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Mr. Ossama El Awady joined GB Auto in 2014 and comes with more than 17 years of
multinational experience within the Supply Chain. Mr. El Awady worked in different
roles across the supply chain at Unilever from 1997 (post-graduation) until joining GB
Auto. His most recent role was in Global Material Procurement. Mr. El Awady has multi-
function experience (R&D, manufacturing, supply chain logistics, planning, warehous-
ing and procurement), as well as cross regional supply chain experience, where he has
led teams both remotely and physically in manufacturing, planning and logistics, and
procurement, across regions of Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and Russia. He has a track
record of setting regional and global strategies, as well as seamless execution, especially
in start-up operations and emerging businesses. Mr. El Awady is an industrial engineer
graduate from Alexandria University.
Mr. Ossama El Awady
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Mr. Ramez Adeeb joined GB Auto in 1995, holding a number of positions and gaining
experience in functions including planning, engineering, and quality control until he
left the company in 2001 for a position as a project manager at RITEC Consultancy.
Mr. Adeeb rejoined GB Auto in 2003, garnering additional experience in the segments
of localization management, aggregate planning, sales technical support, industrial
projects management and, finally, the group technical support directorship. Mr. Adeeb
graduated with a BA from Cairo University’s Mechanical Engineering Department
in 1993. He served as a research assistant in Rotor Dynamics and Vibration at Cairo
University from 1994-95. He earned an MBA in marketing management from the Neth-
erlands’ Maastricht School of Management in 2005.
Mr. Ramez Adeeb
Chief Manufacturing Officer
Mr. WissamAl-Adany joined GB Auto in 2015, bringing with himover 19 years of experi-
ence in information technology management that included four years of international
experience in Brazil, France and Kazakhstan. Prior to joining GB Auto, Mr. Al-Adany
served as group chief information technology officer of the Americana Group—whose
major shareholder is the multinational Al Kharafi Conglomerate —where he managed
the group’s ITOperations for 15 companies. He started his career withGlaxoSmithKline
as a senior systems engineer, and from there moved on to Lafarge as Country IT Direc-
tor for four years. Mr. Al-Adany has deep techno-functional knowledge in all facets of
IT and a robust track record in IT infrastructure management, service delivery, ERP
implementation and techno-commercial support. He holds a BSc in communications
and electronics engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, and an MBA from the
American University in Cairo.
Mr. Wissam Al-Adany
Chief Information Technology Officer
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