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Curriculum.Vitae

Mohamed Farid El-Sahn

  Arabic page

 Personal Information

  Date of Birth: 28-12-195

Place of birth: Alexandria- Egypt

Occupation: Professor of Business Administration

Institution: University of Bahrain, College of Business Administration

Address: Sokheir- Po.Box 32038 Manama

Telephone in Bahrain: Mobile 00973-36600349 Office: 17438819, Home 17813544

Telephone in Egypt: (mobile): (002)0105319319-   (002) 0105318318 

 (Home): (002)-03-5844413 

E-mail   : faridelsahn@hotmail.com, fsahn@buss.uob.bh

Private Business: “El Sahn Consultancy “Management Consulting & Training Services”

Position   : Owner& Managing Director

Address: Semoha, University Staff Buildings, No 4, Alexandria, Egypt

Tel       (002)-03-4296934, 4250858

Fax      (002)-03-4250858

Marital Status: Married – with three children

Passport No: 652660

Place of Issue: Alexandria – Egypt.

Date of Issue: 17/5/2004

    Date of Expire: 16/5/2011

Academic Qualifications 

·        B.com in Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce Alexandria University, May 1975. General grade: V. Good.

·        MSc in Business Administration (Marketing) , Faculty of Commerce , Alexandria University , April 1980, in

     “Evaluating the Marketing Strategies of New Products in the Detergent

       sector in Egypt.”

·        PhD in Business Administration ( Marketing), Strathclyde University , UK June 1984, in     " The Marketing of Financial Service : The application of Marketing Concepts and Techniques in Scottish Banks " 

Carrier Paths

  • -   Assistant Professor in the faculty of Commerce – Alexandria University from October 1984 - April 1991

  • -   Associate Professor in the faculty of Commerce – Alexandria University from April 1991 –August 1998  

  • Professor of Marketing in the Faculty of Commerce – Alexandria University from August 1998

  • -Academic Advisor for the English Education Unit from 1998- 1999

  • -Executive manager of the English Education Unit from 1999- 2001. Head of Business Administration Department, Faculty of Commerce – Alexandria University from 1998  - 1999

  • -Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Environmental Development in the Faculty of Commerce   Alexandria University from 1999 – 2002

  • -Head of Business Administration Department, Faculty of Commerce-Alexandria University from October 2003-till August 2004

  • -Professor of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, College of Business Administration from September 2004- till now

Researches &Publications

( Researches (in Arabic 

·        El Sahn, Farid (1988), “The Role of Marketing and Public Relations in Industrial Companies in Egypt; a Field Research”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Research ‘Alexandria University, Vol. 1, No. 25.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1998), “An Analysis of the Egyptian Tourism Demand Trends as an approach for Marketing Strategies Planning”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Vol. 2 No 25.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1989), “Sales Promotion Programs’ Success Factors for Consumer Packaged-Goods Companies in Egypt.” Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol. 2, No. 26.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1990), “Egyptian Bank Managers’ Attitudes Toward the New Concepts of Distributing Banking Services “, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol. 1 No. 27.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1990), “An Application of the Power Theory Concepts and their Impact on Distribution Channels: a Field Research”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol. 2, No. 28.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1994), “ The Perceived Quality of Banking Services : An Empirical Study for Testing its Determinants and the Models Used in Measuring it”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches , Alexandria University , Vol. 2 , No. 31.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1995), “Managing Service Quality: Examining the Factors Affecting the Perceived Service Quality Dimensions Using the Gaps Model”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol.2, No. , 32.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1996), “ Using Internal Marketing Concepts in Measuring the Attitudes of Top Management Executives in Public Sector Companies Towards the Privatization Program : a Field Research” , The Scientific Magazine for Economics and Commerce , Ein – Shams University , No. 1

·        El Sahn, Farid (1997), “The marketing of Professional Services: An Exploratory Study for Measuring Egyptian Companies’ Top Management toward the Universities Consulting Services”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol. 2, No. 34.

·        El Sahn, Farid (1998), “The Antecedents and Consequences of the Market Orientation Concept in Egyptian Companies”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol. 1, No.35.

·        El Sahn, Farid (2000), “ Measuring Brand Loyalty”, A Research Presented to The Conference “ New Trends and Directions in Management Thoughts” held by The Scientific Committee of Business Administration.

·        El Sahn, Farid (2002), “Electronic Marketing in Business: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Perspectives”, A paper Presented to the Conference “E-Commerce: Perspectives and Challenges”, held by the Faculty of Commerce- Alexandria University, July.

·        El Sahn, Farid and Tarek Taha (2003), “A Critical Assessment Approach for Measuring Internet Banking Services Quality Determinants in Egypt”, Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University, Vol. 1 No.40.  

( Researches (in English   

·        Baker, Michael & Farid el Sahn (1984), “Services Marketing: An               Overview”, Scottish Bankers’ Magazine, August. 

·        El Sahn, Farid, (1984), “ Marketing Mix Decisions for Banking Services” a Working Paper, Marketing Department, Strathclyde University.           

·        El Sahn , farid , Omneya Mokhtar (2003) , “Dimension or Attribute- Specific Operation of the Expectancy- Disconfirmation Model: An Empirical Investigation” , Faculty of Commerce Magazine for Scientific Researches, Alexandria University , Vol. 2 No. 40.               

·        El Sahn, Farid & Tarek Taha (2004), “Examining Relationship Marketing Practices in the Egyptian Bank Environment”, Faculty of Commerce    Magazine for Scientific Research, Alexandria University, Vol.1, No 41.

·        Shehata, Hossam, El Sahn, Farid, And Kattara, Hanan (2006),  “Measuring the Concepts and Practices of Revenue Management System in Egyptian Hotels” A paper presented in a conference “Cutting Edge Research in Tourism, New Directions, challenges, and applications, University of Surrey. 

·        Fouad Nashwa, and El Sahn, Farid (2007), “Evaluation of Ecotourism in Siwa”, The World Journal of Small Business Management in Tourism, special issue No. 2.

·        El Sahn, Farid, (2007), “Measuring the Effect of Internet Banking and Market Orientation on Customer Relationship Performance”, A Project financed by the Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Bahrain.

Publications

Many books in Arabic are issued for using them as a reference in  Teaching to the undergraduate  students, and for managers in their Practices. These books are written under the following titles

  • - Introduction to Business

  • -Principles of Marketing 

  • -Principles of Management

  • -Marketing Research

  • -Marketing Management

  • -Advertising

  • -Public Relations

  • -Public Administration

  • - Managerial Economics

  • -Feasibility Studies

  Teaching Experiences

Teaching the following courses for the undergraduate students in Alexandria university , Beirut Arab university , the Arab Academy for Sciences, Technology and Maritime, and Dubai University College  in Arabic & English    

  • - Introduction to Business 

  • - Principles of Management

  • - Advertising& Promotion

  • - Principles of Marketing

  • - Marketing Research

  • - Purchasing & Inventory Mangt.

  • - Marketing Management

  • - Public Relations

  • - Strategic management

  • - Services Marketing

  • - Contemporary Managerial Issues

  • - Marketing Channels

  • - Marketing Planning & control

  • - International Marketing

     Teaching the following courses for the graduate students (MBA, PhD, Diploma)

  • - Marketing Management         (MBA & Diploma)

  • - Advanced Marketing              (MBA ,PhD)

  • - Marketing Channels               (MBA &Diploma)

  • - Bank Marketing                      (Diploma)

  • - International Marketing          (MBA & Diploma)

  • - Consumer Research                (Diploma)

  • - Market Studies                         (Diploma)

Supervision of Academic Work

This is including the supervision of more than 30 Master theses in the field of Marketing and five PhD theses

Conferences, Seminars & Research Projects

  • - The First National Conference for “Marketing of Universities Services” March, 1998- Cairo Held by the Higher Education Ministry 

  • - “Improving the business sector performance between obstacles & Applications” September 1997, Held by Cooper & Leibrand Company & Ministry of Public Business Sector

  • - “The Arab Female Manager and Sustainable Development “, the first Arab Female Annual Conference, March 1996, Held by Arab Academy for Sciences, Technology and Maritime

  • -     “Public Business Sector Conference: Strategies & Transfer Approaches”, June 1992 held by Alexandria university-management development centre

  • -       Business administration scientific committee regular conferences in 1999-2000-2001

  • - E-Commerce perspectives and challenges conference July 2002, held by Alexandria University – faculty of commerce

  • - Evaluating industrial Egyptian companies’ performance. A project sponsored by a Canadian research institutes during the period from 1984-1987.the researcher was responsible for all the marketing aspects of the project

  • - Planning for autonomy, the objective was to transfer the “Alexandria water general authority (AWGA) to an economic entity as self-financed institution in 1994 sponsored by the government of Holland. The researcher was the principle researcher

  • - Cutting Edge Research in Tourism Conference: New directions, challenges, and applications, University of Surrey, 2006

  • - International Conference on Built Environment in Developing   Countries, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

  University Activities

- The participation in modernizing and restructuring the courses and course syllabi of undergraduate and graduate studies in Alexandria university-faculty of commerce in 1992 

- A member in a committee for designing an Executive MBA to be launched in 2004 jointly with George Washington University   

- The leader of the social committee of the students union in the faculty of commerce from Alexandria University from 1992 till 2001 

- A member of the board of directors of the computer and information technology unit in “Alexandria University” in the year 1996-1999 and vice president in 2000-2001 

- A member of the board of directors of the “English learning unit” faculty of commerce in Alexandria University from 1998-till 2001 s executive manger  

- A member of the board of directors of the “open learning unit” faculty of commerce in Alexandria- University from 1998 till 2000   

- A member of the board of directors of the “ideal student” contest faculty of commerce in Alexandria University from 1993 till 2001  

- Leading many of the student’s activities and groups.

  General  Activities

  • _ Vice president of management development center-Alexandria university from 1992 –1997

  • _Vice president of tourism committee –national party in Alexandria from 1997 till 2002

  • _ A member of the general committee of the three public business sector companies, namely

   -The public company for production and agricultural services

   -The corporation company for cotton exports

  El Nasr for electric and electronic appliances

  • _ A member of the board of directors in the following companies  

    - Middle East Company for paper production from 1993 till 1997

    - Alexandria Company for freezing from 1999 till 2002

    - Misr Chemical Company from 1999 till 2002

    - Misr for Auto Trading Company from 2002 till 2005

  • _Marketing consultant for El-Nasr for electric & electronic appliances company from 1999 till 2001

  • _ Management consultant for Smoha social and sporting club in Alexandria from December 2001 till February 2003

  Consultancy & Training Activities

  • _ The participations in all different phases of designing, writing the training materials, delivering and supervising many training programs in Egypt and many Arab countries including AEU, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria

  • _ The training programs cover management training topics in Marketing, Strategic Management, Human Resources, skills building programs, and general management topics

  • _ A special experience in the service area, especially in the financial services industry, including Banks and Insurance companies 

  • _ A vast experience in consultancy services in management in the following areas

           -  Marketing research and competitors’ analysis

           - Designing marketing strategies

           -  Strategic planning and Management

           - Organizational structure & restructuring and Job description

           - Human resources (Assessing training needs, incentive plans

           - Feasibility studies

  Honor Awards

  • - The best student in Alexandria university-faculty of commerce 1975

  • - Overseas research student awards in 1983-1984 from UK granted to the best graduate research in U.K.

  • -Dr.James Mackenzie prize which be granted to the best research in Strathclyde University-U.K.