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Johannes Koch serves as Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and as Vice President of Sales for this region.

In this role, he is responsible for overseeing HPE's activity in the region and leveraging the strengths of the company's hardware, software and services portfolio to drive growth in this market. He chairs the sub-region's leadership team, bringing together the full range of HPE's solutions.

Johannes assumed this role in January 2015. Before he led the Commercial and Public Sector (C&P) for Central and Eastern Europe & Israel. Prior to that he served as Vice President for Global Accounts in Central and Eastern Europe and as Managing Director for the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Johannes has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry particularly in the areas of sales management and IT services. He joined HP from IBM at the beginning of 2011, where he held various national and international executive roles.

Johannes is an Austrian national and holds a degree in business administration from the University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College.

Issa Al Khamees is the Managing Director for HPE in Saudi Arabia. Issa is responsible for driving revenue and market growth for HPE's full portfolio.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in Technology Services and Telcos – more than a decade of which has incorporated P&L responsibility for complex sales cycles, consulting driven engagements, and client account management with combined turnover of multi billion dollars – Issa has excelled over an extended period of time both as Managing Director and a Sales Director in HPE.

Before joining HPE, Issa was a Senior Sales Manager for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent, Issa was a Senior Sales Manager for Siemens AG.

Issa lives in Riyadh, he is married with three children and his interests include travelling, technology, reading and spending time with family & friends.

Dr. Moudhi Aljamea is the first ever female who occupies an executive position in the STC. Dr. Moudhi has a PhD in Computer Security King's College London, CEH, and a vast experience in cyber and information security. Prior joining STC, she was the president of entrepreneurship unit and business incubator in Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, and considered as one of the Saudis experts in the computer security field. "I am Proud and excited to join STC academy. It is a new start with a great vision. Thanks all for your kindness and warm wishes. Thanks for your support and encouragement" She said. Dr. Moudhi Aljamea studied abroad in UK and completed higher education from King College London and University of Greenwich.

Sorin Cristian Cheran is a Technology Strategist part of the High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence Competency Centre, working for HPE since 2007. In the past years Sorin has been driving the Artificial Intelligence in HPE at the European level and in some cases worldwide. Known as an AI passionate speaker, Sorin also strongly believes in Beneficial and Ethical AI. Before HPE, he has obtained his PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from Universita degli Studi di Torino in Italy and his Master in Nuclear Physics in Germany.

CTIO of HPE Saudi and senior lead architect For HPE, with strong background and knowledge about Cloud System, Networking, Storage solutions, Big Data, analytics platforms and IOT technologies.

With over 30 years of experience in the ICT and Energy sectors and having worked in the Middle East and Australia, Mortaja brings a fresh perspective to MIS to drive the company’s growth and alignment to the KSA Vision 2030 and NTP programs. Prior to joining MIS, Ziad was the Country President of Schneider Electric in Saudi and before that was in Hewlett Packard (HP) where he served as Managing Director for HP Saudi Arabia and later as Senior Director Networking Division for Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa. Prior to HP, Ziad spent 10 years at Cisco Systems in Saudi Arabia, then in North Africa, and Levant where he was the Director and General Manager of the region. Ziad holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Kuwait University. He was also awarded several certifications in Leadership, Management, Finance and Business from internationally recognized centers.

Ahmad Alabduljabbar has extensive experience of more than 20 years in IT, banking and technology management. He has a background in sales and marketing, business development, product development, customer management, process optimization and customer relationship management. He has experience in IT, HPC, Big Data, Islamic and conventional banking products and enterprise business segments. He has held leadership and management positions with many world-class organizations and affiliates such as Olayan group, Citibank, HSBC, Credit Agricole and is currently working as Energy Business Director - Middle East and North Africa at Intel Corporation. He has undertaken business development for many government and private sector entities as well as universities and enterprises. He holds an MBA focused on Big Data marketing from the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom.

Joined HP in 2003 as Customer Support Engineer. From 2004 till 2007 I worked as Account Support Manager. From 2008 till 2012 as Support Solution Architect. From 2012 till now as Engagement and Pursuit Lead for Saudi.

Yusuf Abu Mahmoud is a business development manager for different service business lines that includes flexible capacity, operational support and datacenter services in addition to per-event support services. His assignment also includes Multivendor and Annuity Support Services. His expertise expands over account support management, support solutions building to business development. He managed and developed support solutions for major strategic enterprise accounts in Saudi Arabia. He holds certificates in ISO 9000, ITIL V3, project management and business development.

Tarek Abu-Ghazaleh is the Saudi Arabia network and mobility solution architecture and pursuit lead since 2011. Tarek has over 20 years of experience in presales, solution architecture and implementation services on large scale Enterprise Network and mobility solutions around Campus and Datacenters. He worked closely providing his services for major enterprises, telecommunication providers, financial institutions, and public sector organizations locally and internationally. More recently Tarek has gained vast experience in IoT technologies, Smart Cities and Big data solutions.

Mission critical Product Sales Manager since 2014. Joined HPE in 2013 as Banking account manager. HPE Channel manager in 2010 to 2012.

Currently with the WW Security CoE, Nilesh is a seasoned professional with 18 years of leadership experience in cyber security, risk management, business continuity, disaster recovery and software development. He has a strong focus on innovation with a demonstrated experience in conceptualizing ideas and converting them into successful service and product lines. He holds a patent in the space of supply chain risk management and has been a frequent HP TechCon presenter in the space of cyber security. He currently leads an experienced team of cyber security consultants that executes technical and advisory engagements in cyber security and BC/DR for HPE PointNext.

Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim works as a system engineer manager at HPE-Aruba Saudi Arabia, where he covers Hewlett Packard Enterprise networking within Saudi Arabia. He has over 13 years of experience in designing complex network and Secuirty solution and He has worked closely with major enterprises, telecommunication providers, financial institutions, and public sector organizations.

Umar Hayat joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2006. He is Network Ambassador for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Saudi Arabia. Umar has got more than twenty years of experience in IT field. He has worked on very large scale Enterprise Network solutions around Campus and Datacenters. He has deep knowledge of the products and vast experience in designing complex Wired/ wireless and mobility solutions.

Muhammad AbuGhalioun is a Senior Aruba System Engineer with wide experiance in wireless and networking soultions. Muhammad has got more than 15 years of experience in IT field. He has worked on very large scale Enterprise Network solutions around Campus Soultions . He has deep knowledge of the products and vast experience in designing complex Wired/ wireless and mobility solutions.

Muhammad has worked on major Aruba wireless deployments in enterprises such as Saudi Aramco, Royal Commission of Jubail, PetroRabigh, Makkah Haram and many others.

Muhammad speaks Arabic and English

Mohammad is currently works as a Consultant system engineer for HPE-Aruba covering the eastern part of Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad graduated in 2003 from Jordan, he joined IBM distributor in Jordan for 4 years working as Microsoft system engineer.

Mohammad joined Aruba networks in 2008, he has over 10 years’ experience in mobile indoor outdoor networks, Network management and access controls.

Mohammad works closely with major accounts in oil and gas, enterprise, healthcare and public sector organizations. He is inline from the beginnings in network design and implementation for major key customers.

Bachelor degree in computer engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Shiraz Khan joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2007. He is Data Center Network Ambassador for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Saudi Arabia. Shiraz has got more than twenty two years of experience in IT field. He has worked on very large scale Enterprise Multivendor Solutions around Data Canter Networking, Hybrid-IT and Storage. He has deep knowledge of the HPE products and vast experience with the knowledge in leading cutting edge technologies, Design Complex Enterprise Solutions included Data Center, Campus, Security and IT Services

Muhammad Ali Imran is working as Solution Architect at HPE. He has a proven track record of more than 12 years of experience in presales, solution architecture and implementation services. Over the course of this period he has developed strong understanding of the leading technologies in the areas of Data Center & Enterprise IT infrastructure. In his current position, he provide panoptic approach to HPE customers, help them to take decisions in choosing a technology which can deliver true business value.

Stanislav is senior member of HPE MCS team – a central team of presales experts and architects on the design and deployment of complex Enterprise Architectures for customer’s most critical IT solutions.

Stanislav is active member of Mission Critical Ambassador Community within HPE with deep expertise in Memory Driven Computing, Business Continuity & Availability, Shared Service Architecture and multi OS IT environments.

Stanislav has over 22 years of experience at HPE and has held various technical and business positions in HPE Hybrid IT group.

Stanislav is located in Prague, Czech Republic, and holds University degree of Engineer (Master of Science) with diploma in Nuclear Science from Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia.

Mohannad is a Solution Architect for Data Center infrastructure and Hybrid Cloud Solutions with a wealth of industry and product knowledge gained through his years in multiplatform IT experience as an end user and as a supplier of Technology and professional services, working with global customers and prospects of all sizes including multi-national enterprises. Mohannad works with customers and prospects to understand the technical and business challenges they have day-to-day and uses his wealth of experience, advising how these can be overcome using HPE solutions and deliver real value back to the business.

Mohammed Al Nasser is a Storage Solutions Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology for various enterprise industries from public, private to SMB. His area of professional is in datacentre systems, primary Storage, backup, archiving, business continuity, & many data-related solutions.

Mission Critical Technical Consultant with HPE for more than 13 years focusing on mission critical solutions and technologies including Integrity Superdome 2 HP-UX solutions, Integrity Superdome X, Converged Systems for SAP HANA solutions.

Ammar Hajj Issa is the Country Manager of HPE Education Consulting Services in Saudi, his role mainly is focused on enabling HPE clients and partners to become experts in HPE technologies through professional technical training, also providing the needed Education Consultancy solutions for better IT environment, like LMS, Smart Learning, Business Process Consultancy, Security Awareness, and many more.

Ammar have over 20 years of experience, he is working for HPE since 2006, previously worked for several companies like Extra Retail and Pepsi Cola- Al Jomaih.

Storage Solution Architect with experience in VMware and SAP.

Data Center Networking background, specialized in building mission critical and data availability solutions. She enables organizations to achieve and deliver the highest level of IT services for the enterprise and its customers. Baraa cares about her customers satisfaction, so she always ensures to build a strong and long lasting customer relationship.

Joined at the end of the year 2017, focusing on compute solutions.

Muhammad Ali Imran is working as Solution Architect at HPE. He has a proven track record of more than 12 years of experience in presales, solution architecture and implementation services. Over the course of this period he has developed strong understanding of the leading technologies in the areas of Data Center & Enterprise IT infrastructure. In his current position, he provide panoptic approach to HPE customers, help them to take decisions in choosing a technology which can deliver true business value.

Abdulmajed Fatani, is a Key Accounts & Business Development Manager at NATCOM. He has years of experience in Information Management, Data Storage & Virtualization technologies. He was a Technology consultant at HP for projects in the Western region. He worked with many organizations in developing complexed, integrated, business aligned, IT solutions. He holds BA in Electronics and Communication Engineering from King Abdulaziz university. He holds a number of IT vendor’s expertise certifications.

Abdulmajed Fatani, is a Key Accounts & Business Development Manager at NATCOM. He has years of experience in Information Management, Data Storage & Virtualization technologies. He was a Technology consultant at HP for projects in the Western region. He worked with many organizations in developing complexed, integrated, business aligned, IT solutions. He holds BA in Electronics and Communication Engineering from King Abdulaziz university. He holds a number of IT vendor’s expertise certifications.