Our Team
Ahmed El-Shennawy
Managing Director
Ahmed is a technology professional with more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductors industry. As one of the first employees in Si-Ware Systems, he contributed to the company’s development throughout its different growth stages until it successfully grew in value and scale. He started his career as an A/MS designer and was part of a talented team who developed several high-performance ASICs and IPs. In 2011, he initiated the Application Engineering function to support the business development of the ASIC business unit and managed his team to sell to over 30 customers across the globe.
He has an MBA from China Europe International Business School in Shanghai and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo and holds 4 US patents.
Nabil Sinoussi
Technical Director
A talented technical leader and an IC industry expert who admires challenge, solving knotty technical issues and breaking through technology barriers. Throughout more than 16 years of industrial experience, he participated in over 20 tape-outs, contributed significantly to the development of at least 5 different product lines, and invented 11 worldwide patents. For several times, he went through the whole ASIC product development cycle; starting from building sophisticated ASICs from scratch; ending by ramping for volume production and plugging into real life applications.
He obtained his BSc. and MSc. in electronic engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. In 2004, he joined Si-Ware Systems; an ambitious Egyptian startup that altered the demography of the IC industry by adding Egypt as an effective element in it. He was one out of 8 designers who kicked off this great mission, later on pursued by many others.
Ahmed Elmallah
A/MS Director
Ahmed is an IC architect and design expert with more than 15 years of semiconductor design experience. In 2006, he was a founding member of the ASIC Solutions Division in Si-Ware Systems, Egypt, architecting several generations of high-performance sensor interfaces. In 2014, he was a research assistant at the University of Illinois UC, USA, working on timing circuits for wireline applications. In 2018, he was with Verily Life Sciences, USA, developing a neural modulation interface. He also was with Facebook Reality Labs, USA, developing models for inertial sensors. In 2020, he joined MediaTek, USA, where he architected timing solutions for the latest generation of high-speed SerDes. At MediaTek, he received 6 awards for outstanding in innovation.
Ahmed received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. He holds 3 granted US patents.
