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Talal EL KHATIB, EMBA

Co-Founder, Director

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Talal EL KHATIB, EMBA
RIYADH Saudi Arabia
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About Me
Dynamic professional with over twenty years of demonstrated leadership and expertise in business development, specializing in the successful management of large-scale, cross-functional projects. Adept at developing design strategies and visionary approaches that drive innovation and enhance user experience. Possess strong management and relationship-building skills, complemented by a keen ability to solve complex problems across diverse corporate processes. Proven track record in evaluating business opportunities and effectively driving operational strategies, including digital transformation initiatives, to achieve organizational goals and elevate overall performance.
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Experiences
  • Worked with: PIF, NEOM, KAFD, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing
  • Duties >>>
    • Government Relations: Lead the engagement with various government bodies, ensuring that the company's offerings meet the specific needs and objectives of each entity. Serve as the primary point of contact, building strong partnerships based on trust and collaboration.
    • Strategic Solution Development: Responsible for conceptualizing and proposing technological solutions tailored to the unique challenges faced by government departments. This includes identifying opportunities for digital transformation and enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Key Achievements >>>
    • For the Ministry of Health, Lead initiatives to develop smart solutions for the Diseases Department, focusing on analysing consumer behaviour to promote healthy food choices among the population. This involves integrating data analytics to provide actionable insights that guide public health initiatives.
    • For the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, lead initiatives to develop smart solutions for monitoring the complete food supply chain from restaurants. This proactive approach aims to prevent food safety issues, including poisoning cases, by ensuring compliance and quality control.
    • For the Ministry of Education, lead initiatives to develop smart solutions to manage school canteens effectively. This includes developing payment systems for parents to encourage healthy eating habits among children while minimising cash transactions.
    • For the Public Investment Fund, collaborate to design smart solutions that enhance the safety and health standards within the food and beverage sector, ensuring secure retail environments that promote public health.
    • For NEOM, we have signed a mutual NDA with TOPIAN, NEOM's food company, to collaborate on smart data management solutions to transform the global food system.
    • For KAFD, we have signed an MOU to develop a proof of concept for a reboot initiative. This collaboration aims to explore innovative strategies and solutions to enhance the project’s efficiency and performance, aligning with KAFD’s long-term goals for modernisation and sustainability.
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  • Partners: Ministry of Education, French Embassy, AEFE
  • Duties and Achievements >>>
    Recognizing the vital role of volunteer work and the school as fundamental building blocks of society, I am proud to have been honourably elected as the volunteer president of the school's board. I believe in our responsibility to be a positive and effective force within the community we serve.
    • Legal Responsibility: Ensure that the school maintains its legal status and achieves 100% compliance with local laws and regulations.
    • Leadership and Governance: Providing overall leadership to the board and ensuring effective governance of the school, aligning with its mission and values.
    • Financial Oversight: Ensuring the financial health of the school by overseeing budget approval processes, fundraising efforts, and financial reporting.
    • Strategic Planning: Create and implement long-term strategic plans that enhance the school's educational programs and growth.
    • Policy Development: Leading the development and review of school policies and ensuring compliance with legal and educational standards set by the French Ministry of Education and local regulations.
    • Communication: Acting as the primary spokesperson for the board, effectively communicating with parents, staff, and the wider community about the school's goals and accomplishments.
    • Collaboration with Administration: Working closely with the school's director and administration to support the implementation of policies and initiatives, and to address operational challenges.
    • Conflict Resolution: Addressing conflicts or issues that may arise within the school community, facilitating resolutions that are in the best interest of the students and the institution.
    • Advocacy: Advocating for the school within the community, building relationships with stakeholders, and promoting the school's interests to secure support and resources.
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  • Worked with: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defence, NUPCO
  • Program
    APM (Asset Performance Management), IMS (Inventory Management System), TMS (Transport Management System)
    According to Saudi Vision 2030 and as a part of e-government, APM, IMS and TMS are a strategic program that aims to provide a holistic view and control of medical and nonmedical assets and items across KSA. As a Digital Platform, it allows for monitoring equipment performance and issues, ensures compliance with 3rd party SLAs, and enables live tracking of equipment. It’s a source of truth for strategic decision-making.
  • Duties >>>
    • Support Building the strategy and roadmap for deploying the Asset Performance system at public hospitals, labs, and PHCs.
    • Direct the APMS, IMS, and TMS deployment at public hospitals and public labs.
    • Direct the IMS and TMS deployment at Nupco.
    • Support Building the strategy of the equipment department of MOH-HSSC
    • Support Building the strategy of MOH-HSCC according to the MOH 2.0 vision.
    • Manage the matrix of communication and coordination between stakeholders.
    • Provide executive reporting to MOH executive management.
    • Planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and delivering on time.
    • Resource management, evaluating the performance of different teams, and smoothing out areas of conflict.
    • Budget development, execution, and following up with quarterly reviews.
    • Managing the business development process and key accounts.
    • Develop new business opportunities with government and semi-government entities.
  • Key Achievements >>>
    • Improve the commercial strategy and process of XPL.
    • Deploy APMS at 30 Public hospitals.
    • Deploy APMS at 50 PHCs.
    • Deploy APMS at 24 Regional Labs, 17 Blood banks, and 12 toxicology centres.
    • +500 sites and +1000 users for IMS and TMS
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  • Work with:
    • Governments (12 Entities): Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, Capital Market Authority, GAZET, Public Prosecution, HRSD, Saudi Costumes, NAZAHA, Public Pension Agency, Bankruptcy Commission, National Competitiveness Center
    • Banks (12): ALBI, ANB, BJAZ, BMUS, BNPP, BSFR, Credit Suisse, DEUT, ENBD, FAB, GIB, ICBC, JPMorgan, MUFG, NBB, NBK, NBP, NCB, QNB, RIBL, SABB, SAIB, SAMBA, Standard Chartered, Ziraat
  • Program: Watheeq - Tanfeeth
    According to Saudi Vision 2030 and as a part of e-government, Watheeq is a program that aims to provide a direct B2B link between the technological systems of government entities and banks operating in the Kingdom. The program is set to provide integration between them for the objectives of benefiting from modern technologies and e-government applications and upgrading the level of government services.
    Tanfeeth program was established based on the technological platform Watheeq, which will transform the business sector of SAMA into a digital service provider. This would occur by adopting the best and most reliable technological solutions, providing integrated linking between SAMA and other government technological systems, benefiting from the services, and building connections with the financial sector.
  • Duties >>>
    • Provide advisory to the Head of the Governmental Cooperation and Development Department
    • Provide advisory to the head of Quality Assurance Department
    • Direct the onboarding of government entities (12 entities right now)
    • Direct the onboarding of financial institutes (25 banks right now)
    • Direct all phases of the program from planning to production and operation.
    • Manage the matrix of communication and coordination between Government Entities, Banks, Saudi Payments, and SAMA business.
    • Chair steering meetings and control plan to ensure the commitment of each government entity and each bank with respect to their approved plan.
    • Provide executive reporting to SAMA top management at a daily and weekly basis.
    • Planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and delivering on time.
    • Resource management, Evaluating the performance of different teams and smoothing out areas of conflict.
    • Develop new business opportunities with SAMA
  • Key Achievements >>>
    • Established the government's onboarding process and got approval for SAMA Centre of Excellence
    • Established the bank's onboarding process and got approval for SAMA Centre of Excellence
    • Established the internal interaction workflow process, including RACI, between all related teams (ex. Dev, NOC, SOC, Operation, QA teams)
    • Close out wave1 (8 services) of Thanfeeth Program
    • Close out Wave 2 (6 services) of Tanfeeth program
    • Launched Wave 3 (4 services) of Tanfeeth program
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  • Clients: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Health, GACA, Aramco
  • Projects: Riyadh Conference Center, Princess Noura University, Jeddah Airport (KAIA), Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Haramain High-speed Rail (HHR), Makah Haram Expansion, Kingdom Tower, National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdullah International Gardens
  • Duties >>>
    • Provide advisory and reporting to the Area Director.
    • Provide leadership and vision for the ICT department, including strategic planning, information security, operational policies, procedures, standards, and best practices.
    • Manage and motivate a cross-cultural team of over 35 engineers & technicians within 4 fields Systems, Networks, Security and Applications.
    • Full Budget responsibility of the ICT department, create financial forecasts, outline expenditures, and adjust the budget when necessary.
    • Develop business opportunities and respond to IT/Telecom RFPs for external clients.
    • Participate in developing the global RFPs of the company.
    • Manage ICT projects within the company and work with Project Managers on goal attainment.
    • Chair department steering meetings and control plan to ensure continuity of information systems support and goal achievement.
    • Manage relationships with business partners, evaluate, negotiate, and manage third-party relationships.
    • Assess new innovative technologies, mission-critical systems, security, communication, and ICT continuity.
    • Resource management, managing junior managers, evaluating the performance of different teams and smoothing out areas of conflict.
    • Handle recruiting and hiring new staff and manage their training programs
  • Key Achievements >>>
    • Created the ICT Department with new organizational structure.
    • Standardized IT service management, operations, policies, and procedures across KSA.
    • Preparation for ISO 270001 information security certification to be ready for external audit.
    • Established procedures with clients on new projects related to Project Management Information system (PMIS), Project Collaboration Website and Project Risk Management.
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  • Client: Orange Switzerland
  • Projects: KPSA Migration, KPSA NT-HLR, KPSA Excellence
  • Duties >>>
    • Overall Profit & Loss (P&L) responsibility of the program
    • Bid manager for answers to RFI / RFQ / RFP (Business development)
    • Manage and motivate a cross-cultural team of over 20 people onshore and offshore.
    • Manage relationships with the clients and business partners.
    • Directing all phases of projects from inception through completion
    • Define delivery strategies and improve the delivery models.
    • Steering and control plans, schedules, budgets, and deliveries
    • Risk Management and action plans
    • Resource management, evaluating the performance of different teams, and smoothing out areas of conflict.
    • Directing the recruitment and selection of consultants and vendors
  • Key Achievements >>>
    • 10% of margin increase and 100% of new change requests were won.
    • Client Satisfaction Evaluation: 9.71/10
    • Implemented new organizational structure to optimize our flexibility, reliability, timeliness, quality, and cost
  • Client: OmanTel
  • Projects: : OSS Service Assurance, NOC: Network Operation Centre
  • Duties >>>
    • Capgemini representative in Oman, manage relations at the executive level.
    • Develop new business opportunities in Oman’s region.
    • Monitoring and managing contractors: clients, business partners and vendors.
    • Help customers to build new RFPs for new business.
    • Manage 20+ cross cultural people, $7M+ budgets, full P&L responsibility.
    • Coordinate and manage project reporting, reviews, and steering meetings.
    • Planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and delivering on time.
    • Define and allocate required resources for completion.
    • Manage cross-cultural teams and smooth out any area of conflict.
    • Responsible for the Health, Safety and Welfare of all team members.
  • Key Achievements >>>
    • 7% of Margin increase and 90% of new change requests were won.
    • Client satisfaction evaluation: 8.16/10.
    • Expanded business and earned new clients in our portfolio.
    • Improved the business strategy plan based on the customer feedbacks.
  • Client: Orange France
  • Projects: Casper-Soprane, Casper-SupNext, Casper-Suptraf
  • Duties >>>
    • Planning, scheduling, and budgeting - project P&L full responsibility.
    • Customer-facing, needs assessment and fulfilment.
    • Define project scope, objectives, milestones, and deliverables.
    • Drive the project team from start to completion.
    • Manage deliveries of the project.
    • Provide Technical Expertise for design, development, and testing.
  • Client: CHU Grenoble
  • Project: Crystal-Net - CHU
  • Duties >>>
    • Working closely with client to understand their need
    • Participate and manage the life cycle of the project
    • Design, Develop, Test , Integrate and Deliver of the project
    • Lead and manage teams
    • Technically manage the DRDV – IPOP Modules (management of appointments and optimization of the resources)
    • Migrate the Crystal-Net application in the new technology .Net
  • Project: TDS : Transmission Data security
  • Duties >>>
    • Participate in the development phase
    • Develop procedure for Encryption / decryption and compression / decompression of MP3/MP4
Education

International Executive MBA

Grenoble Ecole de Management - Grenoble Graduate School of Business

September 2012 to 2014
Grenoble, France
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Master of Engineering

Ecole Polytechnique de Grenoble

September 2003 to 2006
Grenoble, France
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FOUNDATIONS & CERTEFICATIONS

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• 2026: Chief Technology and AI Officer (CTAIO) Programme by NUS Computing - ongoing
• 2026: AI For Business Operations, AI For Project Managers, AI for Productivity, AI for Marketing
• 2020: ISACA CGEIT Governance of Enterprise IT - Self-Study – Riyadh, KSA
• 2017: Project Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control Professional - PMI Certified Program – KSA
• 2017: Managing & Supervising Projects, Consulting & Contractors - PMI Certified Program – KSA
• 2017: Building Information Modeling (BIM) Implementation - PMI Certified Program – KSA
• 2016: Assyst, IT Service Management, Train the Trainer - Axios – Amman, Jordan
• 2014: Executive Leadership Certificate - GGSB – Grenoble, France
• 2011: Engagement Manager Certificate - Capgemini – Paris, France
• 2011: PMP and ITIL V3 - Capgemini Certified Program Training – Paris, France
• 2010: Managing for High Performance and My Passport to Sales - Capgemini – Paris, France
Skills

Functional Competencies

  • AI strategy, Digital Transformation
    Expert
  • Business Developmentnt
    Expert
  • Governance of Enterprise ICT, Cybersecurity
    Expert
  • Strategy and vision design
    Expert

Core Competencies

  • Executive Management
    Expert
  • Operation Management
    Expert
  • Managing Stakeholders
    Expert
  • Change Management
    Expert
  • Global Marketing
    Expert
  • P&L Management
    Expert
  • Quality & Risk Management
    Expert
  • Performance Management
    Expert
  • Innovation management
    Expert
  • Finance Analysis
    Expert
  • Pre-Sales, Sales, Contracts
    Expert
  • Delivery Management
    Expert
  • Competitive Analysis
    Expert

Tools and Methodology

  • • Gemini, Jasper Ai, Cloude, Canva AI, Midjouney
  • • Capgemini Delivery™ Unified Project Management, PMP, ITIL, Clarity, Open Workbench, Ms Project, Team-Forge, HP Quality Center

Langues

  • English - Fluent
    Expert
  • French - Fluent
    Expert
  • Arabic - Fluent
    Expert
Interests

Interests

  • Foot
  • Tenis
  • Travelling
  • Music
  • Social Events
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