ERP, CRM, GIS systems, IoT, Reporting, Visualizations and BI Platforms; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Programming; Project Management and Service Delivery.
Fouad is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Sapientus. A civil engineer (BE, American University of Beirut) with an MBA, he has more than 30 years of leadership experience across the MENA technology sector, including telecommunications, IT, data centers, smart cities, and healthcare technology.
Before joining Sapientus, he held senior regional and global positions at prominent multinational and regional organizations — including Cisco Systems, Intergraph, and Apple — where he was instrumental in formulating corporate vision, strategy, and execution.
His expertise encompasses digital transformation, data center and managed services, IT transformation consulting, cybersecurity, big data, smart cities, and IoT. He has influenced decision-making in the public sector, oil and gas, smart and connected communities, education, and healthcare.
Fluent in Arabic, French, and English, Fouad is distinguished by his ability to build and lead large, cross-functional teams and to deliver practical, high-impact guidance to clients.
Maha is an electrical engineer with a rich international background in Information Technology and Business Intelligence. She also has a Master's degree in Big Data and Data Analytics, enriching her technical skills to encompass data science, AI and Machine Learning tools and techniques.
Prior to co-founding Sapientus, she worked for over 20 years on the client-side as the Director of different IT and BI departments. Most recently, she consulted on various IT and BI projects for leading institutions across the Middle East.
In all her roles, she has been an advocate of data and informed decision making, and has accumulated industry-specific knowledge of the Higher Education, Utilities, Transportation and Public sectors — delivering solutions in the areas of Technology Infrastructure, Process Optimization, Information Life Cycle Management, and Business Intelligence. Most prominently, her work in Higher Education has had a direct impact on advancing government policy to improve country-wide education programs.
She has also tackled analytics-related case studies in various industries such as marketing, retail and consumer goods, telecommunications, airlines, health institutions, financial services, risk and fraud, smart cities and governments, and natural language processing.