72. Taha Khalifa
Company: Intel Corp.
Designation: Country Manager—Gulf Region
Nationality: Egyptian
Global Headquarters: U.S.
Sector: Technology
Khalifa joined Intel Corp. in 1995 as a senior software engineer in California and assumed his current role in 2018. He has also been the GCC enterprise and government sales director since January 2023. In December 2023, the company launched its digital literacy initiative, Intel Skills for Innovation, in the Middle East. Khalifa is also on the advisory board for the Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, on the industrial advisory board at the Rochester Institute of Technology at Heriot-Watt University, and he’s a board member at SATR Charity in Egypt.