Mr. Tantawy was appointed as Telecom Egypt’s CEO & Managing Director in August 2009. Formerly in July 2007 he acted as TE’s Vice President and CFO. Previously he was the Director of Investment, Treasury & Investor Relations since 2006. He has been with the company since 2002 as the General Manager for Investment, Investor Relations and Financial Planning. Previously, he held the position of Assistant Vice President at Sigma Capital Investment Banking where he was engaged in several visible corporate finance transactions and also held the position of Senior Consultant at FinRate Consulting in the Corporate Finance Division. Tantawy holds a Masters in Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School (Heriott Watt University) in the UK and B.Sc. in Construction Engineering from the American University in Cairo. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of CFA Institute.

Mr. Hassanein was appointed as an executive board member in 2009. He was appointed Vice President in 2001. He has been with the company in various managerial and technical positions since 1976, including General Manager of the First and Third Zones of East Cairo, then Sector Chief of East Cairo Zones. He holds a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Al Azhar University.

 Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Hamdy
Vice President; Human Resources & Administrative Affairs

Mr. Hamdy was appointed Vice President in 2004. Previously, he was the Human Resources Director and Vice President of Novartis Pharma S.A.E from 1990-2000. Then he held the position of Human Resources Director of Glaxo Wellcome Egypt S.A.E from 2000-2001. In 2002 Mr. Hamdy was appointed Vice President for Human Resources and Administration at Wataneya for Mobile Communications Company until 2004. He holds a BA and High Diploma in law from Ain Shams University.

Mr. Dessouky was appointed Vice President for Projects' Implementation in October 2006. He has been with the company in various managerial and technical positions since 1973, including Sector Chief for Implementation and maintenance for Upper Egypt since October 2001 and also General Manager for Project Implementation for National Calling exchanges. Mr. Dessouky holds a B.Sc. Communications Engineering.

Khaled Marmoush
Vice President; Information Technology

Mr. 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. Mr. 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. Mr. Marmoush holds a Masters in Information Science and a B.Sc. in Computer Science.

Mohamed Elnawawy
Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer

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
Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer

Emad Elazhary was appointed 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.

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.

Tarek Aboualam
Vice President; International & Wholesale

Mr. Aboualam was appointed as Vice president for International and Wholesale for Telecom Egypt in May 2009. Mr. Aboualam 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 of many telecom companies including Tellas (Greece), TED-Jordan (Jordan) and Soficom Communications (Egypt). He holds a bachelor degree in Telecommunications engineering from Alexandria University.

Mr. Hassan Helmy
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Hassan Helmy has been appointed as Vice President for Financial Affairs and Chief Financial Officer in September 2009. Prior to joining Telecom Egypt, Mr. Helmy, with more than 18 years of rich and varied experience in different industries including telecommunications, was a Senior Partner in one of the leading accounting firms – KPMG Office. Mr. Helmy has track records in leading successful due diligence and IPO projects. Mr. Helmy is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of certified Accountants-UK, a Member of the Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors and holds Bachelor of Commerce from Cairo University.