Mohamed Abdel-Motaleb Soliman, Head of NBA Africa
Press Launch, per the NBA.
CAIRO AND JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 13, 2022 – NBA Africa immediately named Mohamed Abdel-Motaleb Soliman as Vice President and Head of NBA Egypt, the place the league’s fourth workplace on the continent will open in early 2023. Soliman, who most not too long ago served as vp of the Egyptian Basketball Federation and deputy secretary normal of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, will lead the league’s new workplace in Cairo and report back to NBA Africa CEO Victor Williams.
Soliman, a former captain of the Egyptian Nationwide Basketball Group, Olympian and achieved government with greater than 20 years of economic and manufacturing expertise, will oversee the league’s basketball and enterprise improvement initiatives in Egypt, together with grassroots programming for youth and elite gamers, relationships with present and potential advertising, media and merchandise companions, and social duty efforts throughout the nation.
“The launch of our fourth African workplace in Cairo displays our perception within the monumental potential for basketball and the NBA in Egypt,” mentioned Williams. “Mohamed’s intensive expertise in any respect ranges of the Egyptian basketball ecosystem and demonstrated observe document of rising companies in Egypt make him the perfect particular person to guide our efforts within the nation and speed up the expansion of the sport there.”
“Being part of NBA Africa and opening the league’s workplace in my house nation is a dream come true and one thing I’ve been making ready for my complete life,” mentioned Soliman. “I’ve seen firsthand the great ardour for basketball that exists in Egypt, and I look ahead to constructing on that momentum within the years to return.”
Soliman was a member of the Egyptian Males’s Nationwide Basketball Group that gained the 1995 All-Africa Video games in Zimbabwe, and the group’s captain once they gained the 1999 All-Africa Video games in South Africa, and the 1999 Pan Arab Video games in Jordan. He additionally represented Egypt on the 1988 Olympic Video games in Seoul, on the FIBA Basketball World Cups in Argentina (1990) and Canada (1994), and at FIBA AfroBasket in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1999. He’s a three-time Most Precious Participant of the Egyptian Basketball Tremendous League (1993, 1995 and 1998) and was voted the Arab Basketball Confederation’s greatest participant in 1995.
Following his enjoying profession, Soliman spent greater than 20 years main a lot of manufacturing and fast-moving client items firms in Egypt, together with CEMEX, Lafarge Egypt and Wadi Group. He was named vp of the Egyptian Basketball Federation in 2012, a member of the FIBA Competitions Fee in 2014, and deputy secretary normal of the Egyptian Olympic Committee in 2022. Soliman holds a bachelor’s diploma in civil engineering from Alexandria College and an MBA from the Maastricht College of Administration within the Netherlands.
Earlier this yr, Cairo’s Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports activities Complicated served because the host venue of the Basketball Africa League’s Nile Convention group part and the 18th version of Basketball With out Borders Africa, the NBA and FIBA’s international basketball improvement and group outreach program.
About NBA Africa
NBA Africa is a standalone entity fashioned in Could 2021 that conducts the NBA’s enterprise in Africa, together with the Basketball Africa League (BAL) and the league’s entities in Dakar, Senegal and Lagos, Nigeria. The NBA has a protracted historical past in Africa and opened its African headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2010. The league’s efforts on the continent have targeted on rising entry to basketball and the NBA by way of youth and elite improvement, social duty, media distribution, company partnerships, NBA Africa Video games, the BAL, and extra.
