A continuous achiever, self motivated, and results-driven Chief Information Officer with more than 22 years of demonstrated success directing business and technology operations to optimize bottom line productivity and achieve its goals :

- More than 12 years experience as a CIO in Financial services industry leading big IT organizations

-Worked and gained solid experience for different industries and business segments, Financial Services (Conventional / Islamic Banking), Conglomerate and Software Services. 

-Built the IT Organization and systems of the biggest Islamic Bank in UAE taking the bank from scratch to Go live in 4 months (unique and unprecedented achievement)

-Led the IT team on the first ever conversion of conventional bank into Islamic Bank (National Bank of Sharjah to Sharjah Islamic Bank)

-Experience in developing and implementing IT strategy and managing budgets

-Strong expertise in Business Process Management , Banking Applications, ERP, Software Development Life Cycle , Software development tools , Network Infrastructure , Operating systems , Data Base Management , Data Center Operations , Information Security, Management, Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning

-Experienced in IT governance and IT service Management

-Managed large scale IT Projects / Programs and Vendor Management 

-Excellent people management, team leadership and motivational skills, high level of entrepreneurial skill, resilient and culturally sensitive with high communication and motivational ability.

-Speaker at major IT conferences and Forums in the Gulf and Europe in a wide IT and business topics: Fintechs , Digital Transformation , Cloud computing, Core banking implementation and Islamic Banking

Specialties: Financial services (Conventional and Islamic), Software services, Application development ,Networking , Enterprise Application Integration , IT governance and strategy formulation