Sherif Kholaif — Founder & CEO, ICD Group

Sherif Kholaif is the founder and CEO of ICD (icd3s.com / icloudist.com), a specialist enterprise server parts distributor headquartered in Cairo, Egypt with regional coverage across the Middle East, North Africa, the Levant, all of Africa, and global shipping markets.

About ICD

Founded in 2005, ICD distributes Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco, IBM, Supermicro, NetApp, Apple, and 100+ other enterprise hardware brands across 500,000+ parts. Under Sherif’s leadership, ICD has grown from an Egyptian distributor focused on Cairo enterprise IT into a regional MENA player with active customers across the GCC, Levant, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the United States. The company operates from headquarters in Maadi, Cairo and a branch in Mohandseen, Giza.

Strategic Vision

Sherif’s strategic vision for ICD centers on three pillars: Servers. Scale. Support. The company is transforming from a traditional spare-parts distributor into a multi-business operator with three service brands — ICD Parts+ (SPaaS — Spare Parts as a Service) for advance-replacement parts contracts, ICD Care+ (TPM — Third-Party Maintenance) for parts-plus-engineer hardware maintenance, and ICD Professional for one-time engagements (assessment, install, migration, health checks, firmware updates, retirement, secure data destruction).

ICD Group

Beyond ICD, Sherif leads the broader ICD Group portfolio including EKODAQ (IT Asset Disposition / data destruction / data recovery, working to NIST 800-88 and DIN 66399), EOI Estate (real estate development with focus on the Cairo and 6th of October markets), and Pheebs (a Friends-themed café concept in Wadi Degla, Cairo).

Industry Focus

Sherif’s professional focus is on enterprise IT infrastructure — specifically the long-tail spare-parts market for end-of-life and end-of-sale server, storage, and networking equipment that legacy enterprises still depend on for production workloads. ICD’s value proposition is sourcing depth (US and European supply chains), MENA-localized logistics (DHL and Aramex from Cairo, with the import route for NTRA-regulated parts stated per quote), and engineering-grade pre-sales support that goes beyond catalog SKU lookup.