Equinix’s Kamel Tawil joins Touchdown Middle East as a Speaker

We are very excited to announce that Kamel Tawil, Managing Director, Middle East & North Africa, Equinix will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2023 as a Speaker! Kamel will feature on our opening panel Looking In: A local perspective on the GCC data centre market taking place on Day 1 of the conference, 21^st November at 13:30.

The panel will provide an outlook on the GCC data centre market today from local players. A look at their ambitions in the region, their view on technological advances and the services and products that see the most uptake. How is the market expected to grow? With what speed? What are the challenges and biggest opportunities?

Kamel Tawil joined Equinix in September 2020 as Managing Director MENA (Middle East and North Africa). In this role he is responsible for developing Equinix’s growth strategy in the MENA markets, working closely with its customers and partners to deliver world class digital infrastructure solutions and building a network dense ecosystem.

Prior to joining Equinix, Kamel spent 18 years at Oracle in various leadership roles across ECEMEA (East Central Europe, Middle East and Africa) including his most recent role of Vice president for Business Applications where he led major digital transformation projects for some of Oracle’s largest customers. Prior to Oracle, Kamel held leadership roles with EMC and NCR in the Middle East.

Kamel is a native of Lebanon and currently residing in Dubai. He graduated from the Lebanese American University with a degree in Business Management and Computer Science. He also attended leadership courses at University of Michigan Ross Business School and at IESE university in Barcelona.