Iskander N. (Alex) Shalaby
Chairman
The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil)

On November 1st, 2005 Alex Shalaby stepped up to become second President and CEO of one of Egypt’s leading corporations, Mobinil. Shalaby had himself fixed on a set goal right from the start; to keep the human face on Mobinil while making certain it maintains its leadership position despite the fierce competition that exists in a rapidly changing market. Mobinil has yet to become more than just a large commercial entity traded on the stock exchange, an objective that has already come a long way through Shalaby's participation and support for many social and philanthropic responsibilities.

On September 1, 2008 Alex Shalaby was appointed Chairman of one of Egypt's leading companies, the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) by Board consensus, since his appointment as its President and CEO in 2005. This step came as a result of Shalaby's remarkable achievements at Mobinil over the past three years where the company has witnessed continued market share leadership, tripled the subscriber base from six to 19 million, doubled the revenues and increased net profits by 30%. As former Executive Vice President of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) and continuing on its board, Shalaby's regional experience proved invaluable as OTH continues to expand its global footprint, signaling the need to keep him as head of Business Development.

Right from the start Shalaby had himself fixed on a set goal: to keep the human face on Mobinil while making certain it maintained its leadership position despite the fierce competition that existed in a rapidly changing market. Mobinil is more than just a large commercial entity traded on the stock exchange, an objective that has already been accomplished; it is also a major community partner through its participation and support for many social and philanthropic responsibilities, thanks to Shalaby's direct involvement and contribution.

Alex Shalaby was Chief Officer of Regulatory Affairs for Mobinil from 1998 to 2005 and was responsible for helping with the licensing and regulations required in setting up Mobinil as the first mobile operator in Egypt. Mobinil is partly owned by OTH and France Telecom/Orange, a balancing challenge for Shalaby to maintain the trust and confidence of the two major shareholders as well as the Company's thousands of public shareholders.

Shalaby came to Mobinil from Washington, DC where he was AT&T Director for Public Affairs as the company's link to law makers on Capitol Hill with responsibility for lobbying the executive branch of the U.S. government. He helped in developing more liberalization of the telecoms sector both domestically, as well as internationally for emerging nations of the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and South Africa through the relevant multi-lateral agencies. It was during these years that he served on the boards of the American Chamber of Commerce becoming its president during the period 1991 - 1992) and the Fulbright Commission, as his AT&T responsibilities shifted from local to regional, with particular focus on North Africa and the Levant. Between 1993 and 1995, Shalaby was Regional Director for International Public Affairs for AT&T, based in Cairo, Egypt, where he was the principal interface with key agencies within the governments in the region on matters impacting AT&T's operations.

Alex Shalaby started with data communications, moving between posts in California and New Jersey, where he worked with Bell Labs. Shalaby then moved to become Managing Director for AT&T in Egypt, and General Manager for the Middle East and North Africa region until 1993. He held a variety of technical and managerial positions involved with AT&T start-ups in the Gulf (1977-1980). In 1977 and moved to Saudi Arabia to help launch the first AT&T microwave project before moving on to Kuwait and the UAE. Once again, during this period he established and secured a solid position for AT&T in the Gulf region.

In 1966 Shalaby graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alexandria and started his first job with Egypt Air as Radio and Radar Engineer for two years. In 1969, he emigrated to the United States, where he eventually settled in San Jose, California and started his first job at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, a subsidiary of AT&T, at the time. During this time he earned a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from San Jose State University.

Adel Garas
Pepsico Business Unit General Director
North East Africa

Adel graduated from the American University in Cairo, major in Economics, in June 1986. Shortly after graduation, he worked for Procter and Gamble in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and the US doing a wide variety of Sales roles. In 1999, Adel joined Pepsico in Egypt, as the Pepsi Cola Egypt Sales Director.

He then moved to Chipsy (Pepsico's Snacks company in Egypt) as the General Manager. He then became Egypt's Country Manager for both beverages and Snacks.

Adel is now The North East Africa Business Unit General Manager, responsible for Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Adel is born in 1964. He is married and has 2 children.

Aftab Ahmed
is the Citi Country Officer and
Managing Director for Egypt.

He started his career with the Bank as an Executive Trainee after getting an MBA from Tulane University.

He has extensive US and International experience. In his 25 + years with the Bank he has lived in the U.S., Pakistan, Greece, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore and Egypt and has been involved with a number of other Citibank franchises in cluster management roles. His experience spans both Corporate / Institutional and Retail Banking roles.

In his leadership roles across multiple geographies, Aftab has been extensively involved in and has successfully contributed towards Country and Regional initiatives to grow businesses. He is also a committed CSR advocate and believes strongly in community initiatives.

Ghada Waly
Assistant Resident Representative
UNDP

Ghada Waly works currently at the United Nations Development Program, UNDP as Assistant Resident Representative responsible for the Poverty Reduction and Job Creation Portfolio. Her portfolio includes private sector development and SMEs development . She is also the MDGs focal point in the UNDP Cairo office. Ms. Waly holds a masters degree from Colorado States University, USA and a diploma in Development Management.

She is a development professional with seventeen years experience in small and micro enterprises development and poverty reduction programs, as Program Director of CARE International in Egypt and as micro finance team leader at The Social Fund for Development SFD, Ms. Waly worked closely with a multitude of civil society organizations, line ministries, local development authorities and donors addressing issues of income generation, poverty alleviation and community development including formal and informal education, civil society building, health and environmental projects. Prior to that she was teaching at Colorado State University , USA.

She is member of the Economic Committee in the National Council for Women,
She is the Co-chair of the Donor’s Sub Group for Small and Micro Enterprises
And she is the Chair Person of the Egyptian Small and Micro Enterprises Association.

Hanny Youssef Elmessiry
Managing Director gsf-Egypt

Currently serving as the Managing Director of Middle East and Africa operations for Goldenstatefoods (gsf) with combined total sales of over $40 million for the region.

The operation has three business units; Manufacturing of Liquid Products (Export), Bakery and Supply chain and logistics business(local) for the Quick Service Restaurants and some retailers in the region. Clients include McDonalds, YUM Brands (Americana) and local chains in Egypt and the Gulf region.

Golden state foods co., has a turnover of over three billion dollars for the five countries in the three continents they operate in. during 2006, his division in Egypt has won the Chairman’s challenge award”, the highest honor in the gsf system, competing against divisions from the US, Malaysia and Australia. Hanny has been selected as one of top 40 executives in Egypt under the age of 40 years during FY2004.

Hesham Mekawi
Chairman
BP Egypt
July 2001-Present

Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1983.

Worked as an engineer for 4 years, before heading to the US to pursue an MBA from Boston University.

Upon his return to Egypt, he joined Amoco in 1990 as an Economic Analyst.

In 1991, he worked as Senior Economic Analyst in Houston, and later Chicago as a Senior Financial Analyst and a Planner in the Strategic Planning Group and the Financial Operations Group.

Mr. Mekawi returned to Houston in 1995 as Commercial Director, where he would take charge of Business Development in the Middle East.

Following the merger between the British Petroleum Company and Amoco Corporation, Mr. Mekawi was transferred to London where he was appointed Executive Assistant in BP Amoco Exploration.

The following year, he was named President for BP's Oil Operations in Algeria, where he continued to work from the company's headquarters in London.

In July 2001, Mr. Hesham returned home as Chairman of BP Egypt.

Mr. Mohamed Farouk
holds the post of the Group Executive VP
Human Resources & Training. Americana Group

He is also a member of the Group’s executive committee. Mr. Farouk joined American Group in 1983 as a Director of Training for Hardee’s food system. Soon after, he became the Director of Training for all other concepts and Head of HR & Training for the restaurants' division in 1985. By 1991, Mr. Farouk was promoted to Executive Assistant to General Manager of HR & Training for the entire Americana Group.

With a B.Sc. degree in behavioral science, Mr. Farouk started his professional career with a yearning passion for people's development. Throughout the years, he sharpened this passion by extensive training and exposure in the areas of human resources management and management development. This has lastly developed into being a distinguished specialist in the fields of organization effectiveness, change management and talent management. For 20 years now as a business partner, Mr. Farouk has managed to align his acquired Human Resource practices, and operational experience with the larger business objectives.

He is also the Secretary General and Board Member of the Future Generation Foundation,a non-profit organization, founded in 1998 to address the needs of the private sector in developing Egyptian Human Resources.

Mounir Abdel Wahab El Zahid
Managing Director HSBC Egpyt

Began his banking career in 1977 in Financial Controls at Chase National Bank Egypt. In 1980, he joined Chase Manhattan Credit Training Programme. In July 1995 he promoted to General Manager within Commercial Int’l Bank.

He joined HSBC Bank Egypt (Egyptian British Bank at that time) as General Manager Corporate banking in 1996 and then promoted to Executive Director & Deputy Managing in 2001.

As from April 2006 he became Managing Director of HSBC Bank Egypt. In addition to his current responsibilities, in May 2005 Mounir became the Chairman of HSBC Securities (Egypt) SAE.

Neveen El Tahri
Chairperson & Managing Director
Delta Holding for Financial Investments
(As at March 2010)

Graduated 1980 from Cairo University Faculty of Economics & Political Science, joined Commercial International Bank “CIB” (then Chase National Bank of Egypt) as a corporate banker ultimately headed the Petroleum, Tourism & Electronic divisions. In 1994, with the revival of the Egyptian capital market, endeavored into the entrepreneurial world establishing one of the first Brokerage firms “Delta Securities Egypt”, later in 1997 “ABN AMRO Delta Asset Management” & in 2006 “Delta Capital investments”. From 1994 to 2008 a number of institutional partners were brought into Delta:

Egyptian American Bank “EAB”, American Express Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, Mena Investments & lastly Rasmala Investments Holding. In 2008 resigned from the 3 founded companies to chair a family holding company established in 2007 “Delta Holding for Financial Investments” focusing on private equity & venture capital for namely SMEs and entrepreneurs. Having played an early role on the Capital Market & became the first women to sit on the board of the Egyptian Stock Exchange from 1997 to 2003 and hence sit on numerous public & private boards e.g. Telecom Egypt & Banque Misr, Egyptian Railway Projects & Transport Co., Egypt Information Dissemination Company “EGID” & Cairo Oil & Soap.

I currently Chair "Delta Holding for Financial Investments", Delta Financial Solutions, Nuun for Fund Services, Nuun for Investment Advisers, Upper Egypt Leasing and am the Country Representative of ABN AMRO since 2001, now of Royal Bank of Scotland since the acquisition in 2008.

Actively involved in numerous non-profit associations, of which some are: Egyptian Capital Market Association "ECMA", Egyptian Investment Managers Association "EIMA", Sunrise Rotary Club, American Chambers of Commerce, Economic Committee of the National Democratic Part, INJAZ AL ARAB.

Married to Dr. Imam Waked, Dean of the Liver Institute, Menoufeya University Egypt. Daughter Dina finalizing her PhD at Harvard law School 2011, married to Dr. Rami Khouri research professor at Orange Lab Sophia Antipolis. Son Abdel Latif "Tino" a graduate of Rutgers University of New Jersey and currently finalizing a masters degree in 2010 from UCL.

International & Local Awards:

• Named by the Financial Times special report (June 23, 2008) as one of the “Leading Businesswomen in the Arab World”.

• Named by the Financial Times (June 14, 2007) as one of 26 Leading Businesswomen in the Arab World.

• Received one of the 10 awards presented by the Egyptian Ministry of Investment in March 2007 on the Global Women Day for having positively contributed to the investment enviroment of Egypt.

• Hall of Fame Award of outstanding woman entrepreneur presented by “Enterprising Women of the Year” & “Global Leadership Award” both presented in Mexico City at the Global Summit of Women June 2005

• “Working Women of the Year” presented in Washington in 2000 as one of 20 Int’l women outside the US being honored for having been achievers

• Named in March 2010 Egypt Business Today as one of the 5 most successful businesswomen in Egypt and in the Kuwaiti Arab Business as one of the top 10 most successful Arab Women in the region.

Sherif H Kamel
is Founding Dean of the School
of Business at the American University in Cairo
and Professor of Management Information Systems.

Prior to joining AUC, he was director of the Regional IT Institute (1992-2001) and managed the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Centre (1987-1992). He has accumulated experience in establishing and managing professional development institutions addressing management development, entrepreneurial and leadership issues. Kamel is a co-founding member of the Internet Society of Egypt (1996).

His research and teaching interests include management of information technology, information technology transfer to developing nations, electronic business, human resources development, and decision support systems and has published widely in the areas of IS and management. Kamel serves on the editorial and advisory board of a number of IS journals and is the associate editor of the Journal of Cases on Information Technology and Journal of IT for Development. Kamel is an Eisenhower Fellow (2005) and serves as member of the Eisenhower Fellowships Alumni Advisory Council.

He is a member of the board of trustees of the Information Technology Institute and the Sadat Academy for Management Sciences. Kamel served as Chairman of the Chevening Association in Egypt (2004-2009). He holds a PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science, an MBA and a BA in Business Administration from The American University in Cairo.

Tom Walter
Chairman & Managing Director
ExxonMobil Egypt

Tom Walter is the Chairman & managing director of ExxonMobil Egypt with additional responsibilities for oversight of ExxonMobil Fuels marketing activities in Morocco, Tunisia, & Cyprus. He began his 29 year career with ExxonMobil as an electrical engineer in Saudi Arabia. Since then , he has held a variety of engineering management & general management positions in refining , supply & trading , and marketing in the United States, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Cote D’Ivoire& Senegal . Tom is currently member of the board & executive vice president of the American chamber of commerce in Egypt .He also has experience with other business focused organizations , serving a member of the board of Injaz Egypt foundation , member of board & vice chairman of the policy Committee of the corporate council on Africa ( 1994-1997 ) , co-chairman of the American Business association of Zimbabwe ( 98-2001) , and member of the board of directors of Junior Achievement Zimbabwe ( 98-2001 )