Hossam Elgamal

Hossam_ElgamalEng. Hossam Elgamal, Immediate Past AfICTA Chair

Hossam has more than 25 years of professional experience in ICT both in private and public sectors. After founding and managing several successful IT companies he was asked to bring his expertise into public policy management being selected in 2013 and till Feb 2017 by the UN Secretary General to become one of 9 Global Business Representatives among the 55 MAG members advising on The Internet Governance Forum He has been a board member of AfICTA - Africa ICT Alliance (https://aficta.africa), since 2014 and till date contributing in making synergy between African nations ICT industries, and connecting with International ICT industry cloud and governing policies.

He was selected by the Egyptian Prime Minister in Dec 2015 and till May 2018 to chair the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center IDSC (www.idsc.gov.eg) with the purpose of supporting the Egyptian Cabinet with required information gathering, analysis and decision support recommendations with focus on inclusive Development mapping, citizen quality service and satisfaction, crisis management, early warning, monitoring and improvement, digital transformation, and creating societal credible link.

Finally, he was selected as an expert by the higher council for Egypt Digital Transformation to become member of its advisory committee starting Jan 2018.

Hossam was the Vice-Chairman of Eitesal Association www.eitesal.org till May 2015 (the leading ICT Association) heading its executive office, advocating & boosting the industry business development, technical & entrepreneurship capabilities. He was a member of the National Child Internet Safety Committee, contributing in better legislations, awareness, training and technology implementation.

Hossam is focused currently on achieving prosperity by capitalizing on technology transfer and localized creative projects serving 2030 SDGs. Within the private sector, he is continuing as a Leader and a serial entrepreneur and is currently partner in Infort Egypt www.infort.co (previously its Managing Director), and partner in Telemed international www.telemedint.net

In 2003, Eng. Elgamal partnered with prominent Egyptian Industry Leaders                                                  (the Mansour familly), a German and a Saudi entrepreuneurs and assumed                                            the challenge of building GNSE (www.gnsegroup.com), bringing it from 10 to                                     100 people, guiding it to become a leading provider of e-security solutions                   and services and a renowned organisation in higher education elearning content authoring,                              corporate and industrial e-training with successful projects in EU and ME and                                       increasing the company value from EGP2M to almost EGP100M in 2012.

 

Eng. Elgamal graduated in Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering

from Ain Shams University in 1991. He worked his executive diploma in                                        Business Administration in1999 at the Arab academy of science & technology                                           in collaboration with university of Illinois. In 2000, he attended Software

Capability Development program at CBI in the Netherlands, then graduated

from Senior Executive Program in Ahmed Abad Institute of Management

in cooperation with FGF in 2006.

 

Eng. Elgamal professional experience is a blend of Technical, International Business Development, and General Management.Within the World of international Business Development, he has become renowned for his vision and ability to foresee future opportunities and execute technical and marketing strategy to deliver successfully.

 

Among others Eng. Elgamal established in 2008 with a European partner Edrac (www.edrac.com) to serve in bridging the technology and Human resources capacity needs between EU and Egypt.

Also Eng. Elgamal established in 2011 with 4 prominents ICT entrepreuneurs AGORA to serve in providing B2C mobility solutions and services with plans to expand globally.

 

Along with the professional career, Eng. Elgamal started his NGO activities since College, but among others he mainly initiated the French Speaking Engineers Association www.aife-egypte.org in 1993 and became its first chairman, with a prestigious elected board. The association provided Seminars, Workshops, projects, work and training for the engineers as well as scientific, culture and social events.

As part of the activities, AIFE partnered in 2010 with the ministry of higher Education for the activities of French Egyptian year of Science and Technology.

 

Eng. Elgamal is currently the Vice- Chairman of Eitesal www.eitesal.org, while he was a board member of and chairing its Software Division with 150 members for the last 2 years catering them and all the SW industry with required activities to boost their business development, technical and entrepreunership capabilities, he is among others member of of several committees in MCIT, ICT chamber, the AMCHAM and the CANCHAM.

 

Eng. Elgamal is actively participating as a leading member of the esecurity and eknowledge transfer community in Egypt, participating in formulating the awareness and maturity strategy.

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