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Julie Hanna (born August 5, 1965) is an Egyptian born technologist, entrepreneur, angel investor and board director. She serves as Executive Chair of the Board of Kiva.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kiva.org/about/team/board )〕 peer-peer lending pioneer and the world's largest crowdlending marketplace for global entrepreneurs. She is adviser to technology incubator Idealab and Innovation Norway. In May 2015, President Barack Obama named Hanna Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship “to help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs.” In the past she has been a founding executive of five Silicon Valley technology companies and served as director of strategic technologies at Lotus Development Corporation. Escaping civil war during Black September in Jordan in 1970, she grew up in America and studied computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ==Early life and education== Hanna was born in Sohag Egypt. She moved with her family to Irbid, Jordan, where they found themselves on the front lines of Black September, the Jordanian civil war. After fleeing a column of tanks firing on her school, the family escaped and made their way to Beirut, Lebanon. Shortly after arrival, the tensions that gave way to what would become the Lebanese civil war peaked. Hanna immigrated to the United States with her family in 1972, originally to New York, eventually settling in Springville, Alabama. She played Little League baseball in the wake of the passage of Title IX, becoming one of the first girls to break the gender barrier in sports. Hanna graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with a B.S. in Computer Science. In 2007, she was named Outstanding Alumni by the UAB School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and in 2008, she was named (UAB Distinguished Alumni of the Year ) and was the Graduation Commencement speaker speech republished here〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130521100953-28047-dear-class-of-2013-you-ve-been-in-beta )〕 where she implored graduates to "be the entrepreneurs of their own life" drawing many parallels between the lessons learned from failure by successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and a person's life and career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Hanna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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