Chief Technology Officer
Evolve Investment
Total des années d'expérience :25 years, 4 Mois
Managing IT architecture and platforms for the holding company as well as all Subsidiaries and reporting to the Chairman/ CEO and the IT advisory committee.
Created the first digital platform for precious metals trading and services in Egypt with end to end automation using a hybrid custom built solutions based on microservices and APIs for B2B and B2C along with off the shelf products such as SAP, Orosoft, Hubspot
Integrating with providers for payments services, Buy Now Pay Later, eKYC and customer onboarding as well as integration with liquidity and pricing providers (StoneX, SAM) using FIX protocols to create a next generation distribution platform for financial services relying on Cloud infrastructure
Manage vendor selection, negotiations and contracting
• Reporting to the CEO, member and moderator of the company’s Steering Committee. Successfully built Beltone’s IT from scratch starting from design of all IT services offered and translating these services into systems and applications along with the corresponding hardware and data centers required to maintain such an operation across locations (in Cairo, Dubai, Sauid Arabia, Libya, Qatar, New York and London).
• Provided Strategic solutions to all areas of investment banking: brokerage, asset management, market making, investment banking, private equity, research and custody while ensuring compliance with all regulatory and licensing requirements.
• Managing IT integration between Beltone and acquired companies to streamline operations, remove any redundancies and improve efficiency of internal processes.
• Some of the applications that I selected and implemented include ERP (SAP), CRM, Order Management Systems (Sungard), back and middle office operations, asset management front and back office systems (Advent), IP telephony and collaboration (Avaya), LAN & WAN design (Cisco) as well as security solutions from client endpoint security to Intrusion Prevention Systems. Building complete Business continuity plans
• Provide continuous evaluation of current vs new technologies and systems used to always optimize operations and make sure IT always provides best services at the best cost available. Led the design and implementation of a regional Direct Market Access trading platform that increased revenues by around 20% as well as the development of the Online Trading portal which increased revenues by another 15% while reducing IT costs by 50% over 3 years.
• Create a Digital transformation strategy involving solutions based on Artificial Intelligence service multiple business lines
• Managing the product development life cycle of all EastNets capital markets product portfolio.
• Provide pre-sales support in gathering client requirements and developing solutions, proposals and doing client presentations and demos as well as responding to RFPs.
• Create and conduct brand and product awareness along with training campaigns internally and to clients
• Reporting to the Senior Advisor to the Minister for the development of Egyptian Customs Authority, I was responsible for overseeing IT operations of 760 IT staff in 20 customs outlets distributed across Egypt.
• Successfully achieved mandate of improving operational efficiency and implementing measures to reduce corruption.
• Coordinating with international aid providers such as the USAID, EUAID, Swiss Aid as well as managing consultants and partners from Booz Allen Hamilton and IT solution providers.
• Development of complete technical infrastructure plan and design for the Egyptian Customs Authority including Hardware (servers, storage, networks, security, connectivity) and software licenses.
• Overseeing all IT Division heads, direct supervision and responsibility for Business Operations, Networks and Security, Technical Operations and Technical Support and Development divisions.
• Managed the design & development of a Bonds Primary Dealers system, Market alerts system, Disclosure system, Intranet, Extranet (Remote Trading), Document Archiving system.
• Established and headed the Change Management committee. Issued a full LAN upgrade and managed the tender from RFP to evaluation and selection.
• Involved in planning and conducting progress review meetings, performance reporting, track schedule, aid in procurement process from setting criteria to RFP to selection
• Managed the upgrade for the Exchange’s Trading system.
• Aid in setting goals and strategies for the IT dept.
• Handle Reporting and presentations to upper management.
Responsible for growing the online trading business for Arabfinance.
created new trading workstation and data streamer
developed marking strategies and campaings
Design, implementation and operation of all network (LAN, WAN) switches and routers for the Egyptian Stock Exchange
created the Exchange's remote trading network connecting all brokers in egypt.
Design, implementation and operation of all security infrastructure for the exchange, firewall, IPS/IDS, end point... along with monitoring solutions and penetration testing
Masters of science in computer science from the university of Louisville. Kentucky.