About the AssociationBoard of Directors
The Association is managed by a council comprising (6) members elected
by the General Assembly from amongst its members for a term of two years.
Members of the Board may be re-elected after their membership expires
as per provisions of the enacted rules and regulations.
The founding members are thereto considered active
members to form a general assembly for elections of the Board.
A board member must:
1. Enjoy all civil and political right.
2. Be at least thirty years of age.
A Board member may not be paid for his endeavors for the Association.
But may redeem all transport expenses and others paid in service
of the Association according to the system decided buy the General Assembly.
The Board represents the association before the judiciary in terms of duties and due rights.
If the position of a Board member becomes vacant, the Board may appoint
from amongst its members another who acquired the highest votes
in the last meeting by the Association to fill the vacant position temporarily.
Upon the General Assembly meeting if shall elect a member to supplement the
remainder period of a predecessor. If no reserve candidates were available,
the General Assembly is invited to an extraordinary meeting within a month as
of the date of vacancy to elect a member to fill the position.
If more than half of the Board members withdraw, the general assembly shall be called by the
remaining members to elect substitute members to fill the vacant seats.
The Board may consider a member who failed to attend its meetings for three consecutive
times without a justification a withdrawn member.
The Board shall run the Association affairs, and in particular:
1. Prepare the annual report pertaining to the Association's activities.
2. Draft the annual budget of the Association, final account for
the elapsed fiscal year, prepare the financial and administrative systems pertaining
activities of the Association.
3. Review of the Auditor report.
4. appoint the necessary people to manage the Association's affairs,
review and decide disciplinary actions.
5. Appoint heads and secretaries of the different committees, create or
amend sub-committees of the association as per its purposes thereof.
6. Study the various committee minutes of meetings and take the appropriate decision thereof.
7. Review all membership applications.
The Board converse at least one a month to review the association's affairs.
The meeting is thereto considered legal if half of the Board members attended.
It is called for an extraordinary meeting at the invitation of the Chairman or one
third of the Board members, While members of the Board are notified at least (7)
days before the due meeting. Decision are made with a relative majority of attendees. When votes are even, the Chairman's vote shall be the decisive one.
The Board shall elect from amongst its members in the first meeting a president and a vice-President, a Secretary, a treasure and tow members.
The Association's Chairman represents it before the judiciary, in its relations with the public, official departments, and is the entrusted cashier in all
the Association's expenditures, and the liable person before the Board.
The Board vice-President undertakes all the Chairman duties in the absence of the latter
and in every endeavor he undertakes.
The Secretary undertakes:
1. Writing minutes of the general Assembly and Board minutes of meetings,
ratifying them by himself and the Chairman.
2. Extending invitations for the Board and the General assembly meeting.
3. Writing all the Association's correspondence, and receipt all the replies thereof.
4. Filing records of the association and seals at the Association main office.
5. Monitoring implementation of the Board decision.
The Treasurer undertakes:
1. Collecting all fees and supervising collection and receipt of
all funds received by the Association as per stamped invoices and receipts.
Depositing all funds into the accredited bank by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.
2. Releasing all expenditures as per checks signed by the Secretary,
Chairman or Vice-Chairman in the chairman absence.
3. Implementing the financial decisions of the Board, and submit a monthly account balance to the Board.
4. Keeping all books and financial documentations at the Association's main office.
Mohammed Daaboul 
President of the Syrian-Canadian Businessmen Association
Chairman and CEO of Daaboul Industrial Group (D.I.G.)
Tel.: +963 11 6712311
Fax: +963 11 6712319
E-mail: info@madarco.com
www.madarco.com
Damascus-Syria
Mr. Mohammad Daaboul is the Chairman and
CEO of Daaboul Industrial Group (D.I.G.),
which started its industrial activities in 1975.
Ever since, the Group has been expanding to include projects- such
as Madar- for manufacturing various products related, mainly,
to aluminum and glass industries. The main D.I.G. plants are
used for extruding, anodizing and powder coating aluminum
profiles and accessories ;manufacturing rolling shutters;
machinery construction; providing doors, windows and building
fronts with double glazed units; dies manufacturing and correction
and coil coating D.I.G also contains polishing section, rolling shutters plant;
aluminium sheets (Alucobond) plant and coil coating plan..
D.I.G. is also the exclusive agent of some companies, mainly, TECHNAL,
ALCAN, MITSHUBISHI and others.
Madar made some agreements to purchase machines and
raw materials from . Mr. Daaboul is the Deputy Chairman of
the Arab Association of the Engineering Industry, and the President
of the Syrian- Canadian Businessmen Association.
Mr. Daaboul is 56-years, born in Damascus and has BSc degree
in Mathematics from Damascus University . He is married and has
one daughter and five sons, most of them graduated from
Canadian universities and work in the D.I.G.
Bassam Khouja 
Vice President of the Syrian-Canadian Businessmen Association
President of Khouja Co.
E-mail: kozabassam@kozawear.com
Damascus -
Bassam Khouja is from a family that had been working in
ready made clothing since very long time in .
Bassam Khouja had established his first factory in
since over 30 years and then moved to
to establish a factory for socks manufacturing and then to
for ladies underwear and his last business was a factory in
Montreal / for the manufacturing of tricot fabrics.
Bassam Khojua moved part of his business from to
and he just finished the procurement process for a
modern factory in for the manufacturing of
underwear items for men, women and children.
Bassam Khouja made several professional courses in accounting
and business administration in and in London and
moved to on 1989 and then back to on the year 2005.
Amr Baalbaki 
Treasurer at the Syrian-Canadian Businessmen Association
General Manager at Baalbaki Int’l
Tel.: 963 11 2238560
Fax: 963 11 2237942
E-mail: amr.baalbaki@baalbaki-intl.com
Web Site : www.baalbaki-intl.com
Damascus -
Baalbaki Int’l was established in 1985 with commercial
agency activities, providing oil field with equipment,
process control instrumentation, and technical services
to the various international and local companies and contractors operating in .
Amr Baalbaki, owner and GM of Baalbaki Int’l, holds a
Masters’ Degree in Engineering from Michigan technological
University / . Amr Baalbaki participated in several
workshops pertaining to field process control and has
wide engineering experience in process control instrumentation.
He was the Syrian Group speaker to the Global Petroleum Show event on 2002.
Karim Maasarani
Canadian Businessmen Association Secretary of the Syrian
Maasarani lumber group Executive vice president of
.Established 1987 Maasarani lumber co-
- . -Maasarani flooring products and kiln dryers Syria.Established 2000 Mas lumber inc
- established 1991
Phone : 00963 21 2124426
Fax : 00963 21 2116470
Mobile : 00963 93 260102
: muslumber@scs-net.org E-mail
P.O.Box: 504
Aleppo -
Maassarani lumber company is considered one
of the biggest and pioneering lumber trading establishments in
.the Company has five distribution centers as well as high tech kiln
draying facility serving the Syrian market as well as neighboring
countries with high quality lumber. The company is also specialized
in manufacturing and supplying major European flooring manufacturers
of high quality semi finished flooring products and components.
Engineer Nedal Bitar
Founding member at the Syrian Canadian Businessmen Association
Place and date of birth: Damascus , 13th march 1969
Scientific Qualifications:
-licence in Design and Production: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Damascus university.
Work experience:
-February 2000 up to date: commercial commissioner, Canadian Embassy-Damascus.
- 1997-2000: Commercial Counselor, Syrian European Business Center, Damascus.
- 1998-2000: Commercial Assistant, Swiss Embassy-Damascus.
- 1997: Commercial Counselor for many local and international companies.
- Project Engineer in al Furat Oil Company, Shell Company and Veba.
Other activities:
- Representing the Syrian Arab republic in ESCWA Conference for Globalization ,1999.
- Representing for Agricultural Projects in JICA Organization.
- Consultancy works: IFC for Consultancy Works.
- Lecture of Art of Management, Negotiation Skills, Marketing and Sales.
- Participates and mediates in solving commercial conflicts.
Mhd Abulhuda Lahham .jpg)
Founding Member at the Syrian-Canadian Businessmen Association
Chairman & Managing Director of Laham Trading & Contracting Co (Lahco).
Member of the Boards of Directors of Damascus Chamber of Commerce
Federation of Syrian Chamber of Commerce.
Privately Owned Company
Tel : 00963-11-3312251
00963-11-3312252- Fax : 00963-11-3312253
E-mail:abulhuda@net.sy - lahco@aloola.sy
Mobile : 094-211491
Hamra Str. Omayad Bldg P.O.Box:2960
Damascus-Syria
B.A. in Business Administration from Damascus University .
LAHCO is an export & import Co. founded in 1977 under
Commercial Register No.40050, with 35 employees.
Main Imports are construction materials motors for rolling
shutters, awnings, blinds, motorizing systems, industrial kitchen
equipment (for hotels, restaurants, hospitals, etc),
food stuffs (edible oil), soap and detergents
Main Exports are textiles, SOMFY s.a. France, Henny Penny
Corporation, Taylor Freezer , Nouva Simonelly, .
