CHANNEL CHIEF
For Nokia’s WALEED BADR , playing on everyone’s strengths
helps his organisation fulfil its mandates.
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Describe your current job
role and the parts that are
somewhat challenging?
best possible services to meet their needs,
using our technology.
I head up Nuage Networks,
SubSea Segment, WebScale an extra-
large enterprise for Nokia in the Middle
East and Africa, and work with a
great team to support and align Nokia
objectives towards our Middle Eastern
and African communities.
We believe that enterprise segments
will maintain a unique vertical use case
that need to be addressed directly with the
enterprise segments.
We look closely with financial, media,
WebScale and cloud providers and SubSea.
The world is moving towards a new type
of provider that addresses the enterprise
segment’s needs and contents. That will be a
strong driver to a digitalisation and content
awareness journey.
When you look back at your
career what has been the most
memorable achievement?
The biggest achievement would be helping
a start-up entrepreneur, looking for a space
in this highly competitive world, using our
technology to create an opportunity for
them to serve their customers, and ours,
with the right technology.
While this has been the narrative
for a while, we are still seeing IT and
telecommunications converging, because
customer demands are changing.
For me, the most memorable
achievements do not hinge on big financial
gains necessarily, but rather helping a
smaller business digitalise and step up the
competitive plate to compete against bigger
rivals and provide their customers with the
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What made you think of a career
in technology?
I became involved in technology at
a time when most people wanted to
have careers in technology. That said,
this is a very dynamic landscape that is
constantly changing, which allows me
to continuously grow as I navigate the
changes that my clients must go through
to remain relevant and be successful.
Waleed Badr, Head of Sales, WebScale and
Enterprise (MEA) at Nokia; Regional Director
(MEA) at Nuage Networks from Nokia
I would be very
happy to see a young
organisation or a
young entity idea
come to life based on
our technology and
solutions.
Technology helps enterprises deliver their
best in business and deliver value to their
clients, so working with these clients to
find the right solution to enhance their
business operations in terms of excellence
of operations, saving costs and driving
efficiency is very gratifying.
The satisfaction I get from helping a
client meet their operational objectives
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