Rehan Sami

With an experience of more than 20 years in the industry and exposure to working with clients from different market segments across public & private sectors, Rehan has contributed in designing technical solutions solving complex business problems.

During his 17 years' journey in Etisalat, the regions leading Telco and Digital Service Provider, Rehan has evolved from a Presales Specialist to a visionary leader of the Presales, Solutions Architecture & Bid Management division that manages all B2B Presales and Bid Management across Public, Private and SMB segments. He has successfully driven numerous tenders, built new partnerships and authored multiple complicated business cases for B2B scenarios. Under his leadership, his team of seasoned Solutions Architects have contributed in securing multi million dollar contracts for Etisalat. These engagements include solutions covering a wide range of technologies from very large Metro MPLS Networks, SDN based solutions, Wired & Wireless Local Area Networks, Data Center & Cloud Services, IT Transformation Engagements, Digital Security and IOT based digital services.

Prior to his work at Etisalat, Rehan was a Network Engineer with experience across several industries. Rehan holds a Masters in Computer Engineering degree and also has a US Patent to his credit. His Masters Thesis work was a novel idea that enabled media content carrying networks to adapt to network conditions in order to achieve graceful degradation of media quality. 

In addition to being a technologist, he is a passionate health & fitness practitioner and a certified fitness trainer.