Orange Business Services appoints Sahem Azzam as
Vice President for Middle East and Africa
industry and networking space in several
multinational organisations. He takes over the
regional leadership position from Luc Serviant.
Sahem will lead the Orange Business
Services regional team from the Dubai
headquarters, supported by offices in Egypt,
Morocco, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the
Arabian Gulf, South Africa and Turkey.
He will focus on accelerating the
growth of the business, leveraging partner ecosystem and innovation culture.
Our ambition is to accelerate our growth
in this very diverse region with unique
opportunities across many industries,
Sahem brings over 15 years of
experience in the region to his
new role.
opportunities from the rapid digital business
transformation across the region, which
is creating a new operating landscape for
enterprises and governments.
“We are pleased to welcome Sahem
Azzam, who will play a critical role in
leading the regional team in the Middle
East and Africa, supported by our strong
range Business Services has announced
the appointment of Sahem Azzam as
Vice President Middle East and Africa. He is
based in the regional headquarters at Dubai
Silicon Oasis in the UAE.
Sahem brings over 15 years of experience
in the region to his new role, including sales
and marketing management across the ICT
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Indirect, Middle East, Africa, Russia (IMEAR),
at Orange Business Services.
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has spent most of his professional career
helping asset-intensive businesses in Europe,
Middle East and Africa improve their Asset
Lifecycle Management. He holds a Masters in
Telecommunication Engineering, and brings
extensive experience in the engineering,
consulting and outsourcing services, with
a primary focus on the energy, utility and
telecommunications industry.
“My experience with IFS and in the
IT industry has given me extensive
experience and understanding of the
challenges clients face – in relation to
budget, technology, integration and
implementation,” said Luis Ortega.
agero Group has appointed Luis Ortega
as its Managing Director for its Middle
East and Africa (MEA) operations to assist
with Pagero’s growing operations as a
leading cloud-based business network
provider in the region.
Businesses within the Middle East
and Africa are increasingly adopting new
technologies to enable faster and more
efficient operations across purchase-to-
pay, order-to-cash and logistics-to-pay
(TMS) processes.
With 25 years of experience in the
engineering, consulting and outsourcing
services, Luis will use his new role at
Pagero to help customers within the region
to overcome the challenges of managing
infrastructure projects and convert these new
technologies to real benefits, helping them to
stay ahead of the competition in the process.
Before joining Pagero, Luis was with IFS,
a Pagero partner, for nearly six years and
Pagero appoints Managing Director for
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“With their regional and global network
of partners, Pagero provides customers
with the technology, customer service and
support they need to tackle these challenges.
This is why Pagero has emerged as an
industry leader, and why I am excited to be
part of the Pagero’s expanding team within
the Middle East and Africa.”
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