Amr El-Husseini

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Amr El-Husseini is the Founder and CEO of Lodestone Advisory Group, an award-winning US based boutique venture capital and management consulting firm. Amr is a global strategist and investor who has worked across five continents with clients and portfolio companies in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, venture capital, M&A, growth and acceleration, corporate development, turnaround and transformation, international expansion, corporate innovation, and entrepreneurship. 

Amr has been a Master Mentor at the Wond’ry (Vanderbilt University’s Innovation Center) since its inception, where he advises the university, its start-ups, and its entrepreneur community on aspects including business and innovation strategy, start-up growth, financial management, market entry, product market fit, governance, capital raising, and operations. He is a Board member at the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council of Vanderbilt’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC), a center focused on commercializing research through entrepreneurship and corporate partnerships. Over the past decade, Amr has served on the selection/investment committees for local and international venture capital funds and accelerators; a full term on the board of an international banking subsidiary of the QIB Group where he led a successful turnaround effort and reorganization of the bank; and the board of the International Business Council of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. Amr also chairs the board of directors of the Jordan Thomas Foundation, an organization supporting amputee children across the US. He was recently selected to the inaugural Leadership Connect cohort, an initiative focused on small business engagement, leadership, and growth across the region.

Prior to founding Lodestone, Amr served in several capacities, the last of which was the Head of International Development at the QIB Group. There, he was responsible for the bank’s international operations and strategic investments (M&A, Ventures and Integrations) as well as the bank’s international network stretching across Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America. While at QIB, he led M&A deals, successful turnarounds, and restructuring assignments, as well as the development and execution of the bank’s international expansion strategy. Prior to his work at QIB, Amr worked in several banking and consulting roles with regional and international firms including Path Solutions, Fransabank, Ernst & Young, HSBC and Audi Bank.

Amr is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. He also received an MBA from the University of Wales, and a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the Rafik Hariri University where he was presented with the Alumni Achievement Award. Amr also holds the CIPA certification from AAOIFI. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.