2015 Honor Roll – Certified Mentors – Mentoring Standard

Mercy Sosanya, Certified Mentor

Congratulations to these Certified Mentors who were honored in 2015 for helping people to achieve their goals and grow their careers. Mentor Certification documents and celebrates both past and ongoing mentoring accomplishments. The 66 mentors certified in Mentoring Standard’s founding year are listed here. For more information on Certified Mentors, go to the Honor Roll home page.

Mentoring Standard certifies mentors from around the world who can prove they hold within themselves the following 3 qualities:

Significant Mentoring History.
Good Reputation.
Respectable Professional Experience.

About this list:

Click on each name below to see the professional biography of these remarkable mentors.
Certified Mentors are men and women have helped mentees to grow personally and professionally, both informally and through their successful participation in many formal mentoring programs, including the TechWomen initiative of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Technovation global technology entrepreneurship program for girls.
Countries where mentors certified in 2015 live include:

Algeria Cameroon Egypt France Kazakhstan

Kenya Lebanon Morocco Nigeria Palestine

Saudi Arabia South Africa Turkmenistan Tunisia United Arab Emirates

USA . . . .

More information about certification requirements and levels: Get Certified.

Mentors Certified in 2015

(in alphabetic order by last name)

Name	More Information	Portrait
Dr. Alyaa Abdelhalim	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University Alexandria, Egypt Regular Certified Mentor: 27 December 2015
Esraa Abdelhalim	Assistant Lecturer at Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Alexandria, Egypt Regular Certified Mentor: 1 November 2015
Eman Abusaada	Civil Engineer, Khozendar Sons Company, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Gaza City, Palestine Regular Certified Mentor: 26 October 2015
Dr. Temitope Adegboye Aladesanmi	Head Internet Services, Information Technology and Communications, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria Regular Certified Mentor: 30 December 2015
Dr. Aladesanmi Omolara Titilayo	Lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo University, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Ile-Ife, Nigeria Regular Certified Mentor: 28 December 2015 Facebook: Titi Akinsiku Aladesanmi
Dee Alcott-Rodriguez	Independent Education Management Professional Sacramento Area, California, USA Regular Certified Mentor: 6 October 2015
Khalil Aleker	Project Manager, PBT Group Cape Town, South Africa Regular Certified Mentor: 18 December 2015 Facebook: Khalil Aleker Twitter: @KhalilAleker
Nour Alkhalil	Technical Consultant – Bayt.com, TechWomen 2012 Fellow Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Twitter: @NourAlk Blog: Out & About
Sukaina Al-Nasrawi	Associate Statistician- United Nations ESCWA, TechWomen 2011 Fellow Beirut, Lebanon Regular Certified Mentor: 28 December 2015
Lara Ammar	PMO Technology Engineer – Advanced, at Touch Lebanon, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Beirut, Lebanon Regular Certified Mentor: 22 December 2015 Twitter: @LaraAmmar Facebook: Lara Ammar
Gulshat Artykova	Program Associate, Prep4Success Program – American Councils for International Education, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Regular Certified Mentor: 17 December 2015
Naira Ayrapetyan	Senior Maintenance Engineer, Petronas Carigali Turkmenistan, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Regular Certified Mentor: 30 October 2015 Advanced Certified Mentor: 27 December 2015
Ouafa Benterki	CEO – MTY Intelligent Software, TechWomen 2012 Fellow Algiers, Algeria Regular Certified Mentor: 28 December 2015 Twitter: @OuafaDZ
Sara Benyakhlef	Research Engineer, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Kenitra, Morocco Regular Certified Mentor: 26 November 2015 Twitter: @Sara_Benyakhlef Facebook: Sara Benyakhlef
Rebecca Biswas	Mechanical Engineering Manager at Juniper Networks San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 17 December 2015
Eileen Brewer	Director, Security Appliance Team, Symantec Mountain View, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 8 August 2015 Advanced Certified Mentor: 14 December 2015 Twitter: @tothelefteileen
Zimkhita Buwa	Account Manager – Britehouse & Siliconcape Exco Member, TechWomen 2014 Fellow Cape Town, South Africa Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Twitter: @zimbuwa
Karen Carlson	Engineering Systems Admin at Apple San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 7 December 2015
Ameni Channoufi	Service manager PKI operations, National Digital Certification Agency, TechWomen 2014 Fellow Tunis, Tunisia Regular Certified Mentor: 2 December 2015
Adla Mahmoud Chatila	Chief Operating Officer (COO), Makassed Philanthropic Islamic Association, TechWomen 2012 Fellow Beirut, Lebanon Regular Certified Mentor: 11 December 2015 Twitter: @adlachat Facebook: Adla Chatila
Dorothée Danedjo Fouba	Senior Multimedia Journalist, Media Education Engineer, Social Media Advisor & Web Content Manager, TechWomen 2014 Fellow Yaounde, Cameroon Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Twitter: @Dorothydaf Facebook: Dorothée Danedjo Fouba Website: Dorothy DAF – A Multimedia Journalist’ Blog
Mohna Dhomse	Senior Manager, Information Development, Symantec Mountain View, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 19 December 2015 Twitter: @mohnadhomse
Doaa Adel ElEraqy	Tech Entrepreneur / Founder – Arab WomenPreneurs, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Cairo, Egypt Regular Certified Mentor: 27 December 2015 Twitter: @DElEraqy Facebook Arab WomenPreneurs Website: Arab WomenPreneurs
Dr. Jeannice Fairrer Samani	Adjunct Professor of Business, Menlo College Los Altos, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 21 September 2015 Twitter: @jeannice
Janet Bih Fofang	Education Specialist, Social Entrepreneur, Co-founder TASSAH Academy, Electrical Engineering Teacher, TechWomen 2013 Fellow Yaounde, Cameroon Regular Certified Mentor: 20 October 2015 Twitter: @fofangjanet
Dr. Yetunde Folajimi	Research Fellow at Northeastern University, Lecturer at University of Ibadan, Founder – Nigeria Geek Girls Camp, and Member – WeTech Africa Leadership Council Nigeria, and West Roxbury, Massachusetts USA Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Twitter: @yetty123 Facebook: Yetunde Longe Folajimi Webpage: Yetunde Folajimi
Claudia Galvan	Technical Advisor, Early Stage Innovation San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 13 November 2015 Twitter: @cgalvan Facebook: Claudia Galvan
Noura Ghali Berzouga	Head of Cloud and Key Account Service Department, Tunisie Télécom, TechWomen 2014 Fellow Tunis, Tunisia Regular Certified Mentor: 19 December 2015
Bouchra “Poly” EL Hamad	Visiting Instructor – New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Finance and IT Consulting – Lebanese university, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Beirut, Lebanon Regular Certified Mentor: 4 December 2015 Twitter: @poly_hamad Facebook: Poly Hamad
Rabah Hammouda	Project Manager – First Skills Club Sfax, Tunisia Regular Certified Mentor: 30 December 2015 Facebook: Rabah Hammouda
La Toya Hodge	Global Channels Marketing Communications Manager – Polycom Orlando, Florida Area USA Regular Certified Mentor: 29 December 2015
Aseel Honein	Founder – Parallel Studio lb, TechWomen 2013 Fellow Mount Lebanon, Lebanon Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Website: Parallel Studio
Maryann Hrichak	Global Mobility & Immigration Professional, Analyst, Ethnographer San Francisco, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 23 September 2015 Twitter: @MaryannHrichak
James P. Hughes	Distributed Systems Architect at Apple Palo Alto, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 30 August 2015 Twitter: @jphughes
Maysoun Ibrahim	Acting Director General of Information and Communication Technology, Office of Palestine President, TechWomen 2011 Fellow Ramallah, Palestine Regular Certified Mentor: 28 December 2015 Twitter: @maisonib
Aliya Janjua	Director, Client Services at Advent Software San Francisco, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 24 November 2015 Twitter: @aliya34
Anjaly Austry Joseph	Senior Manager, Development, at Symantec San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 7 December 2015 Twitter: @joseph_anjaly Facebook: Anjaly G. Joseph
Lori Kahn	Systems Engineer/Subcontract Manager – Lockheed Martin Space Systems San Jose, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 30 December 2015 Twitter: @llkahn Facebook: Lori Kahn
Mona Karam	Senior Civil Infrastructure Development Engineer, Vodafone Egypt, TechWomen 2014 Fellow Cairo, Egypt Regular Certified Mentor: 28 November 2015 Twitter: @monakrm
Erin Keeley	Global Director of Engineering – Hitachi GST San Francisco Bay Area, USA Regular Certified Mentor: 30 December 2015 Twitter: twitter: @emkaa777
Rogeema Kenny	Senior Energy Trading Engineer at Eskom, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Cape Town Area, South Africa Regular Certified Mentor: 20 November 2015 Twitter: @Rogeema Facebook: RogeemaKenny Website: Rogeema Kenny
Mariam Keriakos	Business Consultancy Manager at Link Development, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Cairo, Egypt Regular Certified Mentor: 29 December 2015
Faten Khalfallah	Founder, President and Project Manager: First Skills Club (Association), TechWomen 2015 Fellow Sfax, Tunisia Regular Certified Mentor: 3 December 2015 Twitter: @Fatenkhalfallah Facebook: Faten Khalfallah Hammouda
Kuldeep Khanijow	Senior Principal Business Analyst at Symantec San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015
Dr. Kenza Khomsi	Meteorologist Engineer, Direction de la Météorologie Nationale, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Casablanca, Morocco Regular Certified Mentor: 30 October 2015 Advanced Certified Mentor: 29 December 2015
Cynthia Leung	Utility & Commercial Sales Analyst, Project Development – SunPower San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015
Julia Lovin	Senior Program Manager at Prysm San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 23 December 2015
Alice Mbui	Master Trainer, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Nairobi, Kenya Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Twitter: @AliceMbui
Baratang Miya	Business Development Manager at Bandwidth Barn Cape Town Area, South Africa Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Twitter: @baratangmiya Facebook: Baratang Miya
Sharon Moore	Executive Leadership, Professional Development Coach and Consultant – SEM Coaching and Consulting Paris, France Regular Certified Mentor: 30 December 2015
Raghd Magdy Mohamed Mostafa	Core Networks Strategy Specialist at Vodafone Egypt, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt Regular Certified Mentor: 22 December 2015 Twitter: @Raghd_TT Facebook: Raghd Magdy
Neh Honorine Che	Founder and CEO, Tech in Pink Yaounde, Cameroon Regular Certified Mentor: 26 December 2015 Facebook: Neh Honorine
Kendi Ntwiga	Applications Business Manager at Oracle, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Nairobi, Kenya Regular Certified Mentor: 24 December 2015
Bahara Nurmetova	Marketing Manager at Exotic Metal, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Ashgabad, Turkmenistan Regular Certified Mentor: 8 December 2015 Facebook: Bahara Nurmetova
Elizabeth Ochola	Researcher, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Project Clinical Research Center, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Kisumu, Kenya Regular Certified Mentor: 23 December 2015 Twitter: @ochola77 Facebook: Ochola Elizabeth
John Plocher	Principal Architect, Seagate Technology San Jose, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 14 September 2015
Lisa Ramirez	Director, Cloud Marketing and Enablement, Juniper Networks Santa Clara, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 27 October 2015 Twitter: @lisaramirez
Dr. Taghrid Samak	Network Data Analyst, Google Mountain View, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 8 September 2015 Twitter: @taghrid_s
Larissa Brown Shapiro	Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Mozilla San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 16 October 2015 Twitter: @larissashapiro
Devanshi Sheth	Program Manager, Norton Support and Services, Symantec San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 30 November 2015 Twitter: @devanshisheth Facebook: Devanshi Gandhi Sheth
Kimberly Snyder	Head of Alliance Management; Head of IT at Proteus Digital Health San Francisco Bay Area, California USA Regular Certified Mentor: 7 December 2015 Twitter: @digitalmed_kim
Mercy Eloho Sosanya	Chief Executive Officer NutriHeal Integrated Concept, Lecturer I for The Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Bauchi, Nigeria Regular Certified Mentor: 22 October 2015 Twitter: @MercySosy
Nathalie Tekam	Co-founder at ITISS, Lead at GetReady, TechWomen 2013 Fellow Yaounde, Cameroon Regular Certified Mentor: 29 December 2015 Website: GetReady
Diana Tsoy	Co-founder in Kazakhstan, Program Director, SQA – Scottish Qualifications Authority, TechWomen 2015 Fellow Almaty, Kazakhstan Regular Certified Mentor: 14 December 2015 Facebook: Diana Tsoy
Israa Yasin	Project Coordinator – UNICEF Gaza, Palestine Regular Certified Mentor: 31 December 2015 Facebook: Esraa M Yaseen
Salim Zid	Senior Civil Engineer (Senior Building Services Engineer), Dubai Municipality Dubai, United Arab Emirates Regular Certified Mentor: 9 December 2015 Twitter: @salim_zid