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SAN MATEO, CA – Incorta, the real-time analytics platform has announced that it hired international sales executive Wael Fakharany as vice president and general manager of its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Fakharany will drive go-to-market strategies and operations in EMEA for Incorta, including development of the company’s first international channel sales model globally.

Prior to Incorta, Fakharany spent only six months with Careem as Managing Director Egypt, after nine years with Google EMEA, where he held several senior roles: regional lead for Google X, a semi-secret technology division dedicated to making the world a better place by developing radical solutions – such as driverless cars – to today’s huge problems; head of Google Middle East and Africa; and head of Google Egypt. Fakharany also previously held channel and sales management roles with Oracle Egypt, IBM Egypt, and 3Com Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

“Wael possesses exactly the right attitude, energy, and experience to lead our international expansion,” said OSAMA ELKADY, chief executive officer and co-founder of Incorta.”We were immediately impressed by his natural, seemingly effortless ability to architect deals that benefit everyone involved. That’s an incredibly rare, must-have skill when developing a channel sales model. Add to that his vast experience building successful go-to-market strategies for innovative new technologies, and you have a skillset that’s tough to beat.”

Incorta’s enterprise analytics technology lets organizations make faster, better-informed decisions that improve business results. With Incorta, analysts no longer struggle to manually analyze business data and are freed from using analytical tools that slow to a crawl when faced with billions of rows of data.

“Traditional enterprise analytic tools force end users to involve a developer, then a data architect, and then a data analyst every time they want to create or modify a report,” said Fakharany.

“By the time the report reaches the end user, information is outdated, and it’s likely the business need already has changed. Incorta turns this stunted model on its head. It lets business users immediately access and utilize their data on their own, in a self-service manner, in real-time. I’m excited to recruit and educate partners on this modern analytics platform, which allows them to help clients unleash hidden insights within their data in order to better improve operational performance and differentiate from competitors.”

Incorta’s Direct Data Mapping™ engine aggregates large, complex business data in real time, eliminating the need for costly join operations. This innovative approach is the first of its kind and the only one to deliver true “information freedom” by enabling ad-hoc, self-service analytics. Incorta customers who rely on Direct Data Mapping to gain secure, sub-second access to meaningful business insight include one of the three largest consumer electronics companies, a top 10 U.S. university, Broadcom, StitchFix, and Toast.

Fakharany concluded,

“Technology is something I’m passionate about and something that always fascinated me as a young boy growing up in a middle-class family in Egypt. It’s incredible what Incorta does — empowering any user on any device at any time to answer any business question. With its revolutionary approach, Incorta is well-positioned to meet any and all future expectations for enterprise analytics, which I expect to change drastically over the next few years.”

This news comes on the heels of several major announcements from Incorta. In the past five months, Incorta:

completed a $10 million Series A round of financing led by GV (formerly Google Ventures);
added three industry leaders to its advisory board — Google head of user growth and analytics Ken Rudin, former Oracle chief financial officer Jeff Epstein, and former Informatica executive vice president and chief marketing officer Margaret (Marge) Breya; and
hired former EMC/RSA and Ionic Security veteran Mike Rogers to lead global sales.
Fakharany holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Cairo University.

Leaving behind a three-year marketing legacy at Vodafone Egypt. Maha Nagy is pursuing a new career challenge at Orange Egypt as Chief Communication Officer leading Communications, brand management, digital marketing, PR and CSR.

The mastermind behind the popular 2015 Genie TVC series

Nagy’s inspiration came from a mobinil campaign mocking both Vodafone and Etisalat by featuring a red giant and a green genie.  She adopted the red genie character, which was a hit for two years in a row, appealing to the prepaid segment.

Revolutionizing Vodafone’s digital experience

Nagy took Vodafone Egypt’s new tariff to social media by launching Vodafone IN Facebook page, which is a unique activation in the telecom digital marketing field. The page targeted youth subscribers of Vodafone IN tariff plan, featuring popular underground bands and communicating in an appealing tone that  breaks the formal barriers of the official corporate page.

Vodafone RED on Social Media

She continued to segment the digital fanbase, introducing Vodafone Egypt RED Facebook page in 2016, which is designed to engage postpaid customers with engaging content, exclusive offers and chances to attend special events.

She also ran a successful Vodafone Red campaigns, featuring celebrity brand ambassadors such as Ahmed Ezz, Zafer El-Abdeen and Arwa Gouda.

More about Maha Nagy Background

Nagy comes with a rich 18 years experience in both FMCG and Telecom industries. She led the marketing and communications for Pepsi brand where she achieved a successful record with best in class campaigns.

Nissan Motor Corporation has appointed Hussein Dajani, formerly of hug digital, as its General Manager, Digital Marketing, AMI region (Africa, Middle East, and India) – Effective June 18.

Dajani joined hug digital in 2015, served as Chief Operations Officer for two years, where he helped the agency grow in gross billing by 9 percent and 12.5 percent, and revenues by 21 percent and 26.5 percent respectively during the two years that he had the contract running.

The agency​ won a staggering 27 out of 29 pitches in MENA across various verticals.

Dajani​ is a thriving ​​marketer with 16 years ​of solid ​experience in Marketing Communication​ across the MENA region.

Hussein M. Dajani​, the​ thriving ​​marketer with 16 years ​of solid ​experience in Marketing Communication​ across the MENA region has resigned from hug digital ​after​ ​a ​two year​s​ term ​with them as ​​the Chief Operating Officer ​of the agency.

The ​agency has not ​identified a replacement for ​Dajani. ​

Dajani is multi-skilled particularly in the field of digital transformation​. Dajani is currently on a break to further his education. He is attending ​a course in ​Wharton University in the United States. When his course ends in June 2017, he will return to United Arab Emirates with a new role with a multinational company​ (client side). ​

T​he details of the contract have not yet surfaced​, we will update this story once it is announced.​

hug digital grew in gross billing by 9 percent and 12.5 percent, and revenues by 21 percent and 26.5 percent respectively during the two years that Dajani had the contract running. The agency​ won a staggering 27 out of 29 pitches in MENA across various verticals.

Dajani is a competent leader and team worker. He has been in charge of a team that dealt ​with ​client servicing, digital ​marketing, digital ​media, research, social ​media, finance and creative content creation (for brands like ​Americana Group, Nokia (HMD), Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Majid Al-Futtaim Leisure and Entertainment, flydubai, Festival Malls, among many others) in places including Dubai, Doha, ​Kuwait, Riyadh, Cairo, and ​Trivandrum.​

​In collaboration with Google, ​Twitter, ​CrowdAnalyzer, Mintrics, Socialbakers and Brandwatch, and a unique ultramodern Social Intelligence Hub (Command Center), in the MENA region, he has built integrated marketing practices for real time data analysis and evaluation on all social media platforms and outlets.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Turner Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) has announced the appointment of Darine El-Khatib as the new Senior Director of Creative Strategy and Brand Development – a role created as part of Turner’s growth in the region. This latest hire is aligned with Turner’s overall strategy to drive further engagement between the brand and key external stakeholders.

Darine will oversee programming, creative and marketing for Middle East and Turkey, reporting directly to Tarek Mounir, Vice President and General Manager Turkey, Middle East, North Africa, Greece & Cyprus. She will lead on strengthening Turner’s presence in the region through the development of new services and products to further expand the brand’s scope and competitiveness. In addition, Darine will lead the content and brand teams and will be responsible for developing editorial strategy, as well as further driving relationships with partners such as Pay-TV affiliates.

“We were very impressed with Darine’s comprehensive understanding of the industry and rich portfolio of experience. Her appointment as Senior Director of Creative Strategy and Brand Development is a great asset to Turner, and we are confident that, with her great repertoire of professional endeavours, she will be a driving force for our company,” said Mounir. “As such, it gives us great pleasure to welcome Darine to our team, and we look forward to propelling our projects by building upon her valuable industry experience.”

Prior to joining Turner, Darine was most recently the Channel Director at Discovery Networks Middle East and North Africa, where she was responsible for driving Discovery’s programming, creative, marketing and digital strategy for the region and led the development of Discovery’s local channel brands, specifically Fatafeat, TLC, Dkids, Dlife, DMAX, Discovery Channel and Home & Health Farsi. . She also oversaw local productions and new format development, and was responsible for the management of Fatafeat’s on-screen talent.

She joined Takhayal Entertainment in 2006 (which was acquired by Discovery Networks in 2012), where she held several positions, including Film Division Manager, Head of Production & Creative Services and Head of Channel for Fatafeat, before taking up the role of Channel Director in 2012.

Darine’s broadcasting career includes writing, directing producing and presenting shows like food travelogue My World to You, ratings winner Soups & Snacks, and the culinary competition series Star Chef. In 2016, Darine was awarded the “National Treasure Award” by the Dubai Chamber for her contribution to the media industry. Also in 2016, “FatafeatICCA” a digital project she had led, was awarded “The Best Innovative Digital Award” by Broadcast Pro Middle East.

Darine holds an MFA degree from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Film Directing.

Wael Fakharany, a leading business figure in the Middle East and North Africa, tweeted Monday that he was fired from Careem Egypt in a surprising and humiliating way.

لم استقيل من كريم و لكن تم طردى من الشركة بطريقه مهينه و مفاجئه. يعلم اللة مدي المجهود اللي عملته. انا مقهور و لكن متأكد أن حقي هيرجعلي !

— Wael Fakharany (@mowael) March 13, 2017

Fakharany joined Careem as a Managing Director Egypt and had been employed for only six months, coming from the giant internet company Google, which he quitted to fulfill his passion for entrepreneurship.

The company commented on Fakharany’s dismissal in a press release on Sunday that “There are times when a great mind in a great role at a great business does not necessarily make a great fit”.

Fakharany’s tweet sparked a social media storm against the company, activating a campaign hashed #DeleteCareem.

https://www.facebook.com/mkh508/posts/749425755227310?match=I2RlbGV0ZWNhcmVlbQ%3D%3D

#DeleteCareem
احنا شوفنا careem علشان وائل فيها

— Ahmed El-hosary (@iAhmedhosary) March 13, 2017

#deletecareem pic.twitter.com/U1mVF4msd1

— Shereif Hawary (@shereifHawary) March 13, 2017

With all the #deleteuber and #deletecareem campaigns, I’m starting #MakeTaxiAbyadGreatAgain 💪

— Salem Sayed 🔻 (@salemsayed) March 13, 2017

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https://www.facebook.com/lamia.moussa/posts/10154915708052534?match=I2RlbGV0ZWNhcmVlbQ%3D%3D

Thoughts?

Wael Fakhrany left Careem Egypt after 6 months of leading the company as a Managing Director.

Careem has appointed Ramy Kato, Head of Egypt Operations to fill Fakharany’s responsibilities alongside his current position. – Reported Borsa News

Fakharany left Google after nine years of leadership positions in Egypt and MEA.

Why Did Wael Fakharany Leave Careem?

In a press release; Careem explained the reason why Fakharany left Careem saying “There are times when a great mind in a great role at a great business does not necessarily make a great fit, and as such, effective March 1st, Rami Kato has assumed the position of Managing Director of Careem Egypt. With our new management at the helm, we are excited about our future in Egypt.”

On the other side, Wael Fakharany posted a tweet Monday morning in response to Careem’s press release, stating that he didn’t resign but was fired in a humiliating way, i feel oppressed but i’m sure that i’ll claim my right.

لم استقيل من كريم و لكن تم طردى من الشركة بطريقه مهينه و مفاجئه. يعلم اللة مدي المجهود اللي عملته. انا مقهور و لكن متأكد أن حقي هيرجعلي !

— Wael Fakharany (@mowael) March 13, 2017

Kato comes to Careem with 21 years of experience in operations, care, general management and business development. He has worked in various industries, from the energy sector where he worked with Exxon-Mobile to the telecommunications industry, where he spent most of his career working with Vodafone and Orascom Telecom.

He also participated in the launch of ‘Djezzy’ where he built the first call center in Algeria. Before joining Careem, Ramy was the CEO of Xceed, where he took the company from just 3000 employees to 7000. He holds a B.A in economics from the American University in Cairo and an E.M.B.A. from the University of E.S.C Rennes in France.

Etisalat Egypt has appointed Khaled Hegazy, formerly of Vodafone Egypt, as its Chief Corporate Affairs Officer – Effective November.

Hegazy joined Vodafone in 2009, served as Corporate Affairs Director for 10 months, and later became External Affairs and Legal Director from 2010 until 2016.

Hegazy’s journey with Vodafone

His scope includes Media and Public Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Vodafone Foundation, Regulatory Affairs, Government Relations, Legal Affairs, Wholesale Roaming, Carrier Relations, Sponsorship, Activation and Events and Corporate Security.

P&G

Prior to that, Hegazy was the External Relations Department Head of P&G Near East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Sudan). P&G is the world’s largest FMCG Company. Scope included Corporate Communications, Consumer Relations, Regulatory Affairs, Government Relations and Brand PR.

PITO

Before joining P&G, Mr. Hegazy was the Vice President of PITO, a prominent commercial representation company for industrial firms from Europe, Asia and USA, responsible for sales, customer relations, suppliers’ coordination, strategy and daily management of the establishment. In this firm he gained much of his knowledge and experience in trade, import & export and international business.

Education

Hegazy holds an MBA degree in Marketing & International Business and a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, both from the American University in Cairo.

More about Khaled Hegazy

Hegazy is very active in the Egyptian Business Community: Member of Egypt’s International Economic Forum. He is a member of the Egyptian American Chamber of Commerce and of the Egyptian Junior Businessmen Association. He held the position of Chairman of the Detergents Committee in the Exporters Association of the Egyptian Federation of the Chambers of Commerce, was the Chairman of the Egyptian Brand Protection Association and a Board Member of the Egyptian–Lebanese Businessmen Association. Appointed in the Telecom Industry Modernization Committee by a decree from the Minister of Communication and Information Technology and member of the Egyptian Paralympics Committee by the Minister of Sports.

Wael Fakharany joined Careem as Managing Director Egypt and Senior Vice President Government Relationship, after 16 years of leadership positions with Google Egypt, MEA, Emitac Group, 3Com and Wireless Dynamics.

Goodbye Google .. Hello Careem @CareemEGY .

— Wael Fakharany (@mowael) September 1, 2016

Wael joined Google in 2008, served as Regional Manager Egypt, and North Africa and later became the Google [x] Regional Business Lead-Middle East and Africa (MEA) from 2014 – 2016, where he managed to take the business to out-right leadership, and kept the business growing.

He has a long track record of achievements in building new company divisions and subsidiaries as well as, advising business on strategy, growth and problem-solving and very successful in building and maintaining relationships with key decision makers, winning high profile strategic deals.

Wael has a strong ability to create, structure, and deliver complex business deals with large organizations while working with multiple stakeholders both internally and externally.

Update: Wael Fakharany leaves Careem Egypt after 6 months

Hatem Dowidar joined Etisalat Group in Abu Dahabi, UAE as (COO) Chief Operating Officer, after 16 years of leadership positions with Vodafone Egypt, Vodafone Malta, and Vodafone Group.
Hatem joined Vodafone Egypt in 1999, served as Marketing Director (CMO) and later became the CEO of Vodafone Egypt from 2009 – 2014, where he managed to take the business to out-right leadership, and kept the business growing with benchmark profitability in a very challenging and competitive environments.

Hatem Dowidar’s Track Record

He has a long track record of achievements in the various leadership positions he held at Vodafone Group and its subsidiaries, including Group Core Services Director, CEO of Vodafone Malta, CEO of Partner Markets with partnerships covering over 45 markets and Regional Director Emerging Markets. He also has extensive Corporate Governance experience from his representation as Chairman and Board Member in several Corporate Boards within and outside the Telecommunications industry.

More about Hatem Dowidar

Dowidar has started his career in AEG/Deutsche Aerospace (Daimler Benz Group) in Egypt before moving to Marketing in Procter & Gamble, where he held various managerial roles. He is 46 years old and holds a Bachelor Degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from Cairo University and an MBA from the American University in Cairo.