Paulette Assaf - President 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. Click to read more about Paulette Assaf.    Leila Serhan - Vice - President 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 Womens forum, including the Global Womens 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    Manal Shihab - secretary 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.    Salam Yamout - Treasurer Salam Yamout is currently a Program Manager for the Partnership for Lebanon, Cisco Systems. She is the current President of WIT and one of WITs founders. Professionally, Salams 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 Suprieure 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.