For the past fourteen years, Eng. Hasan Omar has gained an exceptional knowledge in the private, governmental and educational sectors working with multifaceted stakeholders. Mr. Omar has demonstrated key knowledge and skills as a practitioner in project management, institutional development, micro, small and medium (MSME) and high-growth strategic planning, networking and partnerships development.
Mr. Omar is currently the Manager of the Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI). He is a founding executive member of the first ICT incubator in Palestine (PICTI) since its establishment in 2004 through a USAID fund. He has greatly contributed to its physical infrastructure setup and establishment as he designed, implemented, and is still managing the technology infrastructure. Eng. Hasan has built on his previous experience in designing and establishing the ICT infrastructure; he built and managed the IT departments in the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Palestinian Investment Promotion Agency, and the Ministry of Social Affairs in Ramallah, and also in Bethlehem for GEKA – Vivendi Universal water project for the southern of Palestine funded by the World Bank.
Due to his high motivation at PICTI, Mr. Omar was tasked in managing the Operations of PICTI including the business development unit, the pre-incubation, and incubation programs targeting ICT start-ups as well as the entire operations of PICTI.
Mr. Omar has mustered extensive experience in providing technical, business, and marketing advisory and coaching services to several ICT high-growth start-ups and MSMEs. He also managed PICTI’s pipeline as part of the technical and marketing evaluation panels. He has assessed more than 230 ICT projects’ ideas. He is also member in the evaluation panel for H. H. Sheikh Salem Al-Ali A-Sabah Award for Internet – Kuwait and evaluated more than 420 Arab web sites.
Mr. Omar is a Medibtikar Innovation Expert and has also developed niche skills to train, coach and mentor technology entrepreneurs in conducting dozens of workshops and has trained thousands of ICT students and recent graduates on technology entrepreneurship, innovation, ICT marketing, starting technology businesses and running MSMEs. Furthermore, as an expert in the management of information systems, Mr. Omar has taught several computer training courses and prepared many ICT curriculums. He has wide technical expertise includes networking architecture and management, database analysis, design, and development.
Eng. Hasan has hands-on proven project management skills. He has worked on several projects and has end-to-end project management cycle experience from inception to closedown. He has played a pivotal role in managing specific initiatives and overall programs including tasks such as managing the subcontractors and consultants, project human resources, deliverables and milestones, budgets and expenditures. One of these projects is the “DEEP” which is a $500,000 development project funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) through UNDP/PAPP and targeting deprived Palestinian families. During this 15 months project, he managed more than 80 persons and trained more than 100 fresh ICT graduates. He succeeded in employing 57 of them in more than 35 ICT companies in West Bank and Gaza. Also, he established six micro-enterprises for another 21 beneficiaries in different locations in West Bank.
Mr. Omar has played a critical role in launching and also managing the 1st Technology Business Plan Contest in Palestine. He also managed the Digital Arabic Content competition with ESCWA. Mr. Omar managed the Student Internship Program sponsored by the infoDev – World Bank. Mr. Omar is a founding member of the MENA Network of Incubators (MENAinc) under the umbrella of the infoDev program
Born in Palestine in 1971, Mr. Omar holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from Jordan University of Science & Technology, Jordan, since 1995. He is a member in the Jordan Engineers Association since 1995, Canadian Professional Engineers Association since 2000, National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) since 2004, MENA Incubators Network (MENAinc) since 2006, and the African Incubation Network (AIN) since 2007.
He holds Palestinian nationality and is married with three children. Mr. Omar can be reached at the contacts below:
Mobile: +970 59 922 5092
Work: +970 2 240 9290
Email: hasan.omar@picti.ps; hasanict@yahoo.com