Mr. Naguib Sawiris
Chairman of the Board - Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA
Chairman & CEO - Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.

Since his appointment with Orascom began in 1979, Naguib Sawiris has continuously contributed to the growth and diversification of the company into what it is today – one of Egypt’s largest and most diversified conglomerate with the largest market capitalization. Mr. Sawiris established and built the railway, information technology, and telecommunications sectors of Orascom. The extraordinary success of these ventures as well as the other sectors of the company led to the management decision to split Orascom into separate operating companies. Hence, in late 1997 Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.(OTH) and Orascom Technology Systems (OTS) were established and chaired by Mr. Sawiris.

As Chairman of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH), Mr. Sawiris led the growth of the company at a very dynamic pace, to be the leading regional Telecom player, operating GSM networks in 7 different countries in the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent with over 30 million subscribers as at December 31, 2005, in addition to a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and satellite service providers serving a population of 500 million people, with an average penetration rate of 9.5%.

In addition, Mr. Sawiris is Chairman of the Board of Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A., Weather Investments Sa.r.l and the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (ECMS).

Mr. Sawiris is a Board member of the GSM Association representing Orascom Telecom Holding since January 2003. He is also a member of both the Board of Trustees and the board of Directors of the Arab Thought Foundation, a board of Trustees member and Head of the Financial Committee of the French University in Cairo, a board member of the Egyptian Counsel for Foreign Affairs, the Consumer Rights Protection Association and the Cancer Society of Egypt.

Mr. Sawiris holds a diploma of Mechanical Engineering with a Masters in Technical Administration from the Swiss Institute of Technology, ETH Switzerland and a Diploma from the German Evangelical School, Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Sawiris is married, with four children and lives in Cairo, Egypt. He speaks Arabic, English, German and French.