Sherif El-Maadawy, Founder & CEO

Sherif El-Maadawy

Founder & CEO

ATTRACTION

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Advertising Design
Experience
21 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 9 Months

Founder & CEO at ATTRACTION
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since April 2012
Freelance Creative Director at Freelance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to April 2012

Creative Director with more than 10 years of experience in ATL & BTL advertising, Branding & Corporate Imaging. Experience in managing creative teams. Experience in Egypt & Gulf markets.

General Manager / Creative Director at Heights Agency Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2006 to January 2009

Working as a General Manager & Creative Director in Heights Agency Egypt branch, manage a staff of 36 employees, to achieve the agency’s projects with high quality standards and within the given budget.
Heights is a full service agency (Saudi Origin), has many offices in different countries Saudi Arabia, Egypt & Czech Republic, offers 360ο services (ATL&BTL advertising, marketing, public relation and event management).
As a General Manager
• Full responsibility of the daily processes inside the branch.
• Delivering high quality service to clients within budget.
• Estimate the implementation time & make the financial offers.
• Managing time, plans, multitask and prioritize.
• Review the activity reports for all departments and prepare a summary report in order to be presented to the CEO.
• Monitor sales team achievements.
• Supervise clients service and telemarketing departments.
• Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing.

As a Creative Director
• Lead the team of designers and copywriters on their day-to-day responsibilities.
• Reviewing and approving art and copy materials developed by team and presenting final layouts to client for approval.
• Developing basic presentation approaches and directs layout design and copywriting for promotional material.
• Make decisions on a daily basis that ensure both profitability and creative quality.
• Set standards & expectations (build culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development. Lead accordingly.
• Managing outside resources, including vendors, photographers, freelancers, web and interactive sub-contractors.
• Quality control, including proofing, reviewing, measuring and evaluating staff performance, creative output and project processes.
• Direct the activities and professional development of creative team members, including conducting staff reviews, taking corrective actions and recommending promotions.

Free Lance Art Director at Various Advertising Agencies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2004 to August 2006

Art Director
Bzone
Egypt, Cairo
From: September 2004
To: August 2005

Art Director
Touch AD.
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
From: September 2004
To: October 2005

Art Director
Snap Advertising
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
From: June 2005
To: December 2005

Art Director
ARTnART.
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
From: January 2006
To: August 2006

Art Director at Heights Agency Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2005 to August 2006

• Full responsibility of the art direction of projects.
• Full responsibility of execution and creative work (including print, interactive, and any other BTL)
• Attending meetings with clients to determine objectives, budget, background information, and presentation approaches, styles, and techniques.
• Deliver high quality service to clients within given budget.
• Working closely with designers to raise the creative output, inspiring them to take the project to new heights.
• Offering creative input and technical expertise to enhance the quality of work.
• Leading designers throughout the implementation of projects and monitors the results.
• Reviewing work of the team.
• Create presentation concepts that bring ideas to life.
• Following up on project changes from client servicing until they are approved and have reached the final stage.

Senior Graphic & Multimedia Designer at Heights Agency Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2003 to January 2005

Working as a graphic & multimedia designer to create high quality designs for:
• Logos, stationary & corporate ID.
• ATL & BTL advertising.
• Exhibitions poses & giveaways.
• Multimedia screens & presentations.
• Websites
• ATM screens (static, animated).

Graphic Designer at Bzone Danish Cosmetics
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2002 to August 2003

Graphic Designer in Danish cosmetics company’s advertising department. In that job, I have worked strongly through the branding phases (products naming, products & packaging design, advertisements design, optimizing the art directions in accordance with customer’s feedback).
That job was the corner stone in my professional career & it give me a real chance to touch the power of the advertising in the marketing process, We have succeeded to gain good profits to our company in 2003 and our products become distributed worldwide.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Advertising Design
  • at Applied Arts
  • July 2002

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Materials
Leadership
MS Project
Multimedia
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, MS Project, Powerpoint)
Innovation, Conviction, Communication & Presentation Skills
Team Building, Leadership, Negotiation, Analytical Thinking & Creative Problem Solving
Branding & Marketing Background, Strategic Plans
Graphic Softwares (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign)

Languages

English
Intermediate