Hazem James Abolrous

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Bio

As a brilliant innovator, strategist, and creator of original ideas, programs, and products, Hazem has been a trailblazer in innovation management and global learning development and implementation. Hazem spent 18 years at Microsoft, focusing on incubation, data, AI, product development, and company transformation initiatives. He was a sought-after speaker at the Executive Briefing Center on innovation and engineering practices. Hazem was the Managing Director at Crosslake, advising global Private Equity on value creation and M&A.

Hazem founded RingStone in 2020, working with global Private Equity for buy-side technical due diligence, sell-side due diligence, and value-creation initiatives.

RingStone (https://www.ringstonetech.com) works with investors, software, and tech-enabled companies to add value to their businesses and investments. RingStone provides technical due diligence, benchmarks, various assessments, and company optimization services including software architecture and organizational diagnostics.

Current position (3)

CEO

RingStone

Managing Director

Crosslake

Director

Microsoft

Presentations

Presentations (7)

Approach to technical due diligence and successful investments

Technical due diligence is a fundamental part of every M&A transaction, determining the ability of a business to maintain, grow, or integrate its market share after a transaction. It is vital to the success of any investment thesis.

7 things innovative companies do well

Why are some companies great innovators and leave the rest in the dust leaving us in awe while others struggle? Get an insight into the key secrets that those companies all have in common.

Private Equity investment strategies and the future

PEs typically carry some financial credit risk along with unavoidable management and execution risks. But unlike Venture Capital, Private Equity has historically carried minimal risks related to already-proven products and established markets for the asset categories they focus on. This is changing due to increasing legacy software and AI capabilities in established products and the wake of faster speed of technology development.

https://www.ringstonetech.com/post/technology-is-shifting-the-risk-profi...

What is Agile and please tell me why?

What does Agile really mean with examples of real-life scenarios and transformations? What does your company have to do to be "Agile" in business and technology? How to gain efficiencies to improve your bottom line and company value.

What to look for when acquiring a company?

What are the top areas in the technology stack to consider when looking for a merger or an acquisition? How to approach due diligence and how to go through it? https://www.ringstonetech.com/post/understanding-tech-due-diligence-chec...

How to prepare for a Sell-Side Diligence?

There are only gains by running a sell-side technical due diligence process and the benefits outweigh the investment. Start the sell-side technical due diligence early and commit to prioritizing and addressing all the issues that are possible to address while benefiting from the exercise.

Digital Evolution and what will be in Data & AI

It's all about data! It has always been about data and this next revolution is unlike any other one in our history. Dozens of incubations under my belt with early experiments in AI and data since the 1990s.

https://www.ringstonetech.com/post/the-competitive-edge-for-business-and...