Ghassan Halazon
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Jordanian
BCOM, McGill University
Ghassan Halazon | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | Canadian Jordanian |
| Education | MBA, Georgetown University BCOM, McGill University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Title | Founder, CEO, Emerge Commerce |
Ghassan Halazon is a Jordanian-Canadian technology and e-commerce entrepreneur. He founded EMERGE Commerce, Inc., a Toronto based acquirer and operator of direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands.[1]
Halazon was born and raised in Amman, Jordan. He attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and holds an MBA from Georgetown University. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.[2]
Career
Halazon worked with Citigroup as an investment banker in New York before his foray into e-commerce and technology startups that began in 2010.
He founded his most recent venture, EMERGE Commerce Inc., formerly Transformational Capital Corp., an e-commerce consolidator, in 2016.[3]
EMERGE Commerce completed its public listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange on December 14, 2020, under ticker TSXV: ECOM.
Halazon is a member in the Board of Directors of the Canadian Arab Institute. [4]