Summary
Ahmed Hussam is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with 11+ years leading Afqar Studio, a marketing, branding and customer experience agency, and a long track record in digital transformation and web product roles across MENA. He blends creative disciplines—UX, design, photography—and hands-on web development with strategic marketing, having advised organizations like Qatar Red Crescent and served as Hootsuite’s first Middle East community ambassador. A practiced instructor and public speaker, he has taught social media and online marketing at universities and executive programs, translating practitioner insight into curriculum. His early training in architecture and decades in creative management inform a design-led, systems-thinking approach to brand and product strategy. Less obvious: alongside his marketing leadership he identifies as a bioinformatics and genomics data scientist, signaling a curious cross-disciplinary mindset that bridges creative digital work with data-driven science.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Architecture, BS, Architecture at Cairo University
GCE, English Literature, English Language, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, GCE, English Literature, English Language, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics at University of London