Dr. Raouf Ghabbour

Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO

Dr. Raouf Ghabbour, (Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer), is the founder of The Ghabbour Group of Companies, which he began incepting in 1985. Dr. Ghabbour jump-started his career working in his family’s auto-related trading business, where he initially established himself in the tire division. Having quickly gained a commendable reputation in the market for his business savvy, Dr. Ghabbour went on to acquire agency agreements from global OEMs, which he steadfastly turned into successful businesses. Dr. Ghabbour has grown the Company to the leading automotive assembler and distributor in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mr. Nader Ghabbour

Group Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Nader Ghabbour, (Group Chief Operating Officer), started his career at GB Auto as a showroom sales representative for the passenger car division. He worked his way up to running the daily sales operations within the show room and later assumed the role of showroom sales supervisor and manager. Mr. Ghabbour’s managerial capabilities were proven when he took on the more strategic role of managing the business-to-business arm of the passenger car segment. He currently serves as the chief operating officer for the passenger car division, managing the passenger car sales and after sales functions, regional operations, and the 2- and 3-Wheeler operations. Mr. Ghabbour graduated with BA in Business Administration from Boston University.

Mr. Yasser Hashem

Independent director

Mr. Yasser Hashem (independent director) is a Managing Partner of the renowned law firm, Zaki Hashem & Partners. A member of the Egyptian Bar Association since 1989, Mr. Hashem graduated from the American University in Cairo with an undergraduate degree, and achieved his LLB in 1989 from Cairo University.

Mr. Aladdin Hassouna Saba

Independent Director

Mr. Aladdin Hassouna Saba (independent director) is the co-founder and Chairman of Beltone Financial, a leading regional financial services institution operating in the fields of Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Brokerage and Equity Research. Mr. Saba is also a founding member of the Egyptian Investment Management Association, in addition to the Egyptian Capital Markets Association. Mr. Saba sits on the boards of The Egyptian Stock Exchange, National Bank of Egypt, as well as various corporations and investment funds.

Dr. Walid Sulaiman Abanumay

Independent Director

Dr. Walid Sulaiman Abanumay (independent director) has been the Managing Director of Al-Mareefa Al Saudia Company since 1997, where he oversees investments in both developed and emerging markets. Mr. Abanumay has held several executive roles: between February 1993 and January 1994, he was the General Manager of the Investment Department of the Abanumay Commercial Center; between November 1990 and February 1993, he worked in the Treasury and Corporate Banking department of SAMBA. Mr. Abanumay is board member of several prominent companies: Madinet Nasr for Housing and Development (since 1998), Raya Holding (since 2005), and Beltone Financial.

Khaled Kandil

Independent Director

Mr. Khaled Kandil joins the Board of Directors after serving GB Auto as COO for Hyundai Motor Corp operations. He joined the company from ExxonMobil, where he was most recently Vice-Chairman of ExxonMobil Egypt and Managing Director of ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties covering operations in North and East Africa.

Dr. Raouf Ghabbour

Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO

Dr. Raouf Ghabbour, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, is the founder of The Ghabbour Group of Companies, which he began incepting in 1985. Dr. Ghabbour jump-started his career working in his family’s auto-related trading business, where he initially established himself in the tire division. Having quickly gained a commendable reputation in the market for his business savvy, Dr. Ghabbour went on to acquire agency agreements from global OEMs, which he steadfastly turned into successful businesses. Dr. Ghabbour has grown the Company to the leading automotive assembler and distributor in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mr. Nader Ghabbour

Group Chief Operating Officer (GCOO)

Mr. Nader Ghabbour, (Group Chief Operating Officer), started his career at GB Auto as a showroom sales representative for the passenger car division. He worked his way up to running the daily sales operations within the show room and later assumed the role of showroom sales supervisor and manager. Mr. Ghabbour’s managerial capabilities were proven when he took on the more strategic role of managing the business-to-business arm of the passenger car segment. He currently serves as the chief operating officer for the passenger car division, managing the passenger car sales and after sales functions, regional operations, and the 2- and 3-Wheeler operations. Mr. Ghabbour graduated with BA in Business Administration from Boston University.

Mr. Ghassan Kabbani

Chief Operating Officer of Two- and Three-Wheelers

Mr. Ghassan Kabbani, Chief Operating Officer of Two- and Three-Wheelers, brings more than 30 years’ experience to GB Auto. He first worked in the family textile business from 1980 through1994, when he left to join T.E.S. sheet metal. In 1996, together with Dr. Ghabbour and other partners, he established CITI (a 2+3 wheeler company). In 2007 CITI merged with GB Auto, and Mr. Kabbani joined the company at that time. Mr. Kabbani graduated from the American University in Cairo 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts Economics and Business Administration.

Mrs. Amal Ragheb

Chief Operating Officer of Financing Businesses

Mrs. Amal Ragheb, COO of Financing Businesses, joined GB Auto in 2009 to take charge of the Group’s business activities : Leasing, Microfinance and Consumer Finance. Mrs. Ragheb holds the position of Executive Chairman for each of the individual entities set up for such purposes. Mrs. Ragheb is also in charge of the entire credit risk management policies and applications for the Group. A seasoned hands-on and results-oriented banker with a proven track record spanning 30 years, Mrs. Ragheb joined GB Auto from Mashreq Bank, UAE where she held the position of Senior Vice President of Risk Management for 2 years, moving from the same bank in Egypt where she was CEO and Country Manager for 4 years, during which period she restructured and turned around the Bank and forged its future growth strategies in Egypt. Mrs. Ragheb started her banking career with Bank of America where she spent 23 years; spanning across a series of various positions in Cairo and Dubai, until finally rising to become Bank of America’s Country Manager and CEO for Egypt, as well as Regional Manager for the MENA Region, Turkey, and Sub-Sahara Africa.

Mrs. Menatalla Sadek

Director of Corporate Finance and Investments

Mrs. Menatalla Sadek, Director of Corporate Finance and Investments, is leading the creation of an in-house corporate finance and investment banking department to screen, initiate and conclude merger and acquisition transactions as part of the company’s growth strategy. She will also direct the firm’s investor relations activities. Sadek brings with her more than 11 years of experience in Egypt and Europe. She was head of consumer goods research at regional investment bank Beltone Financial, where she was part of the team that helped take GB Auto public. Previously, she spent four years in Sweden with Standard & Poor’s European Rating Team, with more than EUR 10 billion in rated debt, and was earlier Assistant Corporate Manager at Barclays Bank Egypt.

Mr. Osman Sever

Chief Business Development Officer

Mr. Osman Sever, Chief Business Development Officer, has dedicated his entire career to the automotive industry in which he has more than 20 years of experience. Mr. Sever recently joined GB Auto from Bayraktar Automotive A.S. in Turkey where he was a General Manager. He previously served in a number of Turkey’s most prominent automotive companies: Tirsan Treyler San, Karsan Automotive Sanayi, Ford Automotive Sanayi, and Oyak Renault. Accordingly, Mr. Sever has considerable exposure to MENA and international automotive markets. Mr. Sever holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and an MBA from Huran University.

Mr.Wissam Al Adany

Chief Information Officer

Eng. Wissam comes to GB Auto with a total experience of over 19 years in Information Technology Management, including 4 years of international experience in Brazil, France, and Kazakhstan.

Mr. Ahmed Matbouly

Director of Commercial Vehicles

Mr. Ahmed El Matbouly began his career at GB Auto 13 years ago, upon graduating from business school in 2000. Starting off as a marketing executive he was engaged in marketing activities across the full product portfolio at the time. Three years later he went on to get a Masters degree in International Business Administration from France for one year and then rejoined GB Auto in 2004 as a Commercial Vehicles After Sales Assistant Manager and later as a Commercial Vehicles Sales Assistant Manager. In 2006 he was appointed as LCV Sales Department Manger where he achieved notable success and sustainable growth resulting in his appointment, in 2008, as Commercial Vehicles Sales Director. With proven managerial capabilities, he was appointed Director of Commercial Vehicles and remains, to date, responsible for all operations across the business unit, including both Sales and After Sales departments.

Mrs. Amani Eskander

Chief Human Resources Officer

Mrs. Amani Eskander joined GB Auto in 2014 and brings with her over 25 years of experience in Egypt. Prior to joining GB Auto, Mrs. Eskandar was Group Human Resources Director at ASEC Company for Mining “ASCOM,” a position she had held since 2007. Previously, she was Chief Human Resources Officer at Al Ahram Beverages Company, “Heineken Egypt,” from 1997 to 2006. Mrs. Eskandar has a strong track record of utilizing and retaining high caliber talent and is a Business Administration graduate of Helwan University, Faculty of Foreign Trade.

Mr. Mohamed Zayan

Chief Internal Audit Officer

Mr. Mohamed Zayan has a degree in Commerce and Business from Helwan University, is a US Certified Internal Auditor, and has attended postgraduate training at INSEAD and Stanford University. Mr. Zayan worked for CEMEX between 2000 and 2008 in a variety of roles including Business Process and Internal Control, Merger Integration, and Sarbanes Oxley implementation. He subsequently worked for Elsewedy Cables and then ASEC Cement as Group Head of Internal Audit.

Mr. Ramez Adeeb

Manufacturing Director

Mr. Ramez Adeeb joined GB Auto in 1995, holding a number of positions and gaining experience in functions including planning, engineering, and quality control until he left the company in 2001 for a position as a project manager at RITEC Consultancy. Mr. Adeeb rejoined GB Auto in 2003, garnering additional experience in the segments of localization management, aggregate planning, sales technical support, industrial projects management and, finally, the group technical support directorship. Mr. Adeeb graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Cairo University’s Mechanical Engineering Department in 1993. He served as a Research Assistant in Rotor Dynamics and Vibration at Cairo University from 1994-95. He earned an MBA in Marketing Management from the Netherlands’ Maastricht School of Management in 2005.

Mr. Wafa Tawfillis

Chief Executive Officer of GB Polo

Mr. Tawfillis joined GB Polo in 2008 to assume the position of Chief Executive Officer of GB Polo. Mr. Tawfillis has dedicated most of his career to the bus building industry, with more than 20 years of experience in Egypt and the United Kingdom. His background includes a diverse range of activities such as manufacturing, supply chain and product support, with extensive experience in sales and marketing. Prior to joining GB Polo, Mr. Tawfillis worked as Director at MCV – Bus & Coaches in the United Kingdom, General Manager at MCV Egypt, and other positions in manufacturing, sales, after-sales and marketing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Helwan University, Egypt.