Skills & Services

Professional Profile

Sa’ad is passionate about enabling collaboration and success within the international business development arena. He has observed projects where an individual gave more importance to their role than the project’s end goal. Sa’ad enjoys working closely with businesses to establish an environment where everyone in the team engages without structures and become personally involved, enabling strong and close collaboration in the interest of the organization and be creative in finding ways to remove national & international barriers, towards achieving success.

Sa’ad started his business career in 1978, and has gained a unique blend and varied experience of companies across the life cycle of a business from start-ups, small family businesses, to the global government & corporate at strategic and operational levels.

Fluent in both English & Arabic languages.

Main Expertise: International Business Development
Secondary Expertise: Information & Communication Technology Director.

Career Background

* i-Government / e-Government CTO.

* Group IT Director

* Senior ICT Program Manager.

* ICT Transformation Program Manager.

Qualifications & Accreditations

• Professional Affiliations
• • Institute of Interim Management, United Kingdom http://www.ioim.org.uk
• • Madison Who\'s Who, United States http://www.madisonwhoswho.com
• • Continental Who\'s Who, United States http://www.continentalwhoswho.com
• • International Who\'s Who of Entrepreneurs, United States http://www.internationalwhoswho.com/
• • Al-Kindi Society for Engineers, United Kingdom http://www.kindi.org.uk
• • Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), United Arab Emirates http://www.astf.net
• • Iraq Institute for Economic Reform (IIER), Iraq http://www.iier.org
• • Iraq Information Technology Committee, USA / Iraq
• • Iraq Technology Task Force (ITTF), USA / Iraq
• • Technology Internship Program, USA / Iraq
• • ArabCrunch.NET – Empowers and Connects Arab Entrepreneurs and Technology Professionals http://arabcrunch.net
• • Laselki.net – Arab Amateur Radio http://www.laselki.net
• • RSGB – Radio Society of Great Britain http://www.rsgb.org
• • RAYNET – The Radio Amateurs’ Emergency Network http://www.raynet-uk.net
• • Cyber Intelligence Network, MENA
• • Member of the Microsoft Partner Research Panel, (Help Evolve and Improve Microsoft Products) http://partner.microsoft.com/MSPRP
• • LinkedIn directory http://www.linkedin.com/in/alkattans
• • Personal company, Sherwood Resources Ltd. http://www.SherwoodResources.com

Comments

Recently Sa’ad moved into the International Business Advisory and Development Services, assisting UK based organizations explore both business presence and service offering across MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Also, MENA organizations partnering with United Kingdom / European counterparts towards gaining the required knowledge and varied product set into the wider area.

Market Evaluation and Development services, liaison with other United Kingdom/International Associates and Partners to provide qualified information and advice.

A 'first stop' solution before clients commit to the market or can justify further development and expansion.