Waddah Fadul is an award-winning technology and digital strategy consultant who led multiple teams in MENA to achieve the “Best VAD” and “Best DC Technology Provider” awards by ‘The Reseller” and other prominent industry magazines. In 2017, Cisco Systems, the leading networking and technology provider, selected Waddah as “Cisco Champion” for his efforts in extending innovative data center consulting services and for adding digital and social value to Cisco’s brand in the region.
Waddah is the founder and president of Institute of Tomorrow, an East African think tank that works in the top-ranked challenges in the region in health, education, energy, peace and food logistics and security. The Institute has been selected by the Lauder Institute in the University of Pennsylvania as one of top new think tanks in the world for the year 2016. Waddah is the co-founder of “Karrib”; the leading fact-checking online tool that uses news weight-assigning and crowd fact-checking to filter the large amount of fake news during the ongoing Sudanese uprising 2018-2019. Karrib became an essential tool for many activists and protestors to verify news and helped partially in controlling the ever-increasing political tension in the country.
In 2017 Waddah was nominated for the Desmond Tutu Fellowship which recognizes the Future African Leaders. In early 2018, he received the prestigious Martha Rivers Ingram Leadership Award which recognizes outstanding performance of individuals who demonstrate leadership, commitment, integrity and philanthropy.
Waddah is the chief architect for the technology solution “PRAAS” which uses the IOT and data analytics to predict and stop the conflicts between farmers and herders in Africa, in 2018 the OpenIdeo platform and GHR Foundation selected PRAAS as one of top 55 projects in the world. In the same year; Waddah was also nominated for the MIPAD Award for the 100 Most Influential People of African Descent under 40. In 2019, Waddah joined the Global Advisory Council of the leading management magazine “Harvard Business Review”.
Waddah holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Khartoum University, a master’s degree in Strategy from Heriot-Watt University and a certificate in Business Analytics from Harvard Business school. he is a certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute in the United States, Waddah writes on digital transformation trends and strategies in “The Review” and couple of local prints and features on BBC Arabic, Al Fanar and other media platforms.
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.
