Tecom Investments names Yasser Zeineldin as new CEO of eHosting Datafort

Effective from yesterday, Zeineldin assumes the new position from his earlier role as Tecom's Executive Director - Business Development.

He takes over from Mohamed Fouz, who led eHosting Datafort, a member of Tecom Investments, for two years and is stepping down to further his own business interests.

A veteran of the ICT industry, Zeineldin brings to eHosting Datafort over 22 years of experience gained from working with global majors such as NCR, AT&T and Microsoft.

Abdullatif Almulla, Group Chief Executive Officer of Tecom investments said, "eHosting Datafort has earned a credible reputation for itself as an outstanding enterprise service provider for the region's IT industry. We are confident Yasser will successfully take the company to the next level with his vision, expertise and drive that is perfectly aligned with our ambitious objectives for eHosting DataFort."

Prior to joining Tecom Investments, Zeineldin was a Regional Director of Microsoft Gulf, responsible for managing diverse teams across sales, marketing, partner management, operations, technology specialists and industry management.

Earlier, he headed the Public Sector team at Microsoft Middle East and Africa. He was also a member of the Worldwide Government Industry Core Strategy Team and the Worldwide Partner Executive Council.

Before joining Microsoft, Zeineldin led the communication giant AT&T's operations in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia. He took up the role after moving back from a special assignment with NCR/Teradata, a global technology company in the US, where his primary focus was on developing the market for Business Intelligence and Parallel Processing Systems in Latin America and the MEA region.

"This is indeed a very interesting time in the IT industry. More and more customers are adopting managed services and are gradually moving towards software as a service or 'SaaS'. We are seeing that cloud computing will cross over from the early adoption stage to mainstream computing in the coming few years,"

Zeineldin said.

"I am very excited about the opportunity this represents for EHDF. We are a regional leader in hosting and managed services, as well as offer a wider range of IT outsourcing, security and consulting services and we intend to extend that leadership to capitalize on the opportunities represented by the industry transformation we are witnessing," he added.

With an impressive portfolio of over 575 customers in various vertical segments customers, eHDF currently offers services to Emirates airlines, Dubai Bank, Dubai Financial Market, Arab Bank, the Dubai Ruler's Court, Government of Sudan, Qatar Foundation, Kuwait National Petroleum Company, Dubai Aluminium Company (DUBAL), Al Futtaim, du, Dubai e-Government, Khaleej Times, MBC, Aramex, British Telecom, Dubai TV, Panasonic and Arcelor-Mittal, the world's largest steel company.

Featuring world-class data centres, state-of-the-art infrastructure and round-the-clock managed operations, eHDF has a wide network of technology and channel partners based in the GCC, MENA, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific regions. Boasting ITIL and ISO9001: 2008, ISO 20000:2005 and ISO 27001:2005 certifications, eHDF successfully delivers operations through highly reliable and scalable infrastructures based on international standards and best practices.