Dr. Marwan Alahmadi has been a board member at Dhawiyat Integrated Telecommunications and Information Technology Co. since 2018. He is also the founder of Alkhalijiah for Consulting and Information Technology, which offers cloud and cybersecurity services to clients in the MENA region, and has been company chairman for the past seven years. Alahmadi was chairman and CEO of Virtustream MENA for four years from 2014. Before that, he was chief business officer at Mobily for four years, reporting to the CEO with a mandate to transform and reorganize the corporate segment business unit. From 2007 to 2009, he was CEO of Zain Saudi Arabia, and oversaw a project to acquire a third mobile operator license in the Kingdom in 2007. Alahmadi was chief strategy officer at MTC Group (2004-2007), responsible for strategic business planning, merger and acquisition, innovation lab, regulatory affairs, and the group intelligence unit. In 2005, he worked at MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain) as chief operating officer, and took the  company from a net financial loss to a positive financial performance. Formerly, Alahmadi was director at Abdul Latif Jameel Group, executive manager at Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corp, and held the position of assistant professor at KFUPM. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and a master’s degree in political science and economics from the London School of Economics in the UK.