Co-Founder, Partner · Minneapolis
Wissam Balshe
Wissam Balshe is a co-founder and partner of Zeytoon Ventures. He has more than 25 years of experience scaling ventures globally, most of it in energy. He is Vice President of Business Development at Novitium Energy and was previously Senior Director of Channel Partnerships at Mainspring Energy. Before that he spent about 16 years at Cummins, where he was Global Director of Energy Management Solutions and led investments in energy infrastructure across North America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Wissam holds an MBA from Indiana University, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a graduate certificate in strategic management from Harvard University. He lives in Minneapolis.
Why I’m here
I am a proud son of Palestinian refugees. The world has spent decades telling Palestinians what they cannot do. I want to spend the rest of my life telling them the opposite, with capital behind the words.
We see them. We invest in them. We tie our success to theirs.