Elias Tayeh is a senior innovation and digitalization expert with over 25 years of experience in financial-sector development across emerging markets, focused on SME and Mid-Cap financing, digital transformation, and the commercialization of early-stage and technology-driven enterprises. He has delivered SME and Mid-Cap innovation and digital-finance programmes funded by EIB, EBRD, KfW, ILO, and GIZ across Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon — advising partner financial institutions on product design, eligibility, and portfolio building, and mentoring founders and MSMEs on business modeling, financial structuring, and access to finance.

As a founder-operator, he has built and commercialized regulated fintech and payment platforms from ideation to deployment, and served as a national representative for angel investment. He pairs a commercial lens of unit economics and scale with a development lens of inclusion and access. English at C1, with French, Arabic, and Italian.