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Fadi Abi Akl, GM

Fadi Abi Akl

GM·Faragh sarl

Cyprus

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Work experience

Total years of experience: 33 years, 4 months

GM

October 2011 - Present

Faragh sarl

Lebanon

October 2011 - Present

• Leadership
- Conducting firm’s strategic planning process to refine the firm’s mission, vision and values and
assess it’s current state at least once per year;
- Finalizing objectives for FA Ragh Co and ensuring that they are met each year;
- Establishing a financial plan for Fa Ragh Co and ensuring that it is met each year;
- Acting as the “spiritual and values leader” for the firm;
- Acting as the primary partner interface, holding partners responsible for their specific goals,
responsibilities and behavior;
- Working with the partner group to review and commit to the products and services that will serve as
the firm’s core and specialty services;
- Evaluating and overseeing all business expansion opportunities, including merger and acquisition
opportunities;
- Assisting direct reports with setting and meeting their goals;
• Marketing
- Managing strategic vendor relations and vendor contracts;
- Developing and gaining buy-in to the firm’s market positioning, messaging and annual marketing
plan and assisting those assigned to implement it as needed;
- Developing alliances with 3rd parties, including other CPAs, as warranted;
- Approving the firm’s calendar of events;
- Representing the firm at key community events, firm functions and other meetings;
• Sales
- Reviewing the firm’s sales pipeline, helping refine the sales process and assisting in closing
engagements, as needed (i.e. presentations);
- Reviewing all prospective clients to ensure good fit and accept clients;
- Reviewing and approving all proposals to clients.
• Client Service
- Managing his/her assigned clients;
- Handling escalated client concerns as warranted;
• Risk Management
- Ensuring the firm is protected against risk including managing the firm’s insurance and legal
interface.

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Management

GM

June 2010 - October 2011

Al Hassan Group of Co

United Arab Emirates

June 2010 - October 2011

, Trading UAE
- In charge of three sister companies in Dubai & Abu Dhabi.
- Manage a team of Sales & Pre-sales.
- Provide leadership and direction for local business operations.
- Develop a strategic plan to grow the business in collaboration with the senior management team.
- Maintain full P&L responsibility for the companies, and achieve or surpass sales and financial targets.
- Establish performance goals which are aggressive, real and tied to overall company strategy and
goals.
- Represent the company in establishing and continuously growing relationships with business
partners, customers and vendors.
- Attract, develop, motivate and retain staff, deploy them in an effective manner, and ensure effective
succession planning is in place.
- Monitor departmental performance against performance goals to ensure that progress is being made
and corrective action, if necessary, is taken

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Management

Consultant

October 2008 - May 2010

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Arabia

October 2008 - May 2010

deployed by Navlink Inc. & Affiliate of AT&T & QTel.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Information Technology

Director Sales & Marketing

October 2006 - March 2008

Astrophysics Inc

Lebanon

October 2006 - March 2008

- Develop CDP (Channel Development Partners) in the MEA & Eastern Europe region.
- Promote X-rays units for Civil Aviation Industry & Seaports Customs.
- Established Regional Rep office for Astrophysics in Lebanon.
- In charge of Cargo equipments for the company within MENA area.
- Been able to present strategy on the cargo X-ray/Hi-energy design to R&D.
- Head of the Rep office in Beirut and reporting directly to the CEO.

Company industry:
Private Security Services
Job role:
Management

Regional Sales Director

July 2004 - September 2006

Rapiscan Systems Inc

Lebanon

July 2004 - September 2006

- Develop CDP (Channel Development Partners) in the MEA region.
- Promote X-rays units for Civil Aviation Industry & Seaports Customs.
- Promote conventional machines, Archways, Biosensor products.
- In charge of Cargo equipments for the company within MENA area.
- Been able to present strategy on the cargo X-ray/Hi-energy design to R&D.
- Remote person working out of home and reporting directly to the MD.

Job role:
Sales

Director

August 2002 - June 2004

LOOTAH GROUP OF COMPANIES

United Arab Emirates

August 2002 - June 2004

LooTech
- Represented Manufacturers of Cargoes X-ray machines headquartered in Beijing for the MEA region.
- Develop CDP (Channel Development Partners) in the MEA region.
- Promote X-rays units for Civil Aviation Industry & Seaports Customs.
- Completed successfully two projects at Dubai International Airport.
- Completed successfully two projects for PCFC (Ports, Customs and Freights Co.)
- Represented Manufacturers of Security Robots for Surveillance headquartered in Berlin for the Middle
East.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Management

Business Development Manager

October 2000 - July 2002

SILICON GRAPHICS, INC

United Arab Emirates

October 2000 - July 2002

MENA.
- Establishing a network Channels in the Region.
- Appointing Master Resellers for the Region.
- Setting up ASP (Authorized Service Providers) in the Region, to ensure the full support for the IA32
Products.
- Running successful launches in the Region for the IA32 products and Servers.
- In charge of the Military & Intelligence Market after July 01, started generating leads for projects
that involves, simulators, Image exploitation, Visual Systems, Reality Centre, and Network for the
Army for Data processing, Ground Stations jointly with Space Imaging, Finger Print Recognition and
Image coverage by using Lidar System.

Company industry:
Computer Hardware & High-Tech Manufacture
Job role:
Management

Manager

October 1998 - October 2000

JUMBO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD

United Arab Emirates

October 1998 - October 2000

- Servicing existing markets, exploring new markets and sourcing new products.
- Overall responsible of SUPRA PC Factory, Jebel Ali, Dubai
- Develop the Channels in the Middle East and North Africa
- Organizing Products Launch in the MENA area
- Exported first time Supra PC’s

Company industry:
Retail & Wholesale
Job role:
Management

General Manager

July 1992 - August 1998

Beiru

United Arab Emirates

July 1992 - August 1998

- Owner of a Computer Center.
- Assembling PC’s and Networking Set-up.
- Importing Computer Peripherals and distributing through VARs in the local market.
- Distributor of Educational Software Games i.e. Sierra, Lucas Arts, Dynamis, Adibou, etc.
- VAR for Lexmark printers.
- Distributor of Taiwanese UPS Do-Power.
- Distributor for Lite-on and AF Tech peripherals.

Company industry:
Administration Support Services
Job role:
Management

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Bahrain

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promote current business
and develop new business
Visited COMDEX98 in Las Vegas, CeBIT99 in Germany and
Computex99 in Taipei. Asis06 Show in San Diego, Asis07, Melipol04, Melipol07.
Visited INTEL and NEC plants in Penang, Malaysia, BAE
Head quarters in UK, CAE plant in Montreal.

Job role:
Other

Education

NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY

June 1991

June 1991

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

United Arab Emirates

Skills

ART
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ART
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COMPUTER HARDWARE
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COMPUTER HARDWARE
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT
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GESTIÓN
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GESTIÓN
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LEXMARK PRINTERS
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LEXMARK PRINTERS
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MARKETING
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MARKETING
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NETWORKING
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NETWORKING
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PERIPHERALS
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PERIPHERALS
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SALES
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SALES
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STRATEGIC
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STRATEGIC
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Languages

Arabic
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English
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French
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