Director of Artificial Intelligence, Fakeeh Care Group — a publicly listed hospital group across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Before that, a decade at Philips in the Netherlands, from research scientist to Director of Data and AI Innovation.
Research gave me the depth; Philips taught me enterprise scale; Fakeeh let me build the whole thing — strategy, governance and production systems — from an empty page, inside one of the most regulated industries there is.
I still write the architecture.
Nineteen payers, conflicting rules, and a requirement that every answer trace back to source language. Chose retrieval with grounded citation over fine-tuning, so policy changes never require retraining — and so a reviewer can always see why.
In daily production useRisk-tiered intake, review, release and monitoring across procured and internally built AI, adopted as group policy. Two demand streams, an assessment pathway platformed in-house, and portfolio decisions made on ownership economics: build where the asset compounds, buy where it does not.
Adopted as group policyVendor assurance identified a clinical system operating without the regulatory registration it required, and paused it ahead of go-live. Three further vendor models were placed on hold. Governance is only real at the moment it costs someone something.
Designated Responsible AI OfficerPhD summa cum laude, Best Dissertation Award — University of Mannheim.
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