Graduated from Cairo University, Egypt. My Master and Ph.D degrees from Polytechnical, Grenoble, France. Co-Founder of ANACAD, a frensh start up for Analog and Mixed Signals Design and CAD tools. Became a Mentor Graphics after acquisation and got the WW resonsibility of AMS. Back to Egypt in 1997 taking the responsibility of Mentor Graphics Egypt. Currently the MENA region MD.