Waleed Hamada is a dynamic entrepreneur and visionary leader with over 15 years of experience driving operational excellence, business growth, and innovation across multiple industries including legal tech, healthcare, and nonprofits. With a passion for transforming ideas into scalable solutions, Waleed specializes in launching and scaling startups, leading cross-functional teams, and developing strategies that bridge technology and real-world impact.
As the Founder and CEO of Legal Chain, Waleed is on a mission to revolutionize legal document analysis and creation through advanced AI technologies. Under his leadership, Legal Chain empowers professionals, businesses, and startups with cutting-edge tools for contract drafting, compliance validation, and risk assessment—democratizing accuracy and efficiency in legal workflows.
Beyond his entrepreneurial pursuits, he is also a children’s author, dedicated to storytelling that inspires and connects.
At Legal Chain, Waleed leads end-to-end operations, fundraising, and go-to-market strategy—driving the company’s vision to bring trustworthy, AI-powered solutions to the legal industry.
As a cybersecurity strategist with a deep-rooted passion for building resilient systems, Ramy brings over a decade of experience securing critical infrastructure across enterprise, government, and startup environments. His work has always centered on proactive threat prevention, scalable security architecture, and enabling innovation without compromising trust.
As Chief Information Security Officer at Legal Chain, Ramy is focused on safeguarding the integrity of AI-powered legal operations. From secure data handling and AI model governance to compliance automation and incident response, I lead the charge in protecting our users, partners, and technology. At Legal Chain, I ensure our mission to democratize legal access through AI is built on a foundation of transparency, security, and privacy-by-design.
Miheer is our AI Software Engineer extraordinaire here at Legal Chain,
While completing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Virginia Tech (VT), Miheer joined Legal Chain’s founding engineering team. In his role, he contributes to core AI-driven functionality, including smart clause extraction, risk scoring pipelines, legal document generation (e.g. NDAs), and motorizing compliance workflows—all designed to automate contract review and reduce manual legal workload. His work accelerates document understanding and enhances Legal Chain’s mission to democratize access to affordable, high‑quality legal assistance.
Miheer is passionate about programming and AI, bringing strong technical foundations from VT and hands-on product delivery experience at a company rebuilding how legal services are delivered. His contributions reflect his dedication to building real‑world AI systems that reduce inefficiency, increase accuracy, and make legal support more accessible.
Advisory Board Members
As a visionary venture builder, investor, and global tech ecosystem leader, Sharif El-Badawi brings decades of strategic insight, cross-border expertise, and startup acceleration experience to Legal Chain’s advisory board. With a track record of empowering entrepreneurs and scaling innovation-driven companies, his mission aligns seamlessly with Legal Chain’s pursuit of redefining the legal landscape through AI.
Sharif is the Founding Managing Partner of Plus Venture Capital (+VC), one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms across the Middle East and North Africa. His leadership spans previous roles at Techstars, the Dubai Future Accelerators, and Google, where he supported thousands of startups and ecosystem partners in building, growing, and accessing capital.
At Legal Chain, Sharif advises on fundraising strategy, international market entry, and ecosystem development—infusing our growth journey with bold perspective and deep expertise in frontier technologies, AI innovation, and scalable startup infrastructure.
As a seasoned intellectual property and trial attorney with over 15 years of experience, Abhi Bapna brings deep expertise at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation. He has practiced extensively before U.S. federal courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including handling post-grant proceedings and high-stakes litigation.
Abhi’s legal career spans a wide array of industries—from medical devices and pharmaceuticals to consumer electronics, vehicular safety, multimedia systems, and telematics. He is a Registered Patent Attorney and a Certified Blockchain & Law Professional, with a unique ability to bridge emerging technologies with sound legal strategies.
Currently serving as Special Counsel in the Patent Group at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Abhi advises clients on complex IP matters with a forward-looking approach. His previous roles include senior positions at top firms such as Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, and Quinn Emanuel.
Abhi holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served as an editor for the Science & Technology Law Review, and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, graduating cum laude.
At Legal Chain, Abhi serves on the Advisory Board, where he helps shape the platform’s mission to eliminate hallucinations in AI-driven legal tools and ensure that legal professionals, startups, and enterprises can rely on fact-based, verifiable legal AI.
Aleassa is a marketing powerhouse known for turning strategy into momentum and brands into movements. With a sharp eye for storytelling and a sixth sense for market resonance, she brings decades of experience leading high-impact marketing initiatives across SaaS, emerging tech, and professional services.
Aleassa provides fractional marketing services and advisory at North10Feet. Prior to that, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at Seerist, where she redefined brand positioning in the risk intelligence space, driving global awareness, improving pipeline performance, and aligning teams around a unified vision. Her career is built on bold rebrands, breakthrough B2B campaigns, and a consistent ability to move the needle where it matters most.
Aleassa is the founder of North10Feet, where she provides fractional marketing services and strategic advisory to help companies clarify their positioning, accelerate growth, and build sustainable marketing engines. Previously, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at Seerist, where she redefined brand positioning in the risk and security intelligence space, driving global awareness, improving pipeline performance, and aligning teams around a unified vision.
A proven builder of high-performance teams and a trusted partner to the C-suite, Aleassa bridges vision with execution, aligning demand generation, brand, and product marketing with real business outcomes.
Aleassa holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Michigan
At Legal Chain, Aleassa advises on go-to-market strategy, brand development, and demand generation helping redefine how individuals, SMBs, attorneys, and enterprises engage with legal technology.
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