Location Egypt, Africa Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
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Medhat Khalil is the Chairman & Founder of Raya Holding, has dedicated his career to realizing a vision: Raya Holding. He is an Egyptian businessman who has created a business model that is constantly leading to growth and innovation. Mr. Khalil began his career the Arab Investment as a credit analyst. Afterwards, he joined IBM Egypt for a
period of thirteen years, ten of which in senior managerial positions, where he accumulated a wealth of experience in the field of Information Technology. In 1993, Mr. Khalil left IBM and founded his own IT company, Protech, after which he helped co-found Oratech in 1997 along with Orascom Group. In 1999, Protech and Oratech became two of the seven original entities that would merge together and eventually comprise Raya Holding.
Since founding Raya Holding in 1999, Medhat Khalil has been serving as the Chief Executive Of-ficer and Chairman of the company. From 1999 to 2019, Mr. Khalil led Raya’s growth from a company with merely 285 employees and EGP 88 Mn in revenues to an investment conglomerate with nearly 12 thousand employees and more than EGP 8 Bn in revenues.
In 2005, Mr. Khalil oversaw the IPO of Raya Holding on the Egyptian stock exchange. Raya Holding Company now comprises 12 lines of businesses which are underlined by more than 35 Egyptian joint stock companies, including companies that operate across KSA, UAE, Poland, Ni-geria and TanzaniaIn addition, Raya’s investments include a 20% owbership stake in Madova, an F&B company based in Poland.
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Khalil graduated from Cairo University in 1977, where he completed a degree in Business Administration from the Faculty of Commerce.
