Samer Karawi

The current financial turmoil made the G&K Consulting Value Chain Management (VCM) model increasingly important for vendors across Europe and the USA to open up to new markets and benefit from economies that are less impacted by the Global Financial Crisis to help in recovering some of the losses in their countries of origin.
Some of the advantages of G&K VCM:
• No investment in offices, employees or equipments.
• No Complex Legal issues
• No funds to mobilize
• And best of all, No Taxes
G&K Consulting will setup your presence in the Middle East based on the highest opportunities markets, will appoint your distribution channel and resellers, will assist you in setting up your business goals and financial targets, will train your resellers and will monitor the sales; In a word, G&K Consulting will run your business on your behalf while you maintain the control and the decision power.
Email me at samer@galalkarawi.com (+97150 455 6239) to enquire about G&K Consulting Value Chain Management offer.

With 38 years of combined experience in leading multinational companies and entities, we are offering a set of consulting & training services including:
- Organizational and personal effectiveness
- Talent Management
- Sales & distribution channel management outsourcing
- Marketing
- Competitiveness through creativity.

We can be contacted at: info @ galalkarawi.com

Design and implement the HP Middle East Marketing strategy in alignment with Sales Strategies and Business Units goals
Establish base business leadership as well as market leadership positions in the region with specific focus on key markets and key breakthrough areas.
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Manage the Corporate Marketing and Communication for HP Middle East and develop hp's public affairs programs, including government relations, public policy, public relations, philanthropy, education programs, and internal/external communications.

In charge of the “servers” platform business, my role is to lead, assist and support a team of 8 pre-sales and sales specialists to achieve the sales target related to Industry Standard Servers and Business Critical Systems in the Enterprise space.
Manage the marketing and communication activities related to HP Enterprise & Business Critical Systems, including press, analysts, customers and partners.

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Manage Compaq's strategic alliances with major Independent Software Vendors, System Integrators and consulting firms.

Manage the Marketing and communication activities for the Business Systems Division for the Middle East region.
Drive the sales of the Microsoft BackOffice product line to meet the revenue target.
Grow the Microsoft enterprise product revenue by 5 folds

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Technical support for programming languages and toolboxes
IT systems management and development of internal tools.
Development of patches and programming samples