Hicham Arafa

Hicham Joined Brightskies as Chief Operations Officer in November 2017. Hicham was previously the R&D director and deputy GM for Valeo Egypt, since 2011. Valeo Egypt is Valeo’s biggest software development center, employing more than 1300 Engineer and serving all of Valeo’s Business Groups

Prior to his role at Valeo Mr. Arafa worked with Intel Corp as the business development manager for Egypt, Levant and North Africa, where he opened multiple offices for Intel in Algeria, Morocco and Libya. Prior to that Hicham served as the strategic initiatives manager for Intel’s Platform Definition Center based in Cairo. The Cairo center is one of the four that Intel opened worldwide to define, plan and develop specific products for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region.

Mr. Arafa joined Intel in the USA, in 1999 where he worked for the Enterprise Server Group, then The Embedded Intel Architecture Division as validation architect prior to his return to Egypt in 2003 to work for the Sales and Marketing Group.

Mr Arafa received his B.Sc in Electrical Communications from Cairo University in 1994, his MSEE, in high performance computing from West Virginia University, in 1998, and his MBA in technology management from the W.P.Carey school of business at Arizona State University, in 2003