Mario Gay for the past 25 years has specialized in the MENA region in the IT industry as an employee, consultant, manager, teacher and shareholder. 

His formative years began at Intel in 1997, where he joined as the Finance & Administrative Controller and concluded as a Senior Investment Manager for the MENA Region. His responsibilities ranged from budgeting and reporting about the legal entities of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Dubai and South Africa to managing the Venture Capital and M&A investment activity across South Europe & Middle East and Africa. In merit to his hard work in 2006 he achieved the ‘Intel Finance Achievement Award’.

For the last decade, Mario was the MD, Shareholder and leader of a trainee programme at Mindware, a leading IT Distributor, part of MIDIS Group, in the MENA Region with an organization of 160 people with yearly revenue over US$350 million. As thes CFO he was instrumental in the restructuring of the company with the implementation of cross border ERP & CRM & BTB systems and Electronic Market Place, for IT Cloud Products. He also guided the Sales growth, developed the product portfolios, added new IT franchises, and opened new entities across the MENA region, resulting in the enlargement of the customer base; moving from 500 resellers to 3000 active customers. 

All of this success was attributed to the motivational and leadership skills he applied to each employee inorder to work alongside with his team in the intent to increase performance and staff satisfaction.

Currently he is the owner of two companies in the IT industry, and while he enjoys the excitement of working in the frontlines with many businessmen he also enjoys giving back to the community as a visiting professor at the Turin University.