As CEO of Fraud-Sense, a firm specializing in advanced AI-driven fraud detection, I lead our team to help organizations combat fraud in all its forms, strengthen sanctions screening, and enhance AML compliance across the Middle East and Africa. By partnering with top-tier industry players, and an inventory of 70+ dedicated fraud AI detectors, we empower investigators with innovative tools to streamline fraud triage, reduce false positives, and reveal complex networks and bad actors with precision.Our solutions cater to financial institutions, governmental bodies, FinCrime regulatory authorities and other regulated sectors, providing them with the intelligence needed to safeguard their operations against evolving threats.

Experienced leader adept at implementing successful strategic initiatives.Results-driven with a focus on achieving growth and developing new accounts, businesses, and markets.Formulates mid-to-long-term business strategies utilizing analytical, problem-solving, quantitative, and modelling skills.Contributes to identifying and prioritizing strategic business opportunities to enhance market positioning and financial performance.Supports the creation of region- and product-specific business plans, effectively communicating analyses and findings to management.Crafts and executes client-centric upselling and cross-selling strategies to boost business growth and satisfaction.Ensures engagements align with client goals by fostering collaboration across teams.Assists in overseeing transformative initiatives, including PMO tasks, earned business-value based delivery, and risk assessments, while ensuring strategy delivery aligns with expected outcomes.

20+ years of investment banking experience. Extensive knowledge of middle to back-office operations and settlement functions, including core and satellite IT systems to complete an end to end investment process. Conversant with regulatory guidelines and market practices. As Head of Asset Services has led four business-aligned scrum teams, delivering a complex book of work and taking full responsibility for successful business outcomes. Has extensive experience in strategy, planning, budgets and due diligence. Been instrumental in optimizing operations, reduction of costs with automation, lean processes and innovation. Has implemented cloud initiatives underpinned with business process SLAs, for key investment application areas.Have delivered several challenging initiatives for the organization transforming ambiguity to clarity, collaborating in a multicultural and diverse environment with internal and external stakeholders.

Instrumental in the development of the sales organization of Almoayyed Internaltional Group. Sales Manager for key profit centers Almoayyed Computers, Almoayed Open Systems and Almoayyed Networks.Led a sales organization and contributed to building high-value software, hardware and technology solutions in the transportation, defense, government, education and oil verticals in Bahrain.

Delivered business transformation projects for key clients in Singapore, USA and Switzerland, primarily around managed services and business process outsourcing.(i) Public Utilities Research Inc – managed services for Lexis/Nexus US Public Utilities legal case proceedings to a searchable database, for electronic publication(ii) Singapore Airlines – managed services including the platform migration of IBM TPF systems and subsequent change and product lifecycle management in India(iii) United Nations Volunteer – development of a country socio-economic textual database for the UNV Programme Development organization(iv) Wang Laboratories – Resident Manager for development teams based in USA for delivery of onsite and offshore product development