Hussam Allaham

An emotional journey from Syria through Lebanon to Switzerland or from being a refugee to becoming the CEO. Hussam Allaham was raised in Daryya and started his professional career as a teacher in Damascus, Syria. In 2013, he had to flee to Lebanon. Soon he volunteered with World Vision to eventually focus on the most vulnerable by establishing schools to enable Syrian children to return to education. In 2015 his journey of finding a new home brought him to Switzerland where he was accepted as a student at Powercoders a coding academy for refugees. After an internship with a Swiss IT company, he joined the Powercoders team to be part of the programs in Zürich, Lausanne, Basel, and Istanbul. Hussam lives with his wife and his two daughters in Bern, Switzerland.