Rafiah Ibrahim

12 July 2014

Rafiah Ibrahim is president and head of region Middle East and North East Africa at Ericsson

Rafiah Ibrahim

Position: President and head of region Middle East and North East Africa

Company: Ericsson

Biography: Effective 1 July 2014, Rafiah Ibrahim is president and head of region Middle East and North East Africa at Ericsson, a provider of telecommunications technology and services.

During 2013 Rafiah was the head of marketing, business line broadcast services, business unit global services located in London and has recently taken the role of head of sales excellence, with the integration of Red Bee Media.

In 2006 she moved to Abu Dhabi to run the global customer unit for Warid, with business in Asia and Africa. In 2008 she was appointed head of market unit North Africa, where she was responsible for Ericsson’s business in 11 countries, maintaining a strong market share for Ericsson in Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. From 2010 to 2013 Rafiah was responsible for the global customer unit Etisalat located in Abu Dhabi.

Rafiah moved to Ericsson in Malaysia in 1996, where she held several positions within Ericsson Academy and heading up the enterprise division. In 2004 she was named head of Ericsson in Bangladesh.

Rafiah Ibrahim graduated from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, United Kingdom, with a master’s degree in digital communication engineering. She has been in the telecommunications industry for 33 years starting off in 1981 with Telekom Malaysia where she spent 16 years in several areas such as technology, sales and marketing, and international acquisitions.

Contact: (+971) 4 450 5700

Website: www.ericsson.com 

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