HASSAN EL-MELIGY

Strategy & Industry Development Consultant

Mr. Meligy is a strategy and development consultant / digital transformation expertise more than 20 years of experience in donors, government and private sector developing working in Egypt and the Region (Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, KSA) and Milan

He participated in formulating strategies and developing strategic plans to access donor, government agencies and private sector funding at the scale of large utilities as well as smaller firms.

As Team Leader in several EU and IFC funded projects, Mr. Meligy architect MIS Solution as digital transformation expert, design MIS information systems and their project plans, M&E roadmaps and tools, led a team of consultants to conduct feasibility analysis including regulatory reforms and business process re-engineering, financial and regulatory analysis as part of the design and implementation of new businesses operating under government and private sector rules. He participated in various missions in Egypt, Yemen, and Iraq from the World Bank (IFC, EU, EBDR, USAID and others ) analyzing government / private sector opportunities in various emerging countries and assessing risks and policies to mitigate them. In his role, corporate development and private equity managed a number of M&A operations; he conducted multiple missions with investors and participated in due diligence, analysis of emerging markets contexts, risk assessments and evaluation of partnerships between local and international manufacturers and other businesses. Under various funded projects in Egypt, he supervised the work of consultants working on business transformation and turnaround consulting.

Mr. Meligy worked locally and international with large utilities companies including a consulting business (Asea Borwn Boveri ABB, ALSTOM, ENEL, ANSALDO), Mr. Meligy interacted with a variety of government and private actors including government officials, donors as well as private sector companies advising on trade, investment issues, business development services, business process re-engineering, MSMEs modernization and Value Chain / SCM. Mr. Meligy has experience with many sectors and priority areas such as Education, TVET, health, Research, ICT, Tourism, Automation, Food Industries, Information Technology, Automation & Textile, Cabling, Oil & Gas, Engineering, Utilities, Wood Industries, Electronics, Chemicals & Plastics, trading and general services including financial and non-financial value added services

Mr. Meligy is a sSenior member at USA IEEE, ACM and Computer.Org – Also a Member at the EITISAL Egypt, and Certified Management Consultant, Member at PMP/PMI 1996

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Middelsex University, Masters of Science in Business and Information Technology, London UK – 2002.

American University of Cairo AUC, Business Center, contracted lecturer in business administration and information technology, August 2011

Project Management Institute PMBOK Completed Studies of the Project management standard Project management book of knowledge, Egypt Chapter

B.A., Business Administration, Accounting and Finance, Suze Canal University, 1986.

Applied for DBA at Maastricht (still open doctorate of business administration)

LANGUAGES

Arabic native tongue, fluent in English and Italian. (With understanding of French, German and Spanish

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

2013 – Present Beta-Research.Org, Principal Associate, strategy, industrial and management research, studies, private equity, governance and turnaround consultant, private sector development and labor market expert working as an expert for EBRD, EU, TVET Egypt, USAID, IFC, EPRD and others

2007 – 2012 Megacom Int, Technical Advisor, Private & Government Sector development consultant for various private sector project with various donors

2004 – 2006 Government / Private Sector Development Lead Consultant; an EU Funded National project to modernize a number of 50 ICT companies and their value chain

2003 – 2004 Government /Private Sector Development Lead Consultant; an EU Funded National project to formulate the national Strategy for Research, Development & Innovation

2001 - 2002 Private Sector Development; consultant to 3 international utilities, power generation firms (ABB, Alstom Power, Enel Power, Anslado & Breda)

1996 – 2000 ABB Holding Company in Egypt; expert in project management and modernization of the group business processes

1990 – 1996 ABB Sae Sadelmi Italy, Milan; expert in project management and modernization of the group business processes

1990 – 2010 Architected, designed and developed a project management and tendering system for an local / international content management

RELEVANT PROJECTS

2013 -Present

Beta-Research.Org Consulting, Principal Associate. Mr. Meligy is associated to BETA-Research.Org Consulting since 2013 leading a number of medium to small project in Egypt and in the region both technical projects amongst the following:

Ministry of Trade (Jordan) T4E Strategy (Trade and Export for Employment Project) and business process reengineering for major Jordan export services (i.e. Trade Missions, Export Financing and Export Readiness) among other activities to institutionalize chambers and export associations in Jordan (GIZ Funded)

MSMEDA (Former SFD): Strategy for the OSS-One Stop Shop Services both financial and non-financial including the labor related processes. Built the architectural framework for the OSS strategy aligned with MSMEDA strategy, following the implementing of the new OSS Pilot and rollout including RFP/RFQ to M&E phases.

Government /Private Sector Development BDS Business Services: a project funded by the GIZ with MTI as the main stakeholders to provide a number of 300 or more with BDS services mainly industrials and quality related services (Automation, Food Industries, ICT, Automation & Textile). My role is to design the service plan based on Value Chain and priority sectors selected by MTI where we were involved in the VC analysis using a GIZ VC Analysis Framework including the terms and plans for selectin the coordinating government body and the facilitating / implementing bodies form public and private sectors. Subject matter experts.

Technical Education & Vocational Training – Labor Market Presently leading an important project in the TVET sector for the Labor Market Information ecosystem, skills identification, private sector development in priority sectors (Tourism, Automation, Food Industries, ICT, Automation & Textile) a project funded by the EU & GE 66m Euros.

Private Sector Direct Intervention & Development ; Direct intervention to improve a number of private MSME in their field focusing on turnaround, business development services, positon the firms to be able to qualify for financial support, private equity propositions while improving their value chain / supply chain. The industries are cross cutting in the field of heavy automotive, construction and architecture, banking both financial and non-financial added services, ICT, electricity, electronics, cabling and metal producing

Government Sector Development (World-Bank, IFC Iraq) : team leading the strategy and process streamline of the G2B in Erbil, Baghdad and Basra business processes related to sectors establishment and construction licenses for industrial and commercial / residential licenses.

Government /Private Sector Development (World-Bank IFC Egypt. Intervention on six pilot industrial zone for the implementation of a wider Programme 500 Euro assessing the current situation of MSMES in the six industrial zones located in southern Egypt. The project includes a detailed desktop research - on the industrial zones and MSMEs, a detailed survey on the 6 industrial zones to gather the hurdles, challenges and disadvantages limiting the expansion of the IZ industrial zones in the selected areas compared to active IZ, which required the meeting of 66 MSMEs. in addition to relevant stakeholders in the zones, governorate and ministries or NGOs producing a report and action plan on the way forward in improving the IZ. The project based on Value Chain / Supply Chain Network Analysis. Access to Finance. Government Procedures among some other important legal and institutional data

Government / Private Sector Development; Banking Value added, Security services and financial services offered for modernization by Beta-Research to a number of local private shareholding companies including Governance, CSR, ICT, VC integration, Merger and Acquisition.

Private / Public Sector Development for the mapping and architecture of the OSS/SWS implementation for the Social Fund for Development helping MSMEs for both financial and non-financial services – project funded by EBRD the European Bank for Development

2007-2012

Private & Public / Government Sector Development Consulate. Megacom is a professional service consulting company involved in a number of various project types and multi-donors several sectors project lead by me are :

Private Sector Development under the IMC Framework Agreement for a number of Egyptian Firms (SMEs) in the field of Food Industries, Confection, Electricity, Cabling, Textile, Packing, trading, financial, healthcare, automation, automotive, wood industries, engineering, building and construction materials, ICT with direction intervention to improve the quality of the management and optimize value chain supply chain networks (including feeding industries)

Executed together with a technical team a Prefeasibility Study to establish an independent business unit in the Aqaba Governorate to manage water and wastewater services. The Study provided technical information, financial projections, a detailed plan to create the company and a proposed regulatory framework.

Private Sector Development key expert for the ETP of Food Industries managing all improvement related to Food Sector Production, capacity building, TOT, Food Production Curriculum, innovation in the food sector.

Private / Public Sector Development streamline the business processes and SMEs establishment based on G2B processes with private and government stakeholders supported by donors (World-Bank), CIDA, SFD, UNDP in four main areas related to Food, Agriculture, land association, industrial zones wood industries, chemicals and plastics.

2004-2006

Government / Private Sector Development Lead Consultant; an EU Funded National project to modernize a number of 50 ICT companies and their value chain: an EU / IMC Funded project in partnership with European Consortia to develop and modernize a number of 50 ICT and Automation companies in Egypt. Where I had a share of 22 companies led by me for a number of activities among these activities together with a note on large companies working on telecommunication, internet provision and cross cutting industrial ICT

Formulation and Preparation of the overall strategy, gap analysis for each and every company together with a proposed action plan / schedule that includes both management and technical intervention of a number of professional resources local and international professional in various field. Especially business strategy, marketing & sales, technical and activities across the value chain and feeding services/industries

Selection of the experts to be included in the implementation plan and formulating the terms / terms of references needed per each firm with logistical planning.

Execution of the strategy / plan whether it is management / technical workshops or training through the selected experts and follow up the schedule with the beneficiaries to be able to deliver quality and time based as per planned

Monitor and evaluate all the firms SMEs implemented intervention and check the quality of delivery also writing future roadmaps and future required implementation

Report the project on an overall level for the 22 firms I am following

2003-2004

Government /Private Sector Development Lead Consultant; an EU Funded National project to formulate the national Strategy for Research, Development & Innovation.

Key Expert in the Formulation of the Egyptian Research & Development Strategy (in a Team of 5 local and international). The Strategy also involved the regulation of R&D and Innovation in Egypt including the processes and help needed for the Entrepreneur ecosystem

Planning and Implementing a TA / Strategy / regulatory regulation that included the creation of a new independent RDI system and agency working between a PPP structures.

The program, included that we work with several ministries (Ministry of Research / Higher Education, Ministry of Information & Communication Technology, Ministry of Industry, IMC, 13 main research centers in addition to ASRT, NRC and association of the private sector and NGOs

1996-2000

ABB Holding Egypt; main responsible and coordinator of al project management activities and their business processes, cost control management for the locally managed 12 ABB companies in Egypt running more than one business unit each for Construction, Electromechanical, Power Plants, Oil & Gas Controls, ABB Automation, ABB High Voltage, low voltages, Plastics & Steel manufacturing, switchgears and electrical items. The activity included also the business analysis and supply chain management MRP over the chain from / to end market locally and internationally. Responsible also for supporting knowledge over the VC and the use of standard and quality tools to run both PM, VC and MRP. Managing planners, and SCM manager over Egypt

1990-1996

ABB Sae Sadelmi Italy; transferred from Egypt to the HQ in Milan. Responsible for project management activities and their business processes, cost control management power plants projects running in. (Egypt, Jordan, KSA, Algeria & MENA), Project were focused on construction of power plants, boilers and electrification .The activity included also the business Project Management (Primavera Based), analysis of station services chains- over the chain from / to local to international supply. Responsible also for supporting related ICT, knowledge management and project logistics management among other related activities. Managing all sites planners over MENA region.

Moreover, Mr. Meligy as practical experience in several industries and subject matter related to Quality, Auditing, Merger & Acquisition, Governance, CSR, SCM, VCM, ICT, Labor Market, OD, HRD in sectors such as Oil, Gas, Utilities, Engineering, Wood, Food, BCM, Textile, Packing & Papers, Confections in addition to public procurement, health, education, public administration and standard operating procedures. Expert in designing one-stop-shops, single windows services for G2G / G2C and Labor Market Information Systems, Skills and Qualifications Framework Architect.

For Egypt, Mr. Meligy completed projects in strategy and process reengineering with most of the government bodies and ministries not limited to Ministry of Trade and Industry, Federation of Egyptian Industries, IC, IMC, Technology Centers, MoE, Scientific Research/Dev., Ministry of Planning, Ministry of health (healthcare processes) other government and quasi government with process reengineering for governorates, industrial zones and various sectors

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