People
The founders, the people you can book for an interview, and the shape of the company behind them.
Leadership
The four available for interview, with their topics and bios, are below.
Spokespeople
Available for interviews, podcasts, panels, and written commentary. Book any of them here, or email growth@haqq.ai.
Antoine Kanaan — Co-Founder & CEO
The future of the legal profession, access to justice, AI and the rule of law, building in MENA
Antoine sets HAQQ's vision and is its sharpest voice on where law and AI meet. He is known for winning over skeptical lawyers and investors in live debate, and he knows the market, the competitors, and the stakes cold.
Speaks on: The future of the legal profession, access to justice, AI and the rule of law, building in MENA · LinkedIn
Abbas M. Kabalan — Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer
Legal ethics and AI, trust and accountability, the lawyer's role after AI
A lawyer by training, Abbas is HAQQ's authority on legal ethics, professional trust, and what responsible AI actually looks like inside a working practice.
Speaks on: Legal ethics and AI, trust and accountability, the lawyer's role after AI · LinkedIn
Roc Khalil — Chief Technology Officer
Building a legal AI engine, reliability and hallucination, engineering from MENA
Roc rebuilt HAQQ's engineering and leads the team behind Justinian, its legal AI engine. He speaks to what it takes to make legal AI reliable enough to trust.
Speaks on: Building a legal AI engine, reliability and hallucination, engineering from MENA
Stephane Boghossian — Head of Growth
AI-search and LLM discovery, emerging-market go-to-market, growth engineering
Stephane runs HAQQ's go-to-market and its AI-search discovery strategy, previously at Lovable. He speaks to growth in emerging markets and how brands get found in the AI era.
Speaks on: AI-search and LLM discovery, emerging-market go-to-market, growth engineering
Org structure
Thirty-seven people in eight teams, engineering the largest. The three founders sit above four functional leads; six departments sit under them. Operations run out of Beirut against a Delaware holding company — see About HAQQ.
| Team | People | Reports to | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founders & Board | 3 | — | Co-Founder & CEO, Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer, Co-Founder |
| Leadership | 4 | The founders | CTO and Head of Engineering, Head of Growth, VP and Head of Sales MENA, Head of Sales |
| Engineering | 11 | The CTO | Principal AI engineer, senior mobile and frontend engineers, backend, QA, design, product management, enterprise account management |
| Growth | 6 | The Head of Growth | Marketing, growth engineering, content and campaign operations |
| Operations | 2 | The founders | COO and an operations manager |
| Finance | 3 | The founders | CFO, financial controller, accountant |
| Sales | 3 + 3 | The VP, Head of Sales MENA | Three in-house sellers, plus a three-person SDR team contracted through an external partner |
| Legal and creative | 2 | The founders | Legal counsel and a creative director |
Roles, not names. The full chart names all thirty department staff; that list is not published here, because being on an internal chart is not consent to be on a public one. Requests for a named contact in a specific team go to the press desk.
Press photos
High-resolution founder photography for press and media use. Use them as they are — do not crop out the subject, recolour, or composite them into another image.
Individual headshots
Antoine Kanaan
Co-Founder & CEO
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Antoine Kanaan
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Co-Founder & CLO
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Founders together
Three approved frames of Antoine and Abbas, for a piece that needs the two of them rather than a headshot.
In the office
Antoine Kanaan and Abbas M. Kabalan
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In the office
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Founders portrait
Posed
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