Leadership
Elite DNA.Industrial scale.
The board and the engineering corps behind Amanah: the people who build sovereign AI infrastructure and hand it to your own team.
Elite DNA, Industrial Scale
The standing to be trusted, the depth to deliver.
Sovereign infrastructure is not sold, it is entrusted. What that asks of the people selling it is specific, and every part of it is held here by someone with a name.
A nation does not hand its intelligence to a vendor it has only just met. Set out what a company must already hold before it can build infrastructure at this level and the list is short: someone who has delivered the technology rather than described it, someone inside the rooms where Middle East capital is actually committed, someone who has taken companies public and sold others, and someone who has grown an organization across ninety two countries. The four co-founders hold one each, and the Chief Legal Officer holds the contract that decides whether any of it is sovereign in law. Behind them, through the Amanah ecosystem, stand more than 1,500 cloud and AI engineers who maintain the open-source foundations the industry runs on. Elite standing. Industrial capacity. One company.
What It Takes To Build This
Four things this takes. Four co-founders who hold them.
Sovereign infrastructure is an architecture problem, an access problem, a capital markets problem and a scale problem at the same time. Each one sits with somebody who has done it before.
The Board And Partners
Twelve who answer for the whole.
A leadership team drawn from the institutions that shape law, finance and infrastructure across the region and the world. Open any card for the full record.
The Board
Shawn Bayati
Co-Founder and Global CEO
Entrepreneur and venture builder across OT and IT. Twenty years as founder and chief executive, building cloud and AI companies from the Gulf to Asia Pacific and North America.
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Rainer Schorr
Co-Founder and Chairman
Founder and investor across private equity, real estate and technology. Took four companies to IPO and led several trade sales.
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Joseph Andrew
Co-Founder and Vice Chairman
Serial entrepreneur, including technology, and dealmaker with 500bn dollars in transactions. Co-founder of the world's largest law firm, across 92 countries.
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Dr Ahmed Mansour
Co-Founder, Board Member and UAE MD
Middle East access across conventional and Islamic financing, capital markets, and global investments and asset management. Group CEO and MD, KSH Investments. Global CEO and Board Member, CIH Investment Holding.
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Juan Crosby
Chief Legal Officer
Partner at PwC, leading its global NewLaw business. Client engagement partner on some of the largest managed legal services engagements in financial services, retail and energy.
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Kira Gutorski
VP of Global Partnerships
Founder of ventures in the technology space. Responsible for Amanah's strategic partnerships worldwide.
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Sam Singer
VP of Projects
Delivered AI systems to enterprise clients across six continents. Holds multiple patents in blockchain and has won multiple government grants, with a track record of delivering advanced technology across the globe.
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The Corps Behind The Board
A board this senior, a bench this deep.
The engineering strength Amanah draws on through its ecosystem to build each sovereign deployment on the ground and transfer it to your own team, layer by layer.
Three ACM Gold Medalists work within the Amanah ecosystem, at the frontier of algorithmic research.
The ecosystem holds a patent estate deep enough to build every layer, from the GPU fabric to the model ensemble, rather than license it back.
Standards And Stewardship
Leadership measured on the public record.
Authority you can check outside the company: independent certification, analyst recognition, and stewardship of the open-source foundations the industry runs on.
Open-source stewardship
The engineers in the Amanah ecosystem are a top-two contributor to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, with a maintainer seat and Steering Committee seat, and more than ten CNCF projects created.
- Top 2 CNCF contributor
- CNCF maintainer and Steering Committee
- 10+ CNCF projects created
- Top 14 AI Contributor
Certified governance
Management systems certified to international standard by independent auditors, not self-attested, across security, compliance and AI governance.
- ISO 27001
- ISO 37301
- ISO 42001
- CMMI5
Sovereign by certification
Sovereignty verified to the EU Full 8-Pillar standard and aligned to the regimes that govern regulated industry across finance and critical infrastructure.
- EU Full 8-Pillar Sovereignty
- DORA aligned
- BAFIN aligned
- NIS2 aligned
Recognized by the market
Named by Gartner for five consecutive years, and one of the original fourteen certified for CNCF AI conformance.
- Gartner-named 5+ years
- CNCF AI Conformance (Original 14)
Meet the team
Infrastructure you entrust to people you can meet.
Request a briefing to meet the leadership and the engineers who will build your sovereign AI Brain and hand it to your own team.
Your Vision. Your Stack. Your Control. Your Intelligence. Our Knowhow Transfer.