Built inside a contractor, not next to one.

Dr. Ahmed Abdel Alim is a partner and owner at Horema, a ground investigation and geotechnical contractor with around 50 years of continuous history. Horema’s work spans drilling, in-situ testing, laboratory investigation and factual reporting — the complete chain that G& is designed to control from the first field record to the final AGS 4.1 package.

That history gives G& more than a logo or an advisory board: Horema is the platform’s first anchor customer and proving ground. The product is shaped around the conditions a working contractor must manage every day — rigs mobilised, strata described to BS 5930 and ISO 14688 / 14689, samples scheduled through the laboratory to BS 1377 and ASTM methods, and data issued to consultants with every value traceable to its method, standard version and approval.

He also brings a long-standing network across the geotechnical profession, including relationships with experienced academics and practitioners. He leads G& on domain direction: which standards are treated as data, what the validation engine must refuse, and what a client-acceptable submission package has to prove.

Ahmed Yehia is Co-Founder of G& and currently serves as Group Chief Information Officer at Vodafone. His experience leading technology at one of the world’s major telecommunications groups brings a perspective that is rare in specialist engineering software: how to make critical information systems resilient, governed, secure and usable across complex organisations.

At G&, he applies that enterprise lens to the parent–child geotechnical schema that binds every reading to a location, depth interval, method and standard version. His direction covers the validation engine, standards-as-data, AGS 4.1 dictionary checks, handwriting OCR intake and immutable audit trail — so an engineer can answer "where did this number come from?" years after issue.

He also leads the platform posture required for tender-grade delivery: role-based access across field, laboratory, QA and management, dependable integrations, regional and sovereign hosting options, and signed approval records on every deliverable. The result is a product built with both geotechnical depth and the governance expected of enterprise technology.