Mohammed Ahteshamuddin

Leading enterprise-wide digital and IT transformation, ensuring alignment with flydubai’s strategic vision and long-term growth objectives. Driving innovation across airline retailing, customer experience, and operational systems, delivering seamless, data-driven, and customer-centric solutions. Responsible for end-to-end cybersecurity strategy and governance, safeguarding enterprise technology assets and ensuring regulatory compliance.

• Led IT organization with a strategic vision to be a trusted business enabler. • Delivered resilient and scalable technology platforms ensuring business continuity. • Oversaw portfolio management, value creation, and platform modernization

• Championed digital-first, mobile-first, and cloud-first strategies across the airline. • Built an innovation ecosystem with universities and tech partners. • Delivered use cases in AI/ML, RPA, blockchain, and biometrics.

• Program Director for PSS transformation, responsible for architecture, product strategy, and digital customer experience. • Led enterprise IT delivery across Commercial, Operations, and Marketing units.

• Led customer experience technologies and product strategy for Emirates Group. • Delivered PoCs with emerging tech such as IBM Watson, BLE, e-bag tag

Responsible for leading large programs cutting across business areas. Notable programs include successful delivery of ground breaking revenue management project ‘PROFIT”, Front office solution for Contact centres, border control initiatives and IT SPOC for Dubai Airport Development – Terminal-3/Concourse-B

CIO-equivalent role for various business units; delivered mission-critical airline and ground handling systems IT SPOC for business units across the Emirates Group; Network Planning, Revenue Optimisation, Reservations, Distribution, eCommerce, Contact centres, Loyalty, Emirates Airport Services, dnata ground handling, EmQuest and Mercator PSS customers.

As Project Manager, successfully implemented MACS (Departure Control) for Srilankan Ground handling at Colombo and Celebi ground handling at Istanbul Airport. Developed innovative solution of streaming real time connecting gate information on in-flight airshow displays. Delivered number of robotic applications around the airline reservation and departure control system. Implemented MACS for Emirates Group, GDS Distribution and interline through check-in (IATCI) with number of airline partner systems.

Design and Developed Digital Auto-pilot and On-board Control & Guidance Computers for Missiles and Launchers under India's "Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme"