Sameh Nabih George has over 17 years of experience in the telecom industry with Alcatel-Lucent in roles including operations, project management, pre-sales, technical sales, and sales leadership. He has managed sales teams and customers across the Middle East and Asia regions, specializing in new business development and strategic accounts. Currently he is the Global Account Manager for Ooredoo Group, leading sales activities in 17 countries across Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
1. Sameh Nabih George
Doha - Qatar
Tel: +97466849955
sameh.nabih@alcatel-lucent.com
Summary
17 years of experience in telecom market with Alcatel – Lucent starting 1998 in different
countries and domains starting from operation, project management, pre-sales, technical
sales and sales leader in contentious engagement with all operators in the middle east and
Asia regions managing different technologies and huge customers base, Over achieved in
most of my sales carrier specially in penetrating new countries and accounts to spread the
footprint working mainly on building the trust over years reaching the target always.
Experience:
Alcatel-Lucent International since 22-02-1998 till now
• From 14-06-2013 as Global Account Manager of Ooredoo
Group.
1. Leading and managing all sales activities in 17 different
counties of the group dispatched between EMEA and APAC.
2. Post sales activities including cash management.
3. Managing all sales teams in local countries and deploying group
strategy over each local affiliate.
• From 1-3-2010 as Regional Sales Director for Near East
Region.
1. Leading and managing all sales activities in (Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan & Iraq).
2. Commercial Negotiation including legal, Tax and Finance terms.
3. Post sales activities including cash management.
4. Covering end to end solutions including managed, professional
services and applications.
5. Managing a team of sales managers distributed over three
countries.
6. Penetrated Iraq from scratch to be positioned as top player.
• From 1-1-2006 till 28 – 2 -2010 as Regional Sales
Manager Responsible of:
1. Handling the sales and business development activities for
several carrier operators in the region in all telecom solutions (
Wireline –Wireless – Convergence )
2. Manging Lebanon – Syria – Etisalat Misr – Telecom Egypt.
3. Commercial and financial analysis and negotiations.
4. Project Risk assessment.
• From 1-6-2004 till 1-1-2006 as Regional Technical Sales
Manager Responsible of:
1. All optical transmission projects in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq,
Pakistan & Afghanistan
2. Handling and managing the whole pre-sales team in Middle
East.
2. • From 1-5-2001 till 1-6-2004 as Project Manager
Responsible of:
1. Handling a complete project with integration of the complete
network design.
2. Responsible of Telecom Egypt., Mobinil, Oracom Telecom
Accounts.
3. Responsible of the PNL process
• From 1-3-2000 till 1-5 2001 as Area Tendering and Pre-
sales engineer working with most of the middle east
countries Such as:
1. JTC – Designing a new SDH network in Jordan
2. Telecom Egypt – Answering on the first DWDM tender in Egypt
for Cairo and Delta Area.
3. ADCO Petroleum Company Small SDH network
4. Working with Etsalat in UAE and Aramco Saudi Arabia.
• From 22-02-1998 till 1-3-2000 as Tendering and pre –
sales Engineer working with Telecom Egypt Network
• Responsible of:
1. PDH, SDH and DWDM networks design
2. Establishing a complete offer for a complete network (Services,
Management, Equipment.etc)
3. Technical support and consultant upon customer needs.
4. Follow up of the installation process till the PAC.
• FARAMED Medical Company from 25-07-1997 till 31-1-
1998
• Working as Maintenance Engineer Component Level
responsible of:
1. Butting into service and testing of a complete set of Medical
Equipments.
2. Assisting in more then 56 surgeries.
3. Regular maintenance check.
Courses
4. SDH Theory Feb-1999 IFA – France
5. Networking October 2000 – France
6. On JOB Training – UAE 2000
7. Managerial Skills AUC
8. Communications Skills During year 2003 Innovative Group
9. Negotiation Skills May – 2003 Innovative Group.
10. Effective presentation Skills July – 2003 Innovative Group.
11. Accounting for non-accountants.
3. Additional Data:
Language Skills:
1- English: Fluent (spoken & written)
2- French: Fair
3- Arabic: Mother Tongue
Education:
Bachelor of Electronics& Communications, Ain Shames
University
Major: Communication
Grade: Good
Project: Excellent
Subject of the Project: VLSI
Personal Data:
Nationality : Egyptian
Date of Birth : 15.10.1974
Marital Status : Married