“Our AI pilots are not reaching production.”
The demo worked; the rollout stalled. The gap is organisational — ownership, data, integration and governance. I run a structured path out of pilot purgatory.
Pilot-to-Production RecoveryBoard & Executive Advisory · Group CIO · Dubai, UAE
Enterprise AI — from pilots to measurable P&L impact.
I help boards, CEOs and CIOs turn AI ambition into governed, measurable business value — drawing on 24+ years leading enterprise technology at scale and my current experience as Group CIO of a UAE mobility group.
286
AI use cases identified & prioritised
60%
IT cost cut, 400-co. group
100%
SLA at Expo 2020 Dubai
1,000+
Users on enterprise Copilot
24+
Years of technology leadership
Problems I help solve
If any of these sound familiar, we should talk.
“The board needs a credible AI roadmap.”
Not a vendor deck — an honest read of maturity, material risks, priority use cases and an investment roadmap the board can actually fund.
Board AI Readiness Sprint“Nobody owns AI governance — and agents are multiplying.”
Agents embedded in SaaS, shadow AI in the workforce, non-human identities no one tracks. I put a control structure around it before a regulator or incident does.
Governance & risk review“AI costs are discovered on the invoice, not forecast.”
Token, inference, platform and run costs across a use-case portfolio — modelled as unit economics so spend is governed, not a surprise.
AI FinOps modelling“Our operating model cannot support AI at scale.”
Fragmented IT across group companies, no shared services, unclear accountability. I have consolidated technology for a 400-company conglomerate — and can rewire yours.
Enterprise advisory“We deployed the tools; the workforce is not adopting them.”
Licences are not adoption. From rolling Copilot out to 1,000+ users: measurement, change and the deflection numbers that justify the spend.
Adoption & workshopsSelected outcomes
Three engagements. Real numbers. Full case studies.
Enterprise AI
286 AI use cases across nine business lines
Rewiring a multi-entity UAE mobility group around AI orchestration — ERP consolidation, fleet IoT, predictive maintenance and dynamic pricing.
Read the case study Shared services3× the services at 60% lower cost
Centralising IT across a 400-company Abu Dhabi conglomerate — one operating model, 99.99% uptime, 5,500 man-days of effort automated away annually.
Read the case study Mission-critical100% SLA on a global stage — Expo 2020 Dubai
A 92-engineer L2/L3 organisation behind a six-month global event, delivering AED 25M in direct operating contribution.
Read the case studyWays to work together
Four engagements. Each ends in a decision, a number, or a working capability.
Board AI Readiness & Governance Sprint
Current-state maturity across eight pillars, material risks, priority use cases, governance requirements and a funded 90-day action plan. Includes data-readiness, shadow-AI and non-human-identity diagnostics where relevant.
Pilot-to-Production Recovery
For AI pilots stuck on data, integration, ownership, governance or operating-model problems. Alignment, infrastructure, unit economics and incremental rollout — until the use case is producing measurable value.
Enterprise AI & Technology Advisory
Fractional advisory, steering-committee participation, architecture challenge, vendor evaluation and programme assurance — including IT operating model, shared services and AI for asset-heavy operations.
Executive Workshops & Speaking
Board AI briefings, agentic-AI governance workshops, CIO strategy offsites and enterprise Copilot adoption programmes — built from delivery experience, not slideware.
About
Trusted by boards to make technology a driver of growth, not a line of cost.
Enterprise technology executive with 24+ years of global leadership across North America, LATAM, Europe, the UK, the Middle East and APAC — in banking, insurance, aviation, energy, manufacturing, hospitality, government and mobility.
As Group CIO of Mwasalat Holdings, I am rewiring a multi-entity enterprise group around AI orchestration, automation agents and real-time decision engines. Earlier: centralised IT for a 400-company Abu Dhabi conglomerate, led the technology behind Expo 2020 Dubai, and ran a 510-person analytics and delivery organisation at IBM.
My conviction is simple: in asset-heavy, public-facing businesses, technology is the product. The organisations that win treat AI as an operating discipline, pair engineering ambition with governance the public can trust, and measure success in outcomes the board can see.
Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation — MIT Professional Education
AI & Machine Learning programme — Caltech CTME
Executive Management programme — UCLA Anderson School of Management
Project Management Professional (PMP) — Project Management Institute
ITIL 4 — PeopleCert / Axelos
Microsoft certification — agentic AI