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As Executive Vice President and a Board Member at Noblis, Mr. ElSawy oversees the company’s broad work programs. Noblis is a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization working at all levels of government, in private industry and with other nonprofits in areas that are essential to our nation’s well-being: national and homeland security; public safety; transportation; health care; criminal justice; energy and the environment; and oceans, atmosphere and space.
Mr. ElSawy was elected Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Trustees of Mitretek Systems in January 2007 (prior to the name change to Noblis). He has extensive experience leading organizations and developing innovative solutions to some of the most complex challenges in the public sector.
Prior to joining Mitretek, Mr. ElSawy was Senior Vice President and General Manager for The MITRE Corporation’s aviation and transportation security work program for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and international customers.
Mr. ElSawy established and ran public-private partnerships and grew MITRE’s reputation and work in aviation systems and related fields. He has earned an international reputation as a leader in his field. His work experience includes research and development, complex systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and informing domestic and international aviation policy.
In 2005, Mr. ElSawy was elected Vice President of Standards and a member of the board of AIAA. He served as Chairman of RTCA from 2004-2006, and is a member of the FAA Research and Development Committee (REDAC). He served as the director of the FAA FFRDC from 1999-2006.
Prior to 1997, Mr. ElSawy served in various senior management positions and was responsible for strategy development, cross-functional integration, systems engineering, and architecture evolution of programs. He also served as a member of executive panels responsible for oversight of the implementation of large distributed information systems and networks for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Advanced Weather Information Processing System of the National Weather Service (NWS).
Mr. ElSawy holds a master’s degree in business administration from Georgetown University - 1998, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University - 1980, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from West Virginia University - 1977. | 