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United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Innoway is a leading innovation consulting firm (https://innoway.me) in Dubai focused on helping established organizations innovate at speed and supporting startups/scale-ups to validate and scale their business models. I oversee client engagements in the region, supporting large scale transformation, innovation and product strategy development, and driving execution using lean startup, agile and design thinking practices.- Led 7+ client engagements entailing formulation and execution of strategy, innovation, and transformation practices across EMEA and APAC, engaging with 40+ CXOs across private and public sector companies in the region. - Developed Corporate Innovation Strategy & Innovation Thesis for 2 public sector companies and 1 private sector company; designed and executed 2 Minimum Viable Ecosystems – faster product development and innovation capability building through accelerator programs and AI-enabled design sprints. - Engaged with 20+ founders, directors, CXOs to develop customer-centric business models, target operating models as well as go-to-market strategies, and co-created new propositions following lean startup and design thinking practices.- Coached and mentored over 100+ intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs on product-led growth strategy; orchestrated design-led UI/UX research, prototyping and testing, execution through innovation-led transformation, agile organization, values, ways of working, tools, and core principles.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

OUTCOME is a boutique innovation advisory firm founded by Cris Beswick and Dan Toma. Combining thinking and approaches from their two bestselling books Building a Culture of Innovation and The Corporate Startup their work is based on a holistic, outcome-driven approach to supercharging leadership and corporate innovation performance.Outcome works with senior teams around the world on the strategy, leadership and culture required for innovation in order to solve today’s innovation-led growth challenges whilst building the capabilities for shaping the future.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Shipyard Innovation is a part of Shipyard Technology Ventures, a global venture builder and corporate innovation consulting firm that has helped F500 clients launch several corporate ventures and products. I was contracted to lead the ventures & innovation consulting practice, comprising a team of consultants, venture architects and product designers to support execution of solution/venture blueprints as well as manage business development focused on MENA and APAC regions. - Delivered 2 strategic engagements and business development efforts focused on MENA and APAC regions – collaborated with 10+ C-Suite Leaders to develop opportunities and manage execution around innovation strategy, operating model, solution blueprint, and venture blueprint offerings.- Executed 1 high-impact corporate venture blueprint (~£8.4m) and 1 product / solution blueprint in EMEA including development of North Star, product strategy, value propositions, go-to-market plans, business and commercial models, technical feasibility reports, and 100-day venture launch plans. - Oversaw engagements in the MENA & APAC regions and facilitated key partnerships towards execution of large opportunities (~$250k - $1m).

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Enterprise IT (EIT) handles the digital/technology landscape and ICT infrastructure at Al-Futtaim Group, a global conglomerate with over 40K employees and operations in 20 countries. I led the excellence and business transformation agenda in EIT handling a portfolio of high-impact transformation projects, Go Lean and Agile programs, ensuring alignment with the strategic objectives, business excellence/transformation outcomes and cost reduction targets.- Spearheaded transformation across 5 LOBs at Al-Futtaim with 25+ Lean initiatives aimed at leaner, agile ways of working, new product development, and cost reduction (~AED 1m, $300k USD), and established metrics to measure performance and progress.- Owned the Modern Workplace initiative enhancing digital solutions adoption (78%), collaborated with Microsoft MENA to enhance MS Power Platform adoption.- Facilitated innovation workshops and spearheaded org. transformation establishing Agile squads, tribes, and pods driving 3x faster product development and 30% cost reduction.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

IQVIA is a global healthcare solutions provider with a wide network of clients including pharmaceutical companies (big pharma), healthcare providers, healthcare payers (insurance or government healthcare financing bodies), regulators, as well as the patient community. I oversaw the execution of transformation within the payer-provider-government (PPG AMESA) unit amidst multiple million-dollar acquisitions across three geographies. - Led an 18-month business transformation program within the PPG AMESA unit, overseeing 4 acquisitions across the UAE, Oman, India, and Singapore, developed an operating model impacting $34m in annual revenue.- Designed a corporate innovation framework aligned with the 2022 vision, facilitated 2 optimization and automation programs, coached 5 product development squads, integrated 4 acquired units. - Served as the AMESA ambassador for Lean and Business Innovation, ran 10+ Lean/Design Thinking workshops, and trained 100+ employees on transformation, agile, and innovation principles.

United Arab Emirates

Group Automotive is the regional distributor of top auto brands such as Toyota, Lexus, Volvo, Honda and others. The group forms the largest entity within Al-Futtaim, a global conglomerate with over 40K employees and operations in 20 countries. - Designed and implemented an enterprise innovation framework for Al-Futtaim, managing the corporate innovation accelerator program ‘IGNITE’ with over 8000 online employees and 20k offline employees, and established an innovation platform aligned with strategic objectives, resulting in 30+ high-impact ideas and net cost/annual revenue impact of AED 8m ($2.17m). - Led 50+ workshops engaging 50 Innovation Coaches / Managers, 400+ Supervisors and Technicians across 20 business units to promote ideation, agile ways of working, and innovation. - Delivered innovation strategy and road-map presentations to the C-suite and realized improvements worth AED 2m ($544k) through 5 BPM projects involving 10 cross-functional teams.

United Arab Emirates

Pacific Consulting Services is an Abu Dhabi-based consulting firm offering Quality Management, ITSM and technical documentation services. - Led diverse enterprise projects across sectors like government, energy, IT, healthcare, banking, construction, and retail, managing 6+ BPM consulting projects and spearheading 3 quality management initiatives, implementing QMS and EFQM frameworks including Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award (SKEA) and Dubai Quality Award (DQA) submissions, and driving change management utilizing the Prosci ADKAR model. - Oversaw process documentation, established 100+ policies, procedures, and workflows, managing multiple accounts and driving the rollout of standards like ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000, and ISO 27001.

Bengaluru Area, India

JPMorgan Chase & Co Bengaluru handles the Global IT Operations through the Global Technology Infrastructure Team, and I was among the first 25 hires. - Worked as part of GSD, Global Technology Infrastructure at JP Morgan Chase Bank, Bangalore, India.- Managed 100+ high-impact incidents, problems and collaborated with the Infrastructure team to track, analyze, resolve, escalate and accurately address various critical incidents across the bank.- Supported core applications based on the ITIL framework and provided application support to over 15 JP Morgan Chase global teams.