Farrah El-Iraky is currently a senior program executive at NilePreneurs. Farrah has a bachelors Electronics and Communications Engineering from Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST}. During her undergraduate study, she had a parallel university life working and leading different teams in marketing with student activities and organizations such as IEEE and TEDx.

After graduation, Farrah worked as digital marketing specialist and taking volunteering role Industry Outreach Officer with IEEE Young Professional – Egypt Section then she joined Nokia Networks. Her role was Innovation Associate in which she had the chance to work directly with top management level on MEA region. Farrah was responsible to build and establish new department among MEA called “Innovation Hubs” besides her main responsibility building Nokia University Relations and working on Nokia rebranding as Technology leader not only a handset company.

After two years; Farrah successfully managed to work with Egypt Country Officer and MEA Market lead to build a strong base of followers and fans who are seeking to join Nokia. She helped to position Nokia again in the Egyptian Ecosystem of tech companies whom have social initiatives and activities, Highlighting on Nokia experts so they became a role models and mentors for the Egyptian University students and Fresh Graduates.

Farrah worked on expanding her team she worked on Egypt, UAE and Morocco teams, work scope and hiring the new members with supervising them and she ended her journey with Nokia by owning Nokia’s first innovation marathon in Africa in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs – France and Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA).