OSAMA QADAN

CHAIRMAN

Osama Qadan is the CEO of iWire Global and Chairman of UNA-IOT. Prior to that, he was the founder & CEO of Equinox International, one of the largest technology systems integrators in the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Qadan founded Equinox International in 2005 and spearheaded its growth and expansion in the GCC, Egypt and Africa. He led its strategic and business activities interacting with key clients in the region and technology vendors worldwide. After the acquisition of Equinox by Benya Capital (formerly known as Fiber Misr) in 2018, Mr. Qadan became the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Benya responsible for defining and implementing the commercial strategy of the Group across the MEA region Prior to founding Equinox International, Mr. Qadan served as a Senior Director at OPNET Technologies (USA), where he led the development and management of several business initiatives in the US and other international arenas. Prior to that, Mr. Qadan held the position of Network Development Manager at Astrolink International (USA) and the position of Lead Systems Engineer at the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization - Intelsat (USA). Mr. Qadan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA).

KHALID AMAYREH

VICE CHAIRMAN

Mr. Amayreh brings 30 years of diversified experience in IT and Telecommunications. Specialized in Wireless systems,VAS & Internet and Mobile industries with quantitative, managerial, and business background in multi-million dollars acquisitions, Due-diligence process,managing and starting-up companies in Jordan, ME and the CIS region including Four wireless ( Wimax) networks in Algeria (AnwarNet), Georgia(MaxiMali) , Armenia (iCON),and Ukraine (Intellecom). Currently Khalid is a princible advisor to several International companies (wireless 20/20-USA, AirTel-India and Canartel-Sudan) .

Prior to his consultancy career ,khaled was :

• Board member & advisor to the chairman of CanarTel-Sudan .
• Board member & advisor to the chairman of VTEL Holdings Ltd.
• VP of VTEL Holdings ltd ( 1b$ holding company) .
• Founder,MD & Chairman of MaxiMali (Georgia) and iCON (Armenia),leading WIMAX operators .
• MD and board member of LMS2 (German SPV -100% ownership of Intellecom (Ukraine)- market leader in wirelss broad band ( Canopy & WIMAX).
• Board member of VTEL –JORDAN (FTTH and wholesale Data company).
• Co-founder & Commercial director of NourNet –leading ISP/NSP in Saudi arabia.
• Co-founder & Commercial director of FirstNet – leading IPS/NSP in JORDAN.

Khaled holds a B.Sc. in Telecom. Engineering, from Jordan University, Amman, Jordan, 1987.

SAMER HAQOUN

BOARD MEMBER

Samer Haqoun has more than 20 years of experience in ICT sector spanning Middle East and Africa. He served as CTO and CCO for Equinox International - one of the largest Systems Integrators in Egypt - for more than 15 years. Then he worked as VP Commercial for Omniclouds before he joined iWire Global. Currently, Samer is managing channel for one of Technology Providers responsible for MEA region. Samer has an MBA from Hult International Business School and BSc in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology.