Tony Haddad, Founder & CEO of Technica International, graduated from AUB in 1975, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He started his career as a maintenance engineer at Unipack - INDEVCO group, then as a project engineer. In 1982, he pursued an MBA degree at AUB also, and left INDEVCO group to follow his dream to build machines and automation equipment in Lebanon and sell them to the world.
For this, he formed Technica International in 1982 as a family-owned business and started his journey with a team of 4 engineers and technicians in a workshop area of 80m2. 42 years later, Technica International staffs 200 engineers and technicians, with factories in Bikfaya /Lebanon, Warsaw /Poland, and operations in Montreal/Canada. Technica presently designs and supplies innovative automation solutions for over 300 customers in 44 countries and is an approved vendor to most multinational companies.
Tony Haddad is one of the founders of the Arab Beverages Association and has presently the vice chairman since its foundation.