Ahmed Khalil

CEO and Managing Director - Raya Holding

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mr. Ahmed Khalil currently serves as Raya Holding’s CEO and Managing Director. He brings in nearly 16 years of experience across the fields of sales, marketing and business development. Khalil gained extensive retail experience from running the family business, where he managed and developed a home-grown retail chain of fashion apparel stores.
After an intensive exposure with Microsoft Egypt, Mr. Khalil took the helm across Raya’ s recycling, food & beverage and real estate sectors where he developed the group’s recycling platform and then successfully established Raya F&B platform and expanded its principal chain, Ovio, into becoming one of Egypt’s most recognized dining options. In addition, he spearheaded the development and operation of Raya Smart Buildings and its flagship facility, Galleria 40, into becoming one of Cairo’s premier commercial developments.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Khalil graduated from the American University in Cairo in 2005 with a B.A. in Business Administration with a dual concentration in Finance and Marketing. Furthermore, he attained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2012 with a focus in Corporate Finance and Real Estate.

RECOGNITION

Mr. Khalil has been serving on the board of Raya Holding since 2008 as well as previous membership of the boards of several leading companies such as Fawry and Rameda Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Khalil continues to serve on the boards of all of the group’s portfolio companies in addition to the Supervisory Board of Makarony Polski, the leading pasta manufacturer listed on Warsaw’s stock exchange.

Hossam Hussein

CFO - Raya Holding

WORK EXPERIENCE

Hossam Hussein currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Raya Holding for Financial Investments where he is responsible for investment management, investor relations, business planning, tax administration and financial management. Additionally, his duties include monitoring the performance of all the companies in the Group in terms of performance indicators, the extent of achieving the objectives of the company and its future plan Hossam joined Raya Holding Group of Companies in 1999 where he has held several positions including: Treasurer and Credit Controller Manager for Raya Holding and Financial Manager of Raya Algeria. Hussein played a key role in the team that oversaw the IPO of Raya Holding in the Egyptian Stock Exchange in 2005.

Hossam possesses 23 years of experience in financial management, short and long-term loan and financing, as well as the interpretation and analysis of financial data, cash management, investments, long-term financial planning, budget planning and overall coordination of corporate investment decisions and strategy. During this period, he had also served as a board member for most of Raya Holding's subsidiaries.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Hossam holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Cairo University in 1995, an MBA from the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences and a certificate from the International Finance Institute (US Treasury) in international finance, cash management and modern derivatives. Furthermore, Hussein is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School in 2018.

Hazem Abdelhady

Chief Human Resources and Corporate Services Officer – Raya Holding

WORK EXPERIENCE

Hazem Abdelhady is Raya Holding’s Chief Human Resources and Corporate Services Officer. Abdelhady joined Raya Holding in 2012 with 20 years of experience across the Banking and Hospitality sectors with a knowledge, experience and exposure spanning Egypt and Africa. In 2005, amid the start of the banking sector reform, Abdelhady managed the Central Bank of Egypt and The United Bank Human Resources modernization initiative. Prior to that, Abdelhady’s work experience includes serving as the Human Resources Director of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts in Egypt, Regional Director of Training at Accor Hotels in Egypt and as Director of The Hilton Africa Training Center in Kenya.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Abdelhady holds a Bachelor’s of Science (B.Sc.) in Hotel Management and a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) from the American University in Cairo.

Mohamed Wahby

CEO - Aman for E-Payments

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mohamed Wahby currently serves as the CEO of AMAN E-Payments, a leading FINTECH Company that pledges a better quality of life to people through convenient, easy and available e-payment solutions. Prior to his role in AMAN, Wahby was the CEO of Raya Social Media, one of the newest subsidiaries of Raya Holding. Since its inception in 2011, Raya Social Media launched nassya.com, the first hyper-local social network in Egypt and the Arab world. Prior to Raya, Wahby spent all of his professional career in the ICT sector in Egypt, working for distinguished companies including Microsoft, IBM, The Bank of Nova Scotia and others in various positions including technology management, audience, and product marketing, and product development.
Under Wahby’s leadership, AMAN aspires to become the leading FINTECH Company in the region and envisions an ultimate Egyptian cash-less society with full financial inclusion, previously unattainable segments of Egypt’s population.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Wahby holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Ain Shams University and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Louisville. Wahby also holds an MBA from RITI, Maastricht School of Management in addition to graduating from the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School.

Hazem Moghazi

CEO - Aman Financial Services And Aman Microfinance

WORK EXPERIENCE

Hazem Moghazi currently serves as CEO for both Aman Financial Services and Aman Microfinance which he helped found in 2017 and 2018 respectively. He had joined Raya Trade, previously known as Protech, in 1999. Moghazi started his career at Raya as a network administrator in the Information Technology function, excelling and developing IT Systems and automation for the whole business. Moghazi’s achievements led him to becoming the IT Director of the Trade line of business. By 2010, he had assumed the responsibilities of Logistics Head in addition to the IT function implementing automation and development across the various logistics functions. By 2013, Moghazi was appointed as the Retail Director, wherein he introduced the mega-store concept as well as the installments concept. In addition, Moghazi played a crucial role in growing the number of stores to 100 stores including the franchise ones, leading to excellent financial results in terms of revenues and profits.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Hazem Moghazi graduated in 1997 from the Faculty of Engineering in Ain Shams University and obtained a Master’s in Business Administration MBA from RITI in 2010 along with completing the Advanced Management Diploma from Harvard Business School of Management.

Usama Zaki

CEO - Haier Raya Electric

Usama Zaki was appointed BariQ CEO in September 2014. With a career that started in Alcatel Italy as a Telecom System Engineer and then joining the international leader group in the implementation of integrated transport and Metro systems, Ansaldo STS, Zaki was covering most of the projects phases from the conceptual and detailed design, installation, commissioning & startup to the operation and maintenance phase. Zaki has worked on several challenging projects such as Copenhagen Driverless Metro in Denmark, Dublin Light Rail Transit in Ireland, and Bresica Metro in Italy.

Zaki as well has assumed the position of the O&M Manager-Telecom system for the CPH metro. Zaki in 2005 has started his career with Raya and has become the maintenance director for five years where he and his great team succeeded to position Raya Maintenance as the leading consumer electronics after sales service provided in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa.

Tamer Badrawi

CEO Ostool

WORK EXPERIENCE

Tamer Badrawi currently serves as CEO of Ostool after having joined Raya in 2010 as the Director of Business Development. Prior to joining Raya, Badrawi worked at MAC, one of the factories of Oriental Weaver Group and had assumed the role of Senior Export Manager and was responsible for the European and Russian market. In 2001, Badrawi founded C3, Egypt’s first outsource call center, where he assumed the role of Founding Partner and Managing Director until the company was sold to Raya in 2009.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Badrawi graduated in 1995 from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Construction Engineering.

Ahmed Aboulezz

CEO - Raya Customer Experience

Ahmed Aboulezz currently serves as the CEO of Raya Customer Experience (RCX) with a proven track record of guiding successful businesses by providing strategic vision, and enterprise leadership.

Aboulezz has over 20+ years of experience in customer excellence operations and has led multiple teams across various functions and locations across the globe including North America and EMEA.

He’s showcased exceptional gains for the organizations he has led having held various executive roles across the tech and BPO industries, working at France Telecom, Huawei, Xceed, Stream, IBM, and most recently Concentrix where he headed strategic expansion as their Senior Director, EMEA.

Having managed a multitude of Fortune 500 client portfolios, Aboulezz is set to execute a new benchmark for customer excellence and continue RAYA CX's growth and digital transformation strategy.

Omar Abdelaziz

CEO -Raya Foods

WORK EXPERIENCE

Omar Abdel Aziz has been serving as The Chief Executive Officer of Raya Foods since June 2019. Prior to that, Omar had been serving as the Chief Commercial Officer for Raya Foods where he oversaw the growth of the company’s product portfolio as well as its expansion across various export markets. He joined Raya Holding in 2016 as a Senior Business Development Manager where he spearheaded the company’s acquisition of the International Union for Integrated Food Industries’ factory in Sadat City and its rehabilitation. Abdel Aziz has also served at ABB as a Business Development Manager and as a Senior Management Consultant with Deloitte after a stint with the Central Bank of Egypt as Senior Investment Associate.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Abdel Aziz holds an MBA in Strategy from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as well as a Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering from the American University in Cairo.

Hesham Abdel Rassoul

CEO - Raya Information Technology

WORK EXPERIENCE

Hesham Abdel Rassoul is the current CEO of Raya Information Technology (IT) where he has an instrumental role in leading this line of business to provide the ideal mix of technology solutions to meet the unique requirements of business operations. Abdel Rassoul joined Raya in 1998 and held the position of Raya Integrations’ General Manager and Director of Infrastructure until September 2007. With his strong track record, he developed a high caliber team that was responsible for designing and implementing solutions for all the Infrastructure projects.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Abdel Rassoul graduated from the faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University majoring in Telecommunications and is a member of the AmCham and BEBA associations.

Gamal Hussein

CEO - Raya FMCG

WORK EXPERIENCE

Gamal Hussein is the current CEO of Raya FMCG, a subsidiary of Raya Holding. Hussein joined Raya 21 years ago as Operations Manager. During this period, Hussein held senior positions in different areas in Raya such as Retail and Customer Care Manager, Marketing Manager, Logistics and Administration Director and Business Development Director across different LOBs in different industries such as IT, telecommunications and retail. Prior to that, Hussein’s work experience includes several positions in companies such as Nestle, Jemma Group (Ezz Group), Maghrabi Group and GMC Group.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Hussein holds an MBA from Maastricht University – Netherlands.

RECOGNITION

Hussein is a member in some organizations such as Who and Middle East Retail Academy.

Ahmed Ibrahim

CEO – Raya Smart Buildings

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ahmed Ibrahim currently serves as CEO of Raya Smart Buildings with over 20 years of progressive experience in the roles of Finance Director, COO and CEO. Ibrahim began his career in the distribution industry before moving to Raya Trade at the time when it was expanding rapidly across Egypt and Nigeria. Afterwards, he accepted a new challenge in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry by joining Raya Contact Center where he spent almost three successful years in restructuring the finance department. Later, Ibrahim was part of the Raya Restaurants team that created one of Raya’s leading brands ‘Ovio’ that currently competes with international F&B brands.

Ibrahim possesses wealth of experience in hands-on review of operational and financial data, identifying opportunities to improve both revenue and profit, and implement the changes to achieve real results. Ibrahim has been responsible for finance department reorganization and improvement, short/long term financial and business planning, comprehensive budgeting and cash flow modelling, operational and financial reporting, banking and treasury, capital venture and private equity for small and medium business, IT implementation and management, optimizing multi-site operations, and managing different hubs. In addition to his financial skills, Ibrahim has extensive management experience and skills including staff team building, management communication, and board and investor relation.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ibrahim holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ain Shams University in 1999. Additionally he holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from ESLSCA Business School. Ibrahim is also a chartered accountant with a CMA designation since 2010.

Bassem Megahed

CEO - Raya Trade

WORK EXPERIENCE

Bassem Megahed currently serves as the CEO of Raya Trade. He joined Raya in 2001 while the company was expanding rapidly across Egypt and regionally as well. Megahed grew rapidly within Raya across various accounting functions while excelling and developing plans and strategies that achieve seamless processes. By 2003, he had become an accomplished accounting manager and his work was extended to the rest of the financial function. His sharp financial vision and dynamic style soundly supported Raya Trade’s rapid growth and was an asset to the corporate finance function as a whole. By 2007, Megahed was chosen as the Director Head of Finance at Raya Trade, where he has since continued as a key player in the critical preparation of short and long-term financial plans and forecasts, analyzing and reporting the financial performance of Raya Trade to the management and Board of Directors.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Bassem Megahed graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Commerce in Cairo University and holds the General Management Diploma from Harvard Business School of Management.

Mohamed El Naggar

CEO - Raya Auto

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mohamed El Naggar has been serving as the CEO of Raya Advanced Manufacturing since November 2019. With a 15 year proven track record in growing different lines of businesses across Raya Group. El Naggar has been one of the main pillars that shaped the business of Raya Contact Center (RCC), where he led the company to penetrate new markets across EMEA and signed multiple agreements with strategic global customers. In 2011, he had acquired the responsibility of leading different sectors in Raya IT sales organization where he managed to grow the business to new records and position Raya IT as the preferred partner for digital transformation.

El Naggar’s achievements were evident in every position he held. His contribution to commercial growth and development of different strategies to build a sustainable business across different LOBs has been an essential aspect of Raya’s success.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

El Naggar holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Misr International University, along with a Master’s in International Trade from the University of Wales and a Leadership Diploma from London Business School (LBS). In 2020, El Naggar graduated from Harvard Business School after completing the General Management Program (GMP).