205, Fayrouz Building, Gulf Towers,
Hassan and Hussein Steet, Bahr Aazam,
Giza,Egypt
Phone: (+202) 3307 0111
P. O. Box: 12519
Email: info@accountingroup.org
Our People
Essam Ghorab

Name: Essam Ghorab
Position: Chairman
Location: Nasr City
Email: Ghorab@ghorab-co.com
Telephone: (+202) 2415 0615
Qualification
- Fellow Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors (FESAA).
- Member, Egyptian Society of Taxation (FEST)
- Member, Arab Business Administration Association.
- Bachelor of Commerce , Cairo University, May 1975
Track Record
Essam has founded Essam Ghorab & Co. in 1993. The firm renders financial audit, accounting, tax and forensic accounting services. The firm has international culture as the management team all come from Big Four accounting firms. They are all acquainted to quality standards applied in international accounting firms.
Before Establishing Ghorab & Co., Essam worked for Mostafa Shawki Arthur Andersen, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Ernst & Young International. Essam also worked as Senior Internal Auditor at Qatari Airways. His firm renders internal audit using Standards of Internal Audit.
Eissa Refai

Name: Eissa Refai
Position: Managing Partner
Location: Giza
Email: eissa@accountingroup.org
Tel: (+202) 3307 0111
Qualification
- Fellow Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors (FESAA).
- Fellow Egyptian Society of Taxation (FEST).
- Member, Arab Business Administration Association.
- Bachelor of Commerce , Cairo University, May 1982.
Track Record
Eissa worked a Audit Division Head at Mazars Mostafa Shawki. Before that he was a Partner at Deloitte and Toushe Egypt. He worked for fifteen years of his career at Arthur Andersen.
Eissa is an expert in quality control over Financial Audit and financial services. He has been Head of Quality in all firms where he worked since 1992. He is aware of latest developments of international quality standards applied on professional accounting firms.
Eissa Supervised teams in delivering forensic accounting, financial audits, share valuation and financial services to clients in Egypt and in the Middle East.
Before Establishing Ghorab & Co., Essam worked for Mostafa Shawki Arthur Andersen, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Ernst & Young International. Essam also worked as Senior Internal Auditor at Qatari Airways. His firm renders internal audit using Standards of Internal Audit.
Dr. Hisham Dinana

Name: Dr. Hisham Dinana
Position: President and CEO, Solving Egypt
Location: Maadi
Email: hesham.dinana@solvingefeso.com
Tel: (+2012) 2317 1046
Qualification
Dr. Hesham O. Dinana, DBA, MBA, Dipl. Eng., B.Sc., CMC
President & CEO
Track Record
Dr. Dinana has over 25 years of working experience in strategy, marketing, information technology management, customer care and hi-tech manufacturing.
His industry experiences include; healthcare, ICT, real estate, insurance, food & agro Oil & Gas, furniture, and FMCG. Through his various managerial positions at Philips Medical Systems-North America and his consultancy work in the USA, Europe and the Middle East, his experience and expertise evolved to cover a wide spectrum of business and technical areas with hands-on specialization in strategic management, marketing, healthcare planning, corporate governance, IT management and CRM.
His consulting projects' engagement level span from one-on-one Executive Coaching to National-Level Strategy Development initiatives.
Besides his responsibilities as the President of Hands-on Management Consulting,
Dr. Dinana is an eminent Professor of Strategic Management and Marketing at the American University in Cairo and Arab Academy for Science & Technology. Dr. Dinana has given numerous interactive talks/training courses to senior and middle managers and served as a speaker at numerous international conferences focusing on strategic & international management, healthcare marketing, and information technology management especially e-Marketing & e-Health.
He is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the UK Institute of Management Consultancy; a Certified Board Director by the Egyptian Institute of Directors; a Certified Balanced Scorecard Consultant; a Certified Management Simulation Trainer and is a member of the American Management Association, Academy of Management, Association for Service Managers, American College of Healthcare Executives, Egyptian Engineers Syndicate and the Egyptian Society for Quality in Healthcare. As an active member of his community, Dr. Dinana has served as a board member at the Egyptian Junior Businessmen Association , the Management Consultants Association, and the Children Cancer Hospital Foundation .
Mostafa Basyouni

Name: Mostafa Basyouni
Position: Head of Quality
Location: Nasr Ciry
Email: elsaadani@gmail.com
Tel: (+202) 2415 0615
Qualification
- Member of the American Institution for Accountancy
- Fellow Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors (FESAA).
- Fellow Egyptian Society of Taxation (FEST).
- Member, Arab Business Administration Association.
- Board Member at Arab Organization for Experts.
- Mastero of Business Administration, Tebeen University
- Bachelor of Commerce , Cairo University, May 1977.
Track Record
Mostafa has track record of working at Arther Andersen and KPMG in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He has applied system developments and financial advisory services.
Mostafa has established quality systems in international accounting firms. He is called on for consultation on quality by most accounting firms.
He renders services in the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia relating to finance, system development and management information systems.
Mohamed Ahmed Eissa

Name: Mohamed Ahmed Eissa
Position: Partner, Donor Funded Projects
Location: Maadi
Email: meissa.cpa24@yahoo.com
Tel: (+202) 3306 7419
Qualification
CPA: (Certified Public Accountant), Illinois University, USA Nov.1997
AICPA: Member of the (The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New York, USA), 1998
ESAA: Member of the (Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors), 1998
B.COM: (Bachelor of Commerce), Ein Shams University, Cairo,
FCE: (First Certificate in English), Cambridge University
Track Record
Mohamed is a Financial Expert for European Union. He worked as a Director of Finance at several Saudi companies and also as a Chief Internal Auditor for Sheikh Faisal Bin Qasim Al-Thani Group (FBQHC).
Mohamed worked in the period from 1975 to 2000 in KPMG, PWH and Touch Ross. He is expert with International Financial Reporting Standards.
He evaluates and improves Internal Control system and renders risk management services. He also renders External and Internal Auditing services
Mohamed organizes Training Technical Advisor / Manager for a CPA course in Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is a part time instructor in the American University in Cairo (AUC), the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo (AMCHAM), Ein Shams University, and Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.
Hussein Al Gogary

Name: Hussein Al Gogary
Position: Partner, Head of Tax
Location: Mohandseen
Email: Hussein.elgogary@mec-ca.com
Tel: (+201) 001426059
Qualification
- Fellow, Egyptian Society for Taxation
- MBA, City University USA
- Diploma, Computer Science - American University in Cairo
- B.A. Accounting - Cairo University
Track Record
Hussein has more than 20 years of Tax experience in various Roles and Jurisdictions. Hussein Advises Multinational and Regional clients of the Firm.
Hussein heads the tax Advisory services in Cairo Egypt since 2009. He has been leading various tax compliance and advisory projects, assisting companies in mitigating their National and International Tax risks.
Hussein brings practical insights of his regional advisory role with previous big 4 firm and industrial manufacturing background in FMCG business. He was the Near East Group Tax Manager for the top FMCG Fortune 500 in the region He have wide experience working in Europe and MENA Region. Leading their regional practice. He built up the structure and processes within this region.
Hussein’s experience covers many dimensions he uses to assist clients, with focus on compliance, process controls, planning and tax organizational setup.
His compliance experience covers a range of areas including advising on tools to provide transactional risk mitigation for direct and indirect taxes as part of corporate governance.
His Planning role covers advising clients on areas of Transfer pricing, acquired targets tax policy integration, and evaluating corporate tax advisory. He applied Fin 48 and Deferred tax (FASB 109) as per US GAAP.
His organizational experience covers providing thought leadership on profiling tax roles and repsonsibitlies to Proactively integrate tax angle into the decision making process of clients’ management teams