Hossam has been the chief Technical Officer of Brightskies (www.brightskiesinc.com) since 2016, then the chief executive officer of its spinoff BrightDrive (www.brightdrive.ai) focused on self-driving since beginning of 2023. He has a total of 22 years of professional experience, most of them in automotive software development. Hossam worked for Valeo (www.valeo.com) between 2006 and 2016 where he was appointed as a functional safety expert since 2012. He started automotive engineering services in Brightskies by beginning of 2016 and initiated product development for electrification (BrightEV) and autonomous driving (BrightDrive) programs by 2019 before he moved to be the CEO of BrightDrive.