Alberto HADDAD

Managing Partner, Melcion, Chassagne & Cie

Alberto Haddad is the Boston-based Managing Partner of Melcion, Chassagne & Compagnie. He advises entrepreneurs and supports them in the development of their projects over their lifetime. Alberto Haddad also serves on the advisory board of Gatetrade a global electronic marketplace for the trading of edible oil and is a member of Mentonet.

Prior to Melcion, Chassagne & Compagnie, Mr. Haddad ran his own advisory company, Technology Square Partners and acted as the CEO-US for France-based Startup Avenue.

Prior to that, Mr. Haddad founded Vialusso.com, a luxury goods internet business serving the B2B and B2C communities. Before founding ViaLusso, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, a leading Strategic Management consulting company in their London office. At McKinsey, he spent five years advising Fortune 100 clients and technology upstarts. During his tenure, Mr. Haddad spearheaded McKinsey’s efforts in the Middle East, and established their offices in the UAE.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Haddad held various management positions at Eastman Kodak. He was worldwide director for supply chain and logistics for Industrial Imaging and before that headed international business development for Clinical Diagnostics, covering the Middle-East, Africa and South East Asia. He also worked for IBM and Olivetti in France from which he spun off with a team of senior managers to help start INSEL, a generic-brand computer manufacturer.

Mr. Haddad holds a Msc (MBA) from MIT Sloan, a “diplome” in international business and Finance (Ecofi) from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a B.A. in Economics from the American University of Beirut.