Mohamed Taymour was in the top 0.1% of high-school students in Egypt the year he graduated. At the time, engineering was the fashionable next step up the educational ladder. So to please his father and gain useful mathematical skills Taymour opted to study industrial engineering instead of of commerce, already his true love.
In 1980 he founded the Egyptian Financial Group (EFG) with two other partners. Then EFG was a small consulting firm with a handful of staff offering advice to Gulf Arabs who were starting to do business in Egypt and needed financial advice and intermediation.
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