Ricky El-Qasem is a Global CTO for Technology Services at Atos. He possess expertise in vmware, virtualization, citrix, vdi, vmware infrastructure and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "We go way back in our professional relationship, as we were both VMware instructors at one point in time and for some reason our paths keep on crossing. I praise Ricky for his huge network, his pragmatic perspective on all innovations in our daily reality, his technical know-how, his easy-going character, his relentless enthusiasm and most of all being a very knowledgeable, reliable and trustworthy professional friend. I would recommend Ricky for every role he aspires because he can do whatever he sets his mind to, but he is at his best in a strategic, coordinating and visionary position and provide value to any company by thinking out-of-the-box, be passionate and boldly go where no man has gone before. Thank you for being my colleague and friend Ricky!" and "I have had the pleasure of working with Ricky over the last 3 years in Canopy. Ricky played a pivotal role in shaping the Enterprise Private Cloud (EPC), which is one of the flagship offerings from Canopy. Even though his role is that of a Chief Technologist I have always been impressed by his business acumen and ability to get to the root of challenges being faced by the customer. I have rarely seen someone bring in so much energy and enthusiasm into the room. He is perhaps one of the very few guys I know who has a datacentre in his backyard and the geek that he is I have known him to try a lot of stuff in his ‘lab’ before incorporating it into the offering. Personally he is a great friend and my VMware guru. I hope to continue working with him. "