Walid Tahabsem

President & CEO, ITG

Walid Tahabsem represents true Jordanian entrepreneurship and success in the IT sector. After receiving his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Yarmouk University in Jordan, he co-founded Integrated Technology Group back in 1989. Today, as ITG President & CEO, Mr. Tahabsem leads one of the most successful IT solution providers in the Middle East offering quality end-to-end IT solutions and services in the field of education and government solutions in more than 20 countries worldwide.
Through the combination of his passion for technology and vision, he was able to grow his firm not only by size and revenue, but also in technological innovation and in the application of the technology in various fields. His innovations include the development of the first Arabic artificial intelligent parser, and the creation an Electronic Data Interchange solution, implemented in many large European institutions, in addition to one of the top education solutions; EduWave® which currently holds the largest base of countrywide deployments worldwide.
                 
Mr. Tahabsem is an active member of a number of key national boards, councils, and associations such as: Jordan’s National Agenda, Jordan’s Board of Education, Jordan University for Science and Technology (JUST) Advisory Council, German Jordan University (GJU) Advisory Council, Jordan’s ICT Advisory Council, Information Technology Association of Jordan (INT@J) Board, and Jordan’s Youth Development Program INJAZ. Mr. Tahabsem is also a co-founder and a board member of the Oasis-500, the region’s premier education and counsellor driven seed investment program.