Mr. Khaled Bichara is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer of Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.  He sits on the board of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) since 2003, the largest GSM operator in the Middle East, Africa and Pakistan
 
Mr. Bichara was appointed Chief Operating Officer of OTH in April 2009. He was previously COO of Wind Telecommunications. He brings a wealth of experience in both telecommunication and information technology with a strong management and entrepreneurial experience.
 
Mr. Bichara headed the fixed line and portal business unit at Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A from 2005 until he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the company. At Wind, he played a key and instrumental role in restructuring the company’s organization, which led to the successful turnaround of Wind from a continuously loss making company to one of the best performing mobile, fixed line and broadband integrated operators in Europe within a record time span of three years. Prior to joining Wind, he was the cofounder, Chairman and CEO of LINKdotNET (”LDN”), the largest private Internet Service Provider (”ISP”) in the Middle East.  In 2001, following successful negotiations, Microsoft chose to partner with LDN headed by Mr. Bichara to launch MSN Arabia, the Middle East’s first global portal, bringing full internet experience of MSN to users in the region.

In December 2003, Business Today Egypt chose Mr. Bichara as the “Young Executive of the Year” for executives under the age of 40.

Mr. Bichara earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the American University in Cairo where he is a member of the Advisory Board for the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He is an active member of the Software Community in the Middle East, a founding member of the Egyptian Software Association and the Internet Society of Egypt.  He is also a board member of WIND Italy, and various telecom and IT companies.