Dr. Khaled Ismail
Business Development Officer
Orascom Telecom Holding

Dr. Khaled Ismail is a member of the executive team at OTH acting as the Business Development Officer, Dr. Ismail was the senior advisor of the Egyptian Minister of CIT, responsible for technology development. He is the CEO of SySDSoft, a company focused on the design of wireless digital communication systems. Previously, he was a manager at IBM Research Center in New York and is the recipient of the IBM Invention Achievement Award and the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Honorary Society (Eta Kapa Nu) Best Young Electrical Engineer in the US award in 1994, and the Shuman Award for the Young Arab Engineer in 1995. Dr. Ismail received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He is an IEEE Fellow since 1997. He has published over 150 papers in international journals and holds 15 patents.