Graduated from Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) in 1976, he got his Masters and Ph.D. Degrees, Microelectronics specialization in 1982 and 1987 respectively from National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble France. Dr. El Tahawy was a co-founder of ANACAD (The first startup company in Electronics Design Automation for Analog). Mentor Graphics acquired ANACAD in 1994, where he became the WW AMS Engineering Director as well as ANACAD General Manager. In 1998 he returned to Egypt and got the overall responsibility of Mentor Graphics Egypt as a headquarters to Arab countries and North Africa.
He is currently a Mena Region VP of Siemens EDA (Siemens acquired Mentor Graphics in 2017) under his responsibility include today (plus the Egypt site) a development site in Morocco and Tunisia.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hazem-el-tahawy-976165/
Why we nominate him:
• Electronics Business Guru
In 1995 Egypt operation start with 3 engineers and today after 25 years the overall MENA region is:
- 700 Engineers working in developing advanced technology.
- More than 400 Technical papers and 40 Patents
- The outcome value is worth more than $170 M for the company.
• Youth Education & Talent Development
Starting from 1995 Mentor supported first Egypt University (10 universities) by its tools and technology to empower Electronics design education (Each University bundle worth $2M at that time), this extended to most of university and technical institutes in the MENA region as well as some of African countries, today we have more than 120 university logos.
• Post Graduate Studies
In 1998 first Electronics Design Diploma supporting industry need for capacity of talent engineers to be hired by (Mentor, newly born companies, Governmental Industry bodies) which was the key step towards ITI (Information Technology Institute) success story in empowering capacity building in Electronics Design as well as Embedded Design needs.
• Electronics Market Growth
Mentor under the leadership of Dr. Hazem played crucial role model inspiring entrepreneurs (spinning out form Mentor directly or from the companies already went out from Mentor) to establish their companies and growing the Electronics design companies. From one single company in 1995 to more than 80 companies including the Embedded Design Applications. Examples of success Si-Ware System, Silicon Vision, MemsVision, brightskies and Valeo. Over 3000 engineers are now working in this industry.
• Public – Private Partnership
Driving cooperation with the different Government organization such as Ministry of Communication and Information (ITI, ITIDA, NTI, TIEC and SEEC), Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific research (Universities in different governorates as well as Scientific Research Academy), Ministry of Military Production and Ministry of Education (Vocational training organizations). Dr. Hazem was the
• Regional Activities
Dr. Hazem Extended the cooperation in MENA region with key Industry and governmental partners such as:
- UAE (Dubai Silicon Oasis, Mubadala, Masdar City and Ben Rashid Space Technology Center, Arab Science and Technology Foundation, ICT Fund),
- Saudi Arabia (King Abdelaziz City for Scientific Technology, TAQNIA, PSATRI),
- Qatar (Qatar Technology Foundation),
- Jordan (iPark, JUST, PUST),
- Tunisia (Smart Tunisia, FIPA, FUPA, TELNET),
- Algeria (CTDA, DACTA, Bomare) and
- Morocco (Morocco Electronics Cluster, MED Sourcing, AMICA).
• Social & Voluntary Society work
Being a technology Eco System development partner, Dr. Hazem gave valuable time to work in different civil society associations in Egypt and MENA region such as EITESAL, Morocco Electronics Cluster (MMC), Arab Foundation for Technology Foundation (ASTF), Tunisia Cluster for Microelectronics, Jordan ICT Association (Int@g) and Arab ICT Technology Union.
As entrepreneurship fan he used to lead capacity building of young engineers when participated in establishing EBNI, the incubation arm of EITESAL NGO for Electronics Design and Embedded Development applications.
• Strategy
Dr. Hazem, in his capacity as EITESAL Chairman, lead a team of 27 industry experts & faculty members to draft the first full scale strategy document to develop the Electronics Industry in Egypt targeting the creation of 100 design companies & contributing 6% to Egypt’s GDP. in 2016 the strategy was adopted by the President as a national program which is currently in progress.
• Testimonials
- Without the role of Dr. Hazem, EiTESAL couldn’t have reached its current status as the unique effective ICT industry representative (Dr. M. Shedeed)
- Valeo is currently hiring 1600 Development engineer. The Work done by Dr. Hazem in implementing the extensive academic programs allowed Valeo to find the needed calibers (Eng. Hicham Arafa)
- I have been working with Dr. Hazem for years & my company was spined off Mentor Graphics. Thanks to Mentor school (Dr. Hisham Haddara)
