Ahmed Abd El Raouf

Executive Advisory: Lead financial planning, scalability frameworks, and design execution
strategies for a corporate retail expansion across 4 concurrent locations in Cairo, serving
as the technical advisor to the Board of Directors.
• CAPEX & Asset Governance: Manage financial governance and budget oversight for a
$15M baseline allocation covering Facility Management (FM) infrastructure setup, real
estate procurement, and build-outs.
• Operational Readiness & Scope Definition: Define initial operational scopes, establish
cross-functional vendor frameworks, and construct critical path timelines to ensure project
delivery, operational transition, and asset activation across the new corporate footprint.

• Primary advisor to the Executive Board on corporate expansion across 4 key locations;
currently managing a $15M CAPEX portfolio for construction and Facility Management.
• Direct P&L Responsibility: Spearheaded re-budgeting, scoping, and phasing strategies to
achieve healthy margins and minimize project losses.
• Strategic Operations: Implemented a successful transition to in-house maintenance
departments, significantly optimizing operational costs and long-term asset integrity.
• Executive Reporting: Report directly to the CEO, providing vital risk mitigation
strategies and data-driven insights to support major strategic pivots.

• Strategic Trade Packaging & Contractor Development: Restructured the project delivery
framework by transitioning the execution strategy away from single Tier-1 main contractors;
deconstructed scopes into 15+ specialized trade packages, eliminating prime contractor
markups, reducing overall developer expenditure by $2, 000, 000, and establishing a
structured coordination environment that enabled local specialized contractors to scale up
their execution capabilities.
• Risk & Interface Management: Developed and executed an Interface Coordination
Matrix and established dual-stage technical workshops to manage vendor clash risks,
proactively identifying and defining missing technical scopes and helping
subcontractors upgrade their QA/QC processes to match international museum standards,
reducing production and delivery lead times by 70%.
• Hands-on Project Closeout: Actively supported on-site engineering and operational
teams to resolve outstanding interface bottlenecks; defined missing scopes of
work—including resolving utility disputes with authorities and designing custom telecom
coverage solutions—to secure seamless asset activation on schedule.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Served as the primary technical liaison between 28 premium
luxury tenants, the Operator Legacy, and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA).
Established a weekly technical committee and developed customized criteria matrices to
resolve design-to-building compliance requirements and bridge stakeholder communication
gaps.
• Value Engineering & Cost Optimization: Identified, tested, and secured ministerial
approvals for local material alternatives to substitute locked, long-lead imported MEP and
architectural components, resolving a commercial deadlock with a $1, 200, 000
cost-effective acoustic and safety solution.
• Commercial Asset Activation: Managed tenant onboarding and technical compliance
strategy for luxury brands across a $10M fit-out scope, resolving utility coordination issues
with government authorities (e.g., gas disputes) and local telecom operators to initiate
revenue streams and optimize available facility resources.
• Feasibility & Planning: Led multi-disciplinary design packages and technical-economic
feasibility studies for luxury hospitality, boutique co-working environments, and premium
event spaces to maximize developer land-use value.

• Directed technical operations and commercial fit-out for a $30M CAPEX portfolio at one
of the worlds most iconic cultural sites.
• Value Engineering Excellence: Realized $2M in savings by redefining procurement
strategies; successfully substituted expensive imports with high-quality local
alternatives for glass, finishing materials, and MEP spare parts.
• Operational Readiness (ORAT): Developed and implemented a custom tracking
framework to break down complex handover scopes into achievable targets across all
departments, ensuring a flawless transition to live operations.
• Brand Activation: Orchestrated the technical activation of 28 luxury brands,
accelerating critical revenue generation pathways for the museum complex.

• Managed a $4M budget for structural works, leading an 8-engineer team to ensure
precise technical execution and on-time delivery.
• Awarded Best Technical Office Manager in the Sector for outstanding performance in
project control and technical coordination.

• Financial Management & Risk Mitigation: Led an 8-engineer technical office team for a
complex medical mega-project, holding accountability for a $4M dedicated baseline for
core structural works.
• Inflation & Variation Management: Mitigated inflationary market impacts by implementing
a flexible pricing indexation model and a strategic Material Purchase Advance Fund;
secured bulk raw materials prior to price surges, protecting the cash-flow baseline against
contractor claims and variation orders.
• Multidisciplinary Alignment & Subcontractor Support: Coordinated construction teams,
specialized international medical equipment vendors, and design consultants to align
complex biomedical layouts with physical construction; established technical workshops for
subcontractors that improved their submittal accuracy and technical execution capacity,
resolving design discrepancies and defining missing scopes before they impacted the field
schedule.
• Recognition: Received the Best Technical Office Manager in the Sector award for
accelerating technical submittal approval lifecycles and driving cross-functional alignment.

• Directed a $1M headquarters renovation, managing phased execution to maintain
continuous healthcare operations with zero downtime.

• Corporate Asset Renovation: Managed the turnkey renovation and fit-out of the
corporate headquarters ($1 M asset value), coordinating specialized MEP and ICT
infrastructure contractors, defining interface scopes, and providing hands-on oversight to
minimize operational downtime.
• Executive Board Reporting: Prepared project review protocols and milestone tracking
systems for the executive board, establishing transparency over resource utilization,
procurement, and budget allocation.

• Oversaw $15M in technical execution for large-scale healthcare expansions, including
Saudi German Hospital branches in Egypt, UAE, and KSA.
• Bridged the gap between architectural design and site execution, ensuring compliance
with rigorous international healthcare standards.

• Healthcare Portfolio Execution: Directed technical execution, value engineering, and
contract administration for healthcare developments, including the $15M Saudi German
Hospital (SGH) Alexandria and SGH Cairo Expansion projects, managing a team of 7
engineers.
• Local Design Integration & Scope Alignment: Facilitated the introduction of local
Egyptian designers to optimize design and procurement costs for international
developments; evaluated and defined scopes of work during technical feasibility reviews
and strategic consulting for executive board evaluations of regional expansions across
Makkah, Dubai, and Cairo.
• Vendor & Landlord Relations: Managed relationships with master consultants, municipal
authorities, and Tier-1 contractors to enforce baseline schedule compliance, QA/QC
standards, and budget controls.

• Managed fit-out for 50% of the Mall of Egypts footprint, leading a workforce of 120+
and coordinating directly with high-profile tenants.
• Served as Lead Handover Engineer for Al Masa Hotels, managing the critical operational
transition from construction to occupancy.

• Developer Handover & Coordination: Managed fit-out operations spanning 50% of the
Mall of Egypt footprint, leading 5 engineers and 120+ site personnel; provided hands-on
guidance and technical troubleshooting to subcontractors to help them resolve site clashes,
define missing fit-out scopes, and elevate their technical quality to clear MAFs strict
retail compliance gates.
• Inspection & Quality Governance: Coordinated overlapping inspection schedules with
QA/QC teams and the prime consultant; cleared retail compliance gates to maintain project
velocity and meet quality standards.
• Asset Activation: Served as the primary Handover and Coordination Lead for Al Masa
Hotels (New Capital), driving cross-functional stakeholder alignments to resolve
outstanding punch-list items, close out missing scopes, and ensure smooth operational
transition to the operator.

• Managed a $14M automotive project portfolio for Ford, directing design and
construction for landmark showrooms and service centers in Riyadh.

• Commercial Portfolio Management: Managed design coordination, municipal approvals,
and construction lifecycles for a regional commercial real estate portfolio of Ford
dealership centers across KSA ($14M total asset value), auditing early-stage drawings to
define missing design scopes and prevent site variations.
• Flagship Project Delivery: Directed the delivery of the flagship Ford Riyadh Showroom
($10M project budget), optimizing space utilization and engineering plans to deliver the
showroom on schedule and within budget.

• Delivered high-end design and fit-out services for commercial developments, shopping
centers (e.g., Semouha Club), and residential complexes.

• Design & Fit-Out Execution: Managed client consultations, spatial layout planning, and
fit-out execution for mixed-use public buildings, hospitality projects (including a new hotel
branch in Borg El Arab), the Semouha Club Expansion, and high-end residential
complexes.