Taking part of AT&T’s telecom services for 10 years, Mr. Giugno holds a 20-year experience within the finance & strategy domain. Richard ran the EMEA finance shared services organization, while at AT&T, and held a number of positions on the organization’s European Boards. Prior to AT&T, he held a number of leading finance roles, including IT within the operating divisions of Invesys Plc, and a Global Audit role with BTR Plc.

Joining Navlink in early 1997 as the first employee and Business Development Manager, Bassel Dbaibo holds a 25-year experience in sales and business/corporate development.  He played a key role in starting the NavLink business and turning it into the leading provider of managed and Cloud services. Mr. Dbaibo is currently in charge of NavLink’s global sales, pre-sales operations, marketing and strategy.  Prior to joining the team, Bassel held several positions at Lancet Technology, a Boston medical software provider, including system development, head of technical support (servicing 350 hospitals in six countries) and business development.  He was the leading member of a team that designed, what was back then, the world’s most advanced EMS/Base/Trauma Client/Server System and he was directly responsible for developing a fully automated modem-based communication system for the data management project.  Afterwards, Bassel led the SAS Institute Inc. sales team for the US Northeast region, covering the banking, finance, retail and utility industries where he consistently showed outstanding performances.  He developed some major references for SAS like State Street Bank, Marine Midland Bank, and Talbots.
As an active member of civil society, Bassel served on the Board of Directors of the New England Council of the American Youth Hostels.

Responsible of customer support, information technology, new products introductions and technical operations as CIO, Antoine El-Am joined NavLink in 1999 as the Director of System and Network Integration, at first, and was subsequently promoted to the Integration & Managed Services (I&MS) Business Unit Director and then to Vice President of Operations before earning his current title. Antoine excelled in growing NavLink’s services and required I&MS organization from system and network integration projects delivery to enterprise networking, customer support, and in-country managed services.

Holding 24 years of experience within the field, Mr. El-Am was the Technical Director at GlobalCom, the leading Data and Internet Service provider in Lebanon. He started his career at Nortel Networks in Canada, as Transmission & Access Networks Engineer, where he was later promoted to Product Line Manager and was responsible for evaluating Original Equipment Manufacturer suppliers and defining Nortel’s Synchronous Digital Hierarchy and Plesiochronous’ Digital Hierarchy wireless radio products and their integration with Nortel’s network management and fiber-optic transmission products.

Antoine earned his recognition, while in Nortel, by being selected for its Network Engineering Program where he was awarded with the prize for Best Project, in addition to the award for Technical Achievement.

Currently and closely working with Ooredoo and its operating companies on expanding their business in the Managed Services market, Mr. Soubra joined Navlink in 2000 as Business Development Manager at first and later served as Sales Manager.

During his 10-year tenure at NavLink, Bassem pioneered projects that were in line with the company’s strategy and direction, closed major contracts, and built relationships with major accounts such as Al Jazeera, Ooredoo, Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs, QualityNet Kuwait, Batelco Bahrain and Energy City Qatar. He also played a vital role in signing several AT&T AGN node deployments in the Gulf region, including Qatar and Kuwait.

Before joining the team, Bassem took on an IT Manager position at the Port of Beirut, followed by a Sales Manager title at PC Group and then at Mideast Data Systems in Lebanon.

Positively contributing to the growth of Navlink since his first arrival back in 2000, Mr.Naufal’s took on his primary position at the company as Business Development Manager for UAE & Oman. He has, up till today, 17 years of experience in Business Development sectors, from project management, quality assurance, computer system hardware, public key encryption to Intranet and Extranet implementation and datacenter design.

Mansour currently holds the title of VP of Product Development and Service Enablement, and is responsible for ensuring the continuous evolution of NavLink’s current portfolio of services and the development and implementation of new products and services.

Before joining the NavLink team, he adopted different responsibilities with reputed companies like Motorola, Microprocessor Division, Texas (USA) and local/regional internet service providers.

With over 12 years of experience, Mrs. Nehme joined NavLink as a Financial Controller in 2000. She currently holds the position of Senior Director of Accounting, and is responsible for implementing and maintaining a system of internal controls to ensure that the company’s assets are adequately safeguarded and that all financial reports are prepared in compliance with the general financial policies.

Prior to that, she held the position of Internal Auditor at ATG Holding in 1996, one of the largest groups in Lebanon. In 1998, she held the role of Financial Manager in GlobalCom, the leading data and internet service provider in Lebanon.