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| AmCham
Egypt Doorknock Mission to Washington D.C:
(March 11-March 20, 2007) |
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Taher S. Helmy
President – AmCham Egypt
Partner, Helmy,
Hamza & Partners (Baker & McKenzie)
Taher Helmy was first elected president of AmCham Egypt in May 2003 and was re-elected for a second term in May 2005. He is a partner of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie and a founding partner in the firm’s Cairo and Riyadh offices.
Dr. Helmy has participated in the drafting and/or reviewing of key economic legislation in Egypt over the years. He is the prin¬cipal founder and former chairman of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies and a founder of the International Economic Forum and the Future Generation Foundation. He also served for three terms as a member of the U.S.-Egypt Presidents’ Council.
In addition, Dr. Helmy is a member of the governing National Democratic Party’s Supreme Policies Council.
Dr. Helmy has been practicing law since 1974, specializing in corporate, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and commercial law. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois and Egyptian Bar Associations, was the first Arab national to be admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court, and is also admitted before the Egyptian Supreme Court.
After completing his studies in the United States, Dr. Helmy practiced almost 10 years in New York and Chicago before returning to the Middle East.
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M. Gamal Moharam 
Executive Vice President – AmCham Egypt
Chairman and CEO, Piraeus
Bank – Egypt
Mohamed Gamal Moharam is the chairman and CEO of Piraeus Bank Egypt. He joined the bank, formerly named Egyptian Commercial Bank, in March 2002.
Mr. Moharam acted as chief representative with The Bank of New York from 1985 to 2002 and worked with Fleet National Bank from 1981 to 1985 and Citibank from 1979 to 1981.
He has been an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt since 1984. He was previously chair of the Banking & Finance Committee and is currently executive vice president.
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Hamed Ismail Fahmy
Vice President, Membership – AmCham Egypt
Managing Director, Allied
Corporation Egypt
Hamed Fahmy is the founder and managing director of Allied Corporation – Egypt, a management and economic con¬sulting firm established in 1984.
The firm provides high-level consulting in the areas of pub¬lic administration, institutional development, economic and trade policy, regulatory reform, commercialization of utilities, financial analysis and feasibility studies, local development, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as man¬agement, procurement and logistical support systems. Among the U.S. firms with which Allied has been collaborating are Nathan Associates Inc., Bearing Point, Development Associates and Pal-Tech.
Mr. Fahmy is a founding member of the Arab Management Association and a member of the U.S.-Egypt Business Council.
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Ahmed Abou Ali
Vice President, Legal Affairs – AmCham Egypt
Attorney at Law, Partner, Hassouna
& Abou Ali Law Firm
Ahmed Abou Ali is the current vice president for legal affairs of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the American Society of International Law, the Egyptian Society of International Law, the Egyptian Capital Market Association (chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Profession) and the Egyptian Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property (board member and general secretary).
Dr. Abou Ali is a founding partner of Hassouna & Abou Ali Law Offices and an attorney before the Supreme Court of Egypt. He practiced law in the United States with the Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin before returning to Egypt to represent a number of multinational American and European companies. He has extensive experience with Egyptian banking, commer¬cial, corporate, investment, privatization, project-finance and securities laws and regulations.
Dr. Abou Ali holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and a diploma in private law and an LL.B. from Cairo University.
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Omar A. Mohanna
Honorary Treasurer – AmCham Egpt
Chairman, Suez Cement Group of Companies
Omar Mohanna is an economist and chairman of Suez Cement Group of Companies, the largest cement producer in Egypt. He is also a board member of ACE Insurance Co., Egypt.
Mr. Mohanna has over 25 years of commercial and investment banking experience with Egyptian and international financial insti¬tutions, which culminated in the position of vice chairman and managing director of Egypt Arab African Bank (EAAB). He has also held the position of managing director of Accor Hotels Group in Egypt and has been a member of the board of directors of diverse companies.
Mr. Mohanna is honorary chairman of the Egyptian Insurance Brokers’ Association (EIBA) and a member of the U.S.-Egypt Business Council, the Egyptian Businessmen’s Association, Egypt’s International Economic Forum and a number of other orga¬nizations serving the interests of the business community in Egypt.
He is a board member of the New Civic Forum, the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs and the Association for the Protection of the Environment. He is also a member of the general assembly of the Holding Company for Roads, Bridges & Land Transport Projects, a member of the board of trustees of the Egyptian Institute of Directors (EIoD), a board member of the Industrial Training Council (ITC), and a board member and honorary trea¬surer of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES).
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Loula Zaklama 
Member of the Board – AmCham Egypt
President and Managing Director, RadaResearch
& Public Relations Co.
Loula Zaklama, elected world president of the International Public Relations Association for 2006, is a public relations and marketing expert with 40 years of experience in advertising, mar¬keting, data analysis and public awareness campaigning.
In 1982, she founded RadaResearch & Public Relations Co., a private marketing research and public relations firm in Egypt.
Ms. Zaklama joined AmCham Egypt in 1985, and is cur¬rently a member of the board of governors. She is also a mem¬ber of the board of Gallup International and the International Public Relations Association (IPRA).
Ms. Zaklama was awarded the medal of merit by the International Advertising Association, Chicago, in 1986 – a medal given every two years for outstanding contributions to the advertising industry. She is one of 10 individuals to have been selected from around the world for this distinguished award. She received a certificate of excellence from the International Public Relations Association in 1993, and was selected as one of the 50 leading women entrepreneurs of the world by the Star Group, sponsored by IBM and Fortune Magazine, in May 1998.
She was also selected as one of the 50 Arab leading busi¬nesswomen in the Middle East 2006 by Forbes Magazine. She received the AmCham “Special Achievement Award” in 2004.
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Mohamed Taymour 
Member of the Board – AmCham Egypt
Chairman, Pharos Capital and Founder, EFG-Hermes
Mohamed Taymour is chairman of Pharos Capital, a family pri¬vate equity firm, and the founder and former chairman of EFG-Hermes, the region’s largest investment bank covering a range of activities that include brokerage, asset management, and advisory activities.
Dr. Taymour has worked as a consultant – for both the Egyptian government and private institutions – on a variety of assignments related to capital markets. He has held senior positions in invest¬ment banking and development banking institutions in Egypt, the United States and Kuwait.
Dr. Taymour has been a prominent member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt since 1988, serving as chair of the Investment Committee from 1991 to 1997 and chair of the Stock Exchange Committee from 1998 to 2002. In 2003, and again in 2005, he was elected as a member of the AmCham board of gover¬nors.
He is currently the chairman of the Egyptian Capital Market Association, a board member of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies and a member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Taymour holds a doctorate from Dartmouth College in the United States and a Bachelor’s of Science in industrial engineering from Cairo University.
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Karim Ramadan 
Member of the Board – AmCham Egypt
General Manager, Microsoft
Egypt
Karim Ramadan is the general manager of Microsoft – Egypt, a fully owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. He is also a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, the Federation of Egyptian Industries – Chamber of Information Technology, the Egyptian High Tech Association and the Egyptian Institute of Directors.
Mr. Ramadan has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, gained from working in the United States, the Gulf and Egypt. He has been with Microsoft for nine years, the last five as general manager, before which he worked for IBM and Oracle.
Under Mr. Ramadan’s leadership, Microsoft – Egypt has worked in partnership with the Government of Egypt in a number of development initiatives, including the eGov Project and the Egyptian Education and Home PC initiatives. During this time, he has also worked to develop strong ties between Microsoft – Egypt and AmCham.
Mr. Ramadan graduated from the American University in Cairo with a major in economics.
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Tom Walter 
Member of the Board - AmCham Egypt
Chairman & Managing Director Fuels Marketing, ExxonMobil
Egypt
Tom Walter began his 29-year career with ExxonMobil as an electrical engineer in Saudi Arabia. Since then, he has held various engineering, management and general management positions in refining, supply and trading, and marketing in the United States, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.
Mr. Walter and his family arrived in Egypt just over three years ago and he is currently in his second year as a member of the AmCham board. Previously, he served on the board of the Corporate Council on Africa, was co-chairman of the American Business Association of Zimbabwe and a member of the board of Junior Achievement Zimbabwe.
ExxonMobil Egypt has operated in Egypt for more than 100 years, focusing on retail, commercial and industrial marketing of fuels and lubricants products under the Esso and Mobil brands.
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Hisham A. Fahmy
Executive Director – AmCham
Egypt
Hisham Fahmy has been the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt since December 1999, and held the position of general manager from 1987 to 1993. He is also the chairman of the Egyptian Society of Association Executives (EgSAE), an association whose mission is to enhance the professional management of associations in Egypt.
Mr. Fahmy previously served as acting director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, a non-profit think tank that carries out and disseminates independent economic research, and worked on implementing programs that furthered the center’s mission and oversaw the financing and administration that sustains them.
Mr. Fahmy developed quality systems and initiated business contacts between one of Egypt’s largest international corpora¬tions, International Group of Investment (IGI), and its clients and suppliers.
He spent a decade acquiring firsthand private sector exper¬tise in travel and tourism, and representing engineering, con¬struction and electronics firms.
Mr. Fahmy graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1974 with a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and is a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).
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Adel Danish
Chair, Information & Communication Technology Committee – AmCham Egypt Chairman and CEO, Xceed Contact Center
Adel Danish is the chairman and CEO of Xceed, a Telecom Egypt subsidiary established in 2001 to act as its information tech¬nology arm.
Dr. Danish began his career as a researcher at the IBM Scientific Center in Paris, France, going on to hold several technical and mar¬keting positions within IBM. He founded STANDARDATA S.A. in France in 1978, and is the founder and co-founder of several other companies in the IT field in Egypt, France and the United States.
Dr. Danish was appointed a member of the board of directors of Telecom Egypt in June 2000, served on the board of directors of the Egyptian High Tech Association from 1998 to 1999, and has been a member of the board of trustees of the French University in Egypt since 1998.
He has been a member of AmCham Egypt since 1990, and estab¬lished its Information Technology Committee, which he chaired for two terms. He also served as president of the Club d’Affaires Franco-Egyptien in 1996 and 1997, and as a board member of the U.S.-Egypt Business (Presidential) Council in 2002.
At the international level, Dr. Danish has co-chaired the Arab Business Forum for Information & Communications Technology (ABFICT) since 2001. He is on the Business Steering Committee of the “Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce” (GBDe), where he played an active role as co-chairman for the Europe/Africa region from 2004 to 2005.
Dr. Danish is the author and co-author of several European and American patents in the areas of telecommunications and informa¬tion technology, and was awarded the “Chevalier à l’Ordre National du Mérite” in France in 2000.
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Ahmed El-Sharkawy
CEO, RAMW for Tourism & Hotels
Ahmed El-Sharkawy is the CEO of RAMW for Tourism & Hotels and a member of the board of directors of RAMW Group, a group of companies operating in the fields of con¬struction, real estate development, hospitality development and IT consulting services.
Mr. El-Sharkawy is also a member of and consultant for the Egyptian Society of Civil Engineering, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Chi Epsilon, Civil Engineering Honor Society and Egypt’s International Economic Forum.
He holds a B.Sc. and ME in civil engineering from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in construction financial management from North Carolina State University.
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Amr A. Kabil 
Group Vice President
National
Stevedoring Group
Amr Kabil is group vice president and vice chairman of National Stevedoring Group, general manager and adviser to the chairman of the Travco Group of hotel companies, and chairman and CEO of Modern Egyptian Transport Co. (METCO).
He is also an administrator for the Club d’Affaires Franco-Egyptien and a mechanical engineer for the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers.
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Anis Aclimandos
Chair, International Cooperation Committee – AmCham Egypt President, TransCentury Associates
Anis Aclimandos is the president of TransCentury Associates, which manages development projects worldwide. He is also president of “Woodies,” a subsidiary of TCA, which is the import agent for Eastman-Kodak.
Mr. Aclimandos joined the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in 1983. He was elected to the board of governors in 1987 and re-elected in 1988. He has served as chair of AmCham’s Customs, Investment & Trade and International Donor Programs committees, and as vice presi¬dent, membership from 2001 to 2005.
A certified accountant, Mr. Aclimandos earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in accounting from Cairo University and holds Egyptian and U.S. certification in financial management and analysis.
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Bassem Sultan
Chair, Qualifying Industrial Zones Committee – AmCham Egypt Managing Director, Egyptian International Company for Knitting & Dyeing (Dyetex)
Bassem Sultan is managing director and a shareholder of Dyetex, a company that has been exporting garments and tex¬tiles to the United States and Europe for the last 22 years, with four factories that employ more than 2,000 people.
He is a board member of the Federation of Egyptian Industries’ Chamber of Textiles, vice president of the Garment Exporters Association and a member of the Alexandria Businessmen’s Association.
Mr. Sultan graduated from the Faculty of Commerce in Alexandria in 1984.
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Curtis Ferguson
North & West Africa Division President, Coca-Cola Egypt – Atlantic Industries
Curtis Ferguson began his career with Coca-Cola USA in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983. Since transferring to The Coca-Cola Export Corporation in 1988, he has held a variety of management and board positions in sub¬sidiaries of The Coca-Cola Companies in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Morocco and Egypt.
In 1998, Mr. Ferguson was appointed senior region manager for Egypt, responsible for regional sales and marketing for The Coca-Cola Company and Schweppes Beverages. He also managed the manufacture and export of beverage concentrate to 12 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2000, he became managing director of The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt, responsible for production and distribution from 11 factories employing 8,500 staff.
In Egypt, Mr. Ferguson was an active member of the local community, serving as board chairman of the Community Services Association and the Cairo American College, a board member of the Bilateral Fulbright Commission and elected vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
In 2002, he assumed the position of senior region manager for West Africa, based in Côte d’Ivoire, and in late 2003, became senior regional director for the Western Africa region, based in Morocco. He is a director of the North African Beverage Company, a joint venture for The Coca-Cola Company in the North African market. In 2005, he became North and West Africa division president, based in Cairo, and the following year was appointed to the U.S.-Egypt Business Council.
Mr. Ferguson holds a Bachelor’s of Science with majors in finance and management from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Executive Development Program at Stanford University and the Executive Management Program conducted by Wharton/Emory Universities.
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Daniel P. Brownlee
Country & Regional Manager, Raytheon Company
Daniel Brownlee is currently country and regional manager for Raytheon International, responsible for marketing and business development for Raytheon Company in Egypt as well as North Africa, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.
From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Brownlee was program coordina-tor/chief of staff for Vinnell-Arabia Company, Saudi Arabia National Guard Modernization Program, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. Before this, he was a U.S. Army officer, a Middle East specialist serving in U.S. government assign¬ments in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait.
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Don Butler
Co-Chair, Industry Committee – AmCham Egypt Chairman and Managing Director, General Motors Egypt
Don Butler is chairman and managing director of General Motors Egypt, leading a group of 750 employees, and an active member of the Industry Committee of AmCham Egypt.
He was previously vice president of planning and business development for OnStar in the United States, where he was responsible for developing the strategy, planning, alliance partners and new business opportunities for General Motors’ vehicle communications subsidiary. His previous assignments within GM include engineering, marketing and planning.
Mr. Butler holds a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineer¬ing from General Motors Institute and a Master’s in business administration from Harvard University.
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Guy Bourn
Co-Chair, Transport Committee – AmCham Egypt Vice President, Sokhna Port Development Company, Amiral Management Corporation
Guy Bourn retired from the U.S. Army in 2004, his last duty position being that of chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Cairo. Since then, he has been the vice president of the first pri¬vate company in Egypt to manage a seaport, Sokhna Port.
Sokhna Port Development Company, part of the Cairo-based Amiral Maritime Corporation, was founded in 1999 and was granted the concession by the Egyptian government to develop a state-of-the-art port and logistics center at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal, on the Red Sea.
General Bourn holds a general engineering degree from the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a Master’s degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California
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Hala El Barkouky
Chair, Women in Business Committee – AmCham Egypt Founder and Managing Partner, Allied Business Consultants
Hala El Barkouky is a business transformation management consultant. She is the managing partner and founder of Allied Business Consultants (ABC) and director of the Women Investment International Portfolio (WIIP), South Africa.
Since its inception in 1996, ABC has been contracted for the provision of privatization advisory services to the Government of Egypt. ABC’s scope of activities includes international business in the field of investment banking and business restructuring.
Ms. El Barkouky joined the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in the mid-1990s. She is currently chair of AmCham’s Women in Business Committee and has held committee co-chair positions since 2002. She is also a member of the Egyptian Capital Market Association and the Egyptian Economic Forum, and was a speaker at the Women in Public Life Summit, Bermuda, on the subject of women and peace.
Ms. El Barkouky holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in communications from the American University in Cairo, graduated from the Chase Manhattan Bank credit appraisal course and completed the Harvard Institute for International Development’s program in investment appraisal and development.
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Hatem Ezzat Kheir
General Manager, Kheir Group
Hatem Kheir is general manager of Kheir Group, which operates in the field of fluid handling systems, including water and waste¬water, as well as process, fire, power and industrial applications, and which represents pump companies from the United States, Britain, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, India and China.
Mr. Kheir is one of the founders and board members of the Egyptian Fire Protection Association and has represented Egypt in international conferences on fire protection. He is now director of the Confederation of Fire Protection Associations International, which oversees 28 associations around the world. He is the only for¬eign member serving on the fire pump technical committee of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and is a member of the SFPE in the United States and the FPA in the UK.
Within the business community in Egypt, he is a member of AmCham, AHK, EICC, BEBA and DBC. He was also selected as a member of the task group to boost the relationship between busi¬ness sectors in Egypt and India.
Mr. Kheir began his career in a private sector company in Egypt, moved to Saudi Arabia from 1984 to 1989, and returned to Egypt as area manager for Peerless Pump Co. USA, until 1993, after which he became the company’s agent in Africa, a post he still holds.
He graduated from Cairo University as a mechanical engineer in 1981 and worked for one year at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mansoura University.
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Khaled Rasekh
President and CEO, ERA Middle East & North Africa
Khaled Rasekh is president and CEO of ERA Middle East & North Africa, a regional real estate services company, and serves as chairman of the Egyptian Real Estate Association, the Arabian Real Estate Association and the Egyptian Mortgage Brokers Association.
He is a member of the Rules and Regulations Committee and the Education and Training Development Committee of the General Authority for Real Estate Finance in Egypt and is affiliated with the United States National Association of Realtors (NAR), the Mortgage Banker Association of America (MBAA), the National Association of Real Estate Appraisal (NAREA) and the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CCIM).
Mr. Rasekh holds a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master’s in business administration.
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MAGED GEORGE
CEO, Mamiba Co.
Maged George is CEO of Mamiba Co., a company he launched in 2006 specialized in the manufacture and distribu¬tion of hotel amenities. He is also a board member of the Federation of Egyptian Industries, Chamber of Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics, and a board member of the Institute of Family & Entrepreneurial Business/LAU Lebanon.
Dr. George was previously with Luna Cosmetics, which he joined in 1983, where his abilities in sales, marketing and business administration allowed him to contribute to the growth of the company, widening its product range and boost¬ing exports.
Dr. George graduated from Cairo University’s Faculty of Pharmacy in 1983 and continued his studies in cosmetics, fla¬vors and fragrances in Switzerland and Germany.
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Magda Shahin
Director, Trade-Related Assistance Center – AmCham Egypt
Magda Shahin is currently the director of the Trade-Related Assistance Center at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, charged with raising the awareness of the Egyptian business community on trade and trade-related issues.
Dr. Shahin has had a long career in Egyptian diplomacy – serving as attaché in Bonn, counselor in New York, deputy chief of mission in Geneva and, lastly, as an ambassador in Athens. She was a member of the Egyptian delegation to numerous United Nations and WTO conferences and has served as a consultant and expert in various seminars, sympo¬siums and workshops organized by the WTO, UNCTAD and ESCWA to explain the principles, practical aspects and impact of the WTO from the perspective of a developing country.
In Egypt, she has worked in parallel as a professor at the American University in Cairo, giving graduate as well as undergraduate courses on economics.
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Mohamed Abdallah
Chairman, Real Estate Committee – AmCham Egypt President, Coldwell Banker Affiliates of the Middle East & Greater Africa
Mohamed Abdallah is the president/CEO of Coldwell Banker Middle East and chair of AmCham Egypt’s Real Estate Committee.
Mr. Abdallah started his professional career as a trader in the Egyptian stock exchange. In 1996, he held the position of vice president, trading at EFG-Hermes, one of the biggest financial groups in Egypt.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the American University in Cairo, which he gained in 1994, and completed various pre-graduate courses from dif¬ferent international universities.
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MOHAMED TAHA MOSTAFA
Treasurer, First Vice President, Arab Banking Corporation
Mohamed Taha Mostafa is treasurer, first vice president for Arab Banking Corporation.
He began his career with Mosafco International Co., where he worked for four years as a petroleum service manager before moving to Islamic International Bank for Investment & Development, where he was assistant chief dealer for five years. In 1978, he joined Egyptian American Bank as assistant chief dealer, later to be appointed chief dealer in 1988, deputy manager in 1989, first deputy manager in 1989, manager in 1990, senior manager in 1991, assistant general manager in 1992, deputy general manager in 1993, general manager in 1996 and executive vice president and head of treasury in 2000.
He graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1978 with a Bachelor’s of Arts in economics.
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Nawal Kelada
Management Consultant, Middle East Courier Services
Nawal Kelada is a founder and partner of Middle East Courier Services Co. Egypt, established in 1977, where she continues as a management consultant, and also freelances for the UNDP as a management consultant and quality management trainer.
Ms. Kelada has been with UNDP Cairo since 1963, during which time she has been involved in methodological administra¬tion, management, human resources development and training, as well as information and communication management and policy-making. She has undertaken many missions to other UNDP offices, establishing UNDP global administrative management systems, policies and procedures, human resources development training and capacity building. She has also conducted quality management training workshops in UNDP offices in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Egypt, Rwanda and Kenya.
Ms. Kelada is a board member of the Rotary Club of Cairo Cosmopolitan, a founding member of Egypt’s Chapter of the Association for International Civil Servants (AFICS), and a found¬ing member and board member of Media Arts for Development (MADEV). She is on the President’s List of the American University in Cairo (AUC) and is involved with the AUC John Gerhard Center for Philanthropy & Civil Service.
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Soheir Farahat
President, Ingyco Agencies
Soheir Farahat is president of Ingyco Agencies, a private marketing company established in 1984 that deals in electron¬ics, communications, maritime services, textiles, wastewater disposal and industrial turnkey projects in the Middle East, as well as marketing of projects under the privatization scheme of the Egyptian government.
Ms. Farahat worked previously for the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization in Cairo for three years and the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office in Alexandria. She joined the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in 1995.
Ms. Farahat holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in social sciences from the American University in Cairo.
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Tarek Elrefai
Managing Director, The Bank of New York – Cairo Representative Office
Tarek Elrefai is managing director of The Bank of New York’s Cairo Representative Office, where he is responsible for developing business relationships with financial institu¬tions and promoting the bank’s range of payments and cash management products, trade, custody, security lending and GDR/ADR. He is also country manager for Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya and Yemen.
Mr. Elrefai started his career in 1982 as a foreign exchange dealer at Alexandria Kuwait International Bank. In 1986, he joined Irving Trust covering the Egyptian market. The Bank of New York took over Irving Trust in a hostile takeover in 1990 and Mr.
Elrefai remained with The Bank of New York.
Mr. Elrefai graduated from Cairo University’s Faculty of Commerce in 1980.
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Thomas (Tom) E. Thomason
Chair, Engineering, Construction & Development Committee – AmCham Egypt Vice President, Globeleq/Sidi Krir
Tom Thomason is vice president of Globeleq, which devel¬ops, owns and operates power plants and related fuel and elec¬tricity infrastructure with investments in 19 energy assets in 14 countries.
Globeleq is the owner and operator of Egypt’s first private¬ly owned and operated power plant, a $480 million project completed in January 2002 and now in operation selling elec¬tricity to the government.
Mr. Thomason serves on the boards of the Bilateral Fulbright Commission and the American University in Cairo. He joined the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in 1994 and has served as AmCham executive vice president and chair of the Engineering & Construction Committee.
Mr. Thomason holds a Bachelor’s of Arts and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas.
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Waleed El-Zorba
Managing Director, Nile Holding Company
Waleed El-Zorba is managing director of Nile Holding Company, a group of five companies involved in textile exports employing around 10,000 people.
In 2005, he was appointed to the Export Council of Ready Made Garments and the Council of Qualifying Industrial Zones by Egypt’s minister of trade and industry to help pro¬mote and continue the success of the textile industry in Egypt.
Mr. El-Zorba holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Southern California’s School of Arts and Science.
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