Walid Mansour Venture capitalist

Chief Monkey and Founder of WallStreetOasis.com, an online community of finance professionals and students trying to break into careers in finance with over 1.5 million visits and 4.5 million pageviews per month.

I built a billion dollar publicly-traded retail company in Asia in 7 years. I was also the CFO of One Laptop per Child, one of the largest social entrepreneurship ventures in the world. Author: Billion Dollar Company: An entrepreneur's guide to business models for high growth companies. I have done 15+ joint ventures, licenses and partnerships in both Asia and Latin America. I teach at Florida International University and have taught at MIT Sloan School. Speak Spanish.

- Recently engaged in investing in global luxury opportunities - Previously spent 8 years in investment banking (M&A) and private equity in Europe and Middle East at J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley - Previously spent 3 years in Business Consulting at Morgan Stanley and Arthur Andersen in Europe - Executive MBA in Global Fashion Management from Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), Paris, France, in partnership with New York Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) - MS in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from Ecole des Mines, Douai, France