COUNTRY FOCUS: EGYPT
Presight
Under this new structure, Vetiv has streamlined its focus on Africa into four distinct regions, led by regional directors. Northwest Africa led by Zineb Kamri, based in Casablanca, Morocco; Northeast Africa led by Ehab El Hefnawy, based in Cairo, Egypt; Central-Southern Africa led by Gary Chomse, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with regular operations from Lagos, Nigeria; and Eastern Africa led by Rohan Patil, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The regional directors report directly to Vertiv’ s Managing Director for Africa, Wojtek Piorko, each with careers in roles and responsibilities in their years with the company, building a wealth of knowledge and experience across the African continent and beyond.
The new assignments and strategic structuring enable Vertiv to get closer to its partners and customers alike, foster deeper relationships and collaboration, and deploy components, products, training, and services for faster response times.
Presight, a global big data analytics company powered by AI, participated at the Future of Digital Countries in Cairo, Egypt. The company will be present at the UAE Pavilion alongside the UAE Cybersecurity Council, spotlighting its AI-driven smart city innovations as part of its mission to bring Applied Intelligence to life across urban landscapes.
Presight’ s participation at the FDC Summit is a symbol of the deep-rooted and strategic partnership between UAE and Egypt. As UAE continues to support Egypt’ s bold digital transformation journey, Presight stands at the forefront, offering AI solutions designed to support national ambitions and elevate digital capabilities.
Presight showcased its AI-powered smart city solutions which are engineered to modernise infrastructure, enhance urban resilience, and elevate the quality of life through data-driven decision-making. This participation also reinforces Presight’ s growing footprint across the African continent, as it continues to bring its Applied Intelligence philosophy.
Foodics
TiE Women MENA 2025
The Dubai chapter of TiE Global has officially launched the sixth annual TiE Women MENA 2025 competition, an empowering initiative designed to support and elevate women entrepreneurs across the region. The programme runs five parallel tracks including TiE Women Egypt, and TiE Women Rest of MENA, among others.
The competition kicks off with an application phase open until June 15, 2025. Through multiple rounds of screening, an impartial jury comprising TiE Dubai Charter Members will identify the most innovative ventures across the five tracks. Shortlisted entries will move forward to regional competitions in September, with finalists presenting their startups in a series of competitive pitch events.
Winners from each track will then advance to the MENA finals, set to take place during Expand North Star at GITEX Global in Dubai Harbour this October. The journey concludes with the Global Finals, to be hosted at the TiE Global Summit in Jaipur, India, in December.
The programme aims to foster equal opportunities for women entrepreneurs, enabling them to thrive and make a meaningful impact on their economies. This year, it continues to spotlight the role of women in business, with a strong emphasis on developing their skills through a structured and supportive framework.
Belal Zahran is Foodics’ International Managing Director, for Egypt and UAE. With a proven track record in scaling businesses, Belal is focused on strengthening Foodics’ presence and driving innovation in restaurant management and fintech solutions. Since joining Foodics in August 2021, Belal has played a pivotal role in the brand’ s successful expansion into Egypt, where he significantly increased the company’ s recurring revenues and grew the customer base tenfold.
Before joining Foodics, Belal built his career across banking and tech-driven enterprises. He spent five years in Egypt’ s banking sector with HSBC and CIB before transitioning to the startup ecosystem. In 2012, he joined Bayt. com, where he climbed the ranks from sales executive to country manager, overseeing the company’ s strategic and operational functions in Egypt. The Saudi-born company offers cloud-based all-inone Restaurant Management System, Point of Sale solution, and payment systems.
Under its ICT 2030 strategy, the Egyptian government is undertaking a series of investments, capacity building and training programmes, digital government services reforms, and infrastructure upgrades. The strategy calls for launching new initiatives to maximise the contribution of the ICT sector to Egypt’ s digital economic growth by focusing on capacity building, electronics design and manufacturing, and technology parks. p
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