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Telecoms World North Africa is bought to by the people who bring you:
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 Mr. Hakam Kanafani,
Chief Business Officer Oger Telecom Hakam Kanafani is a University Trustee Scholar and holds Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He graduated from the University of Maryland, college Park with a B.A. and a B.Sc.. Kanafani holds an MBA with a 4.0 GPA and post graduate work in Economics. He continued his Executive Education Harvard Business School (financial Analysis and Valuation).
Mr. Kanafani is the Chief Business Development Officer in charge of Mergers and acquisitions for Oger Telecom (over 42m million subscribers under management). He also represents Oger Telecom as a Member of the Board of Directors for South Africa’s GSM operator “Cell-C”, Turkey’s broadband provider “TT Net” and Innova/ARGEL Turkey and USA.
Upon graduation, Kanafani joined the Information Technology team in NASA, Goddard Space Flight, Maryland. He was then named as the COO for United Auto Technologies, Orange County, California. Kanafani then moved to the Middle East as the Business Development Director for Egypt’s oldest running private holding company “MM Sons Conglomerate” (established 1895). He spearheaded the conglomerate’s efforts to establish successful, rapidly growing ICT enterprises including Egypt’s first GSM distribution and sales network and Egypt’s first satellite Internet provider.
Kanafani was then recruited to become CEO of JAWWAL, Palestine’s first private cellular network. He was then promoted to the holding company level as PalTel Group’s COO and led the Group’s in strategy, acquisition and financial consolidation.
Mr. Kanafani is a founding member of the Dubai based Young Arab Leaders and heads the business development committee for the Cairo based Arab Business Forum for Information and Communication Technology. He is also a Young Global Leader, an organization within the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Kanafani wrote several papers and research material covering the fields of Information Technology Communications and International Management. He was featured in the Independent, Forbes magazine and other periodicals. During his college days, Kanafani was the President of the Organization of Arab Students and was on the Maryland Water-polo team. Kanafani is a fan of Ahly Football Club in Cairo and is married to Fatenn Mostafa. He is a proud dad of; Marwan, Ahmad and Jenine.
Appearing: Conference Day Two: Tuesday 8 June 2010 2.30pm Customer identification strategies to best target high-growth markets
- Maximizing service offerings by understanding high-value customer profiles
- Deploying tailored applications to capture specific consumer segments and increase ARPU
- Moving beyond network scale and pricing – differentiating service offerings to retain high-value customers
- Communicating with customers to retain loyalty and combat churn
Mr. Hakam Kanafani, Chief Business Officer,
Oger Telecom |
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