Staff
Our Team
Executive Staff & Leadership
Dedicated professionals driving our global engineering mission and programs.
Eng / Magdi Osman / Mas.
Director Of Marketing & Founder
- Eng. Magdi Osman is the CEO and founder of Sudanese American Engineers Association (SAEA). He leads the overall strategic and operational responsibility for SAEA’s programs, expansion, and execution of its mission.
- Prior to his current role, Eng. Osman was a master’s degree holder in Aviation and aerospace management / aviation and aerospace system safety from Emery Riddle Aeronautical university.
- Eng. Osman is entrepreneur and founder of Trans-pacific Aviation Inc, a 145-repair station operating in five states providing aircraft maintenance and engineering services.
- Eng. Osman served as president for Sudanese Association for Northern California (SANC) for three terms (2006-2010 and 2016-2018).
- Eng. Osman is passionate about humanitarian aid and working for SAEA fulfills his desire to help those in need, especially in Sudan.
- Contact CEO: osman@saea-sd.org
Ghada Khalid
SAEA CEO & Executive Director / Director Of Marketing
- Ghada is a professional corporate communication and marketing specialist.
- Broad knowledge and experience in communications, social media, customer service, and marketing.
- Managed communication of one of the most successful joint ventures NUMMI (General Motors and Toyota) public relations.
- Ghada worked for ZAIN Telecommunication International, Khartoum, Sudan 2012–2015 Communication Manager.
- BLUE NILE TV, Khartoum, Sudan 2006–2014 United States Correspondent, working in Granger, IN.
- SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San Jose, California 2006 Master of Communication Studies.
- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA, Omaha, NE 2000 Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism.
- Contact Ghada: ghada@saea-sd.org
Ibrahim Ayad
Vice President & Founder
- Ibrahim Ayad, SAEA Founder, has over 18 years with Cisco Systems where he has architected, designed and deployed complex networking solutions in the service provider, enterprise voice and video domains.
- Senior system engineer at Cisco; consultative support in Collaboration architecture to partners and Cisco systems engineers.
- PhD candidate in College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, researching Networking architecture, Multipath-TCP reliable transport, Video coding, and neural adaptive streaming using ML/AI.
- Founder and executive director of Ayad Foundation, committed to giving the gift of education to children in need in Sudan.