Head of Transformation at Mofid Securities

Transformation leadership for complex financial organisations

I lead enterprise change across strategy, operating models, technology, and leadership—grounded in 15+ years building and leading mission-critical systems across capital markets, fintech, and enterprise environments.

  • 15+ years across technology and transformation
  • Financial services, capital markets, and enterprise systems
  • Strategy, operating model, technology, and leadership

Transformation is an organisational capability—not a one-off programme

New technology, a redesigned structure, or a transformation roadmap can create activity without creating lasting change. Sustainable transformation happens when strategy, decision rights, operating models, leadership, capabilities, and technology evolve together.

The objective is not to make an organisation dependent on a programme or a small group of change leaders. It is to build the capability to keep adapting after the programme ends.

Where I focus

Enterprise transformation

Connecting strategy to execution across the organisation, with clear priorities, governance, ownership, and measurable outcomes.

  • Transformation strategy
  • Portfolio governance
  • Business capability development
  • Execution discipline

Operating model and organisational design

Clarifying how decisions are made, how teams interact, and how accountability moves through the organisation.

  • Operating-model design
  • Decision rights
  • Organisational structure
  • Governance and effectiveness

Technology and AI enablement

Turning technology investment into usable business capability, with architecture, data, platforms, and AI aligned to strategic outcomes.

  • Technology strategy
  • Platform modernisation
  • AI enablement
  • Technology governance

Leadership and change

Creating the leadership alignment, communication, incentives, and organisational conditions required for change to hold.

  • Executive alignment
  • Change leadership
  • Capability building
  • Transformation coaching

Selected experience

2025 - present

Head of Transformation

Mofid Securities

Setting and leading the enterprise transformation agenda across strategy, operating model, technology, and leadership.

2023 - present

Digital Transformation Consultant

Dchange

Advising leadership teams on digital strategy, technology direction, and the organisational capabilities required to sustain change.

2010 - 2023

Technology leadership

Investment management, trading, fintech, telecom, and enterprise consulting

Fifteen years building and leading engineering teams and mission-critical platforms across investment management, trading, fintech, telecom, and enterprise consulting.

Principles

Strategy must reach the operating model

A strategy that does not change priorities, decision rights, resources, and day-to-day execution remains a document.

Technology serves the outcome

Platforms, architecture, data, and AI matter when they create a business capability the organisation can use and sustain.

Transformation must outlast the programme

Durable change builds organisational capability rather than dependency on a project, consultant, or individual leader.

Latest insights

Writing on enterprise transformation, financial systems, technology strategy, AI, and organisational change.

You Need a Future to Optimise For

In stable times, transformation speed is the rate at which an organisation moves towards its intended future. During war, it is first the speed at which the organisation protects people, reduces uncertainty and helps them believe that a future remains possible.

The Challenges of Money-Weighted Rate of Return (MWRR) in Production Systems

MWRR is one of the most widely reported investment metrics — and one of the hardest to implement correctly at scale. Behind its simple formula lies iterative solvers, multiple-root ambiguity, and regulatory complexity that CTOs and auditors must confront when it moves to production infrastructure.

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I welcome conversations on enterprise transformation, financial services, technology strategy, leadership, and selected speaking or advisory opportunities.

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