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Abdullah Fawzy

Abdullah Fawzy

Marketing Manager & Co-founder

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Sr Data Privacy Lead at Vodafone

  • Education

    • Stockholm School of Economics

      2017 - 2019
      Master's student International Business

      - Exchange student at NOVA School of Business and Economics, Lisbon (fall 2018).- Member of NGC for social consultancy; Co-developed a new fundraising plan and revised organisation strategy for The Young Republic NGO

    • Udacity

      2020 - 2020
      Data Analyst Nanodegree

      Projects- Analyse A/B Test Results- Wrangle WeRateDogs Twitter archive- Analysis & Visualization - US Flight Performance (5 datasets, 1Million+ entries each)Github: https://github.com/AbdullahFawzy1990/DataAnalysis.git

    • Helwan University Cairo

      2007 - 2012
      Bachelor of Science (BS) Telecommunications Engineering Good, 70%

      - Member of Future Grid project team: Invented a smart system for electrical grid management; the most innovative project in Egypt, 2012- Co-founded Dimensions: the first student organisation in Helwan Engineering School

  • Experience

    • Kaizen Start-up

      Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
      Marketing Manager & Co-founder

      - Led a team of 8 to plan, test and implement market-entry strategy, and established base of company's first customers- Co-managed a cross functional team to develop first product and release a batch of 2000 units- Start-up raised seed fund of 20,000 EGP and was selected for a year-long incubation program---------------Company description:Kaizen is a start-up company founded by 18 members in 2011 with the aim to raise Egyptian industry standards via releasing high quality products with competitive prices and near-100% supply chain. The start-up operated in the Biomedical industry since it's considered a strategic field for the local economy and is facing multiple challenges which creates a large room for improvement. Kaizen operated on the market from 2011 to 2014, released and sold 2 products and raised multiple rounds of investment. Start-up has closed-down permanently in 2014 following multiple challenges due to political and economic instability. Show less

    • Dell EMC

      Jan 2014 - Jul 2017
      Global Support Engineer

      - Acted as a focal point between customer, management and technical teams to provide integrated solutions- Assisted coaches in creating technical materials and conducted workshops to onboard new employees- Delivered support expertise and received “Cause for Applause Award” for 100% customer satisfaction

    • Daimler AG

      Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
      Project Support - Daimler Incubator (Lab 1886)

      - Launched digital services initiative to reduce customer operational costs- Negotiated technical and financial proposals and selected best-fit suppliers for implementation- Engaged data analytics team to ideate, plan for, and design digital dashboards- Conducted competitor analysis to help validate project unique selling proposition

    • Vodafone

      Mar 2021 - now

      Responsible for the overall governance of data privacy program in Vodafone Egypt and ensure successful implementation of GDPR controls across the company. Other responsibilities:- Perform due diligence for all high risk suppliers and negotiate contractual documents (i.e. DPAs)- Provide privacy guidance & assessment for Mega projects assessed via PDA (Privacy by Design and Assurance).- Implement GDPR controls on Vodafone High Risk Systems.- Strengthen team capabilities by sharing knowledge on core privacy topics Show less

      • Sr Data Privacy Lead

        Apr 2023 - now

      • GDPR Privacy Compliance Lead

        Mar 2021 - now

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Abdullah Fawzy
      Cause for Applause Award EMC Jan 2016 Won “Cause for Applause Award” for Total Customer Satisfaction.
    • Awarded to Abdullah Fawzy
      INJAZ Start-up Program INJAZ - Egypt Nov 2012 Our Startup Company Kaizen was chosen to enter “INJAZ Start-up Program” Nov, 2012 and raised initial fund 20,000 EGP.
    • Awarded to Abdullah Fawzy
      Idea to Product Competition, 1st place IEEE Egypt Sep 2012 Our Graduation Project “Future Grid” won the I2P "Idea to Product" regional competition in the Egyptian Engineering Day (EED) we also qualified to the Global competition in Sweden, November 2012The competition aims to encourage students to convert their Ideas into useful products
    • Awarded to Abdullah Fawzy
      Made In Egypt Competition , 2nd Place IEEE Egypt Sep 2012 Our Graduation Project “Future Grid” won the 2nd place in the MIE (Made In Egypt) competition, the biggest Egyptian competition for engineering graduation projects.
    • Awarded to Abdullah Fawzy
      Best Participant Pathways For higher Education Jul 2010 Was selected from 100 students as the best participant in personal Jul, 2010 development training “pathways to higher Education-Batch 10”.