Operational Exeprience
Experience Matters
International businesses trust Nick to help them enter and set up in the UAE and wider Middle East region. A many years experience running major IT Services, handling transformations and restructuring, he also founded several start up and has built some significant systems. Raising $75MM for his own ventures he has worked in the UAE for more than 15+ years - alongside key families in the region. His sector expertise extends to Consumer Retail, Insurance, Capital Markets & Trading, Supply Chain, Defense, Healthcare, Travel & Logistics, Web3 nd Digital Assets and....
Family Office Network
Nick has chaired and moderated some of th world's largest Family Office and Investment Summits for 20+ years. He is no stranger to debating with Chief Investment Offices, Family members and principals and UHNW the topics of the day - whether allocation strategies, private credit markets, venture capital, Family Office 2.0 evolution, and investing in Ai, Healthcare and the latest innovations.
Nicks unique perspective as a technologist and wide experience gives him useful perspectives on a wide range of topics - from geopolitics, capital markets, global supply chains and of course how technology impacts investment decision and returns.
Thought Leader
Nick is an accomplished global speaker and technology thought leader, he has a broad perspective on how emerging tech is already impacting businesses, global trade and the nature of work.
Regularly ranked as a top 5 thought leader and influencer in Ai, Blockchain, Quantum Computing and B2B2C - he uses this insight to advise business - how to deal with what's coming next?
Learning computer science in the 1970's his background encompasses mainframes to desktop, from mobile and internet evolution to Bitcoin and Fintech, and now Ai and the Quantum future.
A unique perspective...
Access to the right people..
Family Office Network
It takes time to win the hearts and minds of the key families in the Middle East, and Internationally. Chairing and moderating Family Office & Investment summits give me a unique privilege of getting to know some of the world's most powerful families, and the next generations coming through. The Families in the UAE are somewhat different, maintaining large operating companies and can focus on certain sectors from real estate, to mining, to oil & gas, consumer retail & hospitality, construction and development, healthcare and technology. Their appetite to invest in innovation, the cutting edge stems from doing what's they can to make the UAE prosper and meet its Vision and deliver the Values.
The Future is - Made in UAE
I was please to be part of the announcement on stage 9th October 2025 - our last FO Summit where my friend Theo Valich announced and then showed silicon processors - yes you guessed it - design in the UAE, then showed a new server in partnership with AMD - servers made in the UAE!
A significant statement and further consolidates its position as the leader in AI, data centres, smart cities and healthcare.