Adel has over eighteen years of finance and business advisory experience in the areas of transactions services, M&A, finance and performance management, enterprise risk management, and corporate governance with “the Big Four” in the USA such as Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Some of the client industries Adel served were semiconductor, oil and gas, and large manufacturing. The clients were among fortune 500 companies in the USA. Adel led SOX implementation at AMD and the internal control integration with ATI.
Adel has significant experience in coordinating and executing seamless international consultant strategies and has worked extensively with underwriters and legal counsel as well as other consultant firms on numerous transactions, including a variety of registration statements such as initial public offering (IPO) and adopting and implementing Sarbanes Oxley.
Adel is a highly qualified in merger and acquisition, company integrations, internal control and Sarbanes Oxley controls including IT, general computer controls as well as finance and entity level controls. Adel contributed to several books on the topic of internal controls, risk management, corporate finance and corporate governance. One recently published book is “Managing Organizational Culture for effective Internal Control from practice to theory,” by Dr. Jan A. Pfister.
Adel has a Bachelor of Finance and Accounting from Helwan University Egypt. Adel is a Certified Fraud Examiner and member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in USA. Adel is an active member of Information System Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Adel is an instructor with the Management Center at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Adel is a board member and head of the audit committee for several healthcare organizations in Egypt.