Ghassan Al-Mansour, Head of Business Technology

Ghassan Al-Mansour

Head of Business Technology

Riyad Capital

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
Experience
23 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 1 Months

Head of Business Technology at Riyad Capital
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2012

Managing and directing all business technology related matters of the company.

Deputy Head of IT at Alistithmar Capital
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2012 to April 2012

After the acquisition of (SAIB BNP Paribas Asset Management Co.) by (Alistithmar Capital), successfully planned and managed the integration between both companies infrastructure in staged manner.

Key Responsibilities:
Administer, assigning, monitoring and streamline day to day IT services operations of the organization to maximize productivity.

Head of IT Department at SAIB BNP Paribas Asset Management
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2009 to December 2011

Highlights:
Successfully managed and delivered SR 5, 000, 000 value portfolio of projects in less than 1 year timeframe to disengage the company from the Saudi Investment Bank.

*** Details can be found in the attached resume. ***

Deputy CEO – PMO Director at Al Nokhba For Business Transformation (NBT)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2009 to September 2009

NBT is a certified solution partner of Oracle. I joined the company for a short period as an advisor to help the company’s management shaping and preparing a strategic plan to develop its business.

Key Responsibilities:
• Developed a strategic plan with proposed initiatives to strengthen, restructure and improve the company’s processes and operations.
• Studying market conditions, company situation and competitors offerings.

Project Manager at Commerce Investment Technology LLC (N2N Arabia)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2006 to January 2009

N2N Arabia was a startup joint venture based in Riyadh offering e-trading and market information products and technologies for the financial industry.

Key Responsibilities
• Successfully enabled the company to be certified by TADAWUL (Saudi Stock Exchange) as a licensed market information provider.
• Worked in products design and development.
• Business pre-sales activities and solutions proposals preparation.
• Leading the development teams at Riyadh and Malaysia to develop trading and market information products that are compatible with TADAWUL FIX and TIP protocols and standards.
• Leading the development teams to develop internet and mobile e-trading technologies.
• Leading the development teams to develop multi-market order management system.
• Handled planning and implementation of an ASP-infrastructure trading platform at Riyadh.

Treasury Systems Integration Team Leader at SAMBA Financial Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2000 to October 2005

I was leading the Treasury Systems Integration team as part of the Treasury Systems Support Unit. Our team was responsible for architecting, designing and implementing the integration bus (IB) between the treasury’s Front-Office and Back-Office applications. During that period, I worked with different kinds of programming languages, technologies and business solutions such as Reuters Trade and Risk Management solutions (KONDOR+ and KGL), TIBCO middleware technologies and Business Objects for MIS and business intelligence solutions.

*** Details can be found in the attached resume ***

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
  • at King Saud University
  • April 1999

I graduated from Computer Science & Information Systems college (King Saud University) with a GPA 3.79 (out of 5) and my rank was the 7th in the honor list of the Information Systems graduates ..

Specialties & Skills

Integration
Asset Management
Middleware
Banking, financial and investment technologies projects implementation
Knowledge of ISO27000-series and NIST standards and practices.
Knowledge of PMBOK and ITIL standards and practices.
IT infrastructure design and architecture.
Planning and Management of IT strategies, projects and services
Virtualization technologies using VMware.
IT budgets and financial control.
Knowledge of Microsoft, Cisco systems and technologies.
Enterprise integration bus design and architecture.

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • PMP
  • April 2005