MEC LEADERS
Amr El Ashry
Managing Partner
Amr is the Managing Partner. He is one of Middle East for Consultations founders back in 1997. He is responsible to set the overall strategy for MEC network, focusing on increasing quality service and enhancing the brand and reputation by developing and retaining key talent and expanding its capabilities across all areas of the business. Amr has over 30 years of diversified experience serving Clients in the tax advisory and financial services industries in Egypt and the GCC. Prior to incorporating MEC, Amr was a member of KPMG-Egypt. Amr maintains and develops a diversified Clients base from the largest multinational & local companies and firms in Egypt and abroad; where he specialized in financial services and international tax and advised a range of companies on the establishment, organization and operation of their business, as well as advising some of the Egyptian companies on the tax aspects of their Egyptian and cross-border investments. He frequently working with executive management to improve their capabilities to balance growth, risk and return strategies and execution of business activities. Amr is a Fellow of Egyptian Society of Taxation, Egyptian Society of Accountants & Auditors, and Egyptian Society for Public Finance & Taxes, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ain-Shams University.
Khaled Abou Zahra
Senior Tax Partner Egypt & GCC
Khaled is an Egyptian Public Accountant, experienced over 35 years, has had a distinguished career serving large and complex international companies and has served as a specialist in external audit, internal audit, finance and taxation across diversified industries and functions with a proven record of value added to organizations and high level of integrity. Specialized in international taxation and financial services and advised a range of Egyptian and multinational companies on the establishment, organization and operation of their business. Khaled is committed to provide the best tax solutions to Clients, specializing in the areas of transfer pricing, tax structuring, inbound and outbound investment, tax efficient financing and asset ownership planning. Khaled joined MEC in 2018 after working as PepsiCo Inc. “Asia Middle East North Africa” Tax Director for 11 years after a long career journey with Ernst & Young, BMW, General Motors and Arthur Andersen. Khaled is a Fellow of Egyptian Society of Taxation, Egyptian Society for Public Finance & Taxes, and Arab Federation of Accountants and Auditors. Khaled is an authorized Egyptian Liquidator and Syndic, Board member of the Arab Tax Society, Head of the Tax and Customs Committee in the Canada Egypt Business Council (CEBC). He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ain-Shams University.
Khaled Abou Zahra
Senior Tax Partner Egypt & GCC
Gamal has over 30 years of diversified experience providing financial statements audit, acquisition due diligence, and finance consultation services. Building on his audit and standards expertise, Gamal is responsible for the companies evaluation, feasibility studies, audit & internal audit, financial services studies, and Risk Assessment Gamal joined MEC after a wide range of experience at (Grant Thornton-Mohamed Hilal) and KPMG-Egypt. He is an Egyptian Chartered Accountant and a certified Auditor in Financial Regulatory Authority-Egypt. Gamal is a Fellow of Egyptian Society of Taxation, Egyptian Society of Accountants & Auditors, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Cairo University.
Hussein El Gogary
Partner | Tax Advisory Services
Hussein has more than 25 years of experience in local and international tax, he is a former KPMG Regional International Tax Director. Hussein joined MEC after working in Procter & Gamble occupying several tax roles in Egypt, Middle East & Europe. As an expert in tax risk optimization and restructuring projects, Hussein is responsible for providing tax advisory services, and tax technology & compliance projects; to Clients from a wide variety of industries. Hussein is a Fellow of Egyptian Society of Taxation. He has MBA from City University of Seattle in USA, holds advanced Computer Science Diploma from American University in Cairo AUC and Bachelor of Commerce from Cairo University. Building on his audit and standards expertise, Gamal is responsible for the companies evaluation, feasibility studies, audit & internal audit, financial services studies, and Risk Assessment Gamal joined MEC after a wide range of experience at (Grant Thornton-Mohamed Hilal) and KPMG-Egypt. He is an Egyptian Chartered Accountant and a certified Auditor in Financial Regulatory Authority-Egypt. Gamal is a Fellow of Egyptian Society of Taxation, Egyptian Society of Accountants & Auditors, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Cairo University.
Ahmed Mahmoud
Partner | Assurance & Business Development
Ahmed has more than 25 years of experience in audit and assurance services. He leads the accounting outsource function. Ahmed joined MEC from nearly 20 years ago, after working as an Internal Audit Manager at (Misr for Mechanical and Electrical Projects “Kahromecha”). He had a diversified experiences for different companies; where he contributed in successful feasibility studies and companies evaluation for clients M&A projects. He lead many tax compliance and advisory engagements. Ahmed is a member of Egyptian Tax Society, and holds a Bachelor degree of Commerce from Cairo University.
