She spent several years in strategic consulting and worked with the Dubai International Financial Centre before joining the family business, Depa, for which she then led the IPO.

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Noor Sweid El-Solh has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is the Managing Director of Strategy at Depa, an international interior contracting company listed on the Nasdaq Dubai.

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Noor Sweid El-Solh has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is the Managing Director of Strategy at Depa, an international interior contracting company listed on the Nasdaq Dubai and the co-founder of ZenYoga.

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If SOCAR acquires the Greek company, expect the breaks to be put on any TAP ambitions, particularly as it would be very easy to resurrect the ITGI (Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy) pipeline plans, previously spearheaded by DEPA. Far more importantly, Azerbaijan also knows that for the Nabucco consortium to stand any chance of winning, it needs fresh funding in place, and the strategic involvement of a Shah Deniz II player.

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