Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd. (Detasad) announced the appointment of Felix Wass as its new president and CEO effective Jan. 1.
Wass started his career in Siemens holding responsibilities for network engineering, product management, development and sales. He held roles as group VP engineering and CTO for a pan-European TETRA operator, managed a 3G network rollout in the UK and as CTO and CIO of a mobile operator. After leading the restructuring and turnaround of a Vodafone partner operator in the CIS, he transformed a former handset distributor to a full service system integrator.
Having lived in Europe, Middle East, CIS and South East Asia, Felix has a record of accomplishment in building and leading diversified, multicultural teams.
Building on its success story of more than 30 years as a major player in the ICT sector of Saudi Arabia, Detasad is well positioned to become a driving force in the exciting transformation of telecommunications and ICT services in the Kingdom. Detasad shareholders are FAL Holdings Arabia Co. Ltd. and Detecon International GmbH — part of Deutsche Telekom of Germany.
“This is an exciting time to join Detasad,” said Wass. “Detasad aims to be a significant contributor to the success of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and to benefit from the resulting growth in the ICT sector. Building on a strong track-record our portfolio and competencies in managed services, network deployment and cloud/ VSAT/ ICT allow us to offer compelling solutions with key differentiators to our customers.”
He said that some of Detasad’s key objectives are to further enhance and expand a leading edge solution portfolio and to build a dynamic, learning culture. “We want to go beyond traditional supplier/customer relationships and become a trusted strategic partner to our customers adding value and supporting their growth and success. Detasad will continue its focus on quality and best practices underlined by ISO27000, TL9000 or Tier 3 Extended, SAP Infrastructure Operations and other high profile certifications,” Wass added.
Wass started his career in Siemens holding responsibilities for network engineering, product management, development and sales. He held roles as group VP engineering and CTO for a pan-European TETRA operator, managed a 3G network rollout in the UK and as CTO and CIO of a mobile operator. After leading the restructuring and turnaround of a Vodafone partner operator in the CIS, he transformed a former handset distributor to a full service system integrator.
Having lived in Europe, Middle East, CIS and South East Asia, Felix has a record of accomplishment in building and leading diversified, multicultural teams.
Building on its success story of more than 30 years as a major player in the ICT sector of Saudi Arabia, Detasad is well positioned to become a driving force in the exciting transformation of telecommunications and ICT services in the Kingdom. Detasad shareholders are FAL Holdings Arabia Co. Ltd. and Detecon International GmbH — part of Deutsche Telekom of Germany.
“This is an exciting time to join Detasad,” said Wass. “Detasad aims to be a significant contributor to the success of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and to benefit from the resulting growth in the ICT sector. Building on a strong track-record our portfolio and competencies in managed services, network deployment and cloud/ VSAT/ ICT allow us to offer compelling solutions with key differentiators to our customers.”
He said that some of Detasad’s key objectives are to further enhance and expand a leading edge solution portfolio and to build a dynamic, learning culture. “We want to go beyond traditional supplier/customer relationships and become a trusted strategic partner to our customers adding value and supporting their growth and success. Detasad will continue its focus on quality and best practices underlined by ISO27000, TL9000 or Tier 3 Extended, SAP Infrastructure Operations and other high profile certifications,” Wass added.
