Hicham Fadel

Hicham Fadel is a Partner with Strategy& and a member of the firm’s Technology, Media, Telecommunications, and Digital practice. He has over 20 years of strategy consulting experience, helping telecom operators, technology firms and digital players develop winning strategies and build distinctive capabilities.

Hicham specializes in strategic transformations and commercial turnarounds, with a focus on market entry strategies, B2C digitization, data analytics, and operating models. Hicham also leads our sports, gaming and e-Sports business, advising ministries, federations, clubs and large funds.

In addition to his client work, he co-authored several Strategy& reports including “Hitting the target: analytical imperatives for telecom marketers in emerging markets”, “Skin in the game: how telecom operators can win with gaming”, “The future of gaming: navigating from gameplay to payday in the coming era of gaming”, and “Vision Zero: the journey to safer roads in the Middle East”.

Hicham is also the People Partner for the Middle East firm and champions our culture and people agenda.

Hicham holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS degree in fiber optics and photonics from Texas A&M University, and a BE in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut.