About Jay
English
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Experience
- Repaymi (Fintech)Co-Founder & CTOAugust 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- A fintech startup leading the digital transformation of SMBs' collections by building seamless automation in recovering late and unpaid invoices, integrating AI through a custom Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine for communications, campaigns and reminders
- Backed by Flat6Labs, one of the most active investors in the MENA region, and selected by Startupbootcamp Fintech (1 of 20 worldwide) and UK Virgin (1 of 10 nationwide)
- Desjardins Group (Financial & Insurance Services)Principal Advisor - Information Security & GovernanceFebruary 2021 - June 2025 (4 years and 4 months)Montreal, QC, Canada
- Drove digital transformation as a Product Owner for in-house development of GRC and information security evaluation, control, and monitoring processes and solutions
- Product Owner of Desjardins Projects Security Compliance, a large-scale project that received wide recognition at FS-ISAC Toronto 2024 with 3 major banks requesting replication
- Championed AI adoption by launching bi-weekly AI enablement sessions for 100+ employees within the Governance department
- Governance and information security processes improvement and optimization
- GRC strategic planning and KPI development and monitoring
- Information Security internal audits and preparation and coordination with external audits (ISO 27001 , SOC2)
- Corporater (Business Management & GRC Software Solutions)Presales Manager / GRC Solution LeadSeptember 2019 - August 2020 (11 months)Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- Enabled clients' digital transformation by developing high-impact POCs, conducting demos & workshops
- Led major transformation projects streamlining clients' strategy, operations and GRC processes & unifying them within our solutions
- Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Solution global Lead and subject matter expert
- GRC Solution product development
- Tendering management
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Education
- B.B.AAmerican University of Beirut2003B.B.A
- French BaccalaureateCarmel Saint Joseph1999French Baccalaureate in