Founder

The US team, headed by Mr. Karim Belaid

Karim Belaid's Biography:
Mr. Belaid, Founder and Director, is an accomplished technology and advanced science business development professional with over twenty years experience in business success on US and international levels. He has impressive capabilities in identifying and handling major international trade opportunities.

He is well trained in US & international Import & Export, contract negotiations, strategic positioning and advanced international business development and marketing. Karim is multilingual with an extensive world travel history.

Karim’s international professional journey started in Algeria-North Africa, after graduating as engineer from the National Institute of Hydrocarbons (INHC), by heading the sales department for a national company in charge of chemical product imports and local distribution. He later furthered his studies at the University College London (UCL)-UK where he prepared his Masters (MSc) in electrochemistry providing research to the European Community. After continuing his MSc, he worked for over 12 years in the Silicon Valley-California, USA, where he excelled in business and yielded millions of dollars in profit working with global networking and telecommunication companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Tekelec, IBM, Cisco, Siemens, NTT, China Telecom, etc..

Karim founded Tijara International, LLC an international trade company in 2012. He strongly believes that Africa is the new business frontier and will serve as a global hub providing tremendous business opportunities for the US and worldwide companies. One of his current focus areas is to support the development of the African market. With the US trailing behind China in Africa and the current US administration’s focus to invest in Africa, Tijara International, LLC, is well poised to facilitate business connections between the two continents and play a significant role in economic wealth equalization between Africa and the rest of the world.

Examples of Current Work

·        He bridges resources in the United States & England-UK with companies, entrepreneurs and other entities located in the Middle East & Africa.

·        He serves as a member of the US Trade Delegation to Algeria, North Africa, providing his expertise to businesses and the media.

·        He is a resource to the US Department of State in the area of international trade in connection with the US Partners for a New Beginning Project which assisted IT entrepreneurs in the North African region.

·        He is a resource for the US Commerce Department on bridging projects involving the US, Africa and the Middle East.

. Karim Belaid on North African Media (just search for Karim Belaid):
- The EL MOUJAHID newspaper:
  http://www.elmoudjahid.com/fr/mobile/detail-article/id/25600

- An article on the Algerian Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany:
  http://www.konsulat-algerien.de/Competences%20Nationales%20etranger.htm

Karim is based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA and London, England.