FINOMENA
Healthcare governance advisory

Helping healthcare organizations govern with ethics.

Building governance systems that strengthen trust, resilience and sustainable performance — through governance, ethics and risk leadership.

Finomena Consultancy · New Cairo, Egypt · Dubai, UAE · +971 55 528 6401
Why governance

Trust is built on how decisions are made — not only on the care delivered.

Healthcare institutions earn their reputation through the confidence of patients, regulators and society. That confidence rests on the quality and consistency of institutional decisions.

Governance is the foundation on which healthcare organizations grow.

Society trustCare and decisions that patients and families can rely on.
Regulatory confidenceRobust compliance with health authorities.
Ethical leadershipIntegrity demonstrated in decisions, not in policies alone.
Operational resilienceThe capacity to absorb disruption without compromising care.
Sustainable growthExpansion that strengthens the institution rather than strains it.
What we do

Governance systems that strengthen how organizations decide, act and are held accountable.

Risk and compliance are built in from the start, rather than added as a separate layer of control.

Governance & board effectiveness

  • Board and leadership governance frameworks
  • Delegation, authority and decision rights
  • Ethical culture and tone from the top

Enterprise risk

  • Enterprise and strategic risk assessment
  • Third-party and partnership risk
  • Risk monitoring and early-warning indicators

Ethics & compliance

  • Program design, review and remediation
  • Healthcare interactions and promotional practice
  • Training, investigations support and readiness

Executive governance advisory

Standing counsel to boards, chief executives and governance leaders on structure, monitoring, oversight and audit readiness.

How we work

Governance succeeds when it is built into how the organization already works.

STEP 01

Assess

Understand the organization as it actually operates — its risks, culture and regulatory context.

STEP 02

Design

Shape governance frameworks that fit the institution — not a template.

STEP 03

Embed

Implement through the organization's own teams — policies, processes, controls and capability.

STEP 04

Evolve

Treat governance as a living capability — measured, reviewed and improved as the organization changes.

We apply the same discipline to our own work that we ask institutions to build into theirs.

Why Finomena

Governance that enables performance — not bureaucracy.

Practitioner-led

Advice from someone who has carried these accountabilities inside a global healthcare company — where governance is a success factor, not a formality.

Regional depth, global standards

Fluent in Egypt, Gulf and MEA realities — and in the expectations of multinational headquarters and regulators.

Compliance by design

Governance designed to sharpen decisions: clear authority, better information and faster escalation — not thicker manuals.

Embedded delivery

We work inside the organization, with its people, at its pace — so what we build survives contact with reality.

Who we serve

Every institution we serve orbits a single point of gravity.

The patient at the centre, with six sectors Finomena serves arranged around it: government and health authorities, digital health initiatives, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, healthcare investors, insurers and payers, hospitals and providers. THE PATIENT the center of gravity of care Government & health authorities Digital health initiatives Pharma & life sciences Healthcare investors Insurers & payers Hospitals & providers Governance frameworks & policy capability Data governance & ethics for new care models Compliance to multinational standards Diligence that protects long-term value Risk for the system's financial core Clinical governance & accreditation readiness
  • Government & health authoritiesGovernance frameworks & policy capability
  • Hospitals & providersClinical governance & accreditation readiness
  • Pharma & life sciencesCompliance to multinational standards
  • Insurers & payersRisk for the system's financial core
  • Digital health initiativesData governance & ethics for new care models
  • Healthcare investorsDiligence that protects long-term value

Sectors the practice is built to serve.

Regulatory focus

Health data under Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law.

Law No. 151 of 2020, operational through its Executive Regulations (Decree No. 816 of 2025, in force 2 November 2025). Supervisory authority: the Personal Data Protection Center (PDPC).

days to enforcement
1 November 2026

Classification

  • Physical, mental and genetic health data are sensitive personal data
  • Processing sensitive data requires a PDPC license; cross-border transfer requires a separate license
  • Explicit written consent; guardian consent for children under 15

Obligations

  • Accredited Data Protection Officer for controllers and processors
  • Records of processing activities and impact assessments
  • Breach notification to the PDPC within 72 hours

Exposure

  • Unlawful sensitive-data processing or unlicensed transfer: fines of EGP 500,000–5,000,000 and imprisonment of no less than three months
  • Administrative, criminal and civil liability
  • Initial supervisory focus on large-scale data holders — hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies
Related advisory scope

PDPL readiness and licensing preparation · DPO function and consent architecture · breach response and cross-border data governance — delivered alongside legal counsel.

Finomena's founder contributed to Egypt's healthcare data classification work under the PDPC, MCIT. Sources: Official Gazette — Law No. 151/2020; Executive Regulations, Decree No. 816/2025; PDPC guidance. This summary is general information, not legal advice.

A message from the founder
Dr. Haitham El Fadally, Founder of Finomena Consultancy

As a healthcare professional, I have spent more than two decades working across multinational healthcare organizations, where I have seen governance increasingly recognized as a strategic enabler of sustainable healthcare. One lesson has remained constant: healthcare is ultimately shaped by the quality of its decisions.

A lack of robust governance and compliance systems can compromise organizational integrity and expose institutions to regulatory and reputational risk. Governance provides the structure for sound decision-making; compliance ensures decisions are implemented consistently and in line with laws and standards; ethics guides judgment when no policy can fully define the right course of action.

Finomena was founded to bring this mindset beyond the corporate environment and into the broader healthcare ecosystem. Governance should be a partner to innovation — helping healthcare professionals and organizations make better decisions, balance risk with opportunity, and build trusted, sustainable collaborations. By bringing together education, governance, compliance and ethical leadership, the ambition is a community where integrity is not simply a requirement, but the foundation for better healthcare and better outcomes for every patient.

Dr. Haitham El Fadally Founder
Get in touch

Start with the decision you are trying to get right.

Whether it is a board mandate, a compliance programme under review, or PDPL readiness before November 2026 — a short conversation is usually enough to establish whether there is a fit.

Email
[email protected]
Phone
+20 11 1116 6270
WhatsApp
+971 55 528 6401
Locations
New Cairo, Egypt
Dubai, UAE
Reach
Egypt, Gulf and wider MEA