Ahmed Yacout is the founder of IPS Holding and CEO of Medpharma, having previously served as General Manager of Sanofi Near East. He began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1984 in Egypt with Roussel Uclaf, then Rhone Poulenc Rorer (RPR). His experience spans the MENA region. Being a strategist and a result-oriented person, he has been instrumental in growing the business and predicting potential market opportunities, which he showed by engineering the successful acquisition of Medpharma Pharmaceutical & Medical Industries LLC (Medpharma), in partnership with the global pharmaceutical company Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.