Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joseph Tabet is the Founder and Chairman of Pragma Investments Management. Based in Dubai, Pragma Investments delivers industry-leading investment performance across the Middle East and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states. Before launching his career, Joseph studied in Paris, France and in Beirut Lebanon. After gaining a Bachelor in SME (small and medium sized enterprises) Management from the Ecole Des Cadres in Paris, Joseph moved to Lebanon. After a further three years of study, Joseph emerged with a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics, this time from the Lebanese American University in Beirut. His first professional role was as a Sales Executive at Emirates Computers in Dubai. Joseph Tabet joined Emirates Computers in 1991 as a sales exec. The company was launched in the early life of tech, in 1978. Emirates Computers was the leading provider of IT corporate solutions in the Middle East in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among tech experts, designers and an innovative, forward thinking working community, Joseph honed his business skills. Just two years after joining the company, Joseph was promoted to Division Manager. Between 1993 and 1995, Joseph represented Cisco Networking Solutions, Zenith Computers, Oracle applications and Roland DG while developing his career path. By 1995, Joseph was General Manager at Emirates Computers, and three years later Executive Vice President. Joseph has sincere respect for successful entrepreneurs across all business sectors. His driver is success, and this showed from an early age and while his career was still developing. While making the leap into senior management, Joseph was busy launching start-up companies across the same space. Between 1997 and successfully started and ran four companies in Dubai: Between 1997 and 2003, Joseph was founder and CEO of Hyperlink, which managed Oracle Supply Chain Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. From 1998 until 2003, Joseph was CEO for this Middle East region Dell distributor. Again the founder and CEO, Joseph ran this network of Nokia service centres across the MENA region. In 1999, Joseph also founded Primex Marketing Solutions, which began life offering marketing solutions for the IT sector across the MENA region. He left this position in 2006, after taking the company through the tech changes of the early '00s.
Pragma Investments Management was launched by founder and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Tabet in 2003. Based in Dubai, the company focuses on financial engineering, real estate investment, private equity investments, microfinancing companies with potential and angel investment.