Mohamed El-Farouk's Resume

Mohamed El-Farouk

Data Center Segment Business development (KSA & Bahrain)

Male

Business Manager/Supervisor

Live in Saudi Arabia

Nationality

Summary

Regional business development and technical leader with 20 years of experience driving growth across the Middle East and Africa in energy management, infrastructure, and data center solutions. Proven track record in developing market strategies, leading multicultural teams, building strong customer relationships, and delivering multi-million-dollar projects. With broad expertise in AI infrastructure, power distribution, UPS, cooling, digital infrastructure, and end-to-end solution selling. Experienced people manager who leads multidisciplinary teams and builds capability through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management across engineering and commercial functions. ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a qualified pipeline of more than 250MUSD from scratch • Onboarding of qualified candidates in sales, presales and solution teams • Reduce the offering life cycle by 25% by targeting the essential requirements of the customer within the targeted budget • Triple the sales revenue by having the proper solutions, with the right offer for the targeted market, and early engagement with senior leadership team of the customer

Work experience

Data Center Segment Business development (KSA & Bahrain)
Eaton
2024.07-Current
(2 years)
- Led Sales and business development strategy across Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. - Developed a qualified pipeline of more than 100MUSD - Established new partnerships to drive the business of data center - Tripled the revenue in Saudi Arabia for the Data Center business within one year - Established strategic relationships with the main EPC’s in the data center business - Guiding the regional and global team to develop solutions suitable to the Saudi market
North Africa Data Center Director (acting as CTO)
Huawei Digital Power
2021.11-2024.06
(3 years)
- Led the high-level solutions offered in 28 countries in North Africa region for the strategic projects - Responsible for the Prefab solution development program for the African region - Leading a team of 17 persons across 4 countries, - Managing the offshore solutions team in China and Pakistan during projects offering - Engagement with customer executives, and senior level in early stages - Established new partnerships to drive the business of data center in the region
Head of Electrical Department and Projects Director
DAR Engineering (AlFanar)
2020.10-2021.10
(a year)
- Leading a team of 35 people across 2 countries, - Responsible for critical facilities design management and optimization strategies - MEP Design Director for the critical facilities projects - Project director for infrastructure and utility projects
Associate & Design manager
Dar Al-Handasah (Shair & Partners)
2007.07-2020.09
(13 years)
- Leading a team of 20 people for mega projects development - Managed projects with value more than 2BUSD - Managed the design of projects of capacity reaching 2GW - MEP design manager of Central utility complexes including central utilities and district cooling, with capacities exceeding 750MW & 150,000RT - Lead complex mega projects targeting high level of sustainability measures ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed a qualified pipeline of more than 250MUSD from scratch • Onboarding of qualified candidates in sales, presales and solution teams • Reduce the offering life cycle by 25% by targeting the essential requirements of the customer within the targeted budget • Triple the sales revenue by having the proper solutions, with the right offer for the targeted market, and early engagement with senior leadership team of the customer

Educational experience

Ain Shams University
B.Sc. Electrical power and machines, Egypt
2001.09-2006.06
(5 years)
American University in Cairo
engineering
Course - Value analysis of engineering projects Course - Project Budgeting and financial control Course - Projects Bids and contracts