Mohammed is an intrapreneur at Vodafone Egypt, where he is responsible for driving innovation and exploring new frontiers in the Internet space. His areas of focus are overhauling the end-to-end user experience, managing the Internet products portfolio, and nurturing the developer ecosystem. He launched and manages Vodafone Ventures, a startup fund created to boost the local Internet industry and to enable young entrepreneurs to realize their dreams. Previously, Mohammed launched Vodafone's mobile Internet, and grew it to 6 million users by launching data plans, smartphones, social networking products, and content services. On paper, Mohammed is a computer engineer, and has acquired 10 years of local Internet industry knowhow from a previous life.

Mr. Osman has over 14 years of experience in project management and contract administration. He has worked on commercial buildings, office buildings, hotel projects as well as infrastructure projects. Mr. Osman has extensive knowledge of starting up projects and successfully managing both the design and construction phases. Mr. Osman heads Projacs’ Operations in Egypt and Sudan supporting public and private clients on large mixed use developments and specialized buildings. Mr. Osman provides expertise for public private partnerships, build operate and transfer (BOT) schemes, feasibility studies and due diligence. He also has extensive business development experience and has working experience in Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE as well as the United Kingdom. Mr. Osman is a fond believer that SMEs are the backbone of developing Egypt’s economy in the near future and will support SMEs and Entrepreneurs working in the fields of Real Estate, Retail, Construction, Transportation as well as Infrastructure.

Sherif is the CEO & Founder of Extreme Solution,a Leading Mobile Messaging & VAS Provider in Egypt for the Past eleven years. He is additionally the Founder of AppaDeus LLC ,a US based Technology Startup Developing Mobile Games & Social Apps for the iOS & Android Platforms, and is a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG Council,) helping leading companies and investment firms learn more about current business issues. Sherif holds a Diploma in Mobile Communications from the Telecoms Academy in London and a BSc of Information Technology and Communication from the AASTMT.

Hanan Samieh graduated from Faculty of Engineering, Communication & Electronics section, Ain Shams University. She also got a MBA with a major in Marketing from Masstricht School of Management in Netherlands. She has published a paper on knowledge management in international journals like IEEE magazine, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, and Knowledge Management Journal. She is a business consultant specialized in strategy and business development, budget planning, process engineering, and enterprise risk management. She consults regularly with executives in ICT industry to help developing the industry in Egypt. She has extensive professional experience in IT and Telecom industries in several functions including software engineering, mobile network development and operation, project management, financial planning and modeling, process engineering, enterprise risk management, and strategy and business development.

Ayman Elgohary is a balanced business leader with more than 16-years of experience he spent successfully in IT and Telecommunications fields. He has been working in different companies with exposure to multi-culture environments. During the first 9-years in his career, he worked as a technical engineer, in presales, in project management, and led business units in local Systems Integrators responsible for sales, presales and business development. In January 2004, he joined Cisco as a Territory Account Manager. In April 2006, he was promoted to be the Regional Sales Manager managing the Commercial business within Cisco in 10-countries (North Africa, Egypt and Levant). Ayman Elgohary has been awarded many awards by Cisco in the areas of sales excellence, partnership with different business departments within Cisco, and implementing new and innovative Go-To-Markets strategies and business models. His educational background is diversified as well. In 2005, he finished his MBA from Strathclyde Business School (SBS) in Glasgow, Scotland (one of the top 100 business schools in the world). Also, he has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with specialization in Communications and Electronics from Ain Shams University, achieved in 1995.

In his role, Fadi is setting the strategic direction for OT Ventures commercial plans. He is also managing the commercial organization's implementation of value adding business opportunities. He is responsible to develop and direct all aspects of the company's commercial and business development policies, objectives and initiatives across all countries that OTVentures serves. Fadi received his Bachelor degree of Business Administration from the American University in Cairo. He started his career at LINKdotNET handling several positions leading him to head the LinkWireless division, which started the first Value Added Services back in 2001-2002. Fadi first joined Arpu+ in 2003 as Business Development Manager and a member of the team who inaugurated the company and played a major role in its success. He then launched Mobizone Italy, a subsidiary of Arpu+, in 2006. During his 3 years mission in Italy, he managed to build a strong entity capable of standing up in a very competitive market and act as Arpu+ hub in Europe. In 2009, Fadi has been appointed as a Managing Director for Arpu+. Through his vast experience in the telecom field, he had a different vision that supported him to establish new creative lines of products and services.

“I believe that Egypt can play an influential role in the International Software Industry and I am determined to prove this”. That was my motto when I got my first freelance job for a US client back in 1988. At that time, I was still a fresh engineering graduate paving my way in the Web development field, but realized that through cyberspace I could efficiently deliver work and meet clients’ demands regardless of their geographic location; whether they were in a room next to me or even on a different continent. Assisted by business marketing portals like www.elance.com, my job evolved and clients increased. Inspired by my motto, I was able in 2000 to achieve outstanding results especially for my US clients, but back then, I didn’t know that I was literary a “Technology Export Entrepreneur” who was technically working in the field of “Outsourcing”. Armed with experience and entrepreneurial spirit, I quit my job to open my software company; Ark Development was originally founded to give talented and dedicated developers in the MENA region a stake in the global information economy. My original team of two developers has now grown into a robust CMMI-ISO Certified group of 30 programmers who develop codes in many languages. Challenge has never been a barrier to us; on the contrary it is an incentive where we can prove our mettle and show the unique caliber of our service. That’s why international clients are awed and name us “Our web ninjas team in Cairo--We are regularly awed by the magic Egyptians achieve in their projects.” Our ultimate objective which is giving Egypt an influential role on the International level is our strongest asset giving us the energy and determination to move far beyond the normal call of duty.

With a Masters in Architecture Karim initially started his career as an architect and designer for a firm in Boston that specialized in Iraqi Reconstruction. Always a serial entrepreneur at heart with several involvements since his teen years like founding an architectural outsourcing company at nineteen, Karim has since founded and developed four tech companies. In his early twenties Karim left architecture and founded E Group Corp (www.egroupcorp.com) which reached more than $1 million in revenue with an approximate 25% EBITDA margin from an initial investment of $10,000 in its first year of operation. E Group went on to employee more than 350 people with offices in Boston, Manchester, England, Namur, Belgium and Cairo, Egypt. E Group went on to complete a non-exercised right to acquire a prestigious 15 year old marketing company in Manchester, England founded and led by a current English Member of Parliament. The company was generating $3 million in revenue and $500,000 in net profit annually and was to be acquired for a 21% stake in E Group Corp. allowing the company to push higher-end KPO, two-tier, and near shore solutions. The option was not exercised due to the economic climate of the time in Q4 2008. In 2010 together with two Belgian partners, and ex-MDs at Teleperformance, E Group established E Group Belgium SPRL in Namur. 

Jazmed is an Egyptian company specializing in the provision of medical services.

Ahmed Zaky Allam is a telecommunications engineer graduated from Ain Shams University, holding a Masters of Business Administration degree from Maastricht School of Management. Ahmed has been working in the mobile telecommunications industry for the last 12 years holding different management positions in operations, marketing and sales both in the network operators side and network manufacturers and solutions provider side. On the personal level Ahmed has a small family with 2 kids and is excited to participate as a mentor, as it will give him a great opportunity to practically transfer his knowledge and experience and truly participate in the developing of our beloved new Egypt.

Hossam Kandeel, born and raised in Egypt, earned his B.Sc. in Electronics & Communications year 1996 from Cairo University. He started working in the IT & Telecom industry with few multinational organizations mainly in service establishment & management (e.g. INTELSAT USA, Schlumberger, NEC, Motorola). After receiving his MBA year 2000 from Maastricht School of Management majoring in International Business, Hossam joined Ericsson in 2001 working with technical business development towards telecom operators. Afterwards, he led the technical sales team serving North Africa market off of Egypt. Hossam has been put through several leadership assessment programs in Egypt and abroad where he has been identified as an “Ericsson key contributor” and a “Rapid High Potential leader” Hossam then moved to Ericsson headquarters in Stockholm to drive global strategy execution and operational excellence for three years off of corporate strategy. Finally, Hossam has been leading since June 2010 Ericsson’s Strategy for Region Middle East, helping develop and execute on Ericsson’s five years top business priorities in the region.