CEO
Digitech
Total years of experience :28 years, 0 Months
• Developed ambitious business and digital transformation strategies for a start-up company in the field of software and cloud solutions
• Established short-term company goals, and long-term solution objectives for digital banking solutions, government transformation projects, and on-line education reform plans.
• Grew revenue from $16 million to $28M in one year and set a budget of $37M for June 2022 while substantially improving productivity, profitability and maintaining operational costs.
• Transformed Digitech from a start-up organization to currently being acquired by an International digital transformation organization entering the Egyptian market.
• Effectively grew the headcount from 15 employees to currently managing a team of some 30 employees while fostering change in company culture to be more open, transparent, customer focused and accountable.
• Co-founder & managing partner for a cloud software as a service company based in England and established its’ technical software development center in Egypt.
• Opened new marketing channels and established strategic alliances with software vendors, cloud solution platforms and cyber security providers.
• Former general manager for Intel Corporation in Egypt and Levant leading an operation of 220 employees in R&D, sales, marketing, PR, finance, and facilities.
• Established Intel in Egypt as a major contributor in government initiatives focusing on digital transformation, innovation, wireless infrastructure, and entrepreneurship.
• Launched one of the first design wins for Intel smartphone in the world with Etisalat Egypt and successfully secured the first 20K units in Middle East Turkey & Africa.
• Grew Intel branded PC market in Egypt & Levant through direct engagement and indirect partners by an average of 20% annually to US$180M in 2014.
• Increased local OEM CPU billings revenue in Egypt & Levant to US$40M per year.
• Established Intel Egypt as #1 in market segment share of 90% for total PC volume.
• Grew Intel consumer PC market in Egypt 30% annually from 2008 to 2011.
• Managed to grow PC revenues from large retailers to exceed $96M per year.
• Successfully implemented the first shop-in-shop concept between Mobile Telco operators and Retail resulting in incremental 109K PC units per year.
• Increased broadband penetration by 50% through hot spot enabling for Centrino.
• Enabled incremental growth of 100K PC units per year from purchase programs.
• Launched 10 key programs and initiatives with governments, NGOs, and the ICT community to increase technology awareness and digital transformation.
Grew Compaq product sales in Egypt from $4M per year to $32 million in 2001
• Managed the general business sector representing 50% of total Compaq sales
• Generated $10 million of product sales in enterprise channel accounts in H1/2002
Network Solutions Account Manager | NCR \{formerly known as AT&T GIS\}
Developed new business opportunities for NCR Dubai in the networking field
• Successfully expanded AT&T networking solutions to Abu Dhabi & Kuwait
• Established NCR/AT&T GIS as the leading solution partner for Cisco in the Gulf
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