Mr. Marwan Zawaydeh,
CEO
Mr. Mohammed Qaryouti,
CFO
Mr. Ian K.C. Worrell,
Executive Director
Mr. Banan Al Kahtib,
Executive Director
Mr. Glendon Steve Bell,
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Marwan Zawaydeh, CEO
Mr. Zawaydeh is an electronics engineer with more than 29 years experience in telecommunications including Fixed Network, GSM and 3G Mobile Networks, internet‚ e-commerce and WIMAX. He is recognized for actively promoting world class cutting edge technologies in the global communication industry.
He held various senior level positions in the UAE-based Telecom operator Etisalat which included the office of Senior Executive Vice President Engineering Department Etisalat during 1996-2004. During his tenure with Etisalat, Mr. Zawaydeh played an important role in corporate studies and decision making related to strategic planning‚ business policies‚ organizational development and international investment.
Mr. Zawaydeh ’s association with Warid Telecom International started in June 2004 as Group Chief Technical Officer, Board Executive Committee Member in all Warid Telecom International companies and the CEO of Warid Telecom Pakistan. Mr. Zawaydeh played a pivotal role in the successful launch of Warid’s GSM network in Pakistan‚ Bangladesh‚ Congo and Uganda as well as Wateen LDI and WIMAX services in Pakistan.
Mr. Zawaydeh is currently Chief Executive Officer of VTEL Holdings Ltd.
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Mr. Mohammed Qaryouti, CFO
Mr. Mohammed S. Qaryouti started his career path in 1996, to become a Supervisor in Ernst & Young Dubai in 1998, after which he joined Orange (at that time Jordan Telecom Group now) in 2000 as a Financial Expert Moving forward in 2002 to occupy the position of the Financial Accounting Manager. In 2005, Mohammad Qaryouti served as the Senior Financial Manager of Al Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he performed an intensive diversity of responsibilities ranging from management, recruitment, implementation of systems, managing financing issues with banks and project management with the technical department.
Finally occupying the position of the Chief Financial Officer at Batelco Jordan, the country’s second fixed line operator and the leading data communications provider.
Before joining VTEL as CFO in 2008, Mohammed S. Qaryouti was the Chief Financial Officer at XPress Telecommunications for two years, one of the first Arab companies introducing the iDEN technology.
As a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant (AICPA) with certification in the State of Montana Board of CPAs, and holding a Bachelors degree in Accounting from the University of Jordan, Mr. Qaryouti has played an active role in the advancement of Jordan’s Information Technology and Communications sector.
Mr. Qaryouti is currently on the board of directors of some of the companies around the world in the VTEL Group.
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Mr. Ian K.C. Worrell, Executive Director
Mr. Worrell was one of the founding members of Internet in Barbados in early 1995 and joined BIOS Inc to form Sunbeach in 1997. He left Barbados in early 1999, on sabbatical to work with the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland as an International Business Advisor.
On Mr. Worrell's return to Barbados in 2000, Ian was VP of Corporate Communications, overseeing all aspects of the public relations for the organization, as well as being involved with regulation, pricing, interconnect and other issues pertaining to competing in a de-regulated market.
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Mr. Banan Al Kahtib, Executive Director
Banan Khatib received his bachelor degree in International relations and Political Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and a master's degree in International Relations from the University of Exeter. He then started teaching and lecturing at Stafford House Tutorial College in Canterbury, U.K.
In 1997, Banan decided to return to his home country, Palestine, to start working as a Director for the Compliance Unit in the Technical Support Unit for the Paris protocol in Ramallah. He was responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the Paris Protocol and for coordination of economic negotiations. In 1998, Banan moved to the Ministry of Economy and Trade to work as a Director of International Relations where he was in charge of negotiating a number of trade agreements, also a team member in the economic committee responsible for steering final status economic negotiations with Israel, conducting, and initiating economic final status negotiations and implementation of economic agreements.
In the year 2000, Banan moved to the private sector to work as a Marketing Director in the first Palestinian mobile operator, JAWWAL. Afterwards Mr. Khatib repositioned himself to work as a CEO in the leading firm in Palestine for meat products, Al Haya Food Industries, a subsidiary of the Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC). In 2005, Mr. Khatib was offered an opportunity at Medical Supplies and Services (MSS), also a subsidiary of the Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC) to work as a CEO.
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Mr. Glendon Steve Bell, Non-Executive Director
Mr. Glendon S. Bell, whom I am sure you all knew on our board previously, has consented to rejoin us. He is currently the General Manager of the City of Bridgetown Cooperative Credit Union Ltd a position that he has held over the past four years. Prior to this Glendon held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Public Workers Cooperative Credit Union Ltd.
Glendon is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of the UK and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados.
He is a graduate of the Winconsin School of Business and he possesses a MBA from Heriott Watt University and has extensive training in financial and negotiation matters.
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