Biograpghy
David Robert Selman, the founder of AXIPITUR has over 17 years of national and international business and technical experience. A degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science, David initially started off his professional career working in the Actuary department of an Insurance company. However, the pull and interest of Information Technology was too great, and he left the insurance company and joined the global consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), where he worked for 15 years. His work at BAH allowed Mr. Selman to literally travel the world, and live for extended periods of time in various countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Serbia, Nigeria, Thailand, Qatar. While working for BAH he represented the firm in various capacities, initially as an Implementation Engineer where he and his team deployed major systems for the Egyptian Army, Saudi Royal Airforce, Qatari Airforce, the Serbian Ministry of Justice, and the Government of Thailand to name a few. Later as his responsibilities within the firm grew, David moved more into the business strategic side of things and less on hands-on day-to-day technology, as such, David became responsible for growing the firm’s business footprint and maintaining established business relationships. Some of those clients included the US Navy Training Center, US Marines, SouthComm and the Egyptian Navy.
David left BAH and joined the Government of Abu Dhabi where he worked as part of that government’s infrastructure within the Vision 2030 program. David is fluent in reading and writing in Arabic and partially fluent in speaking the language
After leaving Abu Dhabi, David returned to the US and started his entrepreneurial path, and it took him to countries such as Demark, the Netherlands and England. He teamed up with a series of small companies to pursue a number of World Bank funded projects, one of which was conducting a strategic assessment on the viability of automating the Judicial System for the Government of the Republic of Ghana. David’s recommendation suggested automation was possible and based on those findings the World Bank funded a $7 Million USD implementation of an automated system for the Government of Ghana.
Within the last 6 years, David has been fully engaged in the implementation of situational awareness systems, primarily in the law enforcement sector, and has overseen clients nationally and has established strong interests for such systems in the international arena as well
Mo'nes Sadeq is the CEO & Founder of NHANC Inc. a professional services firm based in Egypt. As a member of the executive group, Mo'nes is instrumental in delivering world-class services to NHANC's clients in the market. Moreover, his role in driving the strategic direction of the company is especially noteworthy. With more than 25 years of IT management experience, Mo'nes brings passion and professionalism to his work every day. Mo'nes has worked with and was instrumental in establishing strategic relationships with Booz Allen & Hamilton, and Chemonics International on a number of multimillion-dollar projects in Egypt. In the MENA region, Mo'nes experience is vast, he was instrumental in NHANC's work with Vodafone Egypt and the UK, Saudi Arabia Aramco, EgyptAir, USAID Case Management implementation for the Prosecutor General's Office, Egypt's Ministry of Defence. and many other others.
As an entrepreneur, Mo'nes and NHANC was awarded the "Best Technology Implementation in the Middle East", by the prestigious Stars of the Business at SME Advisor Summit
Mr. Khaled Abdallah
Khaled Abdallah is a Senior Executive with more than 15 years of successful experience providing IT/Technological strategies and operations that made him a successful entrepreneur who has founded two growing IT companies; ITLand and then Nhanc for Cloud Technology.
Khaled operates all of Axipitur's business operation in the Middle East and MENA in general.
Khaled was responsible for the successful launching of the innovative Group-PC in the Middle East, an alternative to the Laptop and Personal Computer devices, whereby the Group-PC performs identically to the PC but at 95% less electrical power and approximately 60% cheaper than the average cost of a PC.
Khaled has previously worked as an IT Consultant in ITWorx, the leading software company in the region. With many tasks and missions being successfully achieved the fact that qualified him to cofound and lead his own business afterward.
Khaled was able to deliver both operational and consultancy services to National and Multinational organizations and enterprises such as USAID, International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), PepsiCo International, Chemonics, Egypt free shops, Egypt Air, Egypt Ministry of Defense, ITWorx, Vodafone Egypt, and many others.
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Rania Reda is an internationally recognized Augmented Reality expert and serial entrepreneur built and scaled start-ups in Silicon Valley, Berlin and the Middle East. She has enjoyed 22 years of experience in creating digital solutions to the world’s most complex problems. In addition to her engineering degrees obtained in Egypt and USA, Rania strengthened her 360° venture knowledge with an executive MBA from the ESMT in Berlin, Germany and Haas Business School in UC Berkeley, California.
Throughout her career, Rania worked for large corporations and managed multimillion dollar digital transformation projects before she switched to the start-up scene. Her third venture, Augmania, made a paradigm shift in the domain of e-commerce, allowing shoppers to have a home-based virtual visualization of products before purchase. After a successful collaboration with SAP.iO in Berlin, Augmania technology finally integrated into the SAP world-class C/4HANA suite.
Rania is an active proponent of social empowerment with a special gender lens for women. She is a member of the BMW Responsible Leaders Global Network and a tech consultant to UNESCO and EBRD. She is a steering committee member of Digital Arabia Network (based in Berlin), and a founding member of Egypt’s first Innovation Cluster. She has given many talks at international events and has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs around the globe.