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Global investment summit invites Gaza-based company for the first time
Ahmed al-Saidi, CEO of Sell Envo (Selling Environment), a company specializing in software development and technology consulting, was surprised to receive a phone call from the U.S. Department of Commerce in mid-May stating that the company had been accepted worldwide. Select US Investment Summit 2022 dedicated to promoting foreign direct investment in the United States.
The news came as a surprise to both Saidi and his team, as he knew very well how competitive the top was. Hundreds of large international companies operating in more than 50 international markets compete to participate in the largest conferences organized by the United States Department of Commerce in Washington. And for the first time, a company from the Gaza Strip will participate along with hundreds of companies from Europe, the United States, the Gulf countries, the Arab region, Japan, and China, among others.
SellEnvo, launched from the Gaza Strip to countries around the world, is considered one of the first local companies to produce an e-commerce system. It provides many electronic services to customers in the United States and Europe, employing many programmers who specialize in the software and technology sectors.
In an interview with Al-Monitor, Saidi believes that the U.S. Department of Commerce had several reasons to offer this opportunity to his company in particular and not to other companies, including the fact that SellEnvo offers all medium and small businesses a good opportunity to expand their business and supply their products online in markets that would not have been readily available had it not been for SellEnvo.
He added: “The conference organizers are very interested in the impact this type of project leaves on small investors and what SellEnvo can do in the United States. The goal behind their participation [in the US] the prospect is to broaden their current clientele and expand their business in the United States, given how useful it would be for the activities of the US economy. ”
At the SelectUSA 2022 Investment Summit, which will be held June 26-29 in Washington, SellEnvo will be equipped with a key stand to host company representatives and showcase its products through an electronic platform. The company will also have the ability to network with many US institutions, be they official institutions or commercial and unofficial companies.
“SellEnvo is a program that integrates into the rest of the systems and the summit offers a great opportunity for SellEnvo, as it will allow them to communicate with many potential partners and find other platforms that can work with SellEnvo, which ultimately expands our customer base, ”Saidi explained.
In the Gaza Strip, where SellEnvo was launched before it started having branches around the world, Fadi al-Ashram, the company’s chief executive in Gaza, told Al-Monitor that the company recently launched a special initiative to IT companies in the Gaza Strip as it has developed a common platform for several companies working on evaluating IT graduates and existing executives. The project, he added, also helps Palestinian companies to access cadres easily.
Ashram said the Palestinians have advanced software development and IT layers. “There are illustrious executives and companies in the Gaza Strip that can compete globally and provide the best software.”
Abdel Salam al-Zein, co-founder and director of the company’s subsidiary in the Netherlands, told Al-Monitor that the company is currently implementing a unique project, the SellEnvo project, with the aim of serving many customers outside Palestine. The project specializes in the management of the online buying and selling process of products capable of competing with products of international companies. The project, he continued, specializes in pre-and post-sales operations, particularly in terms of warehouse management, sales management, and purchasing management, among many other types.
Zein said that one of the goals pursued by SellEnvo managers is to make e-commerce accessible to all so that factory owners can export their products and open new global markets while creating job opportunities by opening online stores and facilitating sales operations through an available tool that meets all e-commerce requirements.
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