The Team

Chadi Hajjar

Founder and Managing Director

Chadi founded VII Ventures in 2020 following a number of successful start-up ventures in the technology and innovation space. An accomplished and multi-faceted executive with scientific and engineering acumen, he is keenly focused on assessing and reviving business models, team coherence, technologies, and financial models to achieve top- and bottom-line impacts. He currently holds a number of prominent board positions across key markets including the US, GCC and Europe, including with Rebartek, WahedX, Jumbotail and Avisa Myko. Chadi has also been recently appointed as the Chief Investment Officer of the newly formed GCC focused Venture Capital firm “Bunat Ventures”, a venture builder that has recently been registered in Abu Dhabi Capital Markets. A Lebanese national, Chadi holds an Engineering Degree and Executive MBA from ESCP Business School in Paris.

Edmund Olotu

Senior Advisor

Edmund has been consistently recognized as one of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs in the technology and financial services industries and has founded several successful businesses in Nigeria. One of those companies, BlocHQ; previously Techadvance; was named by the London Stock Exchange in 2019 as one of the top 100 most exciting companies in the Continent. Edmund has a Masters in Management Finance and Control from Harvard University.

Abdul Hadhi

Investment Manager

Abdul Hadhi is an investment professional with over 13 years of experience in investments/Finance. He currently manages the investment portfolio of the principals at Decade Company, a Bahrain-based Family Office. Previously, he spent over six years with Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation (USA), where he gained extensive experience working with Tier 1 and leading US/European investment banks. Abdul Hadhi is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA UK) and holds an MBA from the University of West London