Abdullah AlEssa

• Building excellent relationships with key leaders, elected officials, and policymakers at all levels of government. • Developing and executing Government Relations strategies across the META region. • Led government engagement with key Saudi entities, and supporting strategic MoUs aligned with Vision 2030. • Enabled partnerships across education, SMEs, and technology • Leading the Government Affairs function in the specified countries and representing the company at high-profile meetings with external stakeholders. • Supporting Government Affairs engagements for the business in other countries of the region. • Establishing and maintaining relationships with political decision-makers on cybersecurity policy issues, including those in parliament, ministries, associations, and organizations. • Providing advice to Kaspersky management on policy issues. • Shaping the company’s external narrative on legislative initiatives in areas such as cybersecurity, IoT, Industry 4.0, critical infrastructure protection, data protection, and AI regulation, including drafting official submissions and policy papers. • Supporting the company’s involvement in forums and events, and fostering relationships with public institutions, industry representatives, and partners to identify mutual interests and co-developing initiatives or solutions. • Applying strategies to advance the company’s thought leadership goals. • Facilitating participation in major cybersecurity awareness initiatives and public-private collaboration projects. • Supporting management visits and high-level meetings, and representing the company’s positions during stakeholder meetings and public consultations.

• Managing the Digital Marketplace (IMPACT) initiative to exchange ideas and digital solutions in the government sector, collaborating with the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) to showcase and facilitate access to mature digital products for global use. • Supporting adoption of digital solutions and making them available to all DCO Member States and African Member States of the United Nations, to improve government operational efficiency and service delivery. • Contributing in expediting progress towards achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). • Driving economic growth, particularly digital economic growth, by encouraging innovation and attracting investment. • Enhancing diplomatic relations and exchanging of digital innovations through multi-lateral collaboration. • Supporting and enhancing growth of national tech companies so they can compete internationally, and increase their exports of digital products related to government sector. • Developing and implementing an investment strategy for digital government. • Representing the authority in governmental committees related to investment in digital government. • Identifying investment opportunities in digital government to bridge service and solution supply gaps.

• Conducting a primary market research related to several sectors aligned with Saudi Vision 2030. • Directing several strategic projects with a collaboration with strategic management office (SMO) and other business units from benchmarking, insights, current status assessment, business expansion, strategic direction & roadmap, and strategy refreshment. • Collaborating with strategic partnership team on workflow creation and business proposals updates and stakeholders engagement & communication activities. • Analyzing and studying business proposals of various internal business units. • Providing strategic directions and plans to the CEO for the growth and expansion for several sectors. • Providing and recommending strategic insights to improve the business growth of several giga projects and portfolios.

- Global Supply Chain: • Handled work responsibilities and communicated with project stakeholders related to the “new journey” for SABIC and Aramco Acquisition. • Monitored and controlled Logistics projects activities to ensure that the deliverables are within scope, budget, and time. • Managed Shipping lines (service providers) contracts and price negotiation. • Conducted performance measurement and KPI monitoring activities for the Lifting Operation and Export project for 600 destinations globally. • Delivered and prepared executive presentations, reports, and briefs to distributed to the Global Supply Chain Vice President. - Account Management: • Communicated with key accounts, developed new clients, and led joint development. • Promoted and forecasted monthly sales volumes to spot and contracts clients. • Covered regional polymer sales in Central & Northern regions of Saudi Arabia.