Don't hesitate in following your passions....
“My advice for female entrepreneurs is not to hesitate in following your passions and diving into the field. Being a female in a male dominated discipline is not as hard as it sounds, you gain a lot of respect and knowledge by being on the ground. You must also always have perseverance and flexibility in finding creative solutions to obstacles.”
- Rana Alaa is the co-founder and technical director of SolarizEgypt. This Egyptian entrepreneur and environmental engineer from Cairo had stints at both Intel and Shell before she co-founded her solar energy start-up which has developed solar innovative technologies with financial mechanisms to provide consumers with uninterrupted power at an affordable cost. Rana holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering and an MSc in Environmental Engineering from the American University in Cairo. She has grown the SolarizEgypt team to six professionals who grew the company at an average rate of 300% in the last two years. Her passion is to create a greener, cleaner Egypt.