Top Smart Cities advisor in Dubai and venture capitalist Advising technology start-ups, scale-ups, and corporations to launch new products, services, and ventures since 2013. Helping over 32 organisations and counting, bring their innovative solutions to their next rounds of product development, customer-partner acquisitions, and financing. This includes raising funds for 10 international outfits, while managing staff who accessed and delivered a further 55 commercialization project launches and rounds of financing. Heavily involved with digital transformation, helping develop end-to-end governance processes, criteria, and execution methodology for innovation and ESG programmes, for municipalities, public-private partnerships, and corporations. This includes overseeing key pilot trials and procurement exercises to help embed innovation and ESG metrics into everyday operations.