Over the past nine years, he has been active in youth education and counseling. His expertise in that path was strengthened by the numerous associative and consulting positions he held during all those years. 

Omar El-Barbary (photo) is the co-founder and CEO of OBM Education, an edtech startup that provides academic guidance, training, and professional development courses to young graduates and non-graduates. Thanks to online and face-to-face tools, the startup -founded in 2013- guides young people into sectors and professions most suited to their skills and potential. 

In August 2022, Omar successfully led a six-figure raise, from EdVentures, for OBM Education. 

The new “investment is quite strategic for our ambitious expansion plans as we will use it to launch our new application, Taleb, which will enable us to provide extended services for our users and to fulfill our mission in ensuring an exceptional career advising experience for the Egyptian students,” Omar said at the time. 

The new app, Taleb, has already been launched. It enables access to a wide range of services for students, teachers, and institutions. It also allows students to take remote courses, improving the quality of education. 

Apart from his entrepreneurial career, Omar El-Barbary also has a fulfilling and enriching associative and project management career. In February 2015, he was appointed Career Development Manager for the US-based NGO Population Council.  Concurrently, he was also the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports’ Youth Skills Project Manager.

In 2017, in Russia, he was the Egyptian representative of Future Team Finland, a network of young professionals working to change the world. Two years later, he became the contractual operations manager for BiznEX Egypt, a trade show for investment and commercial agencies in Egypt and the Middle East. In 2020, he became President and CEO of IQ E-Learning, an educational website.

 Melchior Koba