Meet Your Expert Course Directors

Waseem Anwer
Managing Director
Chicago Capital Group

Waseem Anwer is Managing Director of Chicago Capital Group, a New York advisory firm as well as Managing Director of Gulf Capital, a boutique investment bank. He advises companies on issues in corporate finance, strategy and governance. He is also adjunct faculty member at the City University of New York.

Ayman Zahreddine

Ayman Zahreddine is a consultant in urban planning, urban design and architecture. He advises clients on planning strategies, public and private development, predesign issues project set-up briefs, strategies and guidelines in both urban and architectural scale. He is also a visiting lecturer at the American University of Beirut.

Ayman has advised clients on urban planning and design, programming in developments and architectural design. In his assignments he has addressed projects of a varied nature, including those with urban, civic, institutional, commercial and educational scope. He has worked with public, corporate and private clients in North America, the Middle East and Asia. Ayman was also a lecturer and visiting critic at Harvard University, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Syracuse University in the United States.

Previously, Ayman was Chief Development Coordinator at Invivia Inc in Boston. He also worked with Dyer / Brown Architects in the United States and London for seven years. Ayman holds a master’s degree in architecture and urban design – MAUD (Class Marshall), with a concentration in urban planning and real estate development, from Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Syracuse University.