Shahinaz Nabil Foda will replace Frederic Christian Abbal on the board of Elsewedy Electric, following Abbal’s resignation, the company said in a statement (pdf) today.

Essam Abdelhadi (LinkedIn), former VP for the Middle East, Turkey, Africa and Pakistan at health tech company Abbott, has joined the advisory board of Egyptian life science startupNawah Scientific, after acquiring a stake the company. A Nawah official declined to tell us the size of the stake