Tarek El-Sadany is Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt for technology policies. He has over 23 years of experience in the technology industry and has held numerous executive management and leadership positions.

Before joining the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Dr. El-Sadany was chief technology officer and senior vice president of operations at Iris Financial Solutions, a leading provider of front- and middle-office solutions for tier-one global institutions. In this role he was responsible for engineering and development, product management and business development, client solutions and professional services, support, and training. Prior to Iris, Dr. El-Sadany was vice president, global product support for Oracle Corporation, managing a $5 billion business with more than 4,000 employees in 55 countries serving more than 240,000 enterprise customers in 19 different languages. Under his leadership, Oracle Product Support margins grew by over $400 million year on year by streamlining operations and processes through globalization, automation, consolidation and offshore manufacturing.

Before joining Oracle Corporation, Dr. El-Sadany founded Datacme Corporation, a visionary Silicon Valley startup offering products that automate the creation and building of J2EE mission-critical applications, where he was chairman and CEO. Prior to this, he was senior vice president of kernel and server technologies at TenFold Corporation, where he worked for over seven years. Dr. El-Sadany helped TenFold Corporation grow from a five-employee startup to a 1,200-employee public company with a market cap of over $2 billion. Before TenFold, Dr. El-Sadany spent over five years in various leadership positions at IBM research centers.

Dr. El-Sadany has also worked in the field of software engineering at various international companies. He serves on the board of directors of SafeHarbor Technology Corporation and the board of advisers of several private technology companies and nonprofit organizations. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, panels, conferences and colloquia.

Dr. El-Sadany holds a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Louisville, USA, and Master’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.