Chatting with a relaxed Hassan Baalbaki on his stand at UTECH Europe 2015, I was struck that if it wasn't for an accident of history then he may not have been at UTECH at all. The accident was the Syrian government's decision to nationalise Baalbaki's parent's business without compensation in the 1960s. Fortunately, for Baalbaki, his family had set up an office in Beirut, Lebanon, and it was from there that the firm regrew.
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