Youssef Ellawendy

Youssef Ellawendy is an experienced business development executive currently employed at Gartner since August 2025. Prior to this, Youssef served as a Senior Account Director at LinkedIn from August 2021 to August 2025, where responsibilities included providing talent solutions for organizations in the MENA region, focusing on areas such as hiring, learning and development, and employer branding. Youssef's earlier roles include Account Executive and Territory Sales Manager at Oracle between June 2018 and August 2021, aimed at helping SMEs optimize business functions through cloud applications. Youssef also gained valuable experience as a Trade Marketing Graduate at L'Oréal, where significant contributions included automating sales reporting and enhancing promotional sales strategies. Additionally, Youssef completed a trading internship at Investment and Capital Bank early in 2017 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business/Managerial Economics from the American University of Sharjah (2013-2016).