Dr. Wissam Rabadi is a senior executive with over fifteen years experience in Strategic Planning and Management, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, and the Commercializing of Innovations.

Dr. Rabadi is currently the Executive Director of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation-Amman Office, and is the Acting Director of iPark Technology Incubator at the Higher Council for Science and Technology.

Before joining ASTF, Dr. Rabadi was the Director of Research and Business Development at King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) – Electronic Systems Group

Dr. Rabadi is a cofounder of the Zakroff Group, LLP, a Houston-based firm that provides investment advice and business development consulting services to Small & Medium Size U.S. corporate clients looking to expand their marketing and operations in developing countries including China, Middle East and Latin America.

Prior to that, Dr. Rabadi was the Strategic Business Development Manager at Texas Instruments Inc. in the US where he worked as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and as a member of the Strategic Planning Group. His work at Texas Instruments included Systems Design, New Product Development, Commercialization of New Technology, Business Development and Incubation, Venture Investments and University Research Funding. He led the effort of starting and growing several multi-million dollar business units serving various vertical markets such as Digital Photography, Internet Music, Electronic Security, Optical Communications, and Bio-medical applications. He managed major Fortune 500 customer accounts including HP, Kodak, Siemens, Nortel, Sony, Sharp and Cisco.

Dr. Rabadi was Professor of Computer Engineering at the American University in Dubai (AUD), a visiting professor at the University of Houston and a Research Assistant at the Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Laser (CREOL) in the USA.

He serves as a Board Member of the Licensing Executives Society-Arab Countries, and was the President of the Arab American Antidiscrimination Committee (ADC)-Orlando Chapter. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an active member of the Association of Corporate Growth, the Houston World Affair Council, and the Middle East Institute.

Dr. Rabadi holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan, a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida and an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin. He published a long list of papers, spoke at various international conferences and holds several patents.