Rabih Dabboussi

Global Sales and Marketing Director at Rakuten Mobile

Rabih Dabboussi joined Rakuten Mobile in May 2020 to lead its global sales and marketing efforts from the company’s newly established international headquarters in Singapore.

Dabboussi is responsible for taking the Rakuten Mobile’s telco cloud solution, Rakuten Communications Platform, to telecom operators, governments, and enterprise companies around the world. Rabih will report directly to Rakuten’s CTO Tareq Amin and the senior executive team in Tokyo.

Dabboussi is a seasoned and highly recognized industry expert who brings more than two decades of experience in the mobile industry to Rakuten Mobile, including a 20 year progressive career at Cisco Systems in diverse roles of R&D, technology consulting, business development, and sales leadership. After assignments advising mobile operators and large enterprise customers worldwide, he became the managing director for Cisco in the UAE in 2012 until he left Cisco in 2016.

After Cisco, Rabih spent four years helping to establish startups in the areas of secure mobile communications, cyber security, and the digital transformation of governments and enterprises.

Dabboussi is multilingual in English, French and Arabic and has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.  Rabih holds multiple technology innovations and US issued patents in his name.