Sabah AlKubaisy

Experience

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  OSN

  Jun 2006 - Oct 2006

  Program Coordinator/News and Sports Channels

  Main Activities and contributions: • Excelled the Programming platform of the prospective_Focus, including the planning and the presentation divisions.• Also some good quality experience of its Ad-Sale platform.• Wide experience in Time Code Capturing, with its troubleshooting necessities.• Worked on the successful soft and hard launch, from Bahrain for the first time, for Orbit News, Orbit ESPN, and AlRyathya Channels.

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  Batelco

  Oct 2006 - Feb 2012

  -Responsible of innovatively evolving Batelco’s Fixed and Mobile Networks to support local & global business strategies.-Drive growth of wholesale international and local business with the operations to ensure plans are in line with corporate strategies and targets.-Developing wholesale Products/Service and Enterprise Solutions for Bahrain's Local and Global connectivity Markets.-Developing Wholesale products for the fears competitive and heavily regulated Bahrain Market.-Managing the Telecom Governance Board (TGB) and leading the three steering strategic authorities; the Network Design Authority (NDA), Service Transition Authority (STA) and the Network Planning Authority (NPA). Show less • Plan & develop the collaboration of new services and products of NGN/NGA platforms.• Project management and financial control, through the best cost savings strategies.• Manage multiple vendors’ interoperability deployments post technical and commercial evaluation for different projects.• Support regulatory initiatives and issues related to the Fixed Networks.• Ensure innovative service & network convergence with minimal investment alongside network optimization and state of the art “asset sweating” techniques.• Directly support and assist the Enterprise Solutions Presales team in designing and offering customer’s NGN/NGA and CSP solutions/services.• Provide wholesale solution for other licensed operators to address Bahrain’s aggressive regulatory.• Evolve the existing National IP/MPLS Transport & SDH backbones to provide the Mobile Network with the required reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure for the evolution of LTE & FMC. Show less • SDH Development; participated in National & International SDH capacity expansion projects.• Wide and deep experience into both Marconi & Huawei SDH Networks.• O&M responsibilities of the FLAG (Ericsson) and FOG (Fujitsu) systems.• Contributed directly with planning, installing and operating the new born SDH Huawei network (with a core capacity of STM-64/10GB).• Responsibility of the SDH-Transmission project deployment for the new 3G and MSS (GSM) projects teams, migrating all old Mobile MSCs, BSs and GSM links to the new MGWs and NodeBs projects. Show less

  • Networks Strategy Manager & Wholesale

    Dec 2009 - Feb 2012

  • Head of IP Transport Design & Presales

    Nov 2007 - Dec 2009

  • Core Network Transmission Engineer

    Oct 2006 - Nov 2007
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  ATYAF Telecommunication International

  Feb 2012 - Oct 2013

  CTIO and Partnerships Adviser

  -Contributed towards a successful LBO of a Private Equity investment startup, by increasing investors ROI and EBITDA via improving efficient operational performances, reducing risks and deployments of digital multi-play platform. -Launched the wholesale start-up Media/Telecom franchiser and implemented the vision of creating Atyaf as the “Regional wholesaler & Content Neutral” service provider in the MENA Region, which got translated into delivering multiplay converged user experience supporting multiple content delivery nodes from multiple content providers to multiple telecom operators delivering B2B as well as B2C Products & Services.-Managing Technical and wholesale Products Development teams to develop wholesale Products & Service to operators with commercial leadership, by operating IPTV/OTT/VOD/data/voice/SDP/OSSBSS telecommunications networks and platforms, while strategically negotiating wholesale input products from local regulated & unregulated downstream market players. -Establishing and developing Technology besides wholesale Products & Services roadmaps, while leading their deployment, including management of the post launch lifecycle of products; liaise with Enterprise marketing teams as well as with customer facing teams for capturing new insights, deficiencies to trigger and proceed into enhancements and corrective actions.-Directly supervising the Product & Content Management teams, insuring cutting-edge business modules are formed and revue-share models are innovated with content and telecom providers.-Contributed to win the "ASBU BroadcastPro ME 2012 Innovative Project" Award-Featured in a Nov 2012 BroadcastPro MiddleEast article. http://goo.gl/0bNuq Show less

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  Telecommunications Regulatory Authority - Bahrain

  Oct 2013 - Jul 2023

  Senior Adviser – Telecoms & Emerging Tech

  Provided regulatory, licensing, commercial, technical, and business leadership in digital infrastructure including Telecoms, IXPs, peering, DC, cloud, terrestrial and submarine cables within the public & private sectors. Directly responsible for the separation of the incumbent, creating a utility-style NBN business model, Reference offer products set and the regulatory monitoring through the leadership of Equivalence Comities.As well as Regulatory compliance and licensing reviews fostering market competition and attracting investment meeting public policy requirements, with strong negotiation skills resolving roadblocks towards win-win sustainable PPP. Including cross-connect products review of price & non-price terms, co-lo products, BB & international capacity products, etc. Main areas of focus include DIIs attraction in DC-Parks, Submarine and terrestrial cables, QoS/QoE, development and service operations of Domestic and International Networks, CDN-based solutions, IoT and Edge Clouds. Also worked with Telecom operators and government bodies on a range of consulting engagements such as strategy assessment and advisory, investment attraction due diligence, market competition analysis and national policy developments. Show less

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  ConnectConomy Advisory

  Jan 2023 - Aug 2024

  Senior Advisor - Telecoms & Emerging Tech
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  Huawei

  Aug 2023 - Aug 2024

  Chief Solutions- Wholesale, Cloud & AI Emerging Tech - Carriers Business ME&CA

  Responsible of wholesale & carrier connectivity business as well as AI and Cloud emerging businesses. Crafting sales strategies and new business models for TechCos, wholesalers and retail digital transformation of traditional Digital infrastructure investment to intelligent AI-ready infrastructure. Tailor-fitting solutions leveraging Cloud, AI and emerging technologies to foster digital-economy growth and consumer welfare. While advising partners CxOs with technology roadmaps, commercial business models, licensing and regulatory frameworks to empower decision makers for sustainable emerging tech strategies and Intelligent infrastructure investments.Collaborating with stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with network-cloud synergies and AI offerings, serving partner’s business solutions, providing strategic guidance to empowering partners with the full potential of cloud to achieve goals across the full stack. While leading partners through cloud transformation, challenging conventional thinking to champion the adoption of cutting-edge cloud technologies, identifying new business opportunities and accelerating TTM, by helping partners differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace and drive transformative change. Show less

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  Supercell Network

  Aug 2024 - now

  Chief Executive Officer