Saad Kabbani
Client Director - | Driving Enterprise AI Adoption | Transforming Industries with Sovereign AI Infrastructure and Solutions
The move
MoveEtisalat → e& UAE
TitleClient Director → Client Director - Generative AI & Soveriegn Infrastructure Solutions
LocationDubai → Dubai
Career arcRooted in UAE★
Cross-border moveNo — same country
Native languageEnglish
Years in UAE17.7
Total experience19.5 years
e& UAE headcount10,001+ employees
e& UAE industryTelecommunications
e& UAE HQAbu Dhabi
e& UAE typePublic Company
Career arc
- Client Director - Generative AI & Soveriegn Infrastructure SolutionsNov 2024 — Present
e& UAE· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time - Client DirectorJun 2019 — Apr 2025
Etisalat· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time - Sr. Manager - Business DevelopmentMay 2015 — Feb 2019
Schneider Electric· United Arab Emirates· Full-time - Group Director ITMay 2008 — Dec 2014
Jumeirah Group / Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts· United Arab Emirates - Senior IT AuditorSep 2005 — Dec 2007
Deloitte
Education
- The Continental School1987 — 2001
- American University of BeirutBachelor of Business Administration · Business Information and Decision Systems (BIDS)2001 — 2005
Languages
- French
- Arabic
- English · Native or bilingual
Top skills
Energy EfficiencyBroadcast MediaGo-to-Market StrategyOver-the-Top Content (OTT)Contract NegotiationCapital Budgeting
About
AI sales lead with a total of 15+ years of executive solution sales experience with a focus on accelerating sovereign and generative AI adoption for C-level enterprise and government clients. Lead go-to-market (GTM) for e&'s End to End AI Portfolio and offerings - GPUaaS, Multi-Cloud AI Infrastructure Orchestration Platform, LLM and SLM as a Service, Agentic AI Low/No Code platforms, Data Platforms for AI, Verticalized AI Use Cases and Edge AI Applications - driving AED 700M+ annual targets through pipeline development, sales enablement, and consultative engagements. Champion vertical AI solutions and GenAI offerings (via AWS,Oracle Alloy, Azure Foundry, Aleria and Open Innovation) to deliver compliant, high-ROI business transformations.