Dr. Apostolov received his MS Degree in Electrical Engineering, MS degree in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has over 40+ experience in power systems protection, automation, control and communications. 

He is presently Principal Engineer for OMICRON electronics in Los Angeles, CA. He is IEEE Fellow and Member of the Power Systems Relaying and Control Committee. He is past Chairman of the Relay Communications Subcommittee, serves on many IEEE PES Working Groups and is Chairman of Working Groups C2 'Role of Protective Relaying in Smart Grid'.

HE is a member if IEC TC57 working groups 10, 17, 18 and 19 and Convenor of CIGRE WG B5.53 'Test Strategy for Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) functions in a full digital substation based on IEC 61850 applications' and member of several other CIGRE B5 working groups. He is a Distinguished Member of CIGRE.

Eng. Jassim Al Hamad graduated with BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Bahrain in 1996 and MBA from University of Strathclyde in 2009. Started at ABB Automation as Systems Engineer in 1996 then moved to Emerson as a Project Manager in year 2000. Jassim has been working at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories since 2004 as Regional Sales Manager for Middle East and since 2012 as Regional Sales and Services Director for India, Middle East, and Africa.

Ahmed Abdelwahab is an Application Protection Engineer who joined OMICRON in 2018. He has a total experience of 13 years in the field of Electrical Generation,  Transmission and Distribution Projects as a Testing and Commissioning Lead with SIEMENS SA.

Eng. Ahmed El-Hamaky has more than 20 years of experience in Electrical Power Systems following attainment of a diploma degree in power system protection in 2005 from Ain Shams University and a B.Sc. of Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 2000. He has been an IEEE senior member since December 2011 and is also a member of IEEE Power Energy Society (PES).

In 2014, he received a post graduate Certificate in Business Administration from the Open University in the United Kingdom, he is at OMICRON since May 2010, presently acting as Regional Manager for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.

In 2021, Ahmed received Alumni of the Year Achievement Award-Highly Commended from the Open University in the United Kingdom 

Alexandre Augusto dos Santos Fajardo, Brazilian, born in São Paulo, Electrical Technician from the Federal Technical School of São Paulo and Electrical Engineer from FESP.

In 1993, he started his career as an electrical designer in power plants and substations.

in 1999, start worked with commissioning of protection systems and control systems from several manufacturers, such as: GE, SIEMENS, ABB, ALSTOM AND SEL

In 2017, together with a six experts electrical engineering, the company APROT are founded to meet the needs of Angola electrical system, being a company specializing in Electrical Protection System, carrying out commissioning, electrical studies and implementation of them in the relays.

In 2019 APROT begins its successful partnership with the company Omicron.

An Electrical Engineering Graduate with more than 23 years’ experience in India and Gulf as Lead Protection and Commissioning Engineer in Transmission Utilities and Power plant.  

He is working with Oman Electrical Transmission Company –OETC since last 13 years.

At present, he is designated as Technical Expert-Protection.

He is responsible for

• Leading Team of 17 Protection Engineers
• Plan, execute, and supervise maintenance, up gradation of protection & metering system   of OETC Network
• Design, review, and implement appropriate protection scheme in system for new grid station and existing grid stations projects.
• Recheck, review, and approve all relay setting calculation, CT sizing calculation for new projects
• Vertical, horizontal, and external communication for projects, system maintenance from 33 kV to 400 kV grid stations. Detailed Incident analysis, provide technical support to all other section

Arulraj graduated as an Electrical and Electronics Engineer at the Saveetha Engineering College-Chennai-India in 2014 and started at GK Power as Relay Service Engineer for MiCOM Numerical protection and control IEDs,later he worked as a Substation Automation System(SAS) Engineer for many projects for ALSTOM and Schneider Electric in India until 2018.

He worked as a verification and validation Engineer for bay level products in ABB Global R&D team from 2018 until 2020 and now he is responsible for IEC 61850 application testing and cybersecurity solutions in OMICRON.

Bogdan Kasztenny has over 30 years of experience in power system protection and control. In his decade-long academic career (1989–1999), Dr. Kasztenny taught power system and digital signal processing courses at several universities and conducted applied research for several relay manufacturers.

In 1999, Bogdan left academia for relay manufacturers where he has since designed, applied, and supported protection, control, and fault-locating products with their global installed base counted in thousands of installations. Bogdan is an IEEE Fellow, a Senior Fulbright Fellow, a Distinguished CIGRE Member, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario. Bogdan earned both the Ph.D. (1992) and D.Sc. (Dr. habil., 2019) degrees, has authored over 220 technical papers and holds over 55 U.S. patents.

Christopher Pritchard was born in Dortmund / Germany. He started his career in power as an electrical energy technician. Christopher received a diploma in Electrical Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Dortmund in 2006. He joined OMICRON electronics in 2006 where he worked in application software development and as the responsible Product Manager for system-based testing solutions, before he was appointed to his current position as head of product management in the field of testing solutions for protection and measurement systems.

Erika Fimpel is a Human Resources Generalist currently working from OMICRON electronics GmbH in Austria. Having a diploma in Business Administration and HR experience in Germany, Erika started with OMICRON electronics GmbH in Austria in May 2010. Currently she is the HR responsible for the regions Middle East & Africa, South Asia and Europe as well as the central contact point for organizing training and development within the company

Fred Steinhauser studied Electrical Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, where he obtained his diploma in 1986 and received a Dr. of Technical Sciences in 1991.

In 1998 he joined OMICRON, where he worked on several aspects of testing power system protection. Since 2000 he worked as a product manager with a focus on power utility communication. Since 2014 he is entirely dedicated to the Power Utility Communication business of OMICRON, serving as an IEC 61860 expert and Digital Substation Evangelist.

Fred is a member of TC57 WG10 of the IEC and contributes to the standard IEC 61850. He is one of the main authors of the UCA Implementation Guideline for Sampled Values (9-2LE). Within IEC TC95 he contributes to IEC 61850 related topics. As a member of CIGRE he is active within the scope of SC D2 and SC B5. He also contributed to the synchrophasor standard IEEE C37.118.

Eng. Fuad is a senior engineer and the team leader of the system modeling section at the transmission protection department in DEWA. In addition, he was the team leader of RTDS Lab and Relay Testing Lab at DEWA. He is the recipient of DEWA’s excellence awards as a distinguished technical employee and distinguished young employee. He received a bachelor's degree with high distinction from the University of Minnesota, USA and a masters in future energy systems and technology from UC Berkeley.

Eng. Hameed Kheli is a highly experienced and technically adept Electrical Engineering professional specialized in the field of Power System Protection with successful career spanning 23 years in various power network projects, network protection and system studies, commissioning,  preventive & corrective maintenance testing of protective relays, instrumentation systems  and energy metering systems in  EHV/HV substations. Currently associated with Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority-GCCIA, at Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) as a Protection & Control Engineer sinceDecember 2008.

He holds a B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Sindh, Pakistan, 1998.

Josef Schmidbauer studied electronics and telecommunication at HTL Braunau and computer science at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (B.Eng., MSc.). He works as research assistant at the University and as development engineer at GCS GmbH. Since 2012, he has been working as a developer for ADRESYS, a subsidiary of OMICRON electronics in Salzburg, and took over product management for COMPANO 100 in 2018.

Mohamed Ibrahim has more than 19 years of experience in Testing and Commissioning activities. He joined OMICRON in 2015 and currently works as a Regional Application Engineer.

He is also an OMICRON Academy trainer.

CEO & co-founder of Sahara Group for Engineering & Trading

Mohamed graduated from Faculty of Engineering 1983, and now he is the business and sales leader at Sahara Group with more than 30 years of experience in electrical engineering. He has managed Omicron equipment to acquire market leader for Egyptian and Libyan market through 25+ years of being Omicron sole partner in Egypt and Libya. His 30+ years of experience extends to business and sales strategies, organization’s expansion and operations. His expertise is extended to Oil & Gas process control, instrumentation and different equipment supporting the electrical power industry.

Eng. Rashad has more than 10 years experience of which 8 years in GCC . He is currently working at alfanar Construction since Jan 2011 and provides technical training as well as technical support on power plants and substation testing and commissioning.

He is conducting theoretical and practical training courses for Switchgear with all voltage levels from low to extra high voltage,  protection relays using different test kits, Power Transformers and  in renewable energy as “PV Solar System Design”. He is a very experienced Engineer in the industry as he has already been working in various companies for various clients in Egypt and now in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Alfanar. He finished his BSC degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009.

Eng. Mostafa is a protection Application / Testing and Commissioning / GIS Engineer with 12+ years of experience in Utility and Industrial EHV and HV power transmission Sub-Stations. His main expertise lies in the Protection and Automation field.

He is currently working in Saudi Arabia for Al Babtain in the Testing and Commissioning team. 

Nadia Bouslama currently works with OMICRON electronics MEA as the Regional Marketing & Communication Manager for Middle East, Africa and Turkey.

Prior to joining OMICRON, she held the position of Marketing & PR Manager at Bahrain Airport Services from 2017 to 2018. She was also the Marketing & PR Manager at Bin Faqeeh in 2015-2016.

Nadia hold a vast international experience as she worked in France, USA, UAE and Bahrain  

Nadia holds an MBA in Marketing as well as BBA in Marketing, Finance and Accounting from Hofstra University, US.

Nadia is a strong advocate of women empowerment in the workplace. She led the previous 2 OEW events and she also spoke at the Women Power Summit 2018 in addition to continuous mentoring of young women in different industries.

Sameh Eldmrdash received his bachelor’s degree in the field of electrical engineering from Egypt then got his master’s degree in the field of protection testing from Germany. In his first 5 years of work experience, he was employed by the power transmission company EETC in Cairo and worked as protection testing and measurement engineer.

Since 2007 he is working for OMICRON Erlangen, Germany as an application engineer in the field of test automation, training and consulting.

His 20 years of experience gave him the required variety of tools needed for driving and supervising the company’s projects especially in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Product Manager
(Transformer Protection IED)

Saurabh has post graduate degree in power system and has worked in engineering, commissioning and application team of GE before moving to product management in 2018.

He is an active member of CIGRE. His area of interest includes transformer protection, digital substations and travelling wave fault locators.

In free time he enjoys gardening and lives with his family in Stafford, UK.