EMC Announces Kamal Othman as General Manager for Saudi Arabia

Announced the appointment of Kamal Othman as the General Manager for Saudi Arabia.

In the new role, Kamal will be responsible for driving the organization’s strategic agenda and innovation roadmap in a bid to further accelerate EMC’s significant growth across the Kingdom.

Based out of Riyadh and reporting into Mohamed Talaat, Vice President for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Turkey, Kamal will continue to lay emphasis on establishing and strengthening key customer and channel collaborations to enable successful IT and business transformation across Saudi Arabia.

Prior to the announcement, Kamal was responsible for leading one of EMC’s most strategic market operations as Regional Director, Public Sector for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Turkey. Kamal has been instrumental in building and firmly establishing the company’s leadership delivering purpose built solutions and expertise to leading entities across his region and especially in the Kingdom.

An ICT veteran with over 20 years of diverse work experience in senior management and leadership roles for organizations such as Autodesk, Microsoft and Oracle, Kamal continues to lead the successful expansion of key vendor and industry alliances across Saudi Arabia, in addition to establishing partnerships with leading educational institutions to revamp and refresh ICT education for the next generation of professionals.

EMC Quotes:

Mohamed Talaat, Vice President, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Turkey

“I am very proud to announce Kamal Othman as the General Manager for one of EMC’s most rapidly growing countries and remain confident in his ability to lead with dedication and excellence. Kamal is an extremely valuable member of the EMC family leveraging his wealth of experience in the industry and region to build some of the strongest and most strategic customer and business partners relationships. I look forward to witnessing both EMC Saudi and Kamal’s own journey ahead as he no doubt continues to instill the best people and processes across the organization.”

 

Kamal Othman, General Manager, Saudi Arabia

“I am excited with the new responsibility that is entrusted to me and thank Mohamed Talaat and the senior leadership of EMC for giving me the opportunity to lead EMC’s strategic growth in the vast and diverse market of Saudi Arabia. Over the years, I have had the fortune to work alongside some of the greatest minds in the ICT industry to induce a spirit of innovation and transformation across public and private sector enterprises. I look forward to delivering the very best together with the remarkable EMC team in Saudi Arabia to expand EMC’s ambitious agenda to help our organizations in the Kingdom transform their IT and achieve their business objectives”

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.   Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.