Effective June 8, 2022, Karim EL NAGGAR is appointed Managing Director of the TDF Group's Audiovisual BU. He will report to Olivier HUART, Chairman and CEO of the TDF Group.
Karim El Naggar began his career in telecoms at Alcatel in 1997.
Between 1997 and 2004, he held a number of positions in France and abroad, and was appointed Vice President of the Mobile Core Business Unit in 2005, then Vice President of the Wimax Business Unit in 2006.
In 2009, he joined the Alstom Group as Vice President "Network Management Solutions" to lead the transformation of the power grid control business, and moved to the USA in 2011. In 2015, when Alstom was acquired by GE, he was appointed GE's General Manager "Grid Software solutions".
In 2018, Karim El Naggar became Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell's "Connected Plant" BU, tasked with supporting the company in its industrial repositioning and digital transformation. In the same year, he founds Nucamp Coding Bootcamp, an innovative platform and disruptive community-based e-learning model for IT developers.
Karim El Naggar is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (class of 1992) and Harvard Business School (class of 2003).
Olivier Huart, Chairman and CEO of TDF: "Karim El Naggar is a man of challenges, with solid business and industrial experience. In joining TDF, an industrial operator of digital networks and a benchmark player in France for audiovisual broadcasting (Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT)) and radio (FM, DAB+), he is keen to continue to provide the best possible support to our audiovisual customers, to pursue the modernization of the DTT platform in line with the roadmap defined by Arcom (UHD), and to seize new market opportunities. I wish him and the entire Executive Committee every success in his new role.