Meet the Cofounders

With a passion for innovation, the CEQUENS story began with Karim Khorshed, Ahmed Shabrawy, and a laptop.
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Founders

Karim Khorshed

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Ahmed Shabrawy

Co-Founder, Chief Research & Innovation Officer

Karim Khorshed

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

A serial technopreneur with over two decades of experience, Karim’s quest to create high-tech products and solutions is what inspired him to cofound CEQUENS in 2011. Throughout his career, Karim’s ethos is to deliver communication-based platforms and solutions for seamless customer experiences. Today, CEQUENS is recognized as a global player in the cloud-based, omni-channel communication solutions space.

Prior to CEQUENS, Karim was the co-founder and Executive President at EgyptNetwork, a leading unified communications enabler, and Software development house, and a board member for the Egyptian Information, Telecommunications, Electronics, and Software Alliance (EITESAL), a non-profit entity of ICTE companies and global corporations.

As CEO of CEQUENS, Karim has successfully managed to deliver a suite of innovative communication solutions including SMS, Voice, Push Notification, email, and Chat Apps APIs to over 100 markets globally, serving more than 1,200 clients such as Microsoft, Google, Careem, Telegram, HSBC, Viber, Alibaba, IKEA, Talabat, and AlRajhi Bank, and bridging 7 billion mobile subscribers to the business world.

Today, CEQUENS is a multi-award winning, ISO-certified company and PCI DSS-compliant company, and has been rated as a Tier One A2P SMS solutions provider in ROCCO's A2P SMS Market Impact Reports 2023. It is also recognized as a Meta Business Partner and a value-added service provider for Microsoft Teams Phone and WhatsApp Business.

Karim grew up in Cairo, Egypt. He is an Endeavor Egypt Entrepreneur, a mentor for several regional startups, and has participated in numerous talks across MENA.

Senior Leadership

Hussein Malhas

VP Growth & Revenue Operations

Hania Tolba

VP Global Sales

Nermeen Sobhy

VP Carrier Relations

Ashraf Othman

VP Commercial Strategy Execution & Program Management

Mostafa Zoheir

VP Finance

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CEQUENS Omnichannel Chat

CEQUENS Verification Hub

CEQUENS Campaigns

CEQUENS Bots

Location Based Advertising

Mobile Advertising

CEQUENS Number Lookup

CEQUENS TrueNorth Gateway

CEQUNES IVR

CEQUENS OmniLink Studio

CEQUENS AI Agent

Communication APIs

SMS API

Messenger API

WhatsApp Business API

Apple Business Chat API

Instagram API

Voice API

Push Notification API

Google GBM API

Connectivity

SIP

Short & Long Codes

Microsoft Teams Enterprise Voice

BFSI & Fintech

Retail

Logistics & Delivery

Healthcare

Platforms

Digital Authentication

Marketing Communications

Customer Support

Intelligent Engagement

Meet the Revamped Omni-Channel Chat Platform

CEQUENS to Showcase AI-Powered Communication Solutions at the 5th Annual MENA Conversational AI & Contact Center Automation Summit 2025

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Founders

Karim Khorshed

Ahmed Shabrawy

Senior Leadership

Hussein Malhas

Hania Tolba

Nermeen Sobhy

Ashraf Othman

Mostafa Zoheir

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