Salam Yamout Salam Yamout is currently a Program Manager for the Partnership for Lebanon, Cisco Systems. She is the current President of WIT and one of WIT’s founders. Professionally, Salam’s expertise lays in national ICT strategies, ICT4D, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Salam holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, and an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires. Salam is a member of IEEE, the Order of Engineers of Beirut, Lebanese Broadband Stakeholders Group, MIT Enterprise Forum, and other Lebanese NGOs. She is a certified Project Management Professional with PMI.    Manal Shihab Manal Shihab, received the ME degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2007, BE degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from Beirut Arab University, Lebanon, in 2002. Professionally, she is currently working as a Senior Software Expert at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Lebanon. She previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Beirut Container Terminal Consortium in 2007, as a Senior Web Developer and Web Department Manager in Dubai Internet City, UAE, in 2003, and as a Junior Web Developer at Stripling and Beck, an outsourced company from the US in Lebanon in 2002. Manal is currently a member of the Order of Engineers in Lebanon and a member of WIT.    Leila Serhan I am currently the Country Manager for Microsoft Lebanon and Emerging Markets (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and The Palestinian Authority). I have been with Microsoft for 7 years, holding several functions in Lebanon and in the region namely in Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Business Strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked for 6 years for LibanCell as a Finance Manager. I hold a Bachelor of Business Administration from the American University of Beirut. I have been a member in the Women in IT since its inception, I also participated in a number of Women’s forum, including the Global Women’s Forum two years in a row (in Cairo and in Berlin), the New Arab Women forum in Lebanon in 2009. I am also an active member of the Women in Microsoft community    Raghda Jaber Raghda Jaber is a management consultant. Until early 2008, she worked for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) in Lebanon as head of IT unit and Coordinator of a variety of initiatives concerned with technology-driven reform in education and its governance. Prior to that, Raghda was national project coordinator in charge of planning and implementation of the Cadastre Operations Modernization and Automation Project (COMAP), under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) from its inception to successful completion in 2005. Prior to joining MoF, she worked for the Massachusetts state government for 8 years, at the Division of Capital Planning and Operations, managing the development and implementation of state’s IT-Driven asset management program MAssets. Raghda continues to teach courses on land tenure and land use policy at the graduate urban planning program of the American University of Beirut. She has a master’s degree in Policy Analysis and Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from American University of Beirut.    Paulette Assaf Paulette Assaf holds of a BS in Computer Science (1989) and an MA in Money and Banking (1993) from the American University of Beirut. She has served as a Database analyst programmer and Project Leader at the start of her career in Beirut and then in France, and ended her term at Logos SARL Lebanon as an Executive Sales and Marketing Executive in 2007. She moved to Cisco Systems as a Program Manager.A certified PMP (Project Manager Professional) since 2005. Board member in WIT from 2006 to 2009.    Mahassen Ajam Prior to her appointment as Board Member, Commissioner and Head of Information and Consumer Affairs Unit at the TRA, Mahassen Ajam maintained an outstanding record in the field of Data and Internet services where she was acting as the Executive Director for GDS and IDM, with broad experience in business development and International Relations. Mahassen is currently committed to work on protecting consumers’ rights and handling their complaints in close coordination with other TRA units and partners. In line with such a responsibility, she supervises the Public Consultations processes to guarantee that the TRA’s decisions and regulations are transparent and taking into account the interests of all stakeholders. Mahassen is also responsible for managing internal and external communications to ensure the TRA’s goals and principles are successfully communicated internally and externally. Mrs. Ajam recently served as a Board Member of the Professional Computer Association and, as such, has been actively involved in the telecommunications’ sector policy and regulatory affairs. Mrs. Ajam holds an MBA from Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (Lebanon, 1997), a graduate degree in urban planning from Paris Sorbonne University (France, 1986), and an Engineering masters degree from the Lebanese University (Lebanon, 1983).    Louay Sayah Mr. Louay Sayah has over 10 years of professional experience in Program Management and Public Sector consulting . He holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Regional (Middle East) Studies from SOAS/University in London, a Bachelor of Arts from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and a law and security Diploma from Sheridan College in Canada. For the last 5 years as a program manager at Cisco Systems, Inc., Mr. Sayah has built an extensive experience in the design and implementation of public private partnerships, animation of group processes, and conflict management and resolution. Besides proudly serving in the Canadian Armed Services (Airborne core), Loay's consulting experience includes a particular focus on institution and capacity building, good governance training for the PS and an array of projects dealing with Local/Central governments and NGOs in the areas of integrated community mobilization and development. Loay has been an avid supporter and a member of WIT since it's inception.    Tania Zaroubi Senior ICT Project Manager with the UNDP Project at the “Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR)” Tania joined OMSAR in 1996 where she is responsible for managing a number of major ICT projects for the government. In late 2003, she was the lead-author of the two national documents for Lebanon for the World Summit on the Information Society and was part of the official delegation representing Lebanon at this event headed by the President of the Republic. Tania also advises and attends meetings of the Ministerial ICT Committee in Lebanon chaired by the Prime Minister and is leading on the National e-Government Strategy of Lebanon. Tania is also a board member of several NGOs in Lebanon and is the president of the Information Systems and Audit Control Association (ISACA) in Lebanon. . Prior to Lebanon, Tania moved to Dubai in 1986 where she worked for Dubai Petroleum Company (DPC). There she received an award for the Enhanced Oil Recovery project , was a member of the IT solution team who set the direction for future applications within DPC, and had the overall company responsibility for all aspects of information and IT asset security, as well as the primary consulting role for corporate data modeling and information planning. Tania holds an Honors degree in Computer Science from the University of Essex in England. She is a Certified Information Security Auditor, Certified Prince II Practitioner (Project Management methodology) and is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).