Vice President, Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer
NEOM ERI
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia
Vice President, Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer
NEOM U
NEOM, Saudi Arabia
Founded in 2017, NEOM is designed to be the land of the future, where the greatest minds and best talents are empowered to embody pioneering ideas and exceed boundaries in a world inspired by imagination. Currently being developed across an area the size of Belgium in the northern part of Saudi Arabia, NEOM is built to be an accelerator of human progress, embodying the future of innovation in business, liveability and sustainability. Backed by an initial investment offered by Saudi Arabia, NEOM will be an international project led, populated and funded from across world and its citizens will be a community with a mix of homelands, religions and backgrounds.
NEOM is focused on becoming a pre-eminent global location for establishing new technologies and associated industries. This development will encompass many future-facing sectors of activity spanning from education, through health and wellbeing, the digital world, energy, food, and water, to creative industries, tourism, and sport. It will be driven by world-class assets and knowledge creation based on exceptional access to data.
NEOM’s first University (NEOM U) will be a world class research university, that inspires and empowers the best minds: technology to better the world, innovation through the ‘lab of the future’ and life-long personalized development. It is one of the four pillars of the NEOM Education, Research and Innovation (ERI) sector along with EC-12 Education, the Talent Academy and the NEOM Education, Research and Innovation Foundation (ERIF).
With a leadership team already comprising world-renowned academics and visionaries, NEOM U will be focused on the fusion of the liberal arts with digital thinking, computing, and technology to solve humanity’s most pressing problems and to foster a prosperous, sustainable future for all. This foundational knowledge constitutes NEOM U’s Core Curriculum. Learning, research, discovery, and innovation across disciplines will provide the fabric for the mission of NEOM U. NEOM U’s Colleges, Schools, Divisions, Institutes will be interwoven into this fabric.
The Vice President of Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer (VPDT/ CIO) will be responsible for developing the digital ecosystem within NEOM U as well as the wider ERI sector. They will be a visionary leader who will own and establish a world world-class technological roadmap to enable ERI’s vision over the short, medium, and long term in close coordination with the NEOM-wide efforts to make NEOM an exemplar cognitive community. Reporting directly to the President of NEOM U with dotted line to the ERI Chancellor, the VPDT/CIO will build out the entire team across enterprise applications, software engineering and IT infrastructure. They will be an expert orchestrator of services that leverage the university’s digital assets to deliver in its mission and to enhance the experience of students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders. An experienced leader in the use of digital thinking, technology, computing , and AI to advance systems and services, this executive will build the required bench strength to support a state-of-the-art and forward forward-looking digital ecosystem, fostering a culture of digital innovation, anticipating the opportunities of emerging technologies, and contributing to the ideation and innovation of new ones to keep NEOM U and the entire ERI sector at the bleeding edge of the digital transformation.
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