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Nassef Onsi Nagib Sawiris is an Egyptian businessperson who founded Nile Holding Investments and who has been at the helm of 11 different companies. Currently, Mr. Sawiris is Executive Co-Chairman at OCI NV, Executive Chairman of NNS SARL - SPF, Chairman of NNS Advisers Ltd., Executive Chairman for NNS UK Investment SARL-SPF, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Avanti Acquisition Corp., Chief Executive Officer & Director at Orascom Construction Industries SAE, Chief Executive Officer of Fertiglobe Holding Ltd., Chairman at Lafarge Cement Egypt Co. SAE and Executive Chairman of Aston Villa Football Club Ltd. Mr. Sawiris is also Member-International Council at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Member-International Leadership Board at Cleveland Clinic and on the board of 11 other companies. Mr. Sawiris previously was Non-Executive Chairman of Orascom Construction Plc, Chairman at Pakcem Ltd. and Member-Partners Council at EXOR NV. Mr. Sawiris received an undergraduate degree from The University of Chicago.

Founder of Orascom Construction Industries SAE, OCI NV and Orascom Onsi Sawiris & Co.,, Onsi Najib Sawiris presently holds the position of Chairman for Orascom Trading Co. SAE and Chairman for Zed Sports. Mr. Sawiris is also on the board of Orascom Technological Systems SAE and Nile Sugar Co. He previously was President at Orascom Onsi Sawiris & Co., and Chairman-Emeritus at Orascom Construction Industries SAE. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Cairo.

Naguib Onsi Naguib Sawiris is an Egyptian entrepreneur and businessperson who founded Global Telecom Holding SAE, Wind Telecom SpA and Yup Technologies, Inc. and who has been at the helm of 12 different companies. Currently, he holds the position of Chairman of Gemini Development BV, Chairman of Nile Sugar Co., Chairman at Orascom TMT Investments SARL, Executive Chairman, CEO & Managing Director at Orascom Investment Holding SAE (a subsidiary of Orascom TMT Investments SARL), Chief Executive Officer at CHEO Technology Joint Venture Co., Chairman at Euronews SA and President of Endeavor Egypt. Mr. Sawiris is also on the board of 16 other companies. In the past Mr. Sawiris was Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Weather Investments, Chief Executive Officer of Yup Technologies, Inc., Investment Partner at Sawari Ventures LLC, Chairman for Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA, Chairman of Global Telecom Holding SAE and President for German Arab Chamber of Industry & Commerce. Mr. Sawiris received an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Taya S.
Sawiris is the founder of Tasoni, a company founded in 2014.
She currently holds a position as a Non-Executive Director at Orascom Development Egypt SAE.
Ms. Sawiris has an undergraduate degree from Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.

Onsi Sawiris is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at HOF Capital, where he focuses on cloud-based technologies, fintech and enterprise SaaS.
Onsi currently sits on the boards of Drop Technologies, ItaliaOnline, Riverbank, and Orascom Financial Holding.
He leads portfolio acceleration at HOF and helps founders secure commercial traction by identifying synergies within the firm's global LP network.
Prior to HOF, Onsi worked in TMT-focused M&A at Arma Partners, a specialist technology investment bank.
Onsi holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He is fluent in English, German and Arabic.

Nadia Sawiris is a non-executive director at OCI NV, where she started in 2023 and currently holds the position.
She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nassef Latif Nakhla currently works at Gelpack Industrial Ltd., as Director from 2017.

Samih Onsi Sawiris (Arabic: سميح أنسي ساويرس, Montenegrin: Samih Onsi Saviris / Самих Онси Савирис; born in 1957) is an Egyptian-Montenegrin businessman and billionaire and the second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the former executive chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Orascom Development Holding AG. As of 2015 his net worth was estimated at US$850 million, which at the time made him the 26th richest person in Africa.

Naguib Sawiris currently works at Endeavour Mining Corp., as Non-Executive Director.