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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Al Safi Danone
Current title:
Chief Executive Officer
Last updated: 10/07/2026 11:46 AM
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Hisham El Mahdy is from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Hisham El is currently Chief Executive Officer at Al Safi Danone, located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In Hisham El's previous role as a General Manager at Nada - ندى, Hisham El worked in Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi Arabia until Dec 2024. Prior to joining Nada - ندى, Hisham El was a Managing Director at Americana Foods and held the position of Managing Director at Cairo Egypt. Prior to that, Hisham El was a General Manager - Sales & Marketing MenaBev at PepsiCo, based in Jeddah from Jan 2018 to Jan 2019. Hisham El started working as Executive Director Sales & Marketing - MENA Bev at PepsiCo in Saudi Arabia in Mar 2017. From Jul 2015 to Mar 2017, Hisham El was Senior Director- Middle East & Africa Po1 Sales at PepsiCo, based in Dubai. Prior to that, Hisham El was a Senior Sales Director - GCC Beverages at PepsiCo, based in Jeddah from Nov 2014 to Jul 2015. Hisham El started working as Senior Sales Director- GCC/East Med Foods at PepsiCo in Saudi Arabia in Mar 2012.

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Hisham El Mahdy's current jobs
Company: Al Safi Danone
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Period: Jan 2025 - Present (1 year, 6 months)
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hisham El Mahdy's past jobs
Company: Nada - ندى
Title: General Manager
Period: Nov 2020 - Dec 2024 (4 years, 1 month)
Location: Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi Arabia

- Full P&L and functional responsibility: 4K employees, 1 Factory, 1 Farm and 27 DCs across 6 countries. - Fastest Growing Dairy and Juice Player in Saudi Arabia. - Accelerated innovation pipeline, driving premium Dairy and Juice category growth, and expanding market share leadership. - Established Sales Transformation agenda: Team restructuring, Infrastructure Deployment, Sales Process Enhancements, and In-store Presence Programs leading to increased retail distribution and improved route efficiency. - Revamped Digital Strategy, industry-leading on emerging social media platforms, expanded reach in E-commerce. - Iraq Expansion Project: New Factory Start-up and Dual Distributor RTM Set-up in place for H2 start-up. - Restructured Integrated Supply Chain: introduced new leadership, leveraged OEM engagement to improve line efficiency, strengthened Supply Chain Structure introducing S&OP Process and Metrics. - Implemented Oracle ERP migration, established cost control programs leveraging new system capabilities.

Company: Americana Foods
Title: Managing Director
Period: Jan 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year, 10 months)
Location: Cairo Egypt

Managing Director – ICAPP- – International Co. For Agricultural Production & Processing (Egypt) Jan’20 – Nov’20 - Full P&L and functional responsibility: 800 employees, 1 Factory, 2 Farms and 2 DCs. - Developed End-to-end Supply Strategy: Farming and Processing, re-focused Commercial Strategy to expand export margins. Food Division Sales Transformation Lead (Regional Role) Jan’20 – Nov’20 - Recommended KSA Transformation Plan, Partnered with Food Division Team, Cluster MD’s & Leadership Teams to develop aligned agenda. Managing Director- Americana Snacks Cluster- (Senyorita Group Food Industries- Egypt) Jan’19 – Jan’20 - Full P&L and functional responsibility: 5,600 employees, 4 plants and 67 DCs. - Re-aligned category support plans to drive sustainable profitable growth through flavor/ pack innovation, improving value offerings vs key competitors and Protecting leadership share of 30% in Snacks. - Re-structured Sales to one consolidated structure sharpening focus on retail distribution, rolled out HHT Technology and optimized footprint to 45 DC’s reducing cost-to-serve by 5%. - Developed Fit-for-growth Exercise in partnership with Mars & Co consultants, executed in-full reducing 600 HCs across all functions and consolidated to 3 plants.

Company: PepsiCo
Title: General Manager - Sales & Marketing MenaBev
Period: Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)
Location: Jeddah

- Led the commercial organization of Saudi Arabia Western Region, Yemen and Africa Exports. ⮚ Delivering record Liquid Refreshment Beverage 46% and Carbonated Soft Drinks Share 88%. - Transformed the organization, driving Pre-sell and Tel-sell +90% of the business, reducing selling cost by 35%. - Leading the Revenue Management agenda, delivered Excise Tax and VAT execution. - Expanded nationalization from 12% to 20% and doubling female representation.

Company: PepsiCo
Title: Executive Director Sales & Marketing - MENA Bev
Period: Mar 2017 - Jan 2018 (10 months)
Location: Saudi Arabia
Company: PepsiCo
Title: Senior Director- Middle East & Africa Po1 Sales
Period: Jul 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year, 8 months)
Location: Dubai

- Led sales agenda across the MENA Region as well as Global and Regional accounts management. ⮚ Created/ Established the MENA Region Sales Function, defining roles/responsibilities and RACI between Sector/Region/Commercial Unit sales as well as Franchise, Bottlers and Category teams. - Spear-headed PepsiCo’s leadership in Foodservice through driving strategic account wins in Entertainment: DPR, IMG and Reel Cinema’s and step-changed engagement with Restaurant accounts: Yum! Americana, Subway, Tazaj and Domino’s. - Drove regional multi-category engagement with MAF Carrefour management enabling profitable share growth. - Transformed the front-line capability agenda leveraging technology in training.

Company: PepsiCo
Title: Senior Sales Director - GCC Beverages
Period: Nov 2014 - Jul 2015 (8 months)
Location: Jeddah

- Led the sales agenda across 7 franchise markets, 11 bottlers - Grew MT share in Saudi +2pp to 82%, through turning around PEP business with Panda. - Engaged franchise, bottlers and top customers to drive Foodservice activation in top accounts: Americana, Subway and Vox Cinemas.

Company: PepsiCo
Title: Senior Sales Director- GCC/East Med Foods
Period: Mar 2012 - Nov 2014 (2 years, 8 months)
Location: Saudi Arabia

- Led the sales function across 11 countries to deliver top-line and share growth. - Grew KSA share by 5pp from 57.2% to 62.1%, developed Jordan & Lebanon Distributors to double the business in 3 years. - Led Revenue Management agenda delivering +3PP flow through 3 consecutive years - Executed succession plan, staffed 2 new directors assigned 3 DR’s to developmental roles - Built Safety structure across KSA & set the right tone for the front-line - Delivered Green rating in OHS ’13. - Represented GCCF BU in Don M. Kendall International Markets Awards finals’13 for Large Developed Snacks Businesses.

Company: PepsiCo
Title: Sales Director- Saudi Arabia Snacks
Period: Oct 2009 - Mar 2012 (2 years, 5 months)
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

- Led a team of 800 employees, 30 managers and 8 direct reports to deliver sustainable double digit profitable sales growth across all channels in Saudi Arabia. - Transformed the sales organization to fully implement hand-held technology driving Go-to-market efficiency and improving distribution. - Worked with local and regional teams to develop & implement a Revenue management strategy that drives sustainable profitable growth.

Company: PepsiCo
Title: Sales Capability/Business Development Director-Egypt Beverages
Period: Nov 2006 - Oct 2009 (2 years, 11 months)
Location: Cairo, Egypt

- Led a team of 400 employees, 14 managers and 6 direct reports. - Managed 20 3rd party distributors to deliver company distribution and growth objectives. - Developed and implemented go-to-market strategies & tactics to meet business expansion and profitability objectives. - Managed organized trade & on-premise channels & led the trade marketing agenda.

Company: Mars
Title: National Sales Manager
Period: Dec 2004 - Oct 2006 (1 year, 10 months)
Location: Egypt

- Leading a sales force of 200 employees, 3 Service Providers and 6 associates. - Achieving Market Share Leadership in Greater Cairo

Company: Mars
Title: Regional Sales Manager- Cairo/ U.Egypt
Period: Apr 2001 - Dec 2004 (3 years, 8 months)
Location: Egypt

⮚ Setting-up and managing the sales forces serving Greater Cairo, Canal Zone, Touristic Areas and Upper Egypt.

Title: General Sales Manager (secondee)- Alexandria
Period: Nov 1999 - Apr 2001 (1 year, 5 months)
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Title: District Operations Manager-Alexandria
Period: Dec 1998 - Dec 1999 (1 year)
Company: Procter & Gamble
Title: Customer Service & Distribution Manager
Period: Nov 1997 - Dec 1998 (1 year, 1 month)
Company: Procter & Gamble
Title: Laundry & Cleaning Packing Operations Manager
Period: Nov 1996 - Nov 1997 (1 year)
Company: Procter & Gamble
Title: Laundry & Cleaning Making Operations Manager
Period: Dec 1994 - Nov 1996 (1 year, 11 months)
Location: Egypt
Hisham El Mahdy's education
International School of Choueifat- Al-Ain, U.A.E
1981 - 1985
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
British Council Cairo
General Certificate of Education
1986 - 1988
Bachelor of Science
1988 - 1993
Victory College-Cairo
1977 - 1981
Victory College-Cairo
1985 - 1987
Hisham El Mahdy's top skills
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