Name: Sohaib Belal Khaled Al-Hafnawi

Current title: Commissioner - Board Member

Current organisation: Telecommunications Regulatory Commission

Leadership and Management | Regulatory | ICT | Technology | Mobile & Broadband | Digital Transformation , IoT , AI, CXO
-19 Years of Solid Senior level experience of Technology Management, leadership and Strategy in the middle east and Gulf area.
- Have experience in C-level consulting and advisory.
-Managing complex projects, Customer operation management.
- Having experience with top Telecom Vendors: Huawei, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
- Having end to end experience in managing mobile/Wireless telecom networks: Planning, Implementation, project management, Operation, optimization, Performance, managed services.
- Successfully managed different projects with budgets up to $100M.
- Successfully managed teams up to 75+ persons.
- Had leading roles in different projects; supporting 3 Mobile operators in Saudi Arabia (STC, Zain, Mobily) including: Zain New Network launch (2007-2009), STC 4G1 E2E network Design Management (2009-2013), Samsung Managed Service with Mobily (2013-2016), STC broadband WIFI Projects (2017- 2019).
- Having Executive Certification in Management and Leadership (MIT, USA, 2018),
- MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2018 certifications in: "Internet of things" , "Artificial Intelligence" , "Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems" , "Strategic Cost Analysis for Managers ", "Platform Strategies".
- PMP (2009-2021) ,
-Digital Business Transformation Management
- 6 sigma ,
- Overseas training courses.
Area of experience and Interest:
• Regulatory • Management Consulting • Digital Transformation • IoT technologies and Strategy • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics in Business • Cloud computing • Blockchain • 5G