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Mr. Amr Hafez received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1992 and 1995 respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in RFIC design from University of Waterloo, Canada in 2000. He is currently the CTO of the ASIC Solutions Division at Si-Ware System, Cairo, Egypt.

Before Joining Si-Ware in 2007, he was with PMC-Sierra in Burnaby Canada where he lead a team designing a fully integrated dual-band Wi-MAX Transceiver. Prior to that, he worked as an RFIC Designer at Research In Motion in Waterloo, Canada where he design a tri-band EGSM chipset. Mr. Hafez holds two US patents. His current areas of interest are Analog/Mixed-Signal for MEMS interfaces and RF circuits.