Speaker Profile

Kais Ben Hamida is a seasoned senior executive and board member with a wealth of experience in corporate finance, investments, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, financing, governance, strategy and operations and a deep understanding of the TMT and infrastructure sectors.

Throughout his career, he held various positions in banking (Société Générale and the World Bank), private equity (Valiance Capital), and large corporations (Orange Group) across Europe, the USA and the Middle East. His most recent roles include serving as CFO of EITC (currently held), CFO of Mobily, CFO of Orange Egypt, Partner at Valiance Capital and Senior Vice President of Merger and Acquisitions of the Orange Group. He has also held board positions at several companies including Orange Austria, Orange Denmark, Orange Sweden, MobiNiL, Viaccess, Khazna Data Center and Linked.net.

Mr. Ben Hamida has successfully led the implementation of over 46 transactions including IPOs, tender offers, acquisitions, project finance, disposals, and syndicated loans, ranging from 30 M€ to 40 B€ across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was also instrumental in launching a 1 B€ private equity fund focused on investing in the European infrastructure sector. As both an executive and board member, Mr. Ben Hamida has been a key contributor to the growth, operational transformation and turn-around of several companies. He offers strong strategic insight and a unique combination of diversified transactional work along with proven operational capabilities both in emerging and developed markets.

Mr. Ben Hamida holds a BSc in Statistics and Financial Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; a MSc in Engineering from the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris and a MSc in Economics from the Sorbonne University, Paris.