Amr Talaat has been appointed the Minister of Communications and Information

Technology since June 2018, to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Dr. MostafaMadbouly.

Talaat possesses over 30 years of solid experience in communications and information technology areas, with a wide experience in developing and implementing strategies across a vast spectrum of activities in Egypt.

Talaat joined IBM-Egypt in August 1988 and held various managerial positions. On May 23 rd , 2010, Amr Talaat held the position of the Country General Manager of IBM, and also served as IBM Egypt Territory Manager since 2005.

He held various managerial positions within IBM Egypt including Business Partner Organization (BPO) Manager as well as Systems and Technology Group Manager.

During his tenure, his scope transcended financial goals to strategic and operational elements such as building human capital, fortifying customer loyalty, corporate social responsibility and employees’ Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

He also sought to establish relationships with key officials and executives of various sectors, both at the national and international levels, to attract major investments, and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals.

In addition, Talaat was an adjunct professor at Cairo University; teaching marketing and & sales strategies and tactics, organizational behavior and strategic management. He was, also, an honorary member at the ICT Board at Cairo University and member of the ICT Board of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and the Chairman of ICT Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).

Talaat graduated in 1983 from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, completing his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Cairo University.

He earned his PhD or doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) from the University of Paris - Paris School of Business (PSB) and Masters of Science in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), in addition to an MBA from Paris ESLSCA Business School, France.

Currently Mr. Uwe Gehlen serves as Head of German Development Cooperation in Egypt and First Counselor at the German Embassy in Cairo. In this position he also Co-chairs the Development Partner Group in Egypt jointly with the United Nations Resident Coordinator. Mr. Gehlen is working as international Development Expert since of 20 years. In his career he was holding different management positions in the German Government, Foreign Service, International Organizations and GIZ working on the full range of political leadership, international negotiations throughout project implementation on field level.

Mr. Gehlen holds an MA in Political Science, Sociology and Law from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn/Germany.

Chief Information officer. former Head of Integration & Blockchain Expert at the Central Bank of Egypt.
With 20 years of solid experience in the field of IT & Payment Systems.
Fintech & Blockchain Speaker & Trainer providing top quality “Fintech” training for Bankers and Financial sector members.
Among his professional milestones; Head of Integration, PM for the RTGS, ACH, CCH, ATM systems, Administration, Design and implementation of Middleware Solution, Digital Financial Services, Blockchain Expert at the Central Bank of Egypt.
Head of the Blockchain Taskforce in Financial Sector, Member of the FinTech task force group, Cryptocurrency task force group, DFC task force group, National FinTech Strategy taskforce group.
His professional trainings and accreditations are Certified from Hong Kong University for Fintech , Certified Blockchain Expert, MBA in Financial Management, Project Management, TOGAF, ITIL, Leadership & Decision Making (Frankfurt School Of Finance & Management), System Admin, System Solution Design, Future Leaders Program (FLP Alumni of 2016).
Am a professional trainer and instructor at the AUC , Egyptian Banking Institute in Cairo, Egyptian Universities, IBM, Al Mentor, Global Knowledge , Jupiter, Education, PST.
Independent FinTech ,Blockchain, Service Integration & Digital Transformation consultant.

Experienced Sales Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Storage Area Network (SAN), Sales, Partner Management, Storage, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Strong finance professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Business Administration and Management, General from Warwick Business School.

Engineer Hani Mahmoud held the position of Minister of State for Administrative Development in 2013, and before that, he had held the position of Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and the Head of the Information and Support Center decision-making by the Council of Ministers, as well as by the head of the National Post Authority.

On the international level, Eng. Hani worked as a Regional Director for Central Europe and Africa at Vodafone Global. He was also chosen as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vodafone Turkey. Engineer Hani is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vodafone Egypt since April 2017.

Engineer Hani has extensive experience in the field of management and enterprise development through practical experience of close to thirty years at the international, regional, and local levels. He has a rich and distinguished career history with the world's largest and most dynamic companies such as Xerox, Vodafone, and Aventis Pharmaceuticals.

Director and Content Creator

Kharma was born and raised in Cairo. He has started playing piano at the age of 9. Kharma obtained his BS in Computer science from the American University in Cairo and his postgraduate studies in art direction at Miami Ad School.

Kharma started working in the field of advertising after graduation as a creative director, his first work was Ahl Masr Hospital for burns ad, after this work he was granted the title of Humanity Burn Free ambassador, for the initiative of the Ahl Masr for burns and for composing the music of Shoof B'albak.

In 2010, Kharma released his first official album, The First Voyage produced by Virgin Megastores, and followed by his second album released under Sony Music Entertainment records, where he was chosen to represent Egypt at one of Sony Music albums of the musical series, Arabesque with Yanni and Can Atilla. In November 2016, released his third album, AlyaQeen, Consisting of 13 music pieces and took about 3 years preparing for its release. 

In 2018, Kharma collaborated with Egyptian composer Omar Khairat, honoring the memory of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his moving memorial at 57357 Hospital. In the same year, Kharma composed the soundtrack for the opening and activities of the World Youth Forum held in Sharm El-Sheikh. Kharma collaborated with Tanvi Shah in a recording work titled Born Free.

In 2020, for the first time, Kharma composed the soundtrack for The End, the first Egyptian Sci-fi television drama series. That year, he composed the soundtrack for Mako, an Egyptian film adapted from the accident of the passenger ship, Salem Express that sank in the Red Sea in 1991.

Peter Cowley, a Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 40 years.  He has built up a portfolio of 75 angel investments with nine good exits (including one that is 107X his investment and returned all the cash he has invested) and thirteen failures.  He is a board member of the Global Business Angel Network (GBAN), President Emeritus of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), former chair of the Cambridge Business Angels and was UK Angel of the Year 2014.  He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and is on the board of nine startups.  

In 2011, he founded and ran Martlet: a Corporate VC, investing (currently £10M) from the balance sheet of Marshall, a £2.5bn revenue Cambridge engineering company.  He is a fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Cambridge Judge Business School and is on the investment committee of the UK Angel Co-fund.  He has also had 16 years’ experience as chair, treasurer and trustee of the boards of seven charities. 

With his son, Alan, Peter is sharing his and others’ experience and anecdotes in order to educate angels and entrepreneurs via  The Invested Investor which publishes two books and 75+ podcasts.  Peter is a public speaker on entrepreneurship and angel investing throughout the world.

Systems Analyst turned Tech Strategy Advisor, Public Speaker and Angel Investor, Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD) is Collaborator-in-Chief at TechnoVision, co-founder of the Lagos Angel Network (LAN) and President of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN).  

For nearly two decades after graduating from the University of Miami TD led the implementation of innovative technology-led transformation initiatives in the Oil & Gas, Retail, Information Technology and Telecommunications industries for influential global brands Elf Aquitaine, Marks & Spencer, Ernst & Young and Sapient across Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. 

In 2000 his focus shifted to Africa where he helped create the African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF), led the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative in Nigeria and delivered a World Bank pilot of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) that uncovered over 20,000 ghost workers in the Nigerian Government payroll system. Leading these kinds of innovative initiatives in Africa using his goal-oriented approach to project delivery which consistently delivered effective results inspired his 2014 book “The African Project Manager”.

TD is Chairman of TextNigeria (Telecoms) and Non-Executive Director at MBO Capital (Private Equity) and Big Cabal Media (Media & Entertainment). He is a member of the Lagos State Science, Research & Innovation Council (LASRIC) and sits on the board of Laptops4Learning (L4L) Nigeria, the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) and the Global Business Angels Network (GBAN). 

As a thought leader with increasing knowledge gained from nurturing entrepreneurs in a growing portfolio of tech-enabled early-stage business ventures originating from Africa, TD’s personal mission is “to help drive Africa’s development by supporting young entrepreneurs using innovation and technology to create social impact and economic value.”

TD can be reached at www.tomidavies.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as TomiDee

Cultural Anthropologist. Brand Marketer. Disruptor. Susan got her start as an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand, helping turn prostitutes into entrepreneurs. Today, she's the founder of Emerging Media, a branding, PR and marketing agency dedicated to helping tech founders reach their finish lines. Her award-winning strategies have gotten 10 companies acquired, and she is now hell bent on sharing them with the world. Susan speaks to startups, innovators, and top executives from 60+ countries at GE, PWC, Deutsche Bank, Capital One and at global conferences, consulates and trade organizations about strategic storytelling, mastering the message and the media for maximum impact.

Chief Executive Officer at Nahdet Misr Publishing House and Founder of EdVentures, Dalia Ibrahim has more than 25 years of professional experience in publishing, digital solutions, education and entrepreneurship. Graduated with honors in Business Administration (1993) from the American University in Cairo, she solidified her educational experience with a Masters of Public Administration (1999) and an Executive MBA (2014) both from the American University in Cairo. 

She started her career in 1994 as a Publishing Executive at Nahdet Misr Publishing House. It wasn’t long before she realized the importance of introducing new integrated services and solutions that further support education and learning in Egypt and the Arab world. In 1998, she established Nahdet Misr for Digital Solutions, which offers various digital educational solutions. In the same year, she established Nahdet Misr Advertising, which specializes in animation, virtual reality and augmented reality production. The company is considered the first and only company in Egypt and the Middle East to produce dome theatre movies. Dalia Ibrahim has also succeeded in establishing Nahdet Misr Periodicals in 2004, which publishes the Arabic versions of the world’s most acclaimed entertainment magazines such as; Disney and National Geographic across Egypt and the Middle East. In 2009, she contributed in establishing Nahdet Misr Trading and Distribution; which supplies and distributes all kinds of stationery, and educational supplies.

Driven by a sense of commitment to the society, Dalia volunteers to serve as a mentor or a judge to start-up projects of young entrepreneurs, which triggered her to later initiate the establishment of EdVentures in 2017. EdVentures is considered MENA’s first corporate venture capital specializing in education, culture and innovative learning solutions. 

Gary Whitehill is Chairman of Geostrategic Holdings. Having immersed himself in 100+ countries, he boosts mission-driven world leaders to see, hear, understand and address novel 21st Century events, trends and paradigm-shifts so they can lead innovative systemic transformation from the future’s edge.

Widely regarded as a leading authority on global innovation and nurturing economic resilience in the 21st Century, Gary’s identifies and predicts geopolitical trends and translates them into actionable strategies to empower governments, federal agencies, armed forces, NGOs, local communities, and the private sector.

Academically, Gary earned the Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School, attended Directors College at Stanford Law School, was a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and completed the Executive Program at Singularity University.

Adly Thoma is the Chairman & CEO of Gemini Africa an investment company, the arm of Orascom group within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Thoma’s relentless activities to uplift the ecosystem led him to the creation of a new entrepreneurial track, CinemaTech, aiming to introduce entrepreneurship into the filmmaking industry for the first time worldwide. Adly holds the intellectual property rights for founding CinemaTech as an on-ground proof of his pioneering thinking.

Adly as well is a professor of practice – University of Agora – USA and a Worldwide Project Management Consultant for 85 countries – Schlumberger International – USA. 

Moreover, he is an adjunct faculty at the Dubai school of government in cooperation with Harvard Kennedy School and a post graduate instructor and consultant within the EMEA at multiple recognized institutions including the American University in Cairo (AUC), Ain Shams and Cairo universities. 

Not to mention that with his proven success track record, he was nominated to be a member of the practitioners high committee at the Arab Academy of Science & Technology (AAST), a member in the Aswan International Film Festival (AWIFF) board of trustees, an accredited member of project management examination panels in addition to being an international awards winner of the shining armor, a bronze medal and other awards in recognition of his unique business and project management contributions.

Thoma sits on the boards of multiple business, entrepreneurial and social organizations besides being a leader of modernization & digital transformation, a member of think tanks and innovations committees at distinct bodies and a business advisor for various Egyptian enterprises and corporations. He is also a guest and panelist in multiple influential events with prominent establishments like the IFC, the African Union, TEDx and many more