Marwan Hayek

Marwan Hayek took the helm of Alfa, the first Lebanese mobile operator managed by Orascom Telecom, as its Chairman and CEO, since the beginning of 2010, putting his international experience and expertise at the service of the Lebanese Telecom, by introducing state-of-the-art technology, and bringing Lebanon back on the regional Telecom map, through the introduction of the 3.5G technology that will be officially launched by Alfa during September 2011.

Marwan Hayek is an experienced telecom executive with close to 16 years of field and operations experience. He started his career with France Telecom in Lebanon – Cellis, known currently as Alfa, where he was part of the initial team that built the first GSM network in Lebanon, his motherland, before joining later on the Orascom Telecom Holding family back in 1999.

Since 1999, Hayek has held several assignments within the Orascom Telecom Group’s subsidiaries and its Holding, the latest before his current appointment was in September 2007, where he joined Mobinil - Egypt that has more than 30 million subscribers, as VP Technology in charge of both network and IT infrastructure. With the winning of the Management agreement of Alfa by Orascom Telecom, in February 2009, and in addition to his position at Mobinil, Hayek was appointed on the Board of MIC1-Lebanon and Orascom Telecom Lebanon.

Prior to Mobinil, Hayek was the CTO of Mobilink-Pakistan (an Orascom Telecom subsidiary) since June 2003, where he played a major role in building an infrastructure capable of handling more than 30 million subscribers in less than four years. Between 2000 and 2002, Hayek was part of the team who built Sabafon’s network in Yemen in the position of CTO managing both Technical and IT departments. Moreover, his role in business development between Jan 2002 and June 2003, as OTH Technical Director was substantial, where he worked on various projects and acquisitions in Africa and Asia. The work of Hayek contributed to the growth of OTH to over 100Msubs (over 15B$ market cap), where he contributed directly to building an infrastructure capable of handling more than 60 million subscribers.

Mr. Hayek holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering from the “Faculte Polytechnique de Mons” in Belgium. He had attended and participated in several technical, IT and Management trainings including but not limited to CCL, MEIRC, HEC, INSEAD, MIT & Harvard.