Mr. Aboualam was appointed as Telecom Egypt’s CEO & Managing Director in January 2012. Formerly, Tarek had been SVP for International and Wholesale in June 1st, 2011. He has more than 14 years of experience in the telecommunications field in the Middle-Eastern and European markets. Prior to joining Telecom Egypt, he acted as the Fixed & Broadband Development Director of Orascom Telecom Holding. Between 2005 and 2008, he actively contributed to the turnaround of the Italian integrated operator Wind Telecomunicazioni acting as the Planning and Business Intelligence Director of its Fixed Business Unit. Starting 2001 till 2005, he played a leading role in the successful launch of Telecom Egypt’s data subsidiary (TE Data), the largest broadband provider in Egypt operating also in Jordan. From 1995 till 2000, Mr. Aboualam co-founded and managed one of the first ISPs in the MENA region (Soficom Communications SAE) acquired at a later stage by the Bahraini operator Batelco. He served as a member of the Board of Directors for many telecom companies including Tellas (Greece), TED-Jordan (Jordan) and Soficom Communications (Egypt). He holds a Bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Alexandria University.

Mohamed Elnawawy
Senior Vice President; Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Mohamed has been promoted to SVP and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) in December 2010. Before his appointment to SVP, Mohamed was appointed as Vice President and CSO in April 2009. Previously, he was the Vice President; International, Wholesale and Regulatory Affairs of Telecom Egypt since November 2006. He joined the Telecom Egypt Group in November 2001 as the Chairman and Managing Director of TE Data, SAE which is the TE subsidiary responsible for the TE Group’s retail IP transit and managed data services. Previously, in Jan 1992 Mohamed co-founded InTouch Communications Services, SAE a local ISP in Egypt where he resided as Chairman and Managing Director till April 2000. After that Mohamed consulted for the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority for nearly 1½ years. Mohamed holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an LLM.

Emad Elazhary
Senior Vice President; Group Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Emad is promoted to SVP and Group Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) with responsibility over TE Group’s retail offering and customer experience. Prior his appointment, Emad was appointed as Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer in August 2008. He joined Telecom Egypt Group in 2001 as the Vice President and Managing Director of TE Data, SAE TE’s Internet and data subsidiary. Elazhary expanded TE Data’s business to Jordan, the Gulf, and Palestine through wholly owned subsidiaries, representative offices, and professional services agreements. In 2005, he acted as the CEO of its Algerian joint venture with Orascom Telecom. Prior to joining Telecom Egypt Group, Elazhary consulted for Telecom Egypt and the Egyptian National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA). In 1992, he co-founded InTouch Communications Services as the first ISP in Egypt and managed with his partners to position the company as the leading ISP in Egypt before being acquired by another telecom operator. From 1990 till 1994, he worked for IBM WTC as a systems Engineer. Elazhary graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1989, where he majored in Computer Science and minored in Electronics.

Hassan Helmy
Senior Vice President; Financial and Administrative Affairs and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Hassan Helmy has been promoted to SVP for Financial and Administrative Affairs and Chief Financial Officer in June 1st 2011.  He has served as the company’s CFO since 2009, having joined from KPMG, and will now assume responsibility for TE’s administrative affairs. Helmy is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in the UK and a member of the Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Cairo University.

Mohamed Sayed Al Dessouky has been promoted to SVP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) responsible for overseeing all network technology related functions across the TE Group including planning, implementation and operations and maintenance. Al Dessouky has been with the company in various managerial and technical positions since 1973. He holds a B.Sc. Communications Engineering.

Khaled Marmoush
Vice President; Information Technology

Marmoush was appointed Vice President for Information Technology in October 2006. Before that he was the Information Technology Sector Chief in Telecom Egypt since October 2005. Marmoush is an information technology/business consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of Executive Management, Consulting, Business Development/Analysis, and Project Management. He worked with several international consulting and systems integration firms in different countries including Canada, Egypt, U.A.E, and the US. Marmoush holds a Masters in Information Science and a B.Sc. in Computer Science.

Sayed Elgharabawy
Vice President for Project Planning

Sayed Elgharabawy was appointed Vice President for Project Planning in October 2008. Prior to joining Telecom Egypt, he was advisor to the Executive President of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA). From 1997 until 2007, he was Country Manager for Motorola Egypt and Government Relations Manager for Egypt and the Middle East. Elgharabawy participated in the drafting of the new Telecom Law that was enacted in 2003 primarily concerned with spectrum chapter of the law, in addition to participating in the development of the national telecommunications plan issued by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in 2001 and its revision in 2006 as well as several offer initiatives such as the Universal Service Program, now run by the NTRA, and the Wimax Regulatory Framework as well as the new suburbs regulatory framework which are still under development. Prior to this Elgharabawy had various positions with IBM and NCR. Elgharabawy graduated from Ain Shams University with a bachelor of science in telecommunications in 1987.

Mahmoud El Minyawy
Vice President; Operations & Maintenance

Mahmoud was appointed as Vice President for Operations & Maintenance in December, 2010. Mahmoud Joined Telecom Egypt in 1977 and since 1987, he had held a number of managerial positions including General Manager of several Zones: South Sinai, Ismailia and Port Said. In 2001, he was appointed as Director of Suez Canal, Sinai, Red Sea Sectors. In 2007, he was promoted to Senior Director of Cairo, Upper Egypt, Suez Canal and Sinai Sectors. El Minyawy holds a B.sc. in Communications Engineering from Tanta University as well as a post graduate Diploma in Management from Suez Canal University.

Ahmed Ossama
Vice President; Telephony & Home

Ahmed joined Telecom Egypt in December 2010 as Vice President for Telephony and Home, in addition to his role as Managing Director of TE Data that he has been occupying since 2008. Ahmed has been with the TE group since 2003 as TE Data’s Product Marketing and Government Affairs Director. Before that, Ahmed co-founded Site Information Consultancy, an Internet application development company in 1998 that was later on acquired by Pyramid Technology in 2000, where Ahmed worked as the ISP Operation Manager until 2003. Before that Ahmed joined InTouch Communications Services in 1996 as a Systems Engineer, where he participated in building the infrastructure of the first ISP in Egypt and later on became the Operations Manager. Before that, Ahmed worked in IBM Egypt as a software engineer. Ahmed holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a Minor in Electronics from the American University in Cairo.

Mahmoud Tag Eldeen
Vice President; Human Resources

In 2011, Mahmoud has been appointed Vice President for Human Resources. He has served as the Company’s Personnel Director since 2005. He holds a bachelor degree in Military Sciences from the Military Academy, Egypt. Since 1974, he served in the armed forces and in 1979 he joined the Administrative Supervisory Authority, occupying senior positions there until 2005. Throughout his career Mahmoud has gained extensive experience in the area of personnel, organization and preparation of organizational structures and the implementation of rules and regulations.