Nicolas currently serves as the Deputy General Manager of Berytech, where he leads the organization’s full spectrum of business activities, ensuring strategic alignment, operational excellence, and sustainable impact across all programs and initiatives. 

Prior to this role, Nicolas served as Senior Director of Programs at Berytech and as the Regional Innovation Hub Manager for the MENA region under the Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) initiative, an international effort supported by the German BMZ, the EU, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad, Sida, and USAID. In that role, he provided strategic leadership and general technical direction, overseeing the scaling of innovative solutions in water, energy, and food sectors across the region. 

Nicolas also led Berytech’s SMEs division, managing several support programs for MSMEs in Lebanon across various sectors. These programs were funded by a diverse array of donors, including the UN’s WFP, AFD, GIZ, Canada, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 

He joined Berytech in 2020 after an accomplished 11-year career in project finance, where he specialized in corporate banking, syndicated lending, and non-recourse project finance. His focus was on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and large-scale renewable energy projects. Over the course of his finance career, Nicolas structured and arranged transactions exceeding $2 billion and collaborated with stakeholders including UHNWIs, international donors and financial institutions, Tier 1 legal counsels, and technical advisors. 

What continues to drive Nicolas is his passion for leveraging financial innovation to advance sustainable development. He is committed to bridging private-sector acumen with impact-driven goals, creating transformative change in Lebanon and the broader MENA region.