Ghassan Halazon | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | Canadian Jordanian |
| Education | MBA, Georgetown University BCOM, McGill University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Title | Founder, CEO, Emerge Commerce |
Ghassan Halazon is a Jordanian-Canadian technology and e-commerce entrepreneur. He founded EMERGE Commerce, Inc., a Toronto based acquirer and operator of direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands. [1]
Halazon was born and raised in Amman, Jordan. He attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and holds an MBA from Georgetown University. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. [2]
Halazon worked with Citigroup as an investment banker in New York before his foray into e-commerce and technology startups that began in 2010.
He founded his most recent venture, EMERGE Commerce Inc., formerly Transformational Capital Corp., an e-commerce consolidator, in 2016. [3]
EMERGE Commerce completed its public listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange on December 14, 2020, under ticker TSXV: ECOM.
Halazon is a member in the Board of Directors of the Canadian Arab Institute. [4]
In 2011, Halazon presented a talk at the TEDx Talk Dead Sea. [5] In 2018, he presented a talk at the TechTO conference entitled 'Beyond the Wreckage. [6] In November 2018, Halazon was a speaker at the Harvard Arab Conference. [7]
In 2011, Halazon was listed among Canada's 30 most eligible bachelors by Canada's National Post. [2]
Halazon appeared on the Canadian version of the entrepreneurship reality TV show "Dragon's Den," and attributed some of his success with TeamBuy to the exposure gained through the show. [8]
Halazon sits on the Board of Directors of the Be-Abled Society, a non-profit organization that assists people with non-visible disabilities transition back into everyday life. [9]