Mr. Naguib Sawiris founded Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) and led it to become the leading regional telecom player until the much-publicized merger deal with VEON (formerly VimpelCom Ltd.), creating the world’s sixth largest mobile telecommunications provider in April 2011. Today, he is Executive Chairman of Orascom Investment Holding, a holding company with a diversified investment portfolio targeting high-growth sectors where it sees opportunities of transformation and community impact in Egypt and Africa, including telecommunications and destination development. Mr. Sawiris is Chairman of La Mancha Holding, the private natural resource investment vehicle of the Sawiris family group with equity investments in Endeavour Mining, Golden Star Resources and Altus Strategies. Mr. Sawiris is also Chairman of Ora, a company undertaking high-end real estate developments in various prime locations around the world. In 2015, the Sawiris family acquired a majority stake in Euronews where Mr. Sawiris is Chairman of the board. The Sawiris family also has ownership in several assets in the media business in Egypt. At international and regional levels, Mr. Sawiris served and is serving on a number of boards, committees and councils including International Advisory Committee to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), International Advisory Board to the National Bank of Kuwait, London Stock Exchange’s Africa Advisory Group, External Advisory Council to the Global Institute for Advanced Study at NYU, the Boards of Trustees of the French University in Egypt (UFE) and the Arab Thought Foundation. Mr. Sawiris is also the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, industry awards and civic honors, including the “Legion d’Honneur“ (the highest award given by the French Republic for outstanding services rendered to France). In July 2011 Mr. Sawiris was awarded the Honor of Commander of the Order of the “Stella della Solidarietà Italiana” (Star of Italian Solidarity). In 2006, the prestigious “Sitara-e-Quaid-e-Azam” award was conferred upon him by General Pervez Musharref for services rendered to the people of Pakistan in the field of telecommunication, investments and social sector work. Mr. Sawiris holds a diploma of Mechanical Engineering with a Masters in Technical Administration from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich) and a Diploma from the German Evangelical School, Cairo, Egypt.

Ms. Wafaa Latif is the President of Gemini Holding. She has worked with the Sawiris family for more than three decades. Since November 2011, she has been appointed as President of Gemini Holding, a global investment company, serving the Sawiris family to build, support, and control a diverse group of assets in various industries, as a thriving business enterprise. Before her current position, she served in various roles in the Orascom Group of companies since 1983. Over the span of these 30 years, she has had extensive experience in management and corporate services. From June 1999 until November 2011, she was the Group Human Resources & Administration Officer of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH). In this Executive Committee level role, she has actively participated in and extensively contributed to the start-up, development and growth of OTH to be the leading regional telecom player serving over 100 million subscribers through over eight countries in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Canada. Her areas of responsibilities encompassed the global human resources and corporate services domains of the Group in addition to supporting its expansion through her continual participation and support to the Investment Committee’s strategy formulation and implementation. From 2006 to 2011, Ms. Lotaief held the position of Human Resources and Administration Vice President of Weather Investments S.p.A. In this post, she was a key member of the task force that led the strategic turnaround of Wind Telecommunicazione. Her responsibilities incorporated all the HR and administration functional areas of the Weather Group. Ms. Lotaief was also a member of the GSM Association’s Global People Initiative, which comprised of the HR Vice Presidents and CHRO’s of the world’s largest mobile operators across the continents, from 2007 to 2011. Ms. Lotaief holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Cairo University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Arab Academy for Sciences. She is a Board member of Marchmont limited, Orascom TMT Investment S.a.r.l., Libero Acquisition S.a.r.l., La Mancha Holding S.a.r.l. and various Gemini subsidiaries.

Mr. Fabio Ceccarelli is serving as CFO of Orascom and Maymont Holding group. He joined the Sawiris Group since 2005. He has several years of experience in finance with roles of responsibility in Luxembourg, Greece, Malta and in Italy where he developed competences in Corporate Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Tax, Financial Assets, Risk Assessment and IT. He is/has been CFO in operating companies (ICT, technological plants and services), chairman of DADA (2017) - a SME Italian listed company - and Board member in several holding of participations, as well. His previous experience includes ENEL SPA (1990-2003) with different roles and the participation to the privatization process of the group and as CFO in the launch of a successful newco specialized in beyond the meter services. He began his professional experience with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in 1987. In 2003 he joined WIND Telecomunicazioni Spa with responsibility of Treasury Dept., directly taking part to the acquisition of WIND by Sawiris/Orascom Group in 2005. Fabio holds a master degree in Macroeconomics and Internal Audit and speaks all major European languages (IT, FR, EN, GE). He is currently Board Member in several investing companies whose business is ranging from ICT industries, gold mines industries, real estate and other, and member of the Audit Committee as well.

Mr. Riccardo Marsili is Corporate Finance Director and board member at Orascom TMT Investments S.à r.l. since June 2018. He has a large experience in managing relationships with banks, debt and treasury management, relationships with legal advisors for debt structuring (bond/loans) and for general corporate matters. Before his current position he was for 7 years Corporate Finance Director at Wind Acquisition SA, for 3 years Treasury Manager at Wind Telecom S.p.A. and performed different finance roles at Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.. He holds a Degree in Economics from Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”.

Mr. Francois Bourgon has served as an independent director for more than twenty years on the boards of various Luxembourg regulated and unregulated investment vehicles with promoters ranging from Private Equity and Private Debt firms to quoted multinational companies. He serves on the Luxembourg boards of Orascom Group’s SPVs since 2008 as well as of La Mancha Resources Fund since its inception. His previous experience includes Union Bancaire Privée Luxembourg, a swiss wealth management bank, and Deloitte Luxembourg as manager within the corporate services department. In 2006 François founded Adomex, a Luxembourg regulated domiciliation agent and family office and was its Managing Director until 2020. He is now dedicated to his independent director’s mandates with a particular focus on Luxembourg compliance matters. François holds a master degree in Law from Strasbourg university. He is also a member of ILA (Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs).