Issam Darwish is the founder and CEO/Executive Vice Chairman of IHS Towers, the largest tower company in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He co-founded IHS in 2001 and has been instrumental in developing a new industry; reshaping the relationship between MNOs and tower companies to provide the most effective and energy efficient mobile networks. Issam has over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications and holds a Bachelor’s Engineering Degree with distinction in Computer and Communications from the American University of Beirut.