Ghassan Halazon is the CEO & founder of Emerge Commerce, a diversified, rapidly growing acquirer and operator of niche e-commerce brands across North America,  with a market cap of $135 million after only a month of listing on the Toronto exchange (TSXV: ECOM). 

Ghassan speaks to Imad Shawa about the mantra and approach of EMerge, the profile of target acquisitions, employee equity, and the mental toll of being an entrepreneur and CEO. 

Ghassan Halazon is a Jordanian-Canadian technology and e-commerce entrepreneur, born and raised in Amman, Jordan. He attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and holds an MBA from Georgetown University.  Halazon worked with Citigroup as an investment banker in New York before founding TeamBuy, Canada's first group buying marketplace, in 2009. 

Follow Ghassan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghassan-halazon/  

This episode is sponsored by Mlabbas.com, the leading print-on-demand apparel & accessories provider in the Middle East. 

About the Host:  Imad Shawa is the founder & CEO of Mlabbas, a  print-on-demand apparel & accessories business.  Prior to that he worked in corporate banking at Arab Bank in London, and as an underwriter at Hartford Insurance in New York.  Imad is a Chevening Scholar with an MA in Near East Studies and Islamic Law from the University of London, SOAS. He also holds a BSc in Finance and International Business from New York University's Stern Business School.  His interests are politics, technology and graphic design.  

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