Nida Sumar, with over 20 years of experience in the MENA and North American regions, is passionate about helping businesses establish a solid foundation for growth, with a particular focus on finance, impact, sustainability, food, gender equity, mental health, and financial inclusion. She excels in optimizing processes and improving efficiency at the grassroots level, aligning these efforts with a unified macro vision. She is driven by a commitment to actionable, measurable impacts and results.She successfully built and sold a food technology company, KEZA Dining. In 2018, she founded The Table Project, creating dining experiences in the UAE that have catered to over 8,000 diners from 121 countries. In 2020, she launched a virtual accelerator program designed to bring female founders to revenue in 60 days, aiming to neutralize gender bias in the investment and startup space. In 2022, she led the production of Sharjah’s first Entrepreneurship Podcast, and in 2023, she became an advisor to the CEO of the first and largest government incubator in Sharjah. Nida also works independently as a speaker at events and as a finance consultant.