Ahmed Ibrahim, Chief operating officer

Ahmed Ibrahim

Chief operating officer

Cashcall

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Chief operating officer at Cashcall
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2017 to December 2022

-Cofounder and COO of Cashcall a fintech company and payment facilitator in Egypt.
-Lead the company strategy and manage Executives of commercial, technology, operation, and sales departments
-triples the company value in 5 years, and acquired 7% market share of retail payments in Egypt, across 26 governorates.

Business Development Manager - Africa at Asset Technology Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2014 to September 2017

Role:
 Working as a Business Development Manager - Telecommunication Sector
 Regional Sales Manager - Africa

Responsibilities:
 Plan annual business strategy for developing Territory business
 Prospect for potential new clients and turn this into increased business.
 Cold call partners within territory area to ensure a robust pipeline of opportunities.
 Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, and leveraging partners’ network.
 Identify potential clients, and the decision makers within the client organization.
 Research and build relationships with new clients.

Business Analysis Manager at Vodafone Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2013 to September 2014

 Managing Vodafone Business Analysts and Design Unit.
 Responsible for all Vodafone Egypt projects scope from technology side.
 Managing calendars of consumer segments, enterprise Segments, products and services, mobile internet and data, fixed data, customer care, customer experience, online services, payments, and money transfer calendars in Vodafone Egypt.
 Handle projects scope conflicts and drive streams vision

Most Important Achievements:
 Building a Business Analysis unit in Vodafone Egypt to analysis business requirements
and create function requirements and analysis document or RFP and scope documents.
 Create suitable Business Analysis Model for VFE BA unit, and tailored BA model per
calendar

Business Analyst / Solution Architect at Vodafone Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2009 to September 2013

 Working as Business Analyst and Solution Architect of Payments solutions - Products and
Services Department

Responsibilities:
 Analyze business requirements and develop technical requirements, WBS, and analyze
risks for Payments Solutions
 Create RFPs and evaluate proposals.
 Design systems architecture.
 Define acceptance criteria, and Requirements Traceability Matrixes.
 Phasing the projects and determining milestones.
 Follow up on Implementation, Integration, Testing, Deployment, Migration (if any)
Phases, till launch.

Most Important Achievements:
 Wining Vodafone Afkarna Innovation competition by designing Charging Framework
Solution (Charging Interface for online pre-paid gifts provision, and Administration tool
for customer care)
 Analyze and Design Vodafone e-TopUP (Electronic vouchers for Vodafone distribution
network), and Launched it smoothly in the market
 Handled a project developed across 12 different vendors, and led a successful integration
throughout.
 Analyzed and Designed Vodafone e-Payment Project, Which handling all the electronic
payments in Vodafone Egypt, and launched in smoothly in the market
 Launching the new mobile numbering in payment systems, and lead the migration phase.

Account project Manager at Etisalat Misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to September 2009

 Gathering business requirements for Engineering account projects.
 Analyze business requirements and develop technical requirements document.
 Define Acceptance criteria.
 Lead kick off meetings.
 Phasing the projects and determining milestones.
 Manage project’s scope, time, quality, and Cost.
 Follow up on Implementation, Integration, Testing, Deployment, Migration (if any), and
launch phases.
 Handle the technical and business acceptance.

Most Important Achievements:
 3G Parameters Project (Extracting 3G KPI to the quality systems)
 Wireless Transmission Manager
 SAT(GSM Site Acceptance Tracking)
 EMS phase II (Early Network Monitoring System

IT Consultant at Vodafone Group Services GmbH
  • Germany
  • April 2008 to January 2009

 Provide Professional Consultancy Service for Different OPCOs in Portal Migration
projects

Most Important Achievements:
 Participated in IT consultancy team for Vodafone Live Migration project 9.3.5 to 9.6 for
Vodafone Live Portal of Vodafone Germany.
 Participated in ODP (Over Device Portal) project team for Vodafone GSP in UK,

Senior Java Developer at Asset Technology Group (Software House)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2007 to April 2008

 Working as a Senior Java Developer in Research and Development Department.

Most Important Achievements:
 Took the advantage of taking the responsibility of developing some Vodafone Egypt systems during like Credit Card Payments, registration, direct debit, Integrated ATM Network of CIB Bank with Vodafone Payment Gateway

Business Development Manager at Oct2014 Asset Technology Group
  • Egypt
  • to

 Plan annual business strategy for developing Territory business
 Prospect for potential new clients and turn this into increased business.
 Cold call partners within territory area to ensure a robust pipeline of opportunities.
 Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, and leveraging partners’ network.
 Identify potential clients, and the decision makers within the client organization.
 Research and build relationships with new clients.
 Work with pre-sales team to develop proposals that speaks to the client’s needs,
concerns, and objectives.
 Pricing the solution/service.
 Use a variety of styles to persuade and negotiate deals.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering
  • at AinShams University/Faculty of Engineering
  • January 2004

Specialties & Skills

Technology
Financial Technology
Business Development
Payment Services
Telecommunications
BUSINESS PROCESS
DIRECTING
MANAGEMENT
Business Analysis
fintech
Technology innovation
entrepreneurship

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

PMI (Project Management Institute)
  • Member
  • April 2011
IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)
  • Cairo IBA
  • January 2011
IIST (International Institute of Software Testing)
  • member in Bug Free Zone
  • April 2006

Training and Certifications

CSTP (Certificate of Software Testing Professional) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2006
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Deep Dive (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2007