My job involves supporting our customers, partners, and awesome team to grow and reach their phenomenal ecosystem potential. TIDWIT was founded on the simple notion that relationships are at the heart of any successful endeavor. This has never been truer than during this age of ubiquitous technology, as companies look to differentiate their offerings. My team and I are focused on providing tangible value by interconnecting organizational ecosystems on one standardized, automated, and insightful platform, which allows our customers to focus on building relationships. Growing the TIDWIT ecosystems network has meant a singular focus on innovation with cutting-edge solutions, making it easy to launch, connect, manage, and measure ecosystem performance. It gives me great pride to be leading the TIDWIT team and leaving a positive footprint in more than 90 countries, with millions of users, as well as some of the world's largest global corporations such as Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Adobe, AT&T, Verizon, among others ...

In this role, I consulted for global organizations like Microsoft to deliver strategic partner strategies, frameworks that would empower business alliances and go to markets. The global deliveries included reports, content, training, as well as the management of strategic partner relations to reach certain goals. - Created strategic alliance frameworks that delivered on Infrastructure Optimization, Business Productivity Optimizations, and Application Optimization. - Worked with a global team of subject matter experts as well as program managers - Delivered hundreds of sessions on 5 continents, enabling hundreds of partners - Discussed strategies with both partners and their customers including: product configuration strategies, pricing strategies, service and support strategies, as well as growth strategies - Set goals and objectives for local teams and their alliance partners - Gauged and delivered results with multi-year comparisons

Knowledge management and e-commerce computer software and services company focused on serving the financial, petroleum, and government sectors. • Designed and presented the business plan for the startup to a group of international investors • Negotiated startup funds and credit facilities with local banks and international investors • Managed various software development and implementation projects • Organized, recruited and managed up to 30 engineers, programmers, and employees • Continuously developed the mission, strategy, objectives, and goals of the company • Created and projected the marketing image of the organization on a multinational level • Oversaw budgets and managed the organization through detailed financial analysis • Managed both client as well as supplier relationships- mainly US technology companies • Worked extensively on an “aborted” merger during 1998 • Serving in advisory capacity and as a board member at present

First FT job at a Value Added Reseller: • Managed organization's cash flows handled an average of $3 million of monthly cash flows • Negotiated more than $700, 000 in credit facilities with banks and suppliers • Became shareholder and financial advisor to the CFO and Chairman • Implemented systemized operational procedures within the organization • Attended to audits by outside auditors as well as government agencies

Studied Economics and Finance and minored in Information Management. Volunteered with International student body.