prabuddha majumdar

Advises owners and leadership teams on delivery strategy, programme governance and commercial structuring for major engagements. Co-founder of Orion AI, working across the UAE innovation ecosystem with incubators, accelerators, AI start-ups, founders and investors.

Governed scope, dependency and integration control on a 1.4Bn AED multi-vendor transformation spanning 10+ vendors and 100+ technologies. Owned scope definition, estimation and commercial structuring on major engagements, and acted as senior point of contact for client executives.

Owned a 750M AED portfolio across infrastructure, managed services, application development, staffing and training, with forecasting, variance tracking and investment prioritisation. Led a 140+ person organisation through department and function heads, with formal capability goals and individual development plans.

Founded, staffed and led the Middle East cloud and automation practice end to end, including delivery methodology, estimation model, reusable assets and team. Migrated Dunia Finance and its 38 business applications on a $4.9M three-year contract with zero business impact at cutover.

Represented the Cloud & Infrastructure Services consulting business for the Middle East, scoping and shaping multi-year client engagements. Key contributor to a multi-year competitive win with a large bank covering outsourcing and transformation of applications, infrastructure and business process operations.

Progressed from Director at Ixtel Technologies to VP / Country Head for Datamato Technologies' UAE business, an IBM-funded company, with full strategic and P&L accountability across the regional business.

Progressed over 16 years from front-line technical support through service delivery and client leadership across multiple companies, running delivery teams, SLA commitments and client relationships.

Master's degree in Cloud Computing and Network Management from Middlesex University, Dubai.