Georges Abboud

Senior executive with over 20 years of experience in healthcare leadership, financial management, internal and external auditing, and corporate governance. Specialized in International Commercial Arbitration, holding a Doctorate in International Arbitration, and an active member of the ICC Lebanon Arbitration Commission. Possesses extensive expertise in cross-border contractual dispute resolution, international contract drafting and review, compliance, and risk management, particularly within highly regulated environments such as the healthcare sector.

Combines strong legal acumen with strategic and financial leadership, delivering sustainable growth, institutional stability, and effective dispute mitigation at both national and international levels.

Deputy General Manager - French Hospital of the Levant Beirut, Clinique du Levant SM - Beirut, Lebanon

(2019-01)

Direct and manage the organization's business activities and develop and implement effective business strategies and programs. The Duties will include allocating budget resources, formulating policies, coordinating business operations, monitoring and motivating staff, managing operational costs, ensuring good customer service, improving administration processes, engaging with vendors, hiring and training employees, identifying business opportunities, and monitoring financial activities. The entrepreneurial spirit and vision in directing business functions will assist the organization in maintaining relationships with clients, generating new business, increasing staff productivity, improving service, ensuring sustainability, and meeting business objectives.

• Design strategy and set goals for growth
• Creating and managing budgets
• Analyzing accounting and financial data
• Developing and implementing growth strategies
• Overseeing daily business operations
• Training low-level managers and staff
• Improving revenue
• Hiring employees
• Evaluating performance and productivity
• Researching and identifying growth opportunities
• Generating reports and giving presentations
• Prepare regular reports for upper management
• Ensure staff follow health and safety regulations
• Provide solutions to issues (e.g. profit decline, employee conflicts, loss of business to competitors)

Hospital Director - French Hospital of the Levant Beirut, Clinique du Levant SM - Beirut, Lebanon

(2017-01 - 2019-12)

• Overseeing daily business operations
• Training low-level managers and staff
• Improving revenue
• Hiring employees
• Evaluating performance and productivity
• Researching and identifying growth opportunities
• Generating reports and giving presentations
• Prepare regular reports for upper management
• Ensure staff follow health and safety regulations
• Provide solutions to issues (e.g. profit decline, employee conflicts, loss of business to competitors)

Finance Manager & CEO's Consultant - French Hospital of the Levant Beirut, Clinique du Levant SM - Beirut, Lebanon

(2015-01 - 2016-12)

Finance Manager - One Way sarl

(2012-10 - 2015-03)

Assist in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization's mission and help execute staff succession and growth plans.

• Train the Finance Unit and other staff on raising awareness and knowledge of financial management matters
• Work with the President/CEO on the strategic vision
• Participate in developing new business, specifically: assist the CEO in identifying new funding opportunities, the drafting of prospective programmatic budgets, and determining cost effectiveness of prospective service delivery
• Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for the organization including: organizational revenue/expense and balance sheet reports, reports to funding agencies, development and monitoring of organizational and contract/grant budgets
• Develop and maintain systems of internal controls to safeguard financial assets of the organization
• Attend Board and Subcommittee meetings; including being the lead staff on the Audit/Finance Committee
• Monitor banking activities of the organization
• Ensure adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs
• Assist in the design, implementation, and timely calculations of wage incentives, commissions, and salaries for the staff
• Oversee Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

Internal Audit Director - French Hospital of the Levant Beirut, Clinique du Levant S.M. - Beirut, Lebanon

(2009-12 - 2012-09)

The Levant clinic is at the patient's service; supplied with the latest equipment it is keen on your well-being and recovery. Following its partnership with Foch Hospital in Paris, the Clinic engages in permanent and reciprocal dialogue and exchange on both the technical and practical levels. In addition to the task of Internal Audit Director in the Clinique du Levant, our tasks were to supervise all operations executed in the hospital from the planning to the execution.

• Business development to the Hospital
• Planning & Budgeting
• Studying & signing all Kind of Contracts as: Procurements for all sectors in the hospital medical, Para-medical, & logistics. As well contracts related to the Maintenance and Insurance Companies

External Auditor - Farid Joubran Company (RSM International) - Beirut, Lebanon

(2008-09 - 2009-11)

As External auditor our tasks were to do audit on all financial accounts of the companies, Our clients were diversified to: Hospital, Insurance Company, Beauty center. Touristic companies: such Hotels, Restaurants & Resorts. Mega Market, Schools…

Internal Auditor - Khoury General Hospital - Zahle, Lebanon

(2005-04 - 2008-06)

Our tasks were: Audit all kinds of operations from Quality, Financial, IT, Human Resources, procurements, Services. To check that all kinds of procedures were respected in the Companies

Teacher for technical classes (BT, TS) - Libanel Techniques - Zahle, Lebanon

(2003-10 - 2005-06)

Courses were: General Accounting, Finance & Statistics

Chief accountant - AUG American Underwriters Group S.A.L - Chtoura, Lebanon

(2003-01 - 2005-12)

in Insurance Company

Accountant at a finance company - Inmaat for Credit and Finance - Ablah, Lebanon

(2002-01 - 2003-12)

Teacher of Mathematics and Science - Don Bosco School - Baalbek, Lebanon

(2000-01 - 2003-12)

Doctorate - International Commercial Arbitration - International College Of Economics And Political Science

Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) - Business Administration - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ACADEMY

MBA - Business Administration - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ACADEMY

Diploma - International Commercial Arbitration - Equity College

Diploma - Healthcare Management and quality - Lebanese German University

Diploma of Higher Technical Studies - La compagnie de Jesus au Liban

Chartered Accountant - Notre Dame de Consolata

Course - CIA internal audit - Resources Corporation (PRC) and Morgan Group

Lebanese Baccalaureate - Philosophy - Zahle, Lebanon