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Khaled Ismail, CEO

Khaled Ismail is the CEO and Founder of SySDSoft. Between 2000 and 2002, he was General Manager of Ellipsis Digital Systems in Cairo, where he led a team of engineers to develop a fully embeddable System-on-Chip (SoC). Between 1989 and 1997, Khaled worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in the design of novel devices and materials for the semiconductor industry. He is considered one of the experts in the field of SiGe materials and devices, and is the recipient of the IBM Invention Achievement Award and the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 1997 and 1995, respectively. Khaled received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 1997. He has published over 160 papers in international journals and holds 22 patents.

Emad Hegazi, General Manager, RF/AMS Business Unit

Emad Hegazi has been with SySDSoft since 2004. He is the General Manager of the RFIC business unit. Before joining SySDSoft, he was a Senior Staff Engineer at Ericsson Mobile Platforms, NC, USA, where he was responsible for the design of analog and mixed signal circuits for wireless transceivers. Dr. Hegazi received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 in RF CMOS design. His work at UCLA received the outstanding Ph.D. award from the EE department. Emad worked as a Lecturer at the University of California , Los Angeles, in 2002. He is also an Associate Professor of Microelectronics at Ain Shams University. He is the author of the book entitled “Designer's Guide to High-Purity CMOS Oscillators”, Springer 2004, and more that 30 technical papers. He received the Solid-State Circuits Society fellowship in 2001 and the UCLA graduate division fellowship in 1999 and 2000. He was the technical program co-chair for the International Conference in Microelectronics in 2007.

Sameh Sowelam, General Manager, DSP Business Unit

Sameh Sowelam is the General Manager of the Digital Signal Processing Business Unit which he started as a new venture within SySDSoft. Prior to his current position, he was the General Manager of the Embedded Wireless BU at SySDSoft where he led the unit’s organizational and operational transformation. Prior to joining SySDSoft he spent 10 years in various technology positions. He spent 5 years at Medtronic Inc. in Minneapolis, USA where he lead several teams pursuing embedded technologies. He worked closely with physicians and the product development group to align product features with market needs. Prior to Medtronic, Sameh spent 3 years at Cognicity Inc., a startup based in Minneapolis where he lead a team developing watermarking technologies for audio applications. Prior to that, he spent 2 years at GE working on radar and satellite communication systems. Sameh received his B.Sc. degree with honors from Cairo University and a M.A.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto. He received a Ph.D. from University of Minnesota. He has over 10 issued and pending patents and has numerous publications in the areas of radar, satellite communications and embedded cardiac disease management devices.

Sameh Meligy, General Manager, SW Stack Business Unit

Sameh Meligy joined SySDSoft in 2007. He is the General Manager of the Software Stack Business Unit. Prior to SySDSoft, he spent 11 years in various software development roles. Sameh has productive 12+ years of software delivery management and a successful track record of leading diverse teams. He is acknowledged for managing multi-million annual services, establishing process models and administering positive organizational change. During his 3 years at Trendium in Fort Lauderdale, USA, Sameh managed both product and service deliveries for Fortune 100 customers like Cisco and AT&T. Prior to Trendium, Sameh spent 3 years at Supra Telecom in Miami, USA where he led both quality control and database administration teams. He met Supra's growth goals from 120,000 to 300,000+ customers, reduced cost and added value to bottom line. Prior to Supra, Sameh spent a year at Cognicity, a start-up based in Minneapolis, USA where he developed digital rights management applications for Warner Brothers and other record labels. Prior to that, he spent 3 years at Sakhr in Cairo, Egypt where he led the document management software team. In 1996, Sameh received his B.Sc. degree in computer science from Alexandria University.