Moncef Belkhayat (born 28 January 1970) is a Moroccan entrepreneur who founded and developed various companies in
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
under the holding H&S. A former politician, he left politics on 26 December 2019 to focus on his various businesses. He served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in
Abbas El Fassi
Abbas El Fassi (; ; born 18 September 1940) is a Moroccan politician and businessman who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Morocco from 19 September 2007 to 29 November 2011. El Fassi, a member of the Istiqlal Party, replaced independent Dr ...
's government in 2009.
Born in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (political), capital city of Morocco and the List of cities in Morocco, country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. ...
, he earned his
high school diploma
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in 1988, going on to graduate from the High Institute of Commerce and Business Administration (
ISCAE) in 1992. For the next three years he worked as a sales representative for
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/con ...
in Morocco. In 1996 he was promoted to regional sales manager in
Saudi Arabia
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, and in 1998 became the development director of Africa and the Middle East. In 2000 he moved on to Meditelecom as sales director. He was appointed CEO of the Atcom subsidiary of Finance.com in November 2007 after refusing a CEO position at Meditelecom.
Belkhayat founded H&S Holding in 2005. As of 2015, the company has sixteen subsidiaries and 1,600 employees, earning 2.8 billion dirhams in revenue.
In 2006, Belkhayat joined Morocco Culture, the association that organizes the annual Mawazine Festival in Rabat. He held the position of festival marketing director between 2007 and 2009. In late 2007, he joined the FUS Committee (Fath Union Sport), a Rabat sports club.
From 2009 to 2011 he served as Minister of Youth and Sports under El Fassi's government. He was elected to the urban commune of Sidi Belyout in 2015. He has also been elected to the Regional Council of Casablanca-Settat, later becoming vice president of the region under the chairmanship of Mustapha Bakkoury.
See also
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National Rally of Independents
References
External links
Profile at the RNI website
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1970 births
Living people
Moroccan company founders
National Rally of Independents politicians
People from Rabat