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Executive Chairman - Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.
Chairman & CEO - Weather Investments.
Chairman of the Board - Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA.
Since joining Orascom, the family business, in 1979, Naguib Sawiris has continuously contributed to the growth and diversification of the company into what it is today – one of Egypt’s largest and most diversified conglomerates. The Orascom Group is the country’s largest private sector employer and has the largest market capitalization on the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange. Mr. Sawiris established and built the railway, information technology, and telecommunications sectors of Orascom. The success of these ventures as well as the other sectors of the company led to the management’s decision to split Orascom into separate operating companies: Orascom Telecom (OT) www.orascomtelecom.com ,Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) www.orascomci.com,Orascom Hotels & Development www.orascomhd.com and Orascom Technology Systems (OTS) www.ots.com.eg. Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.(OTH) was established, in late 1997, and since then, has been chaired and led by Mr. Sawiris.
As Executive Chairman of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH), Mr. Sawiris has dynamically led the growth of the company, to be the leading regional Telecom player and among the best regarded Emerging Markets players in the world. OTH operates GSM networks in seven different countries in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Algeria, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, and North Korea ) with 78 million subscribers as at December 2008. In addition, it operates a number of leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs), as well as value added services and handset distribution companies.
In January 2003, and as a recognition for its regional role in the telecommunication industry, Orascom Telecom represented by Mr. Sawiris, was appointed as Board Member of the GSM Association. The appointment came as an acknowledgement of the group’s position as one of the largest ten operators based on subscriber numbers.
After founding Weather Investments in early 2005, Mr. Naguib Sawiris led the landmark leveraged buyout of a majority stake of Wind Telecommunications in Italy and took over management as its Chairman in late summer 2005.Almost a year after this important step, he led Weather Investment’s acquisition of Tim Hellas in Greece and re-branded it under the name “Wind Hellas. In November 2006, Wind Telecommunications floated the largest ever PIK debt in Europe with proceeds used to complete the buyout of Wind from ENEL resulting in the Sawiris Family owning 98% of Weather. These latest acquisitions mark a new milestone in Mr. Sawiris’ long and successful career journey in leading the international growth of both Orascom Telecom and Weather Investments.
At international and regional levels, Mr. Sawiris serves on the following Boards, Committees and Councils: - Member of the international advisory committee to the NYSE Board of Directors (IAC) since November 2005.
- Board member of the International Advisory Board to the National Bank of Kuwait.
- President of the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce for 2008-2009
- Board member of the Supreme Council of Sciences and Technology formed by a presidential decree issued by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The council's board includes a galaxy of scientists including Nobel laureate Dr Ahmed Zewail, Dr Farouq el-Baz and Dr Magdy Yaqoub.
- Co-chair, the Egyptian Italian Business Council.
- Board member on both the Board of Trustees and the board of Directors of the Arab Thought Foundation.
- Board of Trustees member of the French University in Cairo.
- Board member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.
- Board member of the Consumer Rights Protection Association of Egypt.
Mr. Sawiris is also the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, industry awards and civic honors, including the " Legion d’honneur “ (the highest award given by the French Republic for outstanding services rendered to France) and the recipient of prestigious “Sitara-e-Quaid-e-Azam" award (conferred upon Mr. Sawiris in 2006 by General Pervez Musharref for services rendered to the people of Pakistan in the field of telecommunication, investments and social sector work).
Mr Sawiris holds a diploma of Mechanical Engineering with a Masters in Technical Administration from the Swiss Institute of Technology, ETH Switzerland and a Diploma from the German Evangelical School, Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Sawiris is married, with four children and lives in Cairo, Egypt. He speaks Arabic, English, German and fair French.
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