About

During the course of his time with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Tarek Nakkach has guided his legal team to an extremely high level of service; it has received multiple internal awards from the company’s management for being considered the best support function since he joined in 2012. The role has also allowed him to amass a vast amount of knowledge – to the point that he is now regarded a leading expert in the Middle East in information technology law – and has represented HPE at renowned conferences in the region. When discussing the success he has had in building up the HPE legal team, Nakkach explains that talent acquisition has been key: ‘I have recruited, trained and promoted a diverse and capable legal team to help drive the business forward. My team and I are involved in day-to-day technical discussions, managing projects cross functions and providing regular onsite trainings on issues like ethics, customer facing, commercial contracts and competition law. This hands-on approach has positively affected our company’s performance’. Nakkach also provides insight into some of the major project work he has succeeded in executing for HPE. ‘As well as leading the successful implementation of the HP Company separation in the region’, he explains, ‘which is one of the largest separations in corporate history, I have been involved with advising on complex multimillion dollar IT projects and the establishment of a first of a kind innovation centre in the region – the HPE Digital Life Garage which will be a centre for research and innovation in areas like artificial intelligence’.