Baha Allawati is a Vice President of Business Unit looking after International Wholesale services for Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel. He is also the Director at Al Hassan Engineering Co. He previously held a Sr. Manager position of National and International accounts where he managed the relationship with the various national and International operators and carriers and licensed operators in Oman, and more than 800 operators worldwide.

Baha also served as a Sr. Project Manager for Omantel where he program managed a portfolio of multimillion dollars Telecom and IT projects from Mobile to SDH/DWDM and fiber optic cable deployment. Prior to joining Omantel, he spent more than 4 years with Iris Wireless – USA in positions of Assistant Project Manager where he deployed SMS and MMS interworking solutions as well as being a Sr. Network and Security Engineer in managing and deploying the entire network infrastructure for Iris Wireless and its Global Messaging node. During his studies in the USA, he network consulted along with Andrew W Dozier & Associates and assisted into implementing telecom solutions for Banks, SOHOs and small clinics, while contributed into building a Telecom network laboratory and project outline for Vanderbilt University. Mr. Allawati has more than 18 years of experience in the IT and Telecom sector, holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with the emphasis on Telecom and IT and a Minor in Math from Vanderbilt University - USA, Master’s degree in Networking Security from Vanderbilt University – USA and a Master’s Certificate degree in Project management from George Washington University.

Baha has completed A high Value manager program from Manchester Business School. Baha served as the chairman of Wholesale committee of SAMENA Telecommunications, and mentored various students and entrepreneurs thru Injaz and SME mentorship programs.