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Chief Information Officer and Digital Advisor

At ADCB, our objective is to become the most valuable bank in the UAE. Since its formation in 1985, the bank has grown and its presence and has gone from strength to strength with more than 5000 employees. With more than 50 branches and cash offices in the UAE and 2 in India and a network of 300 ATM's across the UAE.\r\n\r\nOur ambitions allow us to offer many opportunities across the organisation for anyone interested in pursuing a fulfilling career that enables you to work with colleagues and customers from across the world. These roles span all major areas within ADCB, from retail, commercial and investment banking to support functions such as finance, human resources, technology and marketing.\r\n\r\nADCB's Emiratisation strategy has been recognised with Best Emiratisation Awards for the past four years. Helping drive our success is the Emarati Academy, which aims to ensure that high school and university graduates are fully prepared for branch or departmental roles, with the necessary knowledge and training to equip them for success.\r\n\r\nAt ADCB, we seek to bring out the very best from every employee. We assess performance not only on results but also on how results were achieved. We believe in doing things the ADCB way, which makes us stand out from the crowd.

Senior Digital Transformation leader, CIO & CTO with 25 years global experience.Building and transforming Banks, Financial Services companies & Start-Ups into their Digital future.Outstanding change management track record in M&A & restructuring environments and during company start-up by leveraging IT architecture, cloud concepts, Agile and Two-speed-IT to implement core systems and customer multi-channel experiences.Solid entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation & banking business background coupled with wide ranging IT & engineering skills ranging from infrastructure to highly complex real-time transactional IT system landscapes, enabling the build of highly automated, customer centric, scalable and robust banking environments.Experienced in leading multi-cultural teams, serving 2M+ customers & users with 500+ systems and with budget responsibility up to $100M OPEX & $100M CAPEX in the UAE, Japan, China, UK, USA, India, Singapore, Germany and all over Europe.Member of Technical Advisory Boards and Digital Boards for several companies.Educated to Master’s degree in International Business and in Electrical Engineering as well as Certified Scrum Master and FinTech Master Class Graduate.Worldwide mobility.