Telecom Egypt: Tarek Aboualam to step down
Staff writer ▼ | July 3, 2012
Cairo, Egypt - July 3, 2012, Cairo, Egypt - Telecom Egypt (TE) announced that the company’s chief executive officer and managing director Tarek Aboualam has decided to step down due to personal reasons, effective August 11, 2012.Article continues below
Mr. Aboualam was appointed as Telecom Egypt’s CEO and Managing Director in January 2012. Formerly, Mr. Aboualam had been named SVP for International and Wholesale in June 1st, 2011. 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, Mr. Aboualam 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 for many telecom companies including Tellas (Greece), TED-Jordan (Jordan) and Soficom Communications (Egypt). ■ LATEST MOVES FROM Egypt
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