Management
Nabil N. El-Hage, Chief Executive Officer
Nabil N. El-Hage is the Chief Executive Officer of AEE International, LLC. dba Academy of Executive Education, a company he founded after leaving Harvard Business School to offer top-quality executive training and coaching to senior executives around the world. Nabil was on the faculty at HBS for nearly ten years, and he served as Professor of Management Practice and as Senior Associate Dean for External Relations. At Harvard, he taught courses in corporate finance, private equity, corporate governance, and real estate.
Nabil is also a seasoned executive, having been CFO of two listed (public) companies, and CEO of a Private Equity-backed company for nearly a decade. He has also served on a dozen boards of companies, public and private, large and small. He currently serves on three boards of directors, including an insurance company and a life insurance company-affiliated $50-billion mutual fund complex.
Professor El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
Nabil is also a seasoned executive, having been CFO of two listed (public) companies, and CEO of a Private Equity-backed company for nearly a decade. He has also served on a dozen boards of companies, public and private, large and small. He currently serves on three boards of directors, including an insurance company and a life insurance company-affiliated $50-billion mutual fund complex.
Professor El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
Nadine Bardury, Managing Director, Middle East
Ms. Bardury was Founder and Managing Director of Executive Training & Consulting, serving banks, financial institutions, multinationals, and public sector organizations. She has special expertise and understanding of Middle-Eastern cultures gained through education and work experience. Prior to founding ETC, Ms. Bardury served as COO and President of a private equity-financed U.S. chain of indoor theme parks, as well as COO and CDO of a French chain of indoor theme parks. She also has a background in education, having taught economics to undergraduates in Paris for nearly ten years.