Hany Mahmoud, who was named as Egypt’s minister of communications in 2012, has extensive experience in the field of information and communications technology on both the national and international levels, much of which he gained through working in multinational companies.

Hany Mahmoud served as Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology from August 2012 to January 2013.

In 2011, Mahmoud was appointed Chairman of the Egypt Post, then he was named as the Director of the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) on 2 May 2011.

In 2000, Mahmoud joined Vodafone Egypt as the General Manager of Human Resources, Administrative and Legal Affairs. During a decade with Vodafone, he served as Vice President of Vodafone Turkey from 2006 to 2007, Vice President of Vodafone Egypt from 2007 to 2008 and Chairman of Vodafone Turkey and Regional Director for Central Europe and Africa from 2009 to 2010.

Dr. Khater is the Founder of Terous Misr Foundation for Development. He is Board Member of John D. Gerhart Center, Business School, American University of Cairo and Board member of UN Global Compact Network Egypt.

As Dr. Khater believes in the essential role of the civil society he also holds other titles such as: 

• General Secretary of the Egyptian Food Bank.

• Treasurerof the Egyptian Cure Bank.

• Board Member of the Egyptian Clothing Bank.

• Secretary General of Ferdaws Foundation.

• Board Member of Ma’an Foundation for Developing Slum Areas.

• Secretary General of the Tabarak Association for Society Development.

Dr. Khater was also founder and first chairman of the Egyptian Junior Business Association (EJB).

He started his career in 1987 by beginning Khater international company where he started exporting different local products.

In 1992 he started the sports division in Khater Company and from there till 2002 the company succeeded in capturing most of the market share in the stadiums establishment.

Dr. Khater also chaired Namaa For Real Estate and managed to make a break-throw in the activities and scope of work of the company until he left to concentrate in his passion in the civil society.

Previous titles held by Dr. Khater were:

• Ex President of The General Federation of NGOs and Foundations.

• Ex board member of Olympic Group.

• Ex Chairman of Namaa for Development & Real Estate Investment.

• Ex Chairman of One Chain Logistics (OCL).

• Ex Chairman of TEEM (The Egypt Emirates Mall Group).

• Ex Vice Chairman of Style Image Management Company.

• Ex Board Member of the Social Fund for Development.

Hatem Khater have chaired several conferences and managed to provide a linkage between efforts of the government, corporates and civil society organizations to achieve a clear direction towards sustainable development.

He also is the founder and manager of Tanaghoum program which is the first model of sustainable development in Egypt that works on all pillars of development in one geographical location (Akhmim). The program covers a city and 14 villages to upgrade the level of living of 450,000 people in Upper Egypt. In this program Khater managed to bridge the execution gap in implementing the different interventions of the program on the ground, and in less than two years.

Dr. Khater has received a number of honors and awards locally and globally for his activities and dedication in moving the wheel of development in Egypt.

Dr. Khater studied business administration in Cairo University and graduated in 1983, and he received his PhD from University of Pennsylvania in the field of Organization Strategic Management.

Dr. Khater is married and has two sons and two daughters.  

Former accountant, economist & business development expert. Graduated from the faculty of Commerce English Section, Then joined Commercial International Bank in the same year moving through different departments (tellers, customer service, transfers, deposits and payroll), then succeeded to get the credit course and moving to the credit department in the head-office, then heading the Sixth of October Zone (including four branches).

After the revolution, a big career shift happened to join the development field with a passion to contribute and develop a model of sustainable integrated development in Egypt.

She started in this context by starting an environmental initiative concerned about training and creating job opportunities for unprivileged youth and creating the first manual of cleaning streets and recycling in a professional manner in Egypt. After making a success story in it she different positions such as: 

• Chairman of the Manber Al-Noor Charitable Association (under the management of the reservation committee on the civil associations affiliated with the Brotherhood).

• Treasurer of the Islamic Medical Association (under the management of the reservation committee on the civil associations affiliated with the Brotherhood).

• Member of the Steering Committee of the Ahbab Allah Association for Community Development (under the management of the reservation committee on the civil associations affiliated with the Brotherhood).

• CEO of Al-Anani Foundation for Human Development.

• Head of the CSR Sector for Dakahlia Group.

• Founder and Director of El-Anany Agricultural Technology School.

• CEO and Secretary General of Terous Misr Foundation for Development.

• Executive Director of Tanaghom Project for Holistic Sustainable Development.

• Executive Chairman of The Fingerprint Summit.

Dr. Darwish received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Cairo University, in 1981 & 1984 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1988. 

He received the Egyptian National Engineering Award for the year 1999. Dr. Darwish was selected by Singapore to receive the Middle East Eminent Persons Award (MEEP)-2007 in recognition for his work.  He also Received the Lifetime Achievement Medal for his distinguished career from University of California, Davis in 2017.

His 2 last public positions were Minister of State for Administration Development (2004-2011) and Chairman of the Suez Canal Economic Zone (2015-2017). 

As a Chairman of the SCZone, he laid the foundation of one of largest Special Economic Zones in the world (461 sq km and 6 ports). As the Minister of State for Administration Development (2004-2011). This included three major portfolios; e-Government, Institutional and Human Resources Development and Governance Institutionalization (including transparency and integrity in government and public sector).  The work done by the team was internationally recognized. Egypt’s Government electronic and web services rank was 23 out of 192 countries according to the 2010 UN-PAN report and the program received the best service award both from the UN in New York (2009) and the African Union in Johannesburg (2008). Egypt was accepted as a member of the Public Governance Committee in OECD. 

He is a consultant to a number of international organizations (UNDP, UNIDO, WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, FAO, ESCWA, European Union and World Bank), government organizations and companies in Egypt, Middle East, Africa, Europe and United States.

For more information, please visit http://www.amdarwish.com

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Dr. Ahmed M. Darwish

Dr. Darwish received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Cairo University, in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1988.

He received the Egyptian National Engineering Award for the year 1999. Dr. Darwish was selected by Singapore to receive the Middle East Eminent Persons Award (MEEP)-2007 in recognition for his work.  He also Received the Life Time Achievement Medal for his distinguished career from University of California, Davis in 2017.

His 2 last public positions were Minister of State for Administration Development (2004-2011) and Chairman of the Suez Canal Economic Zone (2015-2017). 

As a Chairman of the SCZone (2015-2017), he laid the foundation of one of largest Special Economic Zones in the world (461 sq km and 6 ports). 

As a Minister of State for Administration Development (2004-2011). This included three major portfolios; i. The preparation of the National Policy and Strategy Document on e-government in addition to the planning, administration and coordination of the implementation. Ii. The design and execution of the Institutional and Human Resources Development Program and iii. Governance institutionalization including transparency and integrity in government and public sector. 

The work done by the team was internationally recognized. Egypt’s Government electronic and web services rank is 23 out of 192 countries on the 2010 UN-PAN report and the program received the best service award both from the UN in New York (2009) and the African Union in Johannesburg (2008).

He was an invited speaker to numerous international events, among them: “Making Reform Happen”, OECD Paris 2010, UNIDO General Conference, Vienna 2011 and UNIDO Forum on Strategies and Instruments for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development, Vienna June 2014, World e-ID, France 2012-2014, invited expert at the Helsinki Process: Improving International Investment Regime, Helsinki 2013, and Government Technology Summit, UAE, 2013 & 2014. In addition due to his work on innovation and entrepreneurship he was an invited key note speaker at several events among them International Innovation Summit, Tunis Sept. 2014 and Startup Weekend, Cairo 2013 & 2014.

Dr. Darwish is a Professor of Computer Engineering at Cairo University. During his academic career he was on sabbatical leave with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech. He is a member of few scientific and professional societies. He was the IEEE Egypt Section Chair. He supervised 10 PhD Dissertations and 26 MSc Thesis. He has over 64 publications in peer reviewed journals and scientific conferences, 11 invited papers, shared in 4 books, numerous invited talks and few sponsored research programs.

Dr. Darwish is a consultant to a number of international organizations (UNDP, UNIDO, WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, FAO, ESCWA, European Union and World Bank), government organizations and companies in Egypt, Middle East, Africa, Europe and United States.

Amr Soliman is an Egyptian architect and businessman; the founder of DMG some 27 years ago. He has reflected his vision of life and approach to business in DMG – an abbreviation for Dar Al Mimar Group, where the name reflects the warmth of home: “Dar”, the power of the “Group” and the enthusiasm to develop and build landmarks through “Mimar” / Architecture. Amr has originally started DMG as an architectural design house; a venue to deliver superior designs that aimed to add real value to the lives of his clients. Later on, he extended his business to contracting in order to have the chance to transfer the value and the spirit of the designs his company produced into successful real life houses and buildings. In a continuous aspiration for excellence, he kept expanding the business and completing the value chain: from design to contracting to landscape to fine finishing to facilities management, all the way to a complete, professional, integrated engineering group in 2005. Throughout this journey, he has coupled practical experience with specialized diplomas in business and real estate. With the engineering foundation built and well established, Amr moved to the next step of his vision, introducing Mountain View as a professional real estate development company in 2005. Capitalizing on the powerful engineering arm and an innovative approach to real estate, Mountain View quickly evolved from developing small premium communities and mini-compounds, all the way to city-scale developments that integrate different life activities from residence to recreation, shopping, business and working environments. Together with members of the DMG family, Amr spent the years from 2010 to 2015 consolidating the group companies with the latest in business and management systems, manning all the key strategic posts with the best calibers in the market, transforming the group into a leading conglomerate that blends a unique local flavor with both multinational experience and leading edge systems. With the group companies strongly established and professionally led by members of the DMG family, Amr is moving gradually from management and its chores, directing his full attention to innovation and development, concentrating on developing superiorly designed communities for a happier life. His vision of happiness builds on a practical approach that evolves from the DMG family, to DMG clients, then the whole community. In addition to leading development and innovation, and catalyzing business across different DMG companies, Amr Soliman spends considerable parts of his time on social and humanitarian activities as an active and founding partner of a number of charities and social responsibility institutions, including “The Egyptian Food Bank,” and “Terous.” He has participated in founding the AUC Real Estate Academy Program and is one of the referees of its graduation project. Amr Soliman is living in Cairo with his wife and 4 sons at different stages of education.

Experience of 46 years started in the Pharmaceutical then shifted to the business and management world working in various industries includes pharmaceutical, Xerox, Food, Fashion, and Telecommunications.
Salma started her journey in the United States and then over 30 years heading different corporate divisions that includes corporate strategy & governance, sales, marketing, distribution, and retail with executive responsibilities in different companies across the world wide starting from USA, Britain,Egypt, and MENA area.Experience of 46 years started in the Pharmaceutical then shifted to the busine

A public figure in the field of women rights and a regionally renowned career diplomat, Mona Omar has extensive experience representing and coordinating issues of strategic interest to women on the international, regional and national levels.  She is a lecturer and regular speaker at international and regional conferences and on all forms of media.

Mona Omar is the founder and active board member of a number of organizations aimed at addressing key socio-economic issues affecting Egyptian and African development.

In 2013 Mona Omar assumed the position of the Secretary General of the National Council for Women for two years.  Before this post, Mona Omar was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for African Affairs (2008-2013).

In 2016, Mona Omar was elected by the Human Rights Council as a member of the Advisory Committee, with the membership term starting on 1st of October 2016, and ending on the 30th of September 2019.

Mona Omar is currently the President of the “Africa Center “ at the British University in Egypt “BUE” since 2014.

As a career diplomat from 1976 to 2013, Mona Omar’s experience ranges from the establishment of Egyptian embassies and representation offices in the immediate aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda and apartheid in South Africa; to founding and actively engaging in the steering committee of the NEPAD (The New Partnership for Africa’s Development).

A recognized and active leader within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mona Omar assumed a number of additional roles and responsibilities to official posts. These included, but were not limited to chairmanship of the Council of Assistant Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the chairmanship of the Diplomats Club during internal negotiations during the Egyptian revolution.

Mona Omar did her postgraduate studies in political science at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Economics at the Cairo University (1975-1976) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Faculty of Political Science and Economics from the same university (1971-1975).

Ahmed Fikry Abdel Wahab is the Managing Director of East Port Said Development Co. (EP), the National Egyptian Railway Industries Co. (NERIC), and the Egyptian German Automotive Co. (EGA). He serves on the board of directors of a number of government and non-government organizations: Engineering Export Council, Export Development Fund, Export Development Authority, Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies (ECES), Federation of Egyptian Industries (2010 – 2021), Egyptian Competition Authority (2007-2017) and Suez Canal Economic Zone (2015-2018). Dr. Abdel Wahab is Vice President of the African Association of Automobile Manufacturers (AAAM). He is the current Chairman of the School of Business Dean's Strategic Advisory Board – American University in Cairo and Chairman of Egyptian Kuwaiti Foundry (EKF). Dr. Abdel Wahab serves/served as a member of the board of directors in a number of listed and unlisted companies such as: Elsewedy Electric, Sprea Misr, Industrial Development Group (IDG), the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) and the National Academy for Science and Skills (NASS). He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, his MBA and his Ph. D. degrees in business administration (management science / statistics) from the University of Alabama, USA.

Education:

Eng. Korra graduated from Cairo University in 1979 as a mechanical engineer. Eng. Korra is the Chairman of Korra Holding (ConsuKorra), a leading conglomerate in the energy, electromechanical, industrial/trading and food processing & agricultural sectors. Further, he is an accomplished entrepreneur and was involved in several startups

Partnerships and Roles:

Industrial (Packaging – Food Processing) Sector

He is the Business Unit Manager and partner of Greif Egypt since 1992; a joint venture of 25% with Greif (USA) global leader for industrial packaging and manufacturing of steel drums at Sadat City.

He is also the General Manager and partner of Huhtamaki Egypt; a joint venture of 25% with

Huhtamaki Finland, worldwide known for moulded fiber packaging in Sadat City.

He is as well the Chairman of Cairo Oil and Soap Co. specialized in the manufacturing of Oil, Ghee and Soap brands

Agricultural & Land Reclamation Sector:

For more than 30 years, he has been one of the pioneers in the land reclamation in Nubaria area, with a history of agricultural achievements. He took the lead in cultivating the area, has been the first in line to implement new agricultural technologies, tried new water-conservation irrigating systems. He also made the importation of certain kinds of fruits to Egypt possible. He is the general manager of several owned farms, with the current focus on the exportation of fresh fruit specially strawberry

Eng. Ayman Korra is the Founder and Chairman of Korra Holding - Consukorra and all its divisions

Consukorra has grouped its business lines under three umbrellas “Energy – Agriculture –  Trading” with the brands Korra Energi, Korra Agri and Korra Tradi each in their own specialized field

• Korra Energi:

Is a pioneer in the field of offering “out of the box” energy solutions, carefully tailored to project needs. Our integrated energy solutions encompass a balanced portfolio of activities in cogeneration, air conditioning, central cooling and waste to energy offering turnkey projects from the engineering, construction, operation and after sales service for clients. Moreover, it is one of the few companies in Egypt licensed for generating, distributing and selling electricity. In addition to being a first class contractor in the “Egyptian Federation for Construction & Building Contractors”

• Korra Agri:

Is one of the large growers and exporters of fresh fruit specialized in the strawberry production. It is important to highlight that they are the only company in Egypt that exports sealed packs delivered directly to supermarket outlets, mainly in Europe and the UK. They also in the pesticides and fertilizers business having more than 25 trusted sources of registered pesticides and foliar fertilizers

• Korra Tradi:

Is a well-known company in the different fields they serve. Pumps & Machinery Business Unit, is specialized in the installation and maintenance of pumps such as submersible pumps for wells, irrigation, firefighting, A/C pumps, domestic water pumps and water sources issues. They are also in the field of refractories, ink jets and petrochemicals  

GIS Sector:

Being the chairman and owner of 85%, he truly believes in the company’s line of business. Zoser Egypt is a technology hub that represents distinctive geo-spatial solutions and platforms that harnesses the power of location managing different businesses’ aspects to achieve targets and aiming at moonshots.

Directorships:

Among other roles, Eng. Ayman is:

• Board Member of Chamber of Food Industries
• Board Member of Egyptian Businessmen’s Association (EBA)
• Board member in the agriculture committee of the Egyptian Competitiveness
• Former Board Member of General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) (2004 – 2009)
• Former Chairman of the Horticultural Export Improving Association (HEIA). (2000 – 2003)

Community:

Founder and Chairman of the board of trustees of AlKorra Foundation for Sustainable Development, an NGO (non-profit organization). The foundation aims at increasing the competitiveness and productivity and achieving the sustainable economic development through a focus on the issues of youth employment.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Mohanad T. Khaled, Managing Partner, has Extensive experience in conducting Tax planning studies for both local and multinational organizations, in addition to experience in day-to-day Tax Advisory and tax compliance assignments involving corporate tax, payroll tax (for both locals and expatriates), social insurance, and VAT. Over and above, Audit as well as Business Advisory Services were provided for a broad range of clients.

Throughout his professional career, Mohanad had provided local and multinational clients with various restructuring, business and  planning advisory services, including companies such as Movenpick, Gillette, Saint Gobain, Cadbury, and many others.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK.
• Fellow of the Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors (ESAA).
• Fellow of the Egyptian Taxation Society

EDUCATION

• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing & International Business.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Board member of the affiliate Business Process Outsourcing Company,BDO Esnad 

•  Committee member at the Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) that is updating the Corporate Governance Guidelines.

• Board member of the Egyptian Private Equity Association (EPEA)

• Board member of the British Egyptian Businessmen Association (BEBA).

• Active member of  the Egyptian Businessmen Association (EBA)

• Active member of the Egyptian Junior Business Association (EJB).

• Part-time teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses at the Management Department of the American University in Cairo (AUC).