A New EAS Executive Committee was elected during the EAS General Assembly that was held on Sunday, February 23. Members of the elected Executive Committee are:
Sherif Danish, Vice President
Jailan Eldin, Secretary
Fady Khalil Jacob, Program Chair
Samir Kamal, President
Fowzy Shacker, Treasurer
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the EAS Advisory Board, that also served as the Nominating Committee for recruiting and overseeing the elections. Namely our thanks go to:
Esmat Abdel-Malek
Lotfy Basta
Atef El-Toukhy
The following is a brief introduction of the newly elected Executive Committee.
Sherif Danish: Sherif is the CEO of PartsRiver Inc. A company specialized in B2B eCommerce. He also advises WayPart Inc., a company he co-founded in the same space, as Chief Scientist. He created a subsidiary in Alexandria that performs the engineering work of WayPart.
Jilan Eldin: Jailan was born in Alexandria, Egypt and raised in Canada. She moved with her family to California in 1995 and have loved living here since then. She earned a bachelor's in Computer Engineering and a Master's in Engineering Management. She currently works at Lockheed as the Technical Design Lead for satellite electrical ground support equipment. In her free time she enjoys working out, socializing with friends, cooking and playing music.
Fady Khalil Jacob: Fady was born in Cairo Egypt. He graduated from the American University in Cairo (AUC), majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor degree in Computer Science. Fady started his professional career at AT&T International in Egypt working with the USAID to engineer and implement the largest computer network infrastructure and update the digital phone switching system nationwide. After two years, he moved to New York and joined Bell Labs for 3 years where he met his soul mate Hoda Rafla while she was visiting from Egypt. They got married and moved to the Bay Area. They have two sons Andrew & Michael. Fady worked for a number of technology companies such as Pacific Bell, AT&T, and Nokia. Currently he is a Sales Manager with Forsythe, a technology company focused on network and wireless security infrastructure.
Fady is looking forward to serve our community and help bring it together. He resides in the East Bay in Danville with wife Hoda Rafla,
Samir Kamal: Samir was born in Cairo and graduated with honors from Cairo University with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He earned an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University.
Samir worked in academia for several years; he established and chaired a department of Computer Science at the University of Michigan; also served as the Director of the Computer Center.
Subsequently he moved to industry and held executive positions at IBM, HP and Cisco where he was involved in Product Development, Strategic Planning and Business Development. Currently he is the Chairman of Ascendiente for Business and Technology Consulting.
Samir was one of the founders of the Association of Egyptian American Scholars.
He moved to the Bay Area in 1986. Samir is married to Lilian Kamal. Samir and Lilian are the parents of Heba and Mark who also live in the Bay Area.
Fowzy Shacker: Fowzy is a member of the Egyptian community in the Bay Area since 1996. Fowzy left Egypt in 1988 to reside in Canada for 8 years before moving to Bay Area. He lives in San Jose and works for Cisco Systems in Software Engineering since immigrating to the valley.
Fowzy obtained his MSE and MBA degrees from San Jose State. He enjoys travel, charity work, and mentoring high school science projects. He is joined by his wife Marianne, and kids Sylvia, Andrew and Mark.
