Prof
Hisham  El-Sherif

Founder & Chairman of IT Investments

Biography:

Prof. El Sherif has been a leading authority in ICT in the region. He is responsible for delivering more than 900 major projects which collectively transformed Egypt into the information age. El Sherif was also a force in introducing, driving and building of the Internet backbone in Egypt and its introduction to 13 countries in the region. Founder & Chairman of IT Investments, a holding direct Investment Company with subsidiaries in networking and Telecommunications, software development, IT systems Integration, Media and E-business. Co-founder and Chair of the Advisory Board, for 14 years (1985-1999), of the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre, he was directly responsible for building 1500 centers and creating more than 40,000 jobs in the information industry as well as creating the first centralized repository of information required to support effective decision-making at the national level. Under his leadership, IDSC was selected as one of the top 100 IT organizations

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