Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · New York, New York, United States · Remote

• Offers strategic direction for Prove AI, focusing on its vision within AI and data verification.
• Leads initiatives for ethical AI principles and robust governance, ensuring verifiable and transparent solutions.
• Shapes the technology and innovation strategy, applying DLT and AI expertise to foster secure applications.
• Accelerates market adoption by advising on key partnerships and ecosystem growth.
• Guides on risk management and scalability to support sustainable organizational development.

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

• Spearheading initiatives to promote sustainability, decentralization, and democratization in the global economy as a Senior Executive Fellow at The Digital Economist.
• Collaborating with thought leaders and innovators to shape a human-centered economy.
• Contributing to the cohort's mission of driving positive change through innovative solutions.

Dec 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led operational strategy and execution for Hedera, focusing on resilience and innovation within the ecosystem.
• Supported enterprise use of the Hedera network through strategic planning and implementation.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive operational efficiency and growth initiatives.

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Provide technology leadership for Public Layer 1 network operations, technology capability roadmap and open source development for Hedera Hashgraph.

Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Hedera Hashgraph is a public permissioned DLT with hbar tokens that are tradable. The role involves advisory in establishment of growth plan, operational management, treasury management and ecosystem development.

Dec 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Supported operations, treasury management, and membership growth at LF Decentralized Trust.
• Contributed to marketing strategies and organized developer events for the foundation.

Jan 2023 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

• Hyperledger Foundation (part of Linux foundation ) is a foundation for all Blockchain and Self Sovereign open source projects with a membership of over 200+ worldwide organizations. I represent IBM as an alternate member of the governing board supporting operations, treasury management, membership growth, marketing and developer events.

Jun 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

• Responsible for creating offerings, go to market, enablement, recruiting talent and building practice around AI Governance.
• Partnering with watsonx.governance and other 3rd party product teams in driving automated AI tooling governance pilots.
• Working together with AI platfrom providers ( AWS, MSFT, Google, IBM ) on joint go-to-market initiatives.

Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Apr 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Responsible for Global Sales of IBM's Blockchain and Cognitive Business Process Management / Operational Decision Management (Rules and Events) portfolio.

Jul 2015 – Apr 2016 · 9 mos

• Support operations, sales enablement and client success for $ 8.8 Billion dollar business.

Jan 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Responsible for Sales strategy and execution for portfolio of over $ 750 M including Middleware Application Platform (WAS,WXS), IT Operations (ITSM) and PureApplication Systems (Integrated Expert System)
• Achieved 101 % of 2014 financial target for Application Server.
• Grew PureApplication business by 80 % YTY.
• Hundred percent club member and Sales Eminence award recipient for 2014.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led a team of line of business sales professionals working with clients to achieve better business outcomes by optimizing their business processes.
• Responsible for 160% year to year growth in 2013.
• Achieved 145 % of 2013 financial target.
• Recruited and managed a high performance sales team.
• Hundred percent club member and Sales Eminence award recipient for 2013
• Created and ran unique sales plays that resulted in higher OI to Close ratio in the market.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led a worldwide (200 people) organization of software technical professionals working with clients to achieve better business outcomes by optimizing their business processes.
• Achieved consistent year-to-year growth in BPM revenue from 40 million to 400 million over a period of 4 years.
• Successfully led the integration and scaling of 4 new acquisitions (Webify, Aptsoft, ILOG and Lombardi) into WebSphere sales and technical sales.
• Drove a cultural and organizational transformation from product selling to value and solution selling among sellers.
• Launched and drove several successful market segmentation/up sell/cross sell sales plays.
• Led and delivered several initiatives that led to productivity gains for sellers including creation of sales kits, technical accelerators, learn / sell wiki.
• Created and manage the largest (~2000) BPM Community within IBM of practitioners with vibrant community participation.
• Established a high performance team responsible for closing first of a kind deals, critical situation customers and highly visible and important opportunities.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• I am responsible for WW Technical Sales management for a key product called WebSphere Business Services Fabric within the SWG portfolio. In my current role I manage a team of highly skilled solution architects and work with clients to position Fabric as a key enabler in their BPM and SOA efforts.

Apr 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a worldwide SOA technology practice responsible for 3 million USD in billable services. Overachieved the target by 15 % for 2006.
• Established a new practice through creation of best practices, methodology, engagement perform guides, services sales model.
• Recruited and managed best talent and leaders (Band 10 and Band 9) for driving this successful practice.
• Drove a high performance culture that resulted in 3 CTRE (Corporate technical recognition event) nominations, 4 OTAA (outstanding Technical Achievement award),

Apr 2003 – Apr 2006 · 3 yrs

• Practice Leader for Migrations to WebSphere within IBM.
• Over achieved utilization targets for the division every year.
• Developed methodology and best practices for migrating from Microsoft to J2EE based WebSphere
• Speaker at IBM conferences and WebSphere user groups on migrations and automated deployments

Jun 2019 – Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Creating new business models and better outcomes by applying Blockchain and AI technologies.
• Advising clients on employing Tokenization( CBDCs, NFTs etc), decentralized Identity and Provenance to accelerate business outcomes.
• Focus on capital markets, banking, energy, retail, media and entertainment industries.
• Driving consistent high double digit YtY growth in # of clients and revenue for IBM Blockchain services.

Mar 2001 – Mar 2003 · 2 yrs

• Successfully executed all customer engagements undertaken in support of channel sales.
• Managed technical support activity for Cacheon partner’s IBM, BEA, and Oracle.
• Provided staff support to the VP of Sales and Services to close customers and establish partnerships.
• Established a migration methodology to approach migrations and established standards and milestones for measurements.

Jul 2000 – Apr 2001 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Consulting support for start ups including HelloAsia.com and GeoTouch.

Apr 1999 – Jun 2000 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Led a successful implementation of mission critical Internet banking system from concept to delivery at the largest bank in Saudi Arabia. (National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia/ www.alahli.com).

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr