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As Executive Chairman at FocalStudio.ai, I guide the strategic direction and growth initiatives of our AI-driven platform designed to supercharge e-commerce sales. My focus is on leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to optimize customer engagement, drive conversion rates, and scale revenue for online retailers. By aligning innovative strategies with actionable insights, I help position FocalStudio.ai as a leader in the e-commerce space, empowering businesses to reach new heights.

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Responsibilities:• Regional management and governance• Regulatory oversight (MAS, HKMA, BoJ)

Regional management of the Information Risk departmentResponsibilities:• Regional governance• Data Loss Prevention• Logical Access Management / Identity and Access Management• Data risk management and records management • Information Risk and Control Assessment• Regulatory compliance management• Education and awarenessKey achievement:• Regulatory transformation programme: FINMA (Switzerland), CCIN (Monaco). Implement a comprehensive data protection framework, including RBAC, data ownership, data security anomaly detection and automated records classification.• Establish Information Risk Management steering committee (C-level) and sub-committee• Global deployment of the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) platform, including state of art policy definition and implementation while reducing the control cost.• In-house data classification platform development (PoC), based on machine learning algorithms.• Establish partnership with the top-5 European universities for research projects on data analytics and innovation

Responsibilities:• IT Risk analysis and audit• Education and awarenessKey achievement:• Develop, implement and monitor an information security awareness program across a global company (+70k employees) to effectively communicate and raise awareness of the security policies and the potential impact of security threats and risks. Ensure that all staff and third parties who interact with the company know their responsibilities in relation to information security.• Design and conduct training class (SDLC, secure coding, etc...) and workshop for more than 1000 developers, team leaders and project managers to propagate IT security awareness across Emirates Group.• Organize roadshow, workshop and training, reaching more than 5000 business staffs.• Team lead in defining a comprehensive Information Risk management framework within Emirates Group in accordance with industry best practices. • Implement and conduct a Risk and Control Assessment based on ISO27k.• Establish a business information risk network of 50+ key people within the business units• Organize an Ethical Hacking contest (CTF) having more than 100 participants. • Draft a SaaS risk assessment standard, identified IT Security policy and standard gaps, in collaborations with the Legal department and various business units.• Issue a literature paper: Safety-critical-system and cyber-security risk

Responsibilities:• Risk and Control Assessment, Audit• Information Security Risk Policy• Privacy, Identity & Access Management• Threat & Incident Response - Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)• Vendor management• Business continuity• Awareness & training

• Information Security Risk Policy and Governance• Risk Analysis, Risk and Control Assessment• Identity and Access Management

Responsibilities:• Regional management of the global Information Security Risk Program• Audit & Governance• Information Security Risk policy, reporting and metrics: KPIs & KRIs• Risk & control assessment, exception management• Incident response: digital forensics, mitigation and remediation.• Threat management and intelligence: monitoring and analysis.Key Achievement:• Elaboration of the strategy• Program reporting• Regional implementation of global projects designed to enforce information security risk and deploy new security processes• 15 ME countries aligned to HSBC global security standards

Responsibilities:• Provide team leadership and coaching• Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort• Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives• Take control of project and run until its' conclusion.• Ensure deliverables are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, cost and schedule• Act as incident response manager and primary contact point for Incident Response across HSBC Group.Key Accomplishments:• Implement a security incident response team• Implement an incident management process within 46 countries.• Implement a threat management team • Establish threat management services, such as forensics investigation and threat monitoring.• Provide a central reporting hierarchy of contacts for information about security incidents• Provide defined points of contact for communication about computer security issues with internal technical areas as well as contracted incident response partners• Assist in collection and dissemination of information on incidents related to computer security, including information on security configuration and security management• Identify and coordinate resources that can be employed to deal with and resolve security incidents

• Design secure, functional and stable Linux system images for industrial orders from Dell, Lenovo, HP, NEC, Sony, etc. following tender offer specifications and cost constraints.• Implement a commercial certification process and design Shell and C programs for automation and optimization.• Involve in Project Management Committee and contribute to group wide corporate projects (MandrivaFlash).• Participate in media relations’ projects and presented products and services to the press (TV, newspapers, internet, tradeshows).