Ghassan Halazon

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CitizenshipCanadian
Jordanian
OccupationEntrepreneur
TitleFounder, CEO, Emerge Commerce
Ghassan Halazon
CitizenshipCanadian
Jordanian
EducationMBA, Georgetown University
BCOM, McGill University
OccupationEntrepreneur
TitleFounder, 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]

Public speaking

In 2011, Halazon presented a talk at the TEDx Talk Dead Sea.[5] In 2018, he presented a talk at the TechTO conference entitled 'Beyond the Wreckage.[6] In November 2018, Halazon was a speaker at the Harvard Arab Conference.[7]

Media appearances

Philanthropy

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