Coperon Team

CEO and Co-Founder: Ziad Debbas

Ziad is heading Coperon’s strategic development in e-catalog technology for complex products. Ziad’s experience as a director in the Debbas Group, a leading Middle Eastern lighting solution provider, has led him to find innovative ways to solve the problems and pains associated with searching the right products for the right application in a vast universe of lighting products.

His first attempt at solving this problem through technology was recognized by Microsoft in Lebanon who awarded the project with its “most innovative web solution” award in 1998. Ziad’s experience in strategic and corporate development was also gained through his work with International management consulting group Arthur D. Little. His academic background is business with a Harvard MBA and a B.Comm in Finance from Concordia University (Canada).

Worldwide marketing & Co-Founder: Steven Bradley

Steven is currently guiding Coperon's marketing and sales strategy worldwide. He has been a strategic marketing consultant to both start-ups and established companies in lighting and related industries since 2000. He is currently on the Board of Directors of UK-based, Remote Controlled Lighting, Ltd.

From 1986 - 2000, Steven led the international sales and marketing efforts at Targetti, a worldwide leader in the lighting industry. These formative years led to a personal search for more powerful ways to communicate product and company strengths to the diverse group of professionals who typically make specification and buying decisions in the lighting industry.

Steven received his degree in international relations from Stanford University.

Lighting Logic & Data Structure: Majdi Hajjar

Majdi, with an extraordinarily rich and extensive lighting experience, guides the development of the lighting logic and data structure related issues which have been applied in the iPartner products suite. His involvement has been critically important to the development of the initial concepts and architecture of all Coperon products. Majdi’s knowledge is of great value to Coperon customers. His constant support enhances product development and ensures that these concepts conform to international recognized lighting standards.

Majdi has more than 30 years of lighting and electrical experience throughout Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Besides his role at Coperon, he is a Vice-President of Debbas Group, a leading Middle Eastern lighting solution provider, and works as an independent lighting consultant for several firms.

Majdi is a part-time lecturer of lighting design at several universities. He received his MS in Electrical Engineering from the ESIB (Lebanon).

IT Manager: Jean Zovighian

Jean leads the IT development and implementation team at Coperon. He joined Coperon after spending several years in Europe and the Arabic Gulf, working for large international IT firms. As a project director, he was account manager across numerous sectors including government, banking, petroleum industry, chemical industry, and distribution.

From his European experience, Jean has acquired the skill set required to manage IT projects in complex environments as well as expertise in the specialized field of Business Intelligence. He managed and contributed to the development, testing and implementation strategies, the definition of technical architectures and the development of enterprise models.

Jean received his BS in Computer Science from Beirut University College, Lebanon. He is trained as an ISO 9000 Lead Auditor (Lloyds Register Quality Assurance) and has furthered his education by completing a range of technical courses in project management, system administration and database design.

R&D, Product Manager: Ali Bannout

Ali is the R&D and iPartner Product Manager at Coperon. He is responsible for all product research and development to ensure that all new products are competitive, accurately represented to customers, and provisioned correctly. His work in Coperon’s core parametric search & guided browsing technologies has been praised by software industry opinion leaders.

Ali joined Coperon after a career spanning 20 years in Europe and, specifically in Italy, working as a senior software engineer at Fiat Research Center, Iveco, Olivetti and Digital Systems. Ali was involved in several complex research projects during which he acquired valuable technical knowledge that he has built upon while designing and developing Coperon software.

Ali received his Mechanical Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Projects Implementation & Customer Support Manager: Chadi Saghbini

Chadi is the human interface between Coperon customers and their projects. He is responsible for the implementation of all projects and post-implementation support. Chadi’s role is especially critical in providing our customers a path to implement their unique corporate image and culture into the look & feel of their electronic marketing tools without compromising the power and functionality of the software itself. His extensive technical knowledge enables him to implement complex user requirements and integrate them to iPartner products.

Chadi is one of the original Coperon employees. From the beginning, Chadi was intimately involved and contributed to the development of iPartner Product Expert, and specifically in the development of the back-office engine of iPartner that provides manufacturers with a powerful and flexible user interface to manage the thousands of products that are part of their product catalogs.

Chadi received his BS in Computer Science from Notre-Dame University, Lebanon.