Ismail Chaib is a seasoned tech executive and operator based in Berlin with a decade of professional experience and 15 years of leadership in engineering and product-facing roles. As General Manager at Yassir and a Venture Capital Fellow at Enza Capital, he blends hands-on operational leadership with early-stage investment discernment. Previously as COO of the Open Bank Project he scaled a developer ecosystem to 11,000 fintech contributors and secured major bank customers including HSBC and BNP Paribas. He founded and grew initiatives from startups to nonprofit chapters—cofounding SMS Bridge and launching Makesense’s German chapter—demonstrating repeated success in building teams, partnerships and go-to-market momentum. Comfortable across sales, customer success, and technical operations, he’s known for turning developer platforms into commercial products. His background in state engineering and international masters-level study underpins a pragmatic, product-first approach to scaling tech businesses.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
State Engineering, Information Technology, State Engineering, Information Technology at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI)
Master 2, Information Technology, Master 2, Information Technology at Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
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