The Early Years

Nizar Dalloul was born on April 24^th 1961, in Beirut, to a family that embraced the Lebanese values of education and entrepreneurship. Growing up, he had an innate curiosity about machines and technology, developing a fascination with all mediums of communication.

 

Academic Excellence

After completing his Lebanese Baccalaureate, Nizar Dalloul was determined to follow his ambition to discover how things work. He decided to pursue a degree in Electrical Engineering, but the dire circumstances of the Lebanese Civil War threatened his aspirations. 

 

He moved to Boston, Massachusetts where he pursued a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Boston University (BU). Dr. Dalloul also served as an analog fellow on the university’s faculty after completing a dissertation in Microsystems technologies.

 

 

Following his extensive learning and international experience, Dr. Dalloul wanted to make a difference in the economy and infrastructure of his home country, Lebanon, which had been ravaged by a terrible Civil War. He felt that all of the knowledge and experience he had acquired would have little meaning if he did not apply them in his own nation. By 1990, Dr. Dalloul founded International Technologies Integration (ITI) in Washington DC. ITI specialized in creating telecommunications solutions focusing on the Middle Eastern region.

 

 

Dr. Dalloul’s corporate ventures were already contributing to the rebuilding of Lebanon’s infrastructure when a Government tender for GSM service providers was announced. It was at this point that he established a Lebanese company, LibanCell, to solve the needs of the unreliable fixed phone lines that could not serve the growing needs of Lebanese consumers.

 

 

With the vision of providing communications solutions to each and every Lebanese household, Dr. Dalloul founded LibanCell in partnership with other like-minded investors. Following a lengthy yet transparent process, LibanCell won the GSM license and became one of the two Lebanese mobile service operators. LibanCell was one of the largest contributors to the Lebanese economy during its decade-long tenure.

 

 

Once the Government unlawfully ended LibanCell’s contract in Lebanon, Dr. Dalloul continued to spread his vision as Chairman and CEO of Comium Group, whose expanding GSM operations in West Africa are bringing the latest telecommunications technologies to the continent and improving the lives of local communities. The Comium Group’s VOIP, wireless data networks, and ISP solutions extend to areas of the Middle East, North and South America, and Europe.