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• ILA-Group CEO October 2011-PresentILA-Group is an international company focused on investing in, managing and providing services to corporations in the Telecom and IT industries around the world. Currently ILA-Group.
• Finalized the investment in two of the subsidiaries with tens of millions of USD market value.
• Developed and secured board approvals for the possible exit strategies of ILA’s subsidiaries
• Completed the development of the m2m/B2B Ecosystem Enabling platform (E2P)

• ZAIN-Group (MTC before branding) February 2003 – September 2011Joined Zain on Feb. 2003 and assumed several key executive roles across the group and contributed effectively to its successful growth story from a USD.
• Successfully completed the turnaround and adjustment of the company strategies in 9 months.
• Managed to recover Zain KSA from the gap of the first quarter of 2010 and helped the co. close 2010 with 5% to 10% above budget across all KPI (revenue, market share, EBITDA, and EBIT).

• Chief Business Transformation Officer – Zain Group January 2009 – March 2010After leading the startup project of Zain KSA as a COO, and the successful launch of the newly modeled Zain KSA, was assigned the role of.
• Successfully turnaround Zain’s largest operator “Zain Nigeria” in 7 months.
• Planned and kick started the turnaround exercise for Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Jordan and Iraq.
• Completed the build of the new startup “Ghana” modeled after the new operational model of Zain.

• Chief Operating Officer – Zain KSA April 2007 – December 2008On April 2007 joined Zain group as a COO immediately after they have been awarded the license to build and operate the third mobile operator in the Kingdom.
• Zain KSA was launched successfully on target date August 2008
• Many reputable business analysts within the industry consider Zain KSA as the best and most successful 3rd entrant mobile operator ever in the world with more than 18% market share in less than 20 months.
• Zain KSA was built to operate with more than 70% of its business functions outsourced to strategic partners. The first model ever in the industry, running with less than 500 employees compared to 22,000 employees for.
• Zain KSA was the first in the telecommunication industry to launch successfully a new Supply Chain operational model modeled after the FMCG industry.

• Chief Operating Officer (COO) – MTC Vodafone Bahrain June 2003 – March 2005Assumed the role of the COO in charge of MTC-Bahrain startup to build and operate the third 3G licensed operator in the world and the first in.
• Successful launch on time (less than 6 months from license award date to commercial launch)
• A successful first year of operation with 25% higher market share, and 50% above target EBITDA.
• Improved the business plan projected IRR from 7% to 24%.

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Bachelor Of Science, Telecommunication And Electronics