# Omar Abu Ghoush

Canonical page: https://studyeternity.co/omar-abu-ghoush
Serial Entrepreneur · Human Rights Activist · Co-Founder of Eternity
Founder Profile

## Profile facts
Born: November 11, 2007
Birthplace: Amman, Jordan
Nationality: Jordanian-Palestinian
Origin: Abu Ghoush, Jerusalem, Palestine
Residence: Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation: Serial Entrepreneur, Activist, Student
High School: SABIS International School of Choueifat — Amman (2011–2025)
Bachelor's: International Business — Swiss School of Business and Management, Geneva (50% Merit Scholarship, 2025–present)
Family: Abu Ghoush family, Jerusalem
Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent)

Known for:
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Eternity
Founder & former CEO of the ARKAN Foundation
Youngest documented Jordanian and Arab to address the UN Human Rights Council
Youngest Jordanian and youngest in the Levant to secure equity funding at a USD 1 million post-money valuation (with co-founder Mohamed Al Shami)
3× recipient of Certificates of Recognition from Princess Ghaida Talal of Jordan

omar@studyeternity.com
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Geneva, Switzerland

## 01 Summary
Omar Majd Abu Ghoush — (born November 11, 2007, in Jordan) is a Jordanian-Palestinian entrepreneur, technology founder, and student based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Eternity, an AI-powered educational technology platform, and the Founder of the Founders Network Initiative. He previously founded and led the ARKAN Foundation and Tokenized, and served as Head of Blockchain Integration at Stones Luxury®.

His work spans education technology, blockchain research, and international advocacy, but a consistent interest runs through it: building organizations and tools that give people in his region more direct access to the systems that shape global business and policy — and doing the work early rather than waiting for permission.

## 02 How it began
Omar Abu Ghoush was born in Amman on November 11, 2007, into a Jordanian-Palestinian family that valued building things from scratch. His father, Majd, had co-founded Stones Luxury® with his brother Rami in 2008, growing a small workshop into a multinational brand across more than 11 countries — proof, in the household, of what patience and craft could turn into. The line Omar grew up hearing was simple: “Who has no past has no present.” What he took from it wasn’t a company to step into, but the conviction that whatever he wanted to build, he would have to start himself.

The family name comes from Abu Ghoush, the ancestral Palestinian town near Jerusalem, which sits under Israeli occupation, as it has for longer than he has been alive. He grew up watching it — watching Palestine, watching the news cycle move on — and absorbing the fact that no one was coming. For a boy raised on the idea that the past gives you your present, the lesson was uncomfortable but clear: if the difference he wanted to see wasn’t going to be made by anyone else, he would have to become someone capable of making it himself.

What he took from that wasn’t a cause to organize his life around, but a quieter refusal: not to accept that he was too young, too small, or too far from the rooms where things are decided.

So at fifteen he started — not with a plan to change anything in particular, but because crypto fascinated him and he wanted to build. From his bedroom, still in school each morning at SABIS International School of Choueifat, he founded CAI Lab — not a company so much as a way into an industry that had pulled him in. He had no qualifications, no team, and no reason for anyone to take him seriously. People read the work anyway; they joined, and they trusted what he’d made. It taught him the thing that has governed everything since: you don’t wait for the world to grant you standing — you build something, and the standing follows.

From there it compounded. CAI Lab matured into the ARKAN Foundation, and his research moved out of theory and into the world — through frameworks he built at sixteen and seventeen, and then through Tokenized and Stones Luxury®, where heritage and technology met in a system that tied handcrafted objects to verifiable digital records. The timeline below traces that single line of work — the wins and, just as importantly, the failures that taught him how to keep what he built.

## 03 The thread of the story
As CAI Lab matured into the ARKAN Foundation, his research walked out of theory and into the world through Tokenized and Stones Luxury®, while the other side of him took shape in the mountains of Spain, Morocco, and Croatia, where he climbed alongside his twin sister for the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, raised more than twenty thousand dollars for cancer treatment, and was honored three separate times with Certificates of Recognition from Princess Ghaida Talal of Jordan. Then Tokenized, for all its real partners and showcases in Bahrain and Oman, refused to scale, and he closed it himself — learning the truest lesson of these years, that starting something is not the same as building something that lasts.

Tempered by that failure, he co-founded Eternity and built it to endure rather than to impress — seventeen people across six countries and three continents — and in April 2026 the company secured USD 100,000 in equity funding at a USD 1 million post-money valuation, making him and his twenty-year-old co-founder Mohamed Al Shami the youngest Jordanians and youngest in the wider Levant region ever documented to do so. That experience led him to found the Founders Network Initiative, determined that the access he had to build for himself should simply be handed to the founders coming up behind him.

And then, at eighteen, he walked into the room he had grown up watching from a distance — standing before the United Nations Human Rights Council as the youngest documented Arab ever to address it — not as a finish line, but as one more sign of the conviction that had carried his work: that talent from his region belongs inside the systems that decide the world rather than waiting at their gates.

## 04 Ventures & initiatives
Read together, his ventures are not separate startups but one accumulating body of infrastructure — education that finds talent, networks that connect it, and technology that scales it. Each was built on the lesson the one before it taught.

### Eternity — Co-Founder & Co-CEO — Nov 2025 – Present
The venture he is building to endure rather than impress. Eternity was structured from the beginning around a defined product, operating team, and long-term ownership framework. An AI-powered EdTech platform that manages a student’s entire university journey through one system — connecting students to more than 20,000 verified universities alongside scholarships, housing, visa support, and relocation. He leads technology, product strategy, and several departments across a team of 17 spanning six countries and three continents. In April 2026, Eternity secured USD 100,000 in equity funding at a USD 1 million post-money valuation, making him and his co-founder the youngest Jordanians to do so.

### Founders Network Initiative — Founder — Apr 2026 – Present
An attempt to hand others the access he had to build for himself — a youth entrepreneurship initiative connecting students and early founders with investors, mentors, and industry leaders. Its first Geneva event drew 67 applicants, seven speakers, and six sponsors despite major G7-related disruption across the region and Switzerland’s opening World Cup match taking place later that evening.

### ARKAN Foundation — Founder & CEO — Jul 2023 – Jan 2026
The institution CAI Lab grew into. A blockchain research and consulting ecosystem built to replace speculation with intelligence; it reached more than 61,000 followers, published 35 research articles, formed a team of eight across six countries, and worked with 15 partners before being absorbed by Investing Circle, an Abu Dhabi investment application.

### Tokenized — Founder — Apr 2024 – Jun 2025
The venture that taught him the difference between starting and building. Introduced through Stones Luxury®, it connected physical products to verifiable digital records, launched customer booths in Bahrain and Oman, and secured a partnership with Enjin — yet the economics could not be made to scale, and he closed it. The product worked; the company could not. He has questioned the foundation beneath an idea ever since.

### Stones Luxury® — Head of Blockchain Integration — Jun 2023 – Jun 2025
The family company where heritage met technology. As Head of Blockchain Integration he led its blockchain initiative, developing through Tokenized an authentication system that tied handcrafted pieces to verifiable records — bringing transparency to a market built entirely on trust.

## 05 Diplomacy & public service
From February to April 2026, Abu Ghoush served as a trainee and NGO representative for Partners for Transparency at the United Nations Office at Geneva, attending Human Rights Council proceedings and gaining direct experience in multilateral diplomacy, advocacy, and civil-society engagement.

On March 4, 2026, at eighteen, he delivered a formal statement before the Human Rights Council under Agenda Item 3 on behalf of Partners for Transparency — becoming the youngest documented Jordanian and Arab to address the Council. It was the room he had grown up watching from a distance, the place where the world is supposed to answer for itself, and reaching it was the clearest proof of the conviction he had built his way toward: that no one was going to hand him the standing to be there, so he had earned it himself.

## 06 Professional experience
### Bank Al-Etihad — Wealth Management Intern — Sep 2025
Worked with the private wealth-management team on how cryptocurrency and digital assets might be assessed within investment portfolios, helping build internal reports that weighed assets by risk, volatility, liquidity, use case, and long-term value beyond speculation.

### NGMI Lab — Blockchain Analysis Intern — Jun – Sep 2023
A research group focused on tokenomics and early-stage projects. He analyzed token models and studied the design weaknesses that quietly cause blockchain projects to fail — work that later shaped ARKAN’s research direction.

### Maverick Metalabs — Community Volunteer — Dec 2023 – May 2024
Operator of Love Monster, a blockchain gaming and NFT project, where he helped run the community, organized weekly events, and supported partnership outreach and launches.

## 07 Leadership & recognition
### SSBM Geneva — Vice President, Student Council — 2025 – Present
Elected Vice President shortly after beginning his studies. He created the SSBM Launchpad Program to help students start and grow businesses, founded the official SSBM Football Team, and launched the Weekly Founders Conference.

### Seven Mountains Initiative — Volunteer & Fundraiser — Jun 2022 – Jul 2024
A charity project with the King Hussein Cancer Foundation. He joined expeditions in Spain, Morocco, and Croatia and, together with his twin sister, raised more than USD $20,000 for cancer-treatment programs — receiving Certificates of Recognition from Princess Ghaida Talal of Jordan on three occasions.

## 08 Philosophy & vision
“I’m not interested in building disconnected startups for the sake of being called a founder. I want each project to become part of a larger body of infrastructure — and to help build the systems that come next.”

The thread connecting his work is not an industry — it is a single desire: to build institutions from places, and for people, usually treated as participants rather than architects. He grew up watching how much talent exists in Jordan and across the region — and how often its young people are taught that the most important companies, technologies, and opportunities must come from somewhere else; that their role is to enter systems built by others and be grateful for the access.

He wants to reverse that relationship. Whether the work is education, technology, entrepreneurship, or advocacy, the underlying objective stays the same: to create platforms, companies, and networks that give people greater control over their own futures — and, in time, to make the region a producer of global institutions rather than a consumer of them.

His method is the one his failures taught him: solve structural problems rather than surface symptoms, build organizations meant to outlast a single founder, and question the foundation of an idea before becoming attached to how impressive it might one day look. He still moves quickly. He simply checks the ground beneath him first. The ambition is not to succeed within the systems that already exist — it is to help build the ones that come next.

## 09 References
LinkedIn Profile — Omar Abu Ghoush: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarabughoush/
Eternity — Founder and Team Profile: https://studyeternity.com/omarabughoush
Founders Network Initiative: https://foundersnetwork.ch
The Debate — Founder Profile: https://thedebate.live/omarabughoush
Founders Network — Founder Profile: https://foundersnetwork.ch/omarabughoush
Stones Luxury® — Company Profile: https://stones.luxury/about/
Enjin — Stones Luxury and Blockchain Authentication Partnership: https://enjin.io/ecosystem/stones-luxury-real-world-assets/
Omar Abu Ghoush United Nations Human Rights Council Speech: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1n/k1nx60bmyv
Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva — Student Council: https://www.ssbm.ch/student-voices-in-action-meet-ssbm-genevas-student-council-members/
Contact — omar@studyeternity.com