About Me:
Education & Training
Co-Founder, Chairman, and President
Over 30 years as a business and community leader whose entrepreneurial instincts and clarity of vision has carried many organizations to achieve their objectives and visions successfully. Mr. Hitto’s professional career focused on the Information Technology and Telecommunication sectors through various leadership and management positions. His long-standing public service career spanned building education and community empowerment initiatives, organizations, and coalitions in the United States, Türkiye, Syria, and Europe.
Moved to Türkiye in 2012, where he co-founded the Syrian Forum, a consortium of 6 nonprofit organizations tasked with sustaining, supporting, and rebuilding Syrian lives.
Business Profile
• Executive Vice-President at Inovar Technologies, a US-based telecommunications solutions provider, from 2001 till 2012
• Management Consultant, providing management consultations to international companies across various economic sectors.
Public Service Profile
• Co-founder President and Chairman of Brighter Horizons Academy (Private School, 700 Students, 100 Employees).
• Co-founder and a board member of Muslims Legal Fund of America (MLFA).
• Co-founder and CEO of the Syrian Forum which was founded in July 2013 as a non-profit organization legally registered in Turkiye and has partners in the United States, Europe, and offices inside Syria with programming focused on education, development and humanitarian, economic empowerment, research and public policy, and advocacy.
• Served as the first Prime Minister of the Syrian Interim Government established in 2013 by legislative decree as the executive arm of the Syrian Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces.
