Sandro Tooma tapped as ODE non-executive chairman

Our friend Sandro Tooma (LinkedIn) is joining Orascom Development Egypt’s (ODE) board of directors as non-executive chairman, according to a company statement (pdf). Sandro — who stepped down from Madinet Masr’s board yesterday — succeeds Samy Saad Zaghloul, who spent six years at the head of the table.

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Sandro joins ODE’s board after having previously been an executive director of the company between 2013-2016. His track record on boards include runs at Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Egypt, Taaleem, Madinet Masr, and Egyptian Resorts Company, to name just a few. Sandro is also widely known for his storied two-decade-long academic career, which saw him serve as a tenured Professor of Finance at AUC, where he was also the founding head of the university’s Finance Unit.