I am joining Al Liwan Group, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, as Head of Innovation, to advance our mission by embedding advanced technologies into every layer of the organisation and empowering people to operate at the frontier of what modern finance can achieve.
Across the arc of recorded history, the systems that track value and enable exchange have always expanded the scope of human agency. From clay tablets in Mesopotamia to double-entry bookkeeping, from banknotes to global capital markets, each evolutionary step in money and record-keeping has enabled societies to coordinate at greater scale. Finance has never been a static sector. It is a continuous process of designing tools that help us see, decide, and allocate resources more effectively.
Today we are entering a new phase. AI is transforming the informational substrate of decision-making itself. Markets, risk models, workflows, and client interactions are becoming computationally enhanced layers where intelligence is increasingly ambient. The constraint is no longer the availability of data, but how quickly organisations can convert that data into insight and execution. The firms that lead the next era of global finance will be those that combine deep human judgment with AI-native systems capable of operating at speed and scale.
This is where Abu Dhabi has positioned itself with unusual clarity. It has become the Capital of Capital: a global hub that sits at the intersection of the world’s major economic blocs, grounded in political neutrality, long-term planning, and the largest sovereign wealth concentration anywhere. It is a bridge between the Global North and South, and between the established financial centres and the rising Gulf economies. As multipolarity accelerates, Abu Dhabi offers the rare combination of stability, ambition, and institutional capacity.
Within this landscape, Al Liwan Group is building a full-service financial institution owned, managed, and headquartered in Abu Dhabi.
The objective of applying advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence is not simply automation. It is the re-architecture of how a financial institution thinks, acts, and scales. AI-driven research loops, agentic decision-support, real-time knowledge systems, and intelligent client interaction layers all become part of a new operating model that enhances the capabilities of every professional at the firm.
I am excited to contribute to this transformation, helping Al Liwan become a model for what financial institutions in the 21st century can be: technologically advanced, globally connected, operationally rigorous, and deeply aligned with the long-term prosperity of the region.
The future of capital formation, resource allocation, and financial intermediation is being reshaped now. Abu Dhabi is one of the few places building deliberately for that future, and Al Liwan aims to prove what a new generation of financial institutions, born in the Gulf, can achieve on the world stage.