Engineer Taha Khalifa joined the Silicon Valley-based multinational corporation and technology company’s US operations 23 years ago and has since held a variety of senior engineering, marketing, and management positions. Today, he is responsible for enabling Intel Corporation’s client strategy in the EMEA territory, leading initiatives to deliver client strategy objectives and priorities as well as managing and tracking business units KPI’s, making sure they are tracking to target and creating contingency plans to address any deviations or barriers to target.
Before assuming his current role, Khalifa was the Regional General Manager for Intel in the MENA region, managing six offices across Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where he worked closely with governments, NGOs, and industry leaders to develop the region’s ICT capabilities and drive Intel’s corporate social responsibility initiatives.
He also held the position of Regional Director for the Reseller Channel Organisation (RCO) in MENA, where he was responsible for the sales operations of Intel technologies and managing relationships with resellers and distributors.
In addition, Khalifa assumed the general manager role at Intel Egypt where he led its local business operations.
Before moving to the Middle East, he held the position of senior strategic planning manager for Intel‘s wireless business. From 1999 to 2003, he was the chief architect and manager of a worldwide validation engineering team responsible for developing the company’s multi-core architecture validation tools.
Khalifa received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1991. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Dundee University, UK, and an MBA from Arizona State University (ASU), USA in 2005.
Intel, together with Daimler, is backing the world’s first passenger-drone services by Germany-based Volocopter, which is set to open a landing facility in Singapore later this year for trial flights.
Volocopter also partnered with UK developer Skyports to build a €1.5m ($1.7m), 550-sq m “Volo-Port” in Singapore after conducting test flights in Dubai and Las Vegas.
Last year, American tech giant Intel awarded NYU Abu Dhabi a three-year, $300,000 grant to help with research into new ways of securely testing and configuring computer chips by third-party companies.
The research, being conducted by NYU Abu Dhabi Associate Dean of Engineering Ozgur Sinanoglu, allows tech companies to obfuscate security critical data – such as the chips serial ID – by using a secret key pre-loaded onto the chip.
Once hidden, a third-party company can test and configure each chip before being sold, but without access to the chip’s security critical data.
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