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I have worked with Sherif for over 51/2 years at Red Hat. Sherif has a strong and broad technical background, he is creative, and has a unique ability to translate difficult technical challenges into easy to understand concepts. Sherif has a talent for understanding a customer's technical environment and building out solutions enabling the customer while providing end-end value. Sherif has global experience, exposure, and residency across NA, APAC, and EMEA.

Rachel Cassidy, Vice President of Global Professional Services, Red Hat
Managed Sherif AbdElGawad @ Red Hat

I have known Sherif personally and professionally for many years. He is a very talented professional individual who is dedicated to his work with enthusiasm and is spot on in providing innovation and technical solutions, within the telecom and IT domains.

Excellent communication skills, reliable, team player … always see the opportunity in various situations, and the type of person that always make things happen for you…

Mohammed Sabunchi, HOD - ICT, Dubai International Financial Center
Managed Sherif AbdElGawad @ Etisalat Telecommunications

Sherif delivers results. I worked with Sherif both as a peer and manager; he is a person you can trust to provide the right answers to complex solutions. Sherif spent countless hours working on deliverables with various priorities to deliver on time with high-quality content. I would endorse Sherif with for any roles he would chose and would welcome working with him again.

Dan Dorion, PMP, ITILv3, Project Manager, HP
Managed Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is a high-energy, enthusiastic individual who was a key architect and significant contributor on our Global Consulting team at Red Hat. He is well-connected and detailed focused. He quickly became our go-to person. Sherif's ability to define, clarify, and solve difficult problems helped us take the entire operation to a higher level. He is both proactive and reactive when appropriate. He resolved problems effectively and always achieved his goals. He is results oriented and a person of high integrity. Sherif was an instrumental part of our team and I highly recommend him.
   

Gary Jordan, Director, Global Consulting Services, Red Hat
Managed Sherif AbdElGawad at Red Hat, Inc.

Sherif is a very experienced IT professional who combines deep technical knowledge about leading edge technologies in the open source and IT infrastructure space with an excellent business and sales related mindset. He understands to develop and to present solutions for IT and business pains to our enterprise clients and shows them how to bridge the gap and to introduce new technologies.

Karl Heinz Wimmer, Vice President EMEA Services, Red Hat Inc
Managed Sherif AbdElGawad at Red Hat, Inc

Sherif is a valuable person but moreover he gives an incredible energy and passion in his job. He is 200% committed to his company and is eager to find new challenges for his professional life. It's a pleasure to work in the same department with Sherif.

Patrick Baroux, Regional Services Manager - France, Benelux, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Red Hat
Was Peer and worked directly with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is a nice person and a brilliant technician, with a proven ability to pickup new technologies, build offerings and solutions with those, and then sell those to our customers and partners in top-down approach.
These abilities and his language skills allow him to work in constantly changing environments, with a commitment with no par.

Jérôme Fenal, Regional Services Manager, FranceMENA, Red Hat
Was Peer and worked directly with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is an experienced Services and Project Manager that can get the job done. He has a very broad knowledge in all aspects of current IT technologies and he is able to derive the needed steps to build a solution which fulfills the requirements. I was lucky to share some of his experience during our deep dive into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Technology, and at the same time I learned how committed he is to his work. He is definitely one of the rare guys I would see as a Trusted Advisor, especially in regards to Open Source adoption in Enterprise IT environments.

Matthias Kranz, Manager, Solution Architects EMEA, Red Hat
Was Peer and worked directly with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif delivers results. I worked with Sherif both as a peer and manager; he is a person you can trust to provide the right answers to complex solutions. Sherif spent countless hours working on deliverables with various priorities to deliver on time with high-quality content. I would endorse Sherif with for any roles he would chose and would welcome working with him again.

Dan Dorion, PMP, ITILv3, Project Manager, Red Hat
Was Peer and worked directly with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif and I worked in the same engineering consultant group as consultants and managers of other consultants in the Northeast / New York financial sector. Sherif would often handle engagements either before my own or after my own. In addition to achieving success for our company is getting repeated wins and renewals of engagements that he alone managed, I found that Sherif's accomplishments often made it much easier for me to be successful as well — either because he worked at the same client before me (and left the client with a favorable impression of the quality of our work) or he worked with the client after me, following through and making sure that the client received complete engineering post-support.

It is because of these experiences that I can confidently recommend Sherif as a Service Delivery Manager.

Eido Inoue, Engineering Manager, Google
Was Peer and worked directly with Sherif at Red Hat, Inc

Sherif is extremely knowledgeable in his field and transfers that knowledge well, whether speaking to technical or business people.
Sherif is a very good manager, he's able to adapt to different people's ways of working, providing guidance where needed but not getting in the way. It's a pleasure to work with Sherif.

Fred Strauss, Solution Architect - Infrastructure Solutions, Red Hat
Reported to Sherif at Red Hat, Inc

During my career i have worked with so many people in different companies, Sherif is a manager of unique qualities that push your capabilities to its limits.He is very friendly,helpful and a good listener.

He is one of the few professionals in the IT industry who combines very solid technical background with business skills. He is a hard work ,dedicated and innovative manager. I have reported to Sherif during the last 2 years and one of his talents is how to create IT solutions and to reuse them a practice with different customers.

Sherif is capable of wearing so many hats as a people manager , Enterprise architect, product manager and technology evangelist.

Ayman El-Sheikh, Sr. Solution Architect - Middleware & SOA Solutions, Red Hat
Reported to Sherif at Red Hat, Inc

Sherif is one of the greatest managers I have worked with during my entire career.
He is always helping me in addressing solutions with Redhat's customers. His technical and managerial skills is for sure an added value for any company he is working for, also his ability to adapt to any audience, technical, managerial, sales and marketing made him gain the trust of big customers in the region

I of course give him the best recommendations and congratulates people who will work with Sherif in the future.

Najla Hallit, Solution Architect - Infrastructure Solutions, Red Hat
Reported to Sherif at Red Hat, Inc

I have known Sherif for the past 4 years, first during my work at Opennet MEA (Ex Red Hat Distributor) and later when I joined Red Hat. As part of Opennet I had been consistently impressed by Sherif’s technical skills. As I worn the Red Hat, one year ago, Sherif has become my direct manager and he continued to impress me with additional skills. Sherif is a great listener, seasoned coach and empathetic mentor. He is available when needed but also delegated early and often. He genuinely, helped me develop and promote my technical and soft skills in harmony with the rest of the team. He was definitely a great asset for me to achieve my business objectives, successfully.

Khaled El-Bedri, Sr. Consultant Infrastructure, Red Hat
Reported to Sherif at Red Hat, Inc

Sherif and I worked in the same engineering consultant group as consultants and managers of other consultants in the Northeast / New York financial sector. Sherif would often handle engagements either before my own or after my own. In addition to achieving success for our company is getting repeated wins and renewals of engagements that he alone managed, I found that Sherif's accomplishments often made it much easier for me to be successful as well — either because he worked at the same client before me (and left the client with a favorable impression of the quality of our work) or he worked with the client after me, following through and making sure that the client received complete engineering post-support.

It is because of these experiences that I can confidently recommend Sherif as a Service Delivery Manager.

Eido Inoue, Engineering Manager, Google
Reported to and was peer to Sherif at Red Hat, Inc

Sherif is a versatile, adaptive and technically proficient individual with a unique flair for marketing very rare in his field. He has crossed over from a variety of deep technical skills and transcended to Enterprise Architecture, new services across different industries from Wall Street to Emerging Markets. From the crazy days at AT&T Wireless, Goldman and now with MEA region, Sherif is a valuable asset for positioning the value of technology to senior management in end customers, press or analysts. I wish him the best in any path that he may choose and am happy to be a reference should he want one.

Anuj Kumar, General Manager Middle East and Africa, Red Hat
Worked with Sherif and Managed him indirectly at Red Hat

Sherif is that rare multi-talented individual with proven business skills and broad technical competency. Sherif is able to quickly understand complex systems and complex problems and deconstruct them into smaller more manageable elements. He can then show how technology could be used to address business problems and quickly explain the value of technology in almost any application. Sherif has great communications skills and is able to quickly earn trust and instill confidence.

I would recommend Sherif for any senior sales/marketing or consulting position or for any technical management position.

Joel Berman, Vice President, Global Field Marketing, Red Hat
Worked with Sherif at Red Hat

I have been working with Sherif for over a year and a half now and during this period I manage to know him pretty well.

Sherif combines strong business acumen with very deep technical knowledge, which results in him being a strong and reliable pillar within our team and organization. He has always been present and ready to help, at any moment, showing great personal and team/interpersonal qualities.
Sherif is one of the best guys I have ever worked with and I would be really glad to work with him again in the next future.

Roberto Lecca, Inside Sales Southern Africa, Red Hat
Worked directly with Sherif at Red Hat

I've had the opportunity to work with Sherif at Red Hat for several years now. He is very professional, motivated, communicative and customer focused. If you have the opportunity to work with Sherif I strongly recommend you do so.

Thomas Cameron, Solutions Architect Manager, Red Hat
Worked with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is very easy to work with and is very, very knowledgeable in the areas of Open Source Technology. Sherif has helped me in addressing deploying various solutions with Redhat's customers. Many times I have included Sherif in assisting me in working on various solutions in the areas of Directory Services, XEN, and application compatibility issues. I would work with Sherif again in the future.

John Devereaux, Principle Solutions Architect, Oracle
Worked with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif has been a great leader with vision and focus to minor details. I have worked with Sherif on several occasions and found him to have the right business and technical skills to help customers. His views on customers and solving their problems makes him a perfect advisory.

Narsi Subramanian, Sr Manager - Sales Training, Red Hat
worked with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif and I have worked closely, for over a year and a half and I have never seen someone with so many strenghts.

When we started working on Middle East and Africa, the 4 of us had to go the extra mile to make things happen, Sherif did many things at the same time to fully satisfy our customer needs and help us in our sales figue.

I wouldn't recomment Sherif, I would highly recommend him as having him in your team is half the battle won.

Farid Aadim, Sale Representative, VMWare
Worked with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is brilliant, passionate, and thorough. In all of my dealings with him, he has represented Red Hat admirably. Whenever he was assigned to a project, I instantly had confidence that the work would be done correctly, completely, and exceed the expectations of the customer. He has the ability to comprehend complicated problem spaces and craft a solution that is both efficient and elegant.

Tom Callaway, Engineering Technical Manager, Red Hat
Worked with Sherif at Red Hat

I found Sherif to be strong both technically and in articulating the essence of problems and their solutions to very demanding large clients on Wall Street and prominent West Coast dot coms. I recommended him for greater responsibilities and promotion. A combination of technical and communication skills is a rare commodity at Red Hat and elsewhere.

Simon Hartley, Regional Sales Director, Red Hat
managed Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is an excellent team player. None less he understands IT technologies very well, he has also the vision to explain their potential impact to businesses. He's able to adapt to any audience, technical, managerial, sales and marketing. Sherif was dealing will all services engagements in the Middle-East and Africa region. Although we faced difficult scenarios shaped by the availability of resources, deadlines, nature of projects etc... I can't recall any bad outcomes. To the opposite, customer satisfaction had been pretty high. It was the result of Sherif's implication.

Anthony Olive, Inside Sales, Red Hat
worked indirectly for Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is a person that gets things done. He's easy to work with and can be trusted to deliver.

Mark Pallone, Global Partner Manager, Intel Corp.
was with another company (Intel Corp.) - A Business Partner / OEM - when working with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is meticulous in his execution and ensure he gathers sufficient requirements and there after plans delivery. He works well with customers and remains focussed . During difficult situations he reads the situation carefully and manages to get sthings back on track. a pleasure to work with.

Top qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity

Mohamed Laher, Director, Next Generation Computing Solutions at DELL Emerging Markets
was with another business company (DELL) - A Business Partner / OEM - when working with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif one of the greatest director I worked with him at Red Hat. He is always on-call for any technical queries, he has huge knowledge in IT industry and specially in Unix/Linux. It is my pleasure to work with him and I wish all the best in his career path.

Walid Harbi, Solutions Architect, Redington Gulf
was with another business company (Redington Gulf) - Distributor in MENA - when working with Sherif at Red Hat
 

Linux and Red Hat Guru. He is really a great mentor and I believe everyone should have an experienced and a technical guru like him... He is really dedicated and always makes sure he finishes what he has started.. He also pushes people in the right direction. Truly an expert and amazing open source guy.

I wish him a good luck.

Adel BENZARROUK, Head of IT Infrastructure Team at Sagemcom Software and Technologies
was with another business company (OpenNet MEA) as Red Hat Distributor when working with Sherif at Red Hat

I had the pleasure of working with Sherif on setting up a large national initiative. Sherif comes across with a profound understanding of the OopenSource playing ground. I particularity enjoyed the intellectual debates, off which, I believe, has helped shape and refine the initiative towards its first-gear movement.

Sadek Shunnar, CEO at Applixya
was with another company (Cofounder - Executive Director, SavvyTek) as Business Partner (Reseller - Channel) when working with Sherif at Red Hat

Sherif is an excellent engineer with such a wide spectrum of experiences that makes him the corner stone of any enterprise Red Hat deal in the region. In the couple of times I worked with sherif, he has been truly helpful, organized and dedicated. I would definitely recommend Sherif as a business partner.

Ahmed Soliman, Cofounder and Head Of Research and Development , Cloud Niners LTD
was with another company (Linux-Plus) as Business Partner (Reseller - Channel) when working with Sherif at Red Hat

I have dealt with Sherif several times, for Open Source solutions and development tasks with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise. Sherif was always supporting and knew how to get things done.

Also worked with him in charity projects where he showed high level of integrity and commitment and was a key factor of success.
Thank you Sherif for all your help and support during the past years.

Mohamed Eldesoky, Home Broadband Team Leader at Etisalat
was with another company (TE-Data) - End Customer - when working with Sherif at Red Hat

I have known Sherif for a long time as we went to the same university. I had the opportunity to also work with him again after few years. Sherif is very focused and dedicated. He has the deep technical knowledge coupled with an excellent business sense. I would love to have the chance to work with him again.

Taymour El Erian, IT Architect & BCRS - IBM
was with another company (TE-Data) - End Customer - when working with Sherif at Red Hat