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Senior strategist in financial services with 20+ years’ experience across MENA, Europe, and the US. Proven track record in scaling businesses, defining winning strategies, building new products, and ensuring regulatory compliance. INSEAD MBA; fluent in Arabic, French & English.

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Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Dubai City (up to 50km)

ACCELERATED OUTCOMES
MANAGING DIRECTOR
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
• Advising banking clients on digital transformation and revenue improvement initiatives
• Leading the development of fintechs across UAE and KSA with use cases across SME & P2P lending, Fraction Real Estate & Tokenization – obtained in-principle approval from SAMA and clear guidance on licensing from ADGM
• Advising multiple SaaS providers of embedded finance, banking as a service, AI solutions & Supply Chain payment digitization on market entry and business development – Built a multi-million-dollar qualified pipeline
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy Software as a Service (SaaS) Fintech Banking and Financial Services Business Model Innovation
(MA)
PRINCIPAL / VP – MASTERCARD
January 2019 - January 2025 (6 years)
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
• Led Mastercard consulting division across MENA advising banks, fintechs and central banks on payments & digital
• Led the transformation of a Tier1 bank in GCC: Revamped the bank's Retail Banking Strategy, added new products in record time, enhanced service levels, trained staff and increased cross sell ratios
• Sourced and deployed partner solutions to enhance our banking clients' offering
• Hired and mentored a team of high performing Directors & VPs and their pods, setting clear KPIs and sales governance
QNB
UNIT MANAGER / DEPUTY HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL
January 2018 - January 2019 (1 year)
Doha, Qatar
• Launched new branches in diverse regulatory environments, adapting global banking frameworks to local realities

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MBA
INSEAD
2008
MBA

Omar Alami

Expert Level Strategists in Financial Services

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