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Shawn Bayati

Shawn Bayati

Co-Founder and Global CEO

Profile

The Board

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.

At Amanah

He runs Amanah globally, and the argument does not change from room to room. Sovereign AI is not a black box rented from abroad. It is narrow, practical, industry specific capability the client owns outright, where the return shows up in compute efficiency, model accuracy and the absence of a vendor who can switch you off.

Twenty years of founding and running international ventures sit behind that, mostly as chief executive, from the Gulf to Asia Pacific and North America. He works as a builder rather than a backer, putting decision support systems and operating knowhow into a business rather than capital alone.

He read mathematics and computer science at the University of British Columbia, which shows in how quickly a conversation with him moves from strategy to compute.

Record

Founder and Group CEO
Cloud and AI companies
2023 to now
Founder and Chairman
Dubai
2012 to 2023
Founder and CEO
MENA and Asia Pacific
2004 to 2012
MSc Mathematics and Computer Science
University of British Columbia