Bassel Rihani

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About Bassel Rihani

Bassel Rihani is the Chief Commercial Officer at MDIC. With over 25 years of experience in the set up, start up and establishment of telecommunication companies across Asia, Middle East and Africa. Bassel heads the Digital Customer Engagement business and Financial and Payment Services, overseeing the delivery of CVM and MFS solutions, real time engagement, and developing innovative business models for telco and non-telco clients Bassel works consistently on building high performance culture through effective management, communication and coaching of MDIC staff. Bassel further holds a parallel role of exercising due diligence and audit for all new telecom and new business opportunities for MDIC. As CCO at MDIC, Bassel has led Vivacell South Sudan and VivaCell Armenia to achieve first position in a highly competitive and tough market in. Bassel is heading the CVM managed service for a major operator in Afghanistan and is involved at the strategy level in Cashcall to deliver Digital Payment and Financial Services in Egypt. Prior to MDIC, Bassel was the Commercial Director at COMIUM. During his work at COMIUM he handled three startups in GSM operations at COMIUM, in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Armenia. Previous to COMIUM, Bassel started his career as a telecom engineer at LibanCell. At LibanCell, he was able to leverage his strong management skills and climb the management ladder. Bassel hold a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE) from the American University of Beirut and Executive Masters in Business Management (EMBA) from the University of Quebec and Montreal and is fluent in Arabic and English, spoken, written and read.