The world’s largest software and programme developer, the
Microsoft Corporation, has confirmed its Senior Vice President in charge of
Corporate Business, Ali Famamwy, will pay a day’s working visit to Ghana on
March 4, 2013.Mr. Famamwy’s visit will be at the invitation of rlg Communications Limited, the pioneer ICT devices assembler in Africa based in Ghana.While in the country, Mr Famamwy will be the Guest of Honour at the official Sod Cutting Ceremony for the multi-million dollar ICT Park to be known as the Hope City in Accra next month.
He will
also pay courtesy call on President John Mahama at the Flagstaff House.
The
Hope City Project is an integrated village with facilities for housing, ICT,
recreation, business and much more and is expected to create jobs for about
50,000 people, directly and indirectly.
In
August last year, Microsoft and rlg signed an agreement which allows rlg phones
and computers to run on Microsoft Windows.
The
influential business magazine Forbes described the rlg-Microsoft deal as a
“partnership of the future.”
The
deal also granted rlg Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) status, making it
one of the few such organizations in Africa.
“This
visit by a very senior official of Microsoft excites us because it reaffirms
the growing trust and confidence the international community is reposing in
us,” said Roland Agambire, Founder & Chief Executive of rlg Communications
Ltd.
Mr Famamwy,
who is also the President for Microsoft Middle East & Africa (MEA), has a
number of responsibilities spanning business strategy and operations. He is a
key member of the international leadership team that is responsible for the
company’s global strategy, with a particularly visible role amongst the
company’s worldwide emerging markets community.
He is
directly responsible for Microsoft’s operations in MEA, one of thirteen areas
that comprise Microsoft’s worldwide operations. The area represents one of Microsoft’s
fastest growing and most dynamic markets and is certainly its most diverse.
Microsoft MEA operates through 32 offices and covers 79 countries across three
continents.
Throughout
his twenty-year career in the IT industry, Mr Famamwy has held different
technical, sales and managerial roles in different parts of the Middle East and
in Europe with companies including Dun & Bradstreet Software, NCR
Corporation, Yokogawa Marex and finally Microsoft Corporation.
Ali
joined Microsoft in October 1997 as the General Manager of Microsoft Egypt.
After four successful years in that role, he assumed additional
responsibilities in the Eastern Mediterranean area, which encompasses Egypt,
Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus & Malta.
In May
2002, Ali was named as the Regional Director for Sales, Marketing and Services
for a newly consolidated Microsoft Middle East and Africa region. In this role,
he led efforts to transform and grow the company’s regional presence with a
newly established regional headquarters. In 2004, he was promoted to President
of Microsoft Middle East and Africa and in 2011 to Corporate Vice President of
the Microsoft Corporation.
He
graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Alexandria University, majoring in
Computer Science & Automatic Control and has a MBA in Strategic Marketing
from the University of Hull in the UK.
He is
married and has two sons. He loves the IT industry and tendency to empower
people and transform industries. He is passionate about the future of people in
emerging markets. He also enjoys music, reading and the occasional round of
golf