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ALI NASSER ALASIRI
BUSINES EXECUTIVE | GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE | ENTREPRENEUR
Ali Alasiri is a seasoned executive leader with deep experience across the public and private sectors in the areas of digital transformation, digital economy, health ecosystem, strategic planning, and growth. Over a career spanning 23+ years, he has worked across the Middle East and North America with large corporates, start-ups and government institutions to help them plan and execute on mission-critical changes to their operating infrastructure and corporate strategy.
Currently, he is leading several companies including Tathabbat for FinCrime which is focused in creating the next generation due diligence ecosystem in finance, RevAIzor for cybersecurity and Penetration testing using A.I. creatively full developed engine , Sinan as an incubator for fintech startups, BlackBaz as an investment holding company to establish JVs and companies.
Mr. Alasiri was the former Director General of Yesser the eGovernment program and Chief Executive Officer of National Digitization Unit, he spearheads the Smart Government initiative – one of the cornerstones of the Saudi Arabian government’s priority to digitize the public sector. At Yesser, some of the key accomplishments he has overseen are:
- Planning and implementation of a digital strategy that eradicated the use of paper and transitioned to a fully digital ecosystem capable of providing 4000 services across 522 agencies.
- Conception and launch of the GovX Center – one of the nation’s premier innovation hubs that funds and scales emerging technologies created with the intention of promoting citizen welfare.
- Enabled the government to adapt and react quickly to the COVID-19 public health crisis by moving its employees into remote working capabilities and students nationwide into distance learning facilities.
- Leading national committees in Tele-Health, Cashless Society, eLearning and e-Justice to empower the digital economy in effective way.
Prior to Yesser, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Cloudbuilders Technology (later acquired by PrimeGate), where he headed all aspects of sales, P&L, growth and operations for both companies that served to pilot digital transformations from legacy systems to the cloud, as well as provide other enterprise software and telecommunications solutions. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, Mr. Alasiri spent 15 years with Juniper Networks, Saudi Telecom Company, Huawei Technologies, Cisco and SNC-Lavalin, working in progressively senior capacities within engineering, project management, sales and account management which culminated in the General Manager designation for all of Saudi Arabia at Juniper Networks.
Beyond his operating expertise, Mr. Alasiri is well-versed in matters of corporate and institutional governance and was a board member on the Boards of the National Centre for Health Information, General Authority for Statistics, Al Madinah Region for Development Authority, Tamkeen Technologies, National Centre for e-Learning and Saudi Center for Economical Business. He is also an active board member in the WEF Centre of the 4th Industrial Revolution in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Alasiri holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and is a graduate of the Positive Leader Program from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Mr. Alasiri also hold an executive certificate in Strategy and Innovation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Mr. Alasiri also is an active board member who holds an executive certificate and license from INSEAD business school as an International Board Director. Mr. Alasiri also hold an executive diploma from Harvard Business School in Executive Leadership.
