Senior delivery & portfolio leader spanning digital transformation, Agile leadership and team enablement — most recently leading a regulated biometric payments program from concept to live rollout across four markets spanning the GCC and Levant.
Six areas where twenty years of shipping under pressure have actually taught me something.
Taking ambiguous, high-stakes business requirements from concept through live rollout across product, tech and regulatory teams.
Trained technical and delivery teams across multiple regional engagements — including a 6-month Scrum program for a 40-person team at Agents on Cloud.
Leading delivery of a next-generation payment scheme built on palm-vein authentication, live across GCC & Levant markets.
Owning full lifecycle delivery — planning through go-live — across legal, technical and business workstreams simultaneously.
Five years advising enterprise clients including Olayan Group and NMC on product strategy and transformation.
Built and scaled product/engineering functions from the ground up; trained founders and teams across the region.
Consistently demonstrates innovation, strategic foresight and unwavering dedication — with a remarkable ability to manage complex projects with accuracy.
Running a FinTech deployment across four countries is a governance and compliance challenge as much as a scheduling one — this piece covers what changes when your stakeholders include a central bank, a biometric vendor, and a product team, each under different regulations.
Managing Multi-Country FinTech Projects ↗When the product is someone's identity, every friction point erodes trust — but so does every shortcut. This piece looks at the UX vocabulary needed to design biometric onboarding that is fast, safe, and emotionally reassuring all at once.
Designing for Trust: Biometric UX ↗Open to conversations about digital transformation, Agile delivery, or regulated program leadership roles across the GCC, Levant and beyond.