Mr. Karim Gaddas
Group Chief Operations Officer
Mr. Karim Gaddas joined GB Auto in 2015 as Chief Executive Officer of Tires, boasting 20 years of experience in general management, operations, and sales and marketing. In the last 16 years he occupied various positions at Pirelli that included headquarter-level roles in Milan and regional-level roles in Paris, Cairo, Alexandria, and Dubai. In addition to being the Global Sales Director for BU trucks, the CEO of the company’s Middle East and India operations, and the CEO of African and Egyptian operations, Mr. Gaddas also served as Pirelli’s Vice Chairman. He was also a member of the board at the Alexandria Tire Company for eight years. Mr. Gaddas began his career in 1996 at Gewiss, an electrical materials company based in Bergamo, Italy, where he was the Area Manager for Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the Sup de Co Montpellier in France and an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy.