
Karim Soliman
Chief executive officer (CEO)
Strategic technology executive with over 25 years of progressive leadership in the banking, payments, IT and digital transformation sectors. Recognised as one of the foundational contributors to Egypt’s payment core infrastructure — with EBC 123 marking a key milestone in the local fintech ecosystem.
Karim has held influential positions at CIB and IBM, where he deepened his expertise in enterprise IT, payments innovation and cloud infrastructure. Today he leads NILE.COM as CEO, spearheading national-scale initiatives in bill payments, channel aggregation for retail and IT managed services — notably for Egypt’s tourism digitalization project — with deep expertise in digital security and cybersecurity across the public and private sectors.