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The photo is heady widely shared: a banker always works hard, is stressed and especially thinks only finance. Calm brown, the calm voice, Bernard Mourad, he does not really stick to the representation that is the traditional financial. Much less than the specialist at Morgan Stanley who worked for the victory of Patrick Drahi, customer always in the epic duel that opposed, in April 2014, Martin Bouygues for the redemption of SFR. Yet it was him. Working hard on the financing and execution of the operation the day, but dealing with a different activity at night: the development and promotion of a mobile application, My SOS, a supportive social network .
Today, Mr. Mourad left Morgan Stanley, and has been named to the Mag & amp head; News Co, the press group consisting Patrick Drahi. And that includes release , Express , the news channel based in Israel i24, and the titles of Marc Laufer, as 01net. The latter will also become CEO of the new group. According to the entourage of Mr. Drahi Bernard Mourad will manage the group’s strategy, its international expansion and future acquisitions and institutional relations.
Two novels, an app, a play
A task that will be added to all the other … For Bernard Mourad can not be satisfied with a single business having already published two novels and doing advance its mobile application, the new fad night consists of writing a play. A camera between Greek President George Papandreou, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel at the time of the referendum on aid to Greece.
Born in Beirut in 1975 of a Christian Lebanese father and a mother Jews of Moroccan origin, Mourad should have been working in health, specialty of the family: his father is a cardiologist, his brother is a recognized hypertension specialist, his sister, finally, is a nurse. But he chose the bank, and writing, his other great passion.
He’s only 2 years old when her mother decides to repatriate her children to France to escape the civil war raging Land of the Cedars. His father remains convinced that calmer times will return, and that his family will go home.
Once in France, he attended the best schools of the republic. Lycée Buffon in the 15 th Borough and Sciences Po and HEC. This is a course in the telecom and media section of the bank Morgan Stanley, which opened the doors of the prestigious institution. It will never change sector.
“Guardian Angels”
His story begins with Patrick Drahi in 2004. At the time, the future mogul n ‘ is not yet known. He wants to buy Noos to form a hexagonal group specializing in the cable. Bernard Mourad and Dexter Goei, current CEO of Altice (Luxembourg holding company of billionaire, but at the time was also a banker at Morgan Stanley) advise him. The three men become inseparable. The two financial accompany Mr. Drahi in its European but also Israeli operations.
The idea of launching the application, Mr. Mourad had it with a passing anecdote told by a friend. In a building in the Paris region, an old lady is unwell. She barely has time to warn EMS and collapses. Arrived 15 minutes after the call, emergency do not have the time to revive her, she is already dead from cardiac arrest. But his neighbor had his first aid certificate, and could practice the crucial first aid until an ambulance.
The banker then the idea to create a supportive social network in which some of the members, called “angels” could indicate their medical skills. Others, rather in need of assistance, inform their chronic diseases, blood type or the details of their physician. In case of distress, one click on the app, and all the guardian angels network is prevented.
MySOS exists on iPhones and Android smartphones. Launched in late 2013, the app has the support of the French Federation of Cardiology and the Red Cross. It now has over 100,000 members in France. And could soon be exported to other countries.
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