Fouad Jeryes is the co-founder and President of Maqsam, one of the Middle East’s fastest-growing AI-powered cloud contact center platforms. Under his leadership, Maqsam has become a regional category leader,powering thousands of businesses across the GCC and beyond, and redefining how companies deliver customer experience through Arabic-first AI, advanced voice infrastructure, and a modern cloud communications stack.

A serial entrepreneur and investor with exits under his belt, Fouad previously co-founded 4 ventures, most notably CashBasha, one of MENA's earliest cross-border e-commerce ventures, and played a foundational role in communities such as Amman Tech Tuesdays, contributing to the rise of the region’s startup ecosystem.

Today, Fouad is recognized as one of the region’s prominent voices in AI, customer experience, and founder culture. His work sits at the intersection of voice technology, cloud infrastructure, and Arabic language intelligence, spanning speech recognition, sentiment insights, large language models, and fully autonomous AI agents built for real-world, high-volume enterprise environments.