Hossam Heiba 2023 Speaker

President

General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI)

Biography

“Mr. Heiba assumed several roles in various high profile companies and institutions such as Banking in Misr Iran Investment Bank, Management consultation in Coopers & Lybrand Management Consulting (currently PwC), Government Agencies in the Public Enterprise Office (PEO) – The Privatization Agency of Egypt, Direct investments & Asset Management in Al Ahly for Development & Investment (ADI), Venture Capital as CEO of Investia Venture Capital, Private Equity as Vice President of Egypt Kuwait Holding Co. (Al Kharafi Group) for Energy, Family Office as CIO in Energya Holding (DIFC), Advisory services as Managing Partner of Orbis Capital and Investment, Private Equity as Senior Partner in Beltone Private Equity as well as the Chief Investment Officer of ADI and the Fund Manager of both Bedaya SME Fund & Papyrus Tourism Fund, Non-banking Financial services as the CEO of Basata for SME & Microfinance.
During his years of experience, Mr. Heiba has restructured, solicited & raised finances, conducted equity and debt underwriting through introducing new strategic investors or IPO’s as well as provided investment consulting and advisory services, structuring and concluding corporate finance deals through dealing with various financial institutions such as international banks, multilateral institutions, as well as the World Bank; in addition to multinational and regional firms serving in more than
20 various sectors. In addition to managing companies’ operations in ICT, F&B, NBFS, Power Generation, Direct Investment & VC Companies.
Mr. Heiba was represented as a director/Chairman in several boards of companies such as Post for Investment (PFI) as Vice Chairman & Head of Investment Committee, Holdi Pharma as member in board investment committee, Chairman of El Nasr for Chemical Pharmaceutical Industries, Egyptian Pharma Distribution & Trading Co, EMRC, in addition to previous representations in more than 36 companies operating in Natural Gas Distribution, Venture Capital, Packaging, Tourism, FMCG, Power Generation, District Cooling, Asset Management, F&B, Retail, Engineering Ind., Insurance, Food Ind.
Hossam attended several conferences, seminars and roundtables as guest speaker in Egypt and the region as well as being a anchor host for “Money Talks” radio live and podcast show on Cairo Business Radio in addition to being a guest in several TV business shows.
Mr. Heiba is an instructor at AUC – Quest Consulting – EPEA – ECMA – RITI
Hossam completed MBA courses in International Business from Maastricht School of Management – Netherlands in 2000 after gaining his BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo in 1988.”